metalforever

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by metalforever 2y ago
The problem with your suggestions is that they don't have free firmware.
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by metalforever 2y ago
They're a complete dog on a spinning disk 2013 era machine
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by metalforever 2y ago
So, I read this article and have to disagree with this point that people in very remedial math classes have cognitive issues . I can think of so many exceptions to this that I have personally encountered. Its usually because of poverty or h
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by metalforever 2y ago
The problem is that no one will sell me one with a keyboard or way to text people back. A second major issue is that most of them are running google on the back end, either android or a dumbphone OS. I want to get away from that stuff, that
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by metalforever 2y ago
Main OS.
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by metalforever 2y ago
No the root of the problem is the large attack surface systemd is creating by tightly coupling a ton of tools together, I agree about the microkernel idea completely though.
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by metalforever 2y ago
Same, I am also hiding on Slackware .
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by metalforever 3y ago
Because its a very large monolithic piece of code, which causes issues with trying to audit it / brings it code that might not be necessary / increases attack surface
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by metalforever 3y ago
There are a lot of alternatives to systemd
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by metalforever 3y ago
Yes, I made it up, obviously.
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by metalforever 3y ago
If you figure it out, let me know. It's ruining my life.
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by metalforever 3y ago
This comment is extremely ignorant . A lot of the poor and working class are intelligent, clever, and hardworking. Poverty traps are a thing.
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by metalforever 3y ago
You don't become the "act". You become ground down from the "act". What this comment said about being punished by peers and family for trying to educate myself and other people in this position trying to educate th
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by metalforever 3y ago
It's exactly like this.
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by metalforever 3y ago
I can assure you , a lot of people in my situation take sauce packets.
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by metalforever 3y ago
I am sorry, it is hard to explain the issue . It's not like this. I do have to pretend to be it over long periods.
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by metalforever 3y ago
Pretty much everything. When people ask my opinion on anything, they don't want my opinion, they want an opinion from their class perspective. When they want to know how my holiday was, no they don't. When I am supposed to have vi
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by metalforever 3y ago
I grew up in a very poor socioeconomic situation and became an SWE. The largest challenge wasn't learning the skills. The hardest challenge was throwing away my culture and hiding who I am to get the bills paid. It was also knowing the
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by metalforever 3y ago
The V-Bulletin software publishes the database credentials inside of the web root as part of a settings file. You should be able to gain access to the web root from the web host with the correct validation or access to a company email addre
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by metalforever 3y ago
You really need to deal with the coreboot / firmware issue.
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by metalforever 3y ago
I've got one of the last good Samsung TVs (my opinion). It's pushing 10 years old, one of the first 4k models. There's a separate box for the inputs and it has no ads. I am really reluctant / not sure what I'm going
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by metalforever 3y ago
I am personally dealing with this right now with Maytag. It was under warranty and they sent someone, but they are taking their sweet time. The people I live with are getting extremely upset with me. Never again. I just bought it a few mont
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by metalforever 3y ago
Look at the statistics of who gets funded again .
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by metalforever 3y ago
No I spent years slaving away doing hard programming work during the Great Recession for $15 an hour. Additionally and separately, what you are saying about high paying jobs in a select few cities is true here also. I worked for a company b
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by metalforever 3y ago
I grew up in rural Appalachia in coal country. there’s no generational money. I am not married and don’t split expenses. I taught myself programming and worked my way up, yeah. I sold all of my stuff to get into the property market in the
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by metalforever 3y ago
Hi I hope this doesn’t come off as insensitive. I just wanted to say some things which I realize is a huge edge case but maybe could be helpful to a young talented Canadian. So I grew up in section 8 housing in the US. This is government ho
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by metalforever 3y ago
I don't know, I was pretty poor and CMU let me go there for free.
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by metalforever 3y ago
If all you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.
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by metalforever 3y ago
It’s just not the right tool for the job .
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by metalforever 3y ago
What happens at big companies is that they will build a custom ORM over time , and it will be way shittier and more vulnerable than if you had just used one in the first place.

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