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by martin_a 4y ago
You can do three out of four things by your own. But is it easier if a dealership takes care of that for you? For sure. Will they take a share of everything then? For sure. I don't understand all the complaining about dealerships in th
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by martin_a 4y ago
Well, move somewhere where you don't have to pay taxes, but please don't complain about the downsides then.
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by martin_a 4y ago
Firefox on Linux is sometimes more than enough to trigger endless rounds of Captcha.
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by martin_a 4y ago
Just give it a try! Works wonders, I've heard.
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by martin_a 4y ago
What tool did you use for the "tour"/tutorial at the start?
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by martin_a 4y ago
Considering the "content" that seems to be on there, everything seems to work just fine and as expected.
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by martin_a 4y ago
Dell Latitude 5410 at work, Lenovo T460 at home, both with Windows 10. I've tried using Linux Mate for a year at home (no hardware problems with that), but I didn't like the occasional switching for (better) gaming performance and
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by martin_a 4y ago
This whole site is totally broken on my system. Seems like my PiHole and uBlock Origin just kill everything from those CDNs and whatnot.
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by martin_a 4y ago
> $40 for a 512GB SATA SSD On a side note: I'm fascinated HOW cheap SSD storage has become. Really looking into changing my backup drives to SSDs instead of good old spinning drives...
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by martin_a 4y ago
Yeah, but I'm not refering to the original post but to complaints that Windows updates will take hours of your productive time each month for nothing. That's simply not true.
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by martin_a 4y ago
> which can neither be deferred or cancelled You can defer it. Update and reboot? Update and shutdown? Reboot/Shutdown without updating now? All three are possible, so it's fine.
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by martin_a 4y ago
I got a six year old T460, so I'm not really top of the line either. Nevertheless I don't sit in front of the machine for hours each and every month and watch Windows doing its updates. People like to dramatically exaggerate how l
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by martin_a 4y ago
> including the forced updates making desktop unusable for hour every month. Patch day is once a month and takes 15 minutes at worst, sometimes only a reboot after the work day. edit: Not to mention how upgrading Firefox on Linux-based s
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by martin_a 4y ago
I find most of this useless/overcomplicated. > Cascade layers Feels like we only need this because cascading works less and less well once you start to include multiple frameworks or pieces thereof. At some point people find themsel
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by martin_a 4y ago
Please speak English, fellow German, it's more polite.
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by martin_a 4y ago
> Use [...] Postscript instead. My Postscript is somewhat rusty but I think defining a fixed page size is THE first step in any postscript file. I don't think that's really better than PDF in that regard.
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by martin_a 4y ago
> a reserved parking spot for trucks hauling giant windmill blades. With the rise of renewable energies, there might be a business case hiding here... ;-)
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by martin_a 4y ago
> According to G Fonts privacy policy, they don't store any PII. Do they log IP addresses? That would be enough as those count as PII. Maybe bunny.net has logs disabled and that's what makes them stand out. But especially with
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by martin_a 4y ago
What do you mean by that?
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by martin_a 4y ago
IANAL, but I think you can work around this by running Matomo locally and activate the options to anonymize/scramble IPs directly at the beginning. If you don't use IP addresses or can't come back from a user profile to an IP
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by martin_a 4y ago
The idea behind/the backbone of the GDPR is: Whenever you want to process personal information, you'll need the consent of your users and protect the data accordingly. It's easy as that. You can absolutely use ANY tool or ser
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by martin_a 4y ago
In Germany we have a saying "Steter Tropfen höhlt den Stein", which seems to be translated to "Little strokes fell big oaks". Hear it often enough, without any consequences for the people telling you that, and it will hu
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by martin_a 4y ago
> Green IS traditionally an off-putting color I don't think that's true for the reasons you put up. Our eyes are specialized to distinct more shades of green from each other than with other colors. That's a useful evolutio
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by martin_a 4y ago
It does affect your visual impression in the eye, though. If you're using a bright screen in a dim environment, your eyes will be hurt by the bright light, you flinch and that will reduce the perceptive contrast.
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by martin_a 4y ago
> But people from rich country doesn’t care that their politicians let their country exporting waste to poorer country. I would even be fine with that, if there was some highly specialized recycling facility in one of those poorer countr
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by martin_a 4y ago
> Search for micro-hydro if you want to know more. I've probably seen everything YT has to offer on that. :-D While I really enjoy those videos and the "let's just do it" vibe with old washing machines as generators,
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by martin_a 4y ago
That's the one!
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by martin_a 4y ago
I saw a video like a month ago on YouTube where somebody pumped something like 250 liters of water on his roof (7 meters elevation, if I remember correctly) and let it run through a homebuild generator. The power capacity of that setup was
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by martin_a 4y ago
They can get you everything through their wholesalers. Might take three days then, but there's a pretty tight-woven net.
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by martin_a 4y ago
> Their support for paying clients is much better. It would really be a shame if something was to happen to your domain in our ecosystem because you're not a paying partner. They're mobsters.

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