lax4ever

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by lax4ever 4y ago
Yeah, I have an MSI Mobo in my home PC and an older model Stealth. Get rid of Dragon Center. It's an, albeit smaller, resource hog whose functions can be managed through the actual tools as opposed to Dragon Center.
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by lax4ever 4y ago
In theory there should be a setting within the BIOS that should allow you to disable any sort of automatic BIOS updating. Unfortunately, I can't speak to Dell machines, but the HP ones I manage have a "Lock BIOS Version" sett
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by lax4ever 4y ago
Did you reboot the computer a second time to see if it flashed the BIOS again? Once is a scheduled BIOS update, possibly triggered by an administrator. Twice is more concerning...
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by lax4ever 4y ago
Which I believe actually helps to illustrate my point. The issue the FTC appears to have (and this comes from more than just this article) is with the cancellation process and not the subscription itself. The subscription is far more than j
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by lax4ever 4y ago
Servicers could change the cancellation process without ever changing the subscription itself. The issue at hand is not the subscription, but the process with which one would cancel it.
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by lax4ever 4y ago
To preface, nothing against the poster since I know they were just copying the article title. This article headline is a bit misleading, as the FTC is not looking to ban the subscriptions themselves. Rather, they would like to implement a r
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by lax4ever 4y ago
As I don't have the karma to downvote, my approach, which is likely to remain unchanged even if I ever get to the appropriate karma threshold, is to simply ignore. My mindset on this has been (and not saying it needs to be anyone else&
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by lax4ever 4y ago
See, that would be useful info to put on the FAQ page, instead it just says "After users reach a certain karma threshold".
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by lax4ever 4y ago
I don't know if it is a karma threshold or not, but I have never been able to downvote a post and/or comment. Only upvote or flag.
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by lax4ever 4y ago
Martin Luther's perspective was more of a "Works in thanks of Grace". One is saved by Grace alone, and in thanks for that grace one's works should reflect the will of God as provided in the Bible. EDIT: It's more ab
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by lax4ever 4y ago
IT would seem that this author and those who have decided that a good use of their time is to argue about the gender of God have little in the way of understanding around the nature of God. I would highly recommend the reading of what are r
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by lax4ever 4y ago
>Hurricanes have obliterated parts of the Gulf Coast, dumping more than 50in of rain in some places. This is not evidence of climate change, and if you go and read NOAA's and the IPCC's own data they show that there has been no
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by lax4ever 4y ago
Maybe ChatGPT is more like a human than I thought. It makes crap up just as much as the next person.
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by lax4ever 4y ago
When one becomes more focused on what to call something because that thing might be offensive or "exclusive", one has lost the entire point.
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by lax4ever 4y ago
To add potentially a little extra context, the HN account whoishiring[1] posts three items on the first of each month regarding potential employers, employees, and freelance work. HN requests that any seeking employment, or what you appear
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by lax4ever 4y ago
I mean, the governer's office is not technically wrong. Hiring/firing on the basis of protected status is illegal.
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by lax4ever 4y ago
I would consider myself lucky if I were in your position. I have dualbooted on several machines, and Windows updates have broken at least half of them. I wish you continued good fortune in the future!
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by lax4ever 4y ago
Yeah, that's actually pretty common behavior for Windows and a well documented drawback of dual-booting Windows and Linux.
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by lax4ever 4y ago
Even if there was a corresponding "black" addition that was meant to assignment the opposite meaning, that still would likely have nothing to do with race.
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by lax4ever 4y ago
I remain curious about how many of these commenters for or against corporal punishment of children (to be distinguished from capital punishment, which is the allowance of a death sentence for capital crimes) have actually raised children.
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by lax4ever 4y ago
The UN Convention on the Rights of a Child specifically does not mention the use of corporal punishment and makes no binding requirement of any of its signatories to refrain from the use of corporal punishment. Such interpretations that hav
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by lax4ever 4y ago
And every year, at a minimum of 300,000 Americans use guns to protect themselves from robbery, assault, rape, and murder. I feel for the parents that have lost children, but even the most conservative estimates show that guns are used in se
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by lax4ever 4y ago
What this article doesn't point out is that CDC, DOJ, and FBI estimates, as well as a range of private studies and surveys, put defensive firearms usage about a conservative minimum of 300,000 instances per year, though it can range to
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by lax4ever 4y ago
I'm not entirely certain that anyone was suggesting that George Floyd's death was justified.
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NOAA and IPCC Predict Far Larger Decline in Hurricane Frequency(threadreaderapp.com)
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by lax4ever 4y ago
Full Title of NOAA and IPCC headline since this is just a blog post: NOAA and IPCC Predict Far Larger Decline in Hurricane Frequency Than Increase in Intensity NOAA HURDAT Site: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub&#x2
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by lax4ever 4y ago
I've never done this personally, but I believe Apple's Disk Utility has a function to zero out drives. In theory, if you boot into Recovery Mode (Which, IIRC, was Command+R or holding the power button on ARM machines), you can acc
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by lax4ever 4y ago
I think one of the commenters on Twitter got it right. The fact that Citi did not back down after a CFBP tells me there is a SAR (Suspicious Activity Report) on the file, which the bank is not legally allowed to inform the customer about.
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by lax4ever 4y ago
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32886266
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by lax4ever 4y ago
Which, in the case of COVID, is not exactly a great argument for the restrictions either considering that after two years of COVID the world has experienced less than 7 million recorded deaths [0] compared to, at a minimum, after two years

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