m3rc

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by m3rc 10y ago
Right, exactly... how would I stop being upset by being forced into buying expensive hardware?
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by m3rc 10y ago
Because that's a totally separate discussion. Blocking ads is about controlling what code runs on my machine, not about trying to obtain content without "paying" for it. There has been a nightmarish amount of malware served t
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by m3rc 10y ago
Interesting, the Android and WP developers I know use PCs running Linux... since the plural of "anecdote" is "statistics" I wonder how we proceed from here
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by m3rc 10y ago
Why would needing to purchase the hardware somehow change your opinion on hating iOS for not being more open?
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by m3rc 10y ago
ctrl-c sends a SIGINT to the terminal, it's not a quit command. F10 is the original quit for htop along with F6 being sort, F3 being search, and so on
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by m3rc 10y ago
Don't plug your twitter here to try and look smug... people are questioning the necessity of a piece of hardware, don't conflate that with not wanting to learn something new
187.
by m3rc 10y ago
so the understanding here is that everyone is just going to remap esc?
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by m3rc 10y ago
You would not be telling people "Oh we don't yet know if it's a good or bad change yet, we only know that it's a change" if Microsoft or any other company was introducing some strange feature no one asked for in ord
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by m3rc 10y ago
Do you never enter apps like htop? Even without function keys for filter and search you at least would need an esc key to quit. I have esc remapped to capslock on my laptop, but how easy is it to remap keys in OSX?
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by m3rc 10y ago
ty ty
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by m3rc 10y ago
Haha really? Can't you get an rPi for super cheap now, like $20?
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by m3rc 10y ago
Could you direct me to a tutorial on that? I contacted the Libreboot devs before and they told me they wouldn't give any info out about using a different device
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by m3rc 10y ago
I have an x200 sitting around (although the case is cracked after a drop) but I've held off on trying libreboot because it requires a ~$50 piece of hardware to flash it (a BeagleBone Black)
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by m3rc 10y ago
As an owner of an x230 I'm very very interested.
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by m3rc 10y ago
The people who really control your day to day life are these people, the local legislators and executives. Way more people need to vote and vote intelligently in their local elections
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by m3rc 10y ago
Maybe he's (rightfully) worried about housing prices. He doesn't really have a problem with cash-flow, he does have a problem with an insanely bubbled housing market that collapses the moment the tech bubble does
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by m3rc 10y ago
The plural of anecdote is not statistics. Maybe you should stop looking for confirmation that women are the problem
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by m3rc 10y ago
>divorce is too easy, making it too risky for men (in my country, 72% of "no-fault" divorces were initiated by women for example) divorce is "too easy". The only thing this sentence says is that divorce happens freque
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by m3rc 10y ago
This is absurdly sexist.
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by m3rc 10y ago
I don't see the OP laying out a case for the article's content, I see them mentioning how it's absurd for anyone to take the author of this article seriously on privacy issues.
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by m3rc 10y ago
Not to mention the incredible amount of nearby water that is poisoned
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by m3rc 11y ago
And so the keyboard is going to suck :/ I really wish long-throw style keyboards on the thinkpad lines were still a thing business class laptops included. I hate feeling like I'm typing on a touch screen no matter what device i u
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by m3rc 11y ago
Not upgrading from IE8 is the same as using a laptop made 5 years ago now?
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by m3rc 11y ago
So? It's still a shitty joke, and in the Apple case it breaks a key rule of comedy by punching down. It also leaves a really bad taste in your mouth for the rest of the address because instead of Apple trying to increase profits by bui
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by m3rc 11y ago
Haven't they just about alienated all developers at this point with their ridiculous token system?
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by m3rc 11y ago
Also hearsay personal experience but a friend of a friend had his house raided by the FBI and all his computer equipment impounded. When he got it all back they told him his hard drives were empty or unformatted. He had them all formatted a
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by m3rc 11y ago
It's not good to end statements by throwing your hands up in the air and going "golly gee I just can't possibly fathom why anyone would think differently than ME!" Right off the bat, never regulating trade means you only
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by m3rc 11y ago
On the basis of buying a single personal hard drive this data is interesting but wouldn't have much impact on your purchasing. As usual the advice is to have multiple backups of everything
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by m3rc 11y ago
There's truly secure computing to be found in projects like libreboot, it just takes half a decade to undo the damage done by proprietary software so your options are limited.
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by m3rc 11y ago
yaaaaaaay

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