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by jotm 7y ago
You could do what most people do and have a day job with a long commute :D Only half joking, it definitely works for waking you up in the morning (unless you like being fired) and going to sleep earlier (because you're tired). You will
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by jotm 7y ago
> Also the article states that Google Pay provides a virtual credit card when used with PayPal. How? All I saw up until now was virtual debit cards. Naming confusion, I think. To some people (mostly Americans), credit and debit cards are
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by jotm 7y ago
To be fair, big banks like HSBC and Barclays also do this. Plenty of horror stories around. There needs to be a law so they could at least notify people a month or two beforehand and provide a reason...
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by jotm 7y ago
Sadly (or fortunately?) that stopped working around 2006
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by jotm 7y ago
Funny story, I bought a system board on eBay that had a BIOS password on it. The seller didn't answer my messages asking for the password, so I assumed he knew there was a password, but didn't know it (and didn't say in the i
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by jotm 7y ago
Fun. I've grown, uh, certain plants. Everyone said you should do it indoors, in a controlled environment. But with the availability of sun I have it makes little sense to waste so much energy on growing them indoors. Last year I had 6
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by jotm 7y ago
Spares Outlet - selling home appliance parts salvaged from used washers/dryers/fridges/ovens. I even developed testing methods that don't require the control board to be on an actual machine. It's the hardest part t
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by jotm 7y ago
Yeah I did mean at stock settings. If you overclock, you're responsible. Losing warranty sounds acceptable to me. Better than manufacturers doing everything to make overclocking impossible. To me, it's a great way to get more perf
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by jotm 7y ago
You can run non-AVX, AVX, AVX2 and AVX-512 tests in Prime95, look under the options (assuming you use the latest version)
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by jotm 7y ago
Wow, that's ridiculous...
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by jotm 7y ago
The stock VBIOS?! Wth were they thinking when programming it...
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by jotm 7y ago
I agree Prime95 is overkill, but a processor should be able to handle it. This is like the cooling argument all over again - "your cooling system is good enough for normal workloads". No, it must be good enough for permanent full
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by jotm 7y ago
Intel's TurboBoost is such a marketing mess. It used to be more sane when they stated base clocks - the guaranteed frequency you pay for. Anything above was just extra performance when your CPU is not running hot/at power limits.
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by jotm 7y ago
Well, here's one obvious and useful benefit for the average user: you can now remove content that identifies you (especially photos/video) rather easily, like you would under DMCA. Just a polite reminder of GDPR is enough for webs
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by jotm 7y ago
Speaking of good UIs, I recently used not one, but two task management websites that had no tutorial (OK, no problem there) and... no tooltips for any of the textless icons. How in the world am I supposed to know what does what without clic
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by jotm 7y ago
Yeah, look, ethics is great and all but when you risk being homeless or hungry, it quickly goes out the window. Especially for "victimless" (i.e. no one is directly affected) illegal activity.
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by jotm 7y ago
Can be , but it's possible to serve ads without any activity/data tracking. Not as profitable, but that's how it used to be done - simply guessing what the users may be interested in and A/B testing ads for various nich
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by jotm 7y ago
Not the severely underfunded West Midlands police.
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by jotm 7y ago
I lived in the West Midlands... Let's just say CS/IT knowledge is severely lacking. On the other hand, if you're fine with a rather low wage (but more than enough to live comfortably) and being treated as unimportant all the
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by jotm 7y ago
> all the good ones are taken The most common complaint every year for two decades now.
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by jotm 7y ago
Paknic.com will take care of all your private/uncensored/illicit needs... unless they're forced to close I guess :D
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by jotm 7y ago
That's the point of the EU - defend interests of the union of relatively small countries against giants like China. NATO is only suited for military action, and who knows how long it's going to last anyway. Also, probably the poin
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by jotm 7y ago
Hmm, 906 million for 66 million people = 13.7 pounds/capita. Romania does it for 1/3 of that, 84 million Euro for 20 million people = 4.2 Euro/capita. There's a breakdown of how it's done and the spending, too: htt
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by jotm 7y ago
My first German bank account was with Sparkasse, and I had to request a MasterCard separately (the main card was Maestro I think? useless for online payments). It wasn't even attached to the account, I had to transfer money to it (so,
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by jotm 7y ago
Please, that's an Adventurer seat and costs more than economy.
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by jotm 7y ago
Well they could've said Calcium, but that sounds mundane
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by jotm 7y ago
Better than having a strong password bypassed using shoddy recovery procedures.
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by jotm 7y ago
It's been a loooong time since I used them. Sometimes, maybe on a fresh install, maybe when Win10 has decided to reset your defaults, there's that rare .rtf, .nfo, .bmp or some other file that awakens WordPad or Paint from their d
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by jotm 7y ago
As always I wonder what sad fucks downvoted this. Just ban this account and put me out of my misery.
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by jotm 7y ago
Sometimes search just fails to work - I have not seen that before 10. The search bar in explorer windows appears disabled (can't use it), or worse , it doesn't list some files - some searches work fine, some don't. Have to

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