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by koyote 6y ago
> Life here is pretty normal now Except for last week where you were under your third lockdown? I work with people from Melbourne and I feel like a lot of them suffer from at least some mild PTSD. This was re-ignited when the 3rd lockdow
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by koyote 6y ago
Anecdotally I noticed QR codes all over the place in East Asian countries (on receipts in Taiwan for example). Then here in Australia we now have a QR code system for 'checking in' to an establishment (for Covid tracing). I'd
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by koyote 6y ago
Of course it's Oracle. We use Oracle for our HR system and it's the single worst piece of software I have ever used (and that includes Windows Me!).
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by koyote 6y ago
I don't think I have ever cared about how my mouse looks (or how my laptop looks for that matter; it sits at home where no one will see it). Something you use 8 hours a day should first of all be pleasant to use and reduce the risk of
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by koyote 6y ago
Here you go: https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/forms/search-the-tax-lists/
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by koyote 6y ago
It's been a while since I've last watched it and I might be completely wrong here as I am no expert in accents, but I believe that none of the languages spoken had an accent that sounded like someone from the 1940s. Both the Engli
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by koyote 6y ago
I do not know if it was the original intention of the founders, but you can't ignore that the people who are/were funding it are influential far-right figures.
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by koyote 6y ago
> A week later, the positive test result came back Which country do you live in that it takes a week for the PCR test to come back? It's around 24 hours here and I thought that was the case in all developed countries. I hope you rec
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by koyote 6y ago
> I much prefer the approach taken in the USA, where our offices of government are accessible to the people that the government serves. It's very good that I can protest out front without worrying about that unfriendly man with his
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by koyote 6y ago
Best way between London and Amsterdam is the ferry! It's not quite as seamless as a direct train but still very enjoyable: You take a train in the evening from London to the ferry terminal in Harwich, then overnight ferry in a private
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by koyote 6y ago
They are great for weekend trips and you're absolutely right about relative time saved. A trip I've done several times is London to Edinburgh. It's a quick flight and even a quick train during the day but if you want to spend
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by koyote 6y ago
If you want something to track sports then Garmin is the way to go. Weeks long battery life and a massive amount of sports and activities monitoring features. And as a bonus it also comes with the basic 'smart' features you'd
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by koyote 6y ago
I completely agree. It's sad and disappointing to see this being labelled as Pfizer vaccine when it's actually the BioNTech vaccine. But I guess that's what you get when one company has a massive marketing department and the
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by koyote 6y ago
Reading through the replies you got for this post is really quite interesting. I feel like what it boils down to is that there are a decent amount of people that prefer life under an authoritarian regime (whether governmental or corporate).
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by koyote 6y ago
I too miss those days... That being said, I feel like back then a most vulnerabilities were so simple due to lack of foresight/security that quite a few 12-year olds with a decent understanding of computing could perform them: I fondly
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by koyote 6y ago
That's an interesting way of thinking which I've not really encountered outside of Soviet-style centrally controlled economy advocates and the like. Do you feel the same way about all other things in life where you are presented w
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by koyote 6y ago
That does not go away, there's nothing stopping you from buying genuine parts from the manufacturer if you trust them more than the competition.
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by koyote 6y ago
> If you're inactive for 2 years (24 months) in Gmail, Drive or Photos, Maybe it's the engineer in me, but doesn't that imply that even if you're active in Gmail and Drive, they'll delete your data because you ar
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by koyote 6y ago
> Why shouldn’t Apple get what amounts to a referral fee here? Why should they? I feel like you are not getting the point that everyone is trying to make to you. Maybe if I throw a few more examples at you. Otherwise I give up... If I
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by koyote 6y ago
But that is what is happening right now! If you purchase a Netflix subscription from the Netflix app that you got from the Apple store (replace Netflix with Xbox here to see the comparability), Apple takes 30% every single month. Never mind
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by koyote 6y ago
> Why do I have to pay Microsoft to play via Xbox Live? Exactly! If you bought your Xbox through Apple, you'd be paying Apple a chunk for the privilege of using a Microsoft service. See the issue?
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by koyote 6y ago
> maybe if you don’t like it you can create your own But that's the point. You can't. Imagine Wal-Mart sold fridges and forced you to buy every item you put into that fridge at Wal-Mart. And maybe that Xbox you bought at Wal-Ma
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by koyote 6y ago
The scrolling behaviour also exists in Windows and in Linux. I believe (if I understand what you mean correctly) that the file system behaviour is also a Linux thing. Deleting a file that is open is completely fine in Linux. I think UX betw
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by koyote 6y ago
> dramatically lower wait times, better cancer survival rates and less competition for care. Expense is also a nonissue on employer insurance. Do you have a source for those statements?
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by koyote 6y ago
Hah, I remember a BA flight (on which I was thankfully not on) which decided to return back to Heathrow 6 hours into a 12 hour flight to Tokyo for that exact reason. Imagine flying 12 hours in a plane only to be back where you started. htt
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by koyote 6y ago
Apple is free to control their app store just like Google controls its app store. But they shouldn't be able to block you from running other app stores or sideloading applications. Your 82-year-old mum's iphone wouldn't behav
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by koyote 6y ago
The testing rate in Sweden has skyrocketed in such a way that comparing case numbers between April and November is completely useless. That being said, deaths are going up as well at the moment. Still a far cry from April levels though.
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by koyote 6y ago
A Thinkpad Carbon X1 will be as slim and as light with excellent battery life. I do not use track pads for actual work so I can't compare but I've heard that you can't really beat the Mac ones.
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by koyote 6y ago
Do you have any issues with other pests? I have a tiny terrace garden with several potted plants and a part from slug pellets I also run into leaf miners and aphids and whatnot. So I see myself inspecting my plants daily and often spraying
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by koyote 6y ago
I've been with Google since the gmail beta and have slowly de-googled a lot of the stuff I use. Not due to privacy concerns but simply due to them cancelling products or making existing products worse (gTalk/Hangouts closure as we

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