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by l30n4da5 5y ago
> But it isn't an edge case! It's not an edge case, if it isn't a use case! The fact that a random commenter on HN used a non-monospaced font with refterm actually makes it a use case. I do, however, agree that it is an ed
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
> I just wish the world had a better alternative than Android. It's hard to protest an overstep of Apple by giving money to Google. There are at least forks of Android that are open-source. You don't necessarily__have_ to run
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
I know this is not sufficient evidence of the contrary, but my HP Envy 15z x360 (the one with the Ryzen 2500u processor) seems to hibernate as expected with the lid shut. Zero battery usage while hibernating on my desk or in my bag for day
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
Id rather just host a minecraft server on an old desktop, and make it internet-available with playit.gg. A lot less chance of me spending $$ that way.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
> HEPA filters This is probably the most important. If you work from home, it might be prudent to at least have a one-room HEPA filter in your home office.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
I love /r/battlestations and /r/averagebattlestations for exactly that reason. Really cool to see what other people have for a setup.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
the most I manage for machines right now is: 1 work-provided laptop 1 personal laptop 1 gaming desktop 1 backup laptop (old, like 10 years old) 1 closet server desktop (also old, but runs terraria servers just fine) On my desk, I use 2 HDMI
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
> Honda does not give me an SDK and API to run arbitrary software on the computers in my Civic either. But obviously I own it. I can install any aftermarket parts I want to install in my Civic, because I own it.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
I remember developing an MDNS app that ran on android a few years ago. Worked great. This just seems like Apple shooting themselves in the foot, imo.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
> Turning vaccines into a political wedge issue is one of the stupidest things I've seen in my life. This is just history repeating itself, unfortunately. The Spanish flu had people protesting the counter-measures put in place to r
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
I think i'll stick with my cheap-o gaming mice that all run plug-and-play. almost 100% of the big-name companies that sell performance mice have this wierd thing where they force you to download and install bloatware just to have your
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
totally thought this was a dev blog for the Racket language. Was tying to figure out why the devs of Racket would be blogging about Windows 96 in the browser....
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
> You are conflating lab leak with intentionally crafted bioweapon. > intentionally crafted bioweapon they didn't mention anything about that anywhere.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
you hit the nail on the head.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
> If you’re fairly well off though you’re just working to buy a bigger house I'd settle for just paying off the house I currently own, thanks.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
In a similar vein, ranching falls prey to some of the same misconceptions. source: grew up on a ranch. nearly every day involved working when I wasn't at school.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
fair point. counter-argument: i'll start modifying my C:\Windows directory and make it my own dumpster fire.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
ive seen this attitude from linux fanbois too many times at this point to be polite about it.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
> non-technical people who don't want to drop to a terminal PowerShell exists. and it is LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than bash for pretty much anything related to scripting. so much so that half the time when I needed to write a scrip
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
how, exactly?
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
for the most part, HN is pretty squarely in the 'windows bad linux good' camp. It is dumb af since according to a lot of the users on here, linux is gods gift to humanity. doesn't matter that pretty much all software is a d
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
>> Maybe this will help some of the more savvy users realize that Windows should be relegated to a virtual machine for when you need a specific Windows app that doesn't run under Wine, and never given access to real hardware. hur
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
have you _seen_ walmart.com? their online store rivals amazon easily.
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by l30n4da5 5y ago
are the members of the crew of Blue Origin 3 not 'crew members'?
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by l30n4da5 7y ago
not originally. when sync first came out, and for a while after, it was a dumpster fire. that being said, it is load better now.
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by l30n4da5 7y ago
i used opera for a while, and, while i liked it, it had a glaring bug in Windows 10 that jist didnt go away in the year or so i was using it. that being said ...opera already has their own extensions store.
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by l30n4da5 8y ago
this resonates with me. I recently had to buy a new laptop because the cheap dev laptop I had (6GB RAM, Celeron Quad-core) couldn't run IntelliJ with a reasonable amount of performance, even when I tweaked the settings significantly fo