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by miah_ 2y ago
DEVO got America so right: Freedom of choice Is what you got Freedom from choice Is what you want
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by miah_ 2y ago
The illusion of choice: You can have any color car as long as its black. I mean you can run any browser you want, as long as its Chrome.
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by miah_ 2y ago
Despite those stats, if Google wants to avoid being called a monopoly they need to support it, and it needs to receive the same level of support as their own product.
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by miah_ 2y ago
Same it has worked fine for me for ages with Ublock, but this week it has been _bad_. I recently switched to 5g for home internet (i live in the woods), and thought that was the cause. But seeing others complain about it leaves me to believ
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by miah_ 2y ago
Awesome. Now do Musk and Zuck.
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by miah_ 2y ago
Absolutely disgusting.
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by miah_ 2y ago
I wrote love the ability to associate a TTL with bookmarks. Let me bookmark for 3 hours or 2 days or forever. Of course the 3 and 2 are user choices. Mostly the way I deal with this now is sharing the tab to another Firefox on a different c
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by miah_ 2y ago
Supposedly this guy has “read every dystopian novel,”. Considering he is still moving forward with the idea, I tend to believe he failed reading comprehension classes in elementary school.
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by miah_ 2y ago
Being able to order food is only useful for those who live in an area where there is food to order. Here in rural Michigan I can count on one hand the number of times I've ordered delivery in the past 3 years. AI has been totally usele
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by miah_ 2y ago
Just because somebody wants to know where you're from, doesn't mean they are entitled to know that. You are under no obligation to say "I'm from California" when buying a house. Your realtor can do all the discussio
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by miah_ 2y ago
Years back I ran into a issue at work because somebody named their computer "localhost" on a network with automatic DNS registration. Because of DNS search path configuration it would resolve. So, "localhost" ended up re
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by miah_ 2y ago
Its a good thing the US is _huge_. I certainly didn't "displace" anybody as I moved back home to Michigan from California to buy a house in the woods. There are at least 6 houses for sale within a half mile from me right now
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by miah_ 2y ago
Yes. As a teenager when I worked at the local Burger King I used to ride my bicycle ~8 miles down farm roads and then up to the highway exit area where the BK was. Often I'd leave work at closing time (after 11pm) and ride home in the
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by miah_ 2y ago
100% this. I didn't have a farmers license, but I was definitely driving our little S10 up to the supermarket for groceries or gas at 14. Never had a issue. I wasn't a menace on the road until I was officially licensed ;)
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by miah_ 2y ago
I grew up in rural farmland of Michigan. Guess what. I rode a bicycle or walked. To and from school (I lived _just_ inside city limits which meant the buses were off-limits to me). To my friends house. To my friends house a township away (1
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by miah_ 2y ago
`watch -n 5 sqlite3 logs.db "select log from logs" | grep whatever`
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by miah_ 2y ago
Crowdstrike on Linux is only useful for appeasing corporate auditors, and making Crowdstrike money.
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by miah_ 2y ago
And it still performs better than vscode.
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by miah_ 2y ago
I care about the data. I live in the woods with WiFi internet. Every byte matters.
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by miah_ 2y ago
The old Sleep Number beds were not smart, they worked fine. I think people want to drown in useless data these days trying to "fix" their sleep when the reality is its their job or high stress causing sleep issues.
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by miah_ 2y ago
I like: reduce, re-use, repair, recycle. I agree with fixing older stuff. I buy used frequently. Estate sales are my lifeblood. If you can't fix it you don't own it.
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by miah_ 2y ago
If this paragraph made you giggle, give "Feed" by MT Anderson a read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_(Anderson_novel)
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by miah_ 2y ago
The older models had a corded control with a red led display that didn't destroy your eyes at 3am.
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by miah_ 2y ago
Pretty wild. I used to have one of these beds, but it was before everything got "smart". It had two corded controller's hooked up to the pump. The controller displays the number and had up/down arrow buttons to adjust. N
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by miah_ 2y ago
Hard work from those in the bottom works for the top, but rarely for those in the bottom.
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by miah_ 2y ago
I grew up here and left as soon as I turned 18! After living all over the US and trying out different cities and locales returning to Michigan made the most sense. Buying a home in the SFBay area isn't feasible unless you're willi
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by miah_ 2y ago
Right, it gets humid, but averages low ~80's. I'd honestly say its low ~70's, but this summer has been hot. I remember times when I was a child where it would still be snowing in May. Spring is also short, winter starts in Oc
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by miah_ 2y ago
Ya, the sun is out quite late right now =) My chickens don't want to go to bed! But then the sun goes down, and you can see _EVERY_ star in the sky. When I walk my trashcan out to the street, its pitch black. I LOVE it.
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by miah_ 2y ago
This is accurate. My current job, is much lower than I was making int he SFBay area, but I actually have work life balance. I don't have to worry about my phone ringing at 2am, and I don't have to worry about yearly re-orgs or pro
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by miah_ 2y ago
Maybe they have saved enough from working in tech that they can grow vegetables for themselves in a very low scale way. Its nice to escape from the career you've had for decades. Sometimes its not even an escape from the career, but th

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