mikae1

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   by mikae1 3y ago

   > By watching the video with adblock and etc. you are just "stealing" content Would you also argue that a TV viewer that goes to the bathroom or the refrigerator in the commercial breaks steals content? Everyone avoids ads if
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   by mikae1 3y ago

   > Stop visiting sites who treat their users this badly! Too bad that basically means you can't surf the internet anymore as a majority of websites use Cloudflare. One of my Firefox installations on Linux are also plagued by this.
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   by mikae1 3y ago

   Swede here. Yes, I've heard of it and have witnessed it, but I'd say it's extremely uncommon (bordering “unheard of”) among people under the age of 80. In Sweden it's practiced mainly in the north. Highlighting some an
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   by mikae1 4y ago

   Funny, “citron” is lemon in Swedish.
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   by mikae1 4y ago

   Or use an open source client without telemetry such as https://maestral.app ㋡
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   by mikae1 4y ago

   Use an open source Dropbox client such as https://maestral.app
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   by mikae1 4y ago

   > their mission contradicts the advantage they’re providing to friends. “Missions” are pure marketing. The only mission of a corporation is to make money .
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   Corporate populism: How corporations construct and represent ‘the people‘(sciencedirect.com)

   1 points by mikae1 4y ago|0 comments
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   by mikae1 4y ago

   > Is it a problem? Right now it doesn't seem to be a practical problem. It will be the day these image hosting services die (and they do, all the time). This setup separates the post content from the post itself. I hope that most
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692399
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    Perhaps the greatest problem with this setup is that the post content is separate from the post itself. I hope that most of us remember what a giant mess hosting images for forums on free image hosting services (that were later shut down) c
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    I see a problem. I'd say a majority of the posts on Nostr are media posts (mostly images) and the network relies on Imgur and other image hosting services for all content. Not very decentralized in practice.
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    Thanks!
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    Can somebody recommend a free relay for kicking the tires?
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    The answer is in the third paragraph. > SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards have a “Protected Area” for SD Card security purposes. The SD Memory Card Formatter does not format the protected area in the SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards. The protect
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    I'm currently partial to https://www.beyondallreason.info/ Also FOSS.
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    > Has anyone found a tea that is suitable for drinking (say) 1L per day of? How about actual tea from the tea plant (camellia sinensis)? Try green, white or yellow tea.
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    That is correct.
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    Well, this could be close to what I dreamed off when I did the GDPR takeout two years ago! Haven't used Spotify since, so the data should actually still actually be up to date. :) Never used Spotify on a mobile device though, so the
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    > It seems like the parent post was asking something slightly different, but regarding energy usage Linux can get really close to macOS on m1 machines. I have tested this myself quite extensively. The keyword is can. No distribution shi
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    I'd love to know about this as well. Reports I found around the web are from the pre GPU driver era.
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    They recognize your country of origin based on IP and calculates the correct VAT based on that. That's true for most stores in the EU. I see that you write in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35447307 that the tax
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    I believe so. Isn't Wayland default on Fedora? Did you compare Wayland to X11? I also went for the KDE Plasma spin.
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    Yup, but an older machine does not always run a newer version of macOS as smooth as one would wish.
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    Chromium Legacy – Latest Chromium for Mac OS X 10.7+(github.com)

    1 points by mikae1 4y ago|0 comments
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    A lack of web browsers for older versions of macOS shouldn't be a problem when there's https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    > The newest browser you can run on this is Firefox 78.15.0esr I'll guess you'll be happy to see this: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy :)
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy exists for macOS, so it would only be fair if there was something similar for old versions of Windows. :)
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    > a 2013 macbook with a keyboard that still works, but it can't get the latest OS updates anymore, much like OP's XP machine. If a lack of web browsers is the problem: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium
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    by mikae1 4y ago

    Just gave Fedora a go on my 2015 MacBook Air. The most frustrating thing was how bad the trackpad suddenly sucked. I haven't tried https://howchoo.com/linux/the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settin... yet.