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by giobox 5y ago
Agreed - with very little googling you can find the exact same arguments as this article being made in others discussing Breath of the Wild. Lots of people have been rightly celebrating this aspect of BoTW since its release, I found it odd
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by giobox 5y ago
> Actually professional photographic equipment doesn't get obsolete > I can take my old D70s today and take beautiful photos, even with it's 6MP sensor I suspect if you do a wedding shoot with a 6mp interchangeable lens came
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by giobox 5y ago
That’s precisely the point I’m making. Machine’s performance is great (today…), but it is not a victory for user serviceability or upgrades, likely never will be now. At least with other integrated SoCs such as those from AMD, you can buy a
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by giobox 5y ago
> All the ports are on separate boards too. This might be the most repairable mac in a while. This is sort of like saying "Great - the doors on my car can be replaced!" Obviously they can, but am I ever likely to need to do thi
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by giobox 5y ago
Perhaps the difference is I am not baffled; Alcohol is enjoyable in moderation and it is one of the few high margin items in the store. Fluids are popular and take up much more shelf space as noted. As for bottled water, my local Safeway ea
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by giobox 5y ago
Just anecdota of course, but waxes and tinctures are routinely promoted and offered in discount deals at virtually any legal weed dispensary in the USA. They are IMO increasingly mainstream, as they often work nicely with tools like vaporiz
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by giobox 5y ago
Fluids consume large amounts of shelf space by volume regardless of what fluid it is, not much we can do about this, so a large amount of shelf space does not mean a large percentage of the store's total items, in theory. By percentage
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by giobox 5y ago
My experience is it opens the door to not thinking much at all, but your mileage may vary. Is there anything more "sheeple" like than a bunch of stoned people sitting around not motivated to do much? Sure, not all mj users may exp
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by giobox 5y ago
This era of design where there was still some "whimsy" is some of my favorite Apple work too. The austere modern era where everything is a slab of glass fronted metal has lost so much of the joy that was found in their earlier c
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by giobox 5y ago
Agreed - the Steam Deck's "Game Scope" performance overlay that toggles straight from the quick menu button has been enabled in almost every single video of the Deck running I've seen. Having an awesome performance overl
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by giobox 5y ago
Their design and layout (the "4-star" stores too) borrowed heavily from popular late 90s/2000s UK bookstore chain "Waterstones" IMO. I've always found the physical similarity of Amazon's own retail store e
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by giobox 5y ago
Lack of good "official" ARM image support in some key places is something the Docker on Raspberry Pi community have had to deal with for some time. I'm hopeful that more people add ARM builds to their publishing processes for
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by giobox 5y ago
This will likely depend where you live and what options are available to you, but my experience with Ikea's most expensive sofas vs similarly priced alternatives in the market has generally been favorable to the alternatives. At least
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by giobox 5y ago
nginx config increasingly feels like a bunch of foot guns waiting to go off for me. For smaller projects, I've really enjoyed Caddy's "best practice by default" approach to webserver/loadbalancer config where you ca
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by giobox 5y ago
EZ Pass website says debts can be settled in cash at their service centers. So yes you can settle in cash, but it is likely a massive pain to do as you suggest. Their site also says you can prepay your tolls in cash, to have account in cred
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by giobox 5y ago
The list of things that can affect me and many others and appear in the news is pretty much limitless; new legislation, interest rate changes, changes to my school district, tax rate adjustments, rebanding of my property, changes to what
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by giobox 5y ago
> 99.9% of news isn't relevant or actionable for most people. This is what news is supposed to be though! To expect otherwise is the problem. Just because something isn't immediately actionable or entertaining that day in some
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by giobox 5y ago
This is demonstrably nonsense. People make investment decisions for one, based on events in the news. The news every day is not required to be relevant specifically to you alone, that's an absurd notion, but it will from time to time b
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by giobox 5y ago
Because "news" by definition is only really useful or interesting at the time it occurs? The Miriam-Webster definition of "News" is literally "A report of recent events". A report of events a decade prior is
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by giobox 5y ago
This approach is a lot more hassle to setup than Proton, but it does yield some really great performance and ~100% game compatibility. I've been planning to go this way for my next desktop build (Windows gaming VM with native GPU pass-
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by giobox 5y ago
> There is no excuse, especially thanks to Valve for their work enhancing wine ecosystem and making your games work. While Proton is great, it helps no one to suggest it's a solution to making all games work. There are absolutely en
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by giobox 5y ago
> If it had a touchscreen built onto it it would be one step closer to being self sustained. Until there are proper standards that we can rely on to last for decades plus for automatable home devices in general, Home Assistant will never
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by giobox 5y ago
There is almost no way you can handover any HomeAssistant installation during a home sale, not unless you want the buyer to be calling you for help with technical issues/gremlins months after the sale closes. Every single Home Assi
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by giobox 5y ago
Even if DuckDuckGo and Bing pay absolutely nothing, it's good leverage to make Google pay even more, and its already public knowledge Google pays a lot to remain the default search engine on iOS, to the tune of billions of dollars a ye
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by giobox 5y ago
In many Western legal systems, to prove a crime like Murder there is normally two things the prosecution must demonstrate: That you A. Carried out the act; typically known as the Actus Reus , and That you B. Had the guilty intent or mind,
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by giobox 5y ago
It must have been literally half my life I fell asleep to Robin Lustig on The World Tonight followed by Book at Bedtime , Today in Parliament then Sailing By and the Shipping Forecast. A habit I picked up from my mother, this same se
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by giobox 5y ago
"Acquired in 2008 by Advance, the parent company of Condé Nast, Ars Technica has offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Today, Ars Technica operates as Condé Nast's only 100% digitally native editorial publicatio
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by giobox 5y ago
Didn't Ars get bought by same corporate parent (Conde Naste) as Wired? While Ars hasn't sunk quite as quickly, its still not nearly as good as it was pre-acquisition for me. It's popularity stems from its early significance;
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by giobox 5y ago
Instagram is arguably fast becoming the 21st century version of the glossy fashion magazines my parent's generation often read to kill time, where every second page would be a full page advert for a perfume or a watch.
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by giobox 5y ago
I'm running HACS in the container release right now, it's worked for a long time. So long as you have your HA configuration folder as a volume etc it will preserve across restarts/upgrades. I'd go as far as to argue the

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