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by neelc 3y ago
The reality is, many Lenovo customers buy their laptops just for Linux. In turn, Lenovo knows they need to cater to Linux users. Same with Dell. It's not most of their customers, but it's the most loyal customers. Customers who wo
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HP Ink Fiasco: Printer manufacturers shouldn't sell ink or toner(neelc.org)
6 points by neelc 3y ago|1 comments
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by neelc 3y ago
I daily drive a OnePlus 11, but I really miss my Pixel 3's compact size. I still have my P3 but am not into using tech until it dies. For me I just accepted mega phones won. Yes, I know the Pixel 8 is smaller, but I tried it and screen
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by neelc 3y ago
Maybe unrelated, but I have a Deciso DEC2752, which is an OPNsense firewall appliance. For some reason Deciso made it in the Netherlands instead of China or Taiwan. I don't know for sure how much cheaper, or more expensive it would be
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by neelc 3y ago
I WORK at Microsoft 365 (not on Word), and it's actually good LibreOffice can read old Word files even if Word can't. I wasn't even born until 1997, tho when I was young I played a lot with MS-DOS and Win9x, since my toys wer
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by neelc 3y ago
I was a subscriber of Maximum PC until 2014, when I realized I get all my information online. Nowadays, the people who would've subscribed to computer magazines go online. PC Magazine and PC World moved online and it worked very well f
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Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing(neelc.org)
581 points by neelc 3y ago|283 comments
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Chase Bank claims Linux on ARM (Asahi Linux) is “incompatible”, blames Apple(old.reddit.com)
19 points by neelc 3y ago|5 comments
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Twitter and Reddit: All Social Media Sites Will Die (and Get Replaced)(neelc.org)
47 points by neelc 3y ago|29 comments
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Edward Snowden Leaks: 10 Years Later(neelc.org)
5 points by neelc 3y ago|1 comments
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Richard Stallman's Ted talk in Steve Jobs' style/voice (elevenlabs.io/ChatGPT)(old.reddit.com)
60 points by neelc 4y ago|12 comments
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The decline of net neutrality activism(neelc.org)
325 points by neelc 4y ago|275 comments
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I work at Microsoft. Azure DevOps can't attest code on Edge, but can on Firefox(old.reddit.com)
18 points by neelc 4y ago|4 comments
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Bypassing Gmail's spam filters with ChatGPT(neelc.org)
207 points by neelc 4y ago|120 comments
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Why Mastodon and the Fediverse “Failed”(neelc.org)
10 points by neelc 4y ago|8 comments
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What the housing shortage can teach us about crypto(neelc.org)
1 points by neelc 4y ago|0 comments
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by neelc 4y ago
>I've run into business that list their supported systems just based on what they test for I bet that Chase is probably using a FOSS library that didn't whitelist FreeBSD, but whitelisted Linux and Chrome OS, and that while Cha
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Discussion: Website claims to “require” Windows or Mac but doesn't block Linux
7 points by neelc 4y ago|6 comments
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Roskomsvoboda lawyers succeeded in lifting Tor's website blockade in Russia(roskomsvoboda.org)
7 points by neelc 4y ago|0 comments
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How not to handle your website's customer service: A story(neelc.org)
2 points by neelc 4y ago|0 comments
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Petition for a Third-Party Equipment Law on Fiber Optic Broadband(resist.bot)
2 points by neelc 4y ago|1 comments
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How to Get on the Front Page of Hacker News(neelc.org)
1 points by neelc 4y ago|1 comments
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Rolling Rhino Remix: A Rolling-Release Remix of Ubuntu(rollingrhinoremix.github.io)
2 points by neelc 5y ago|0 comments
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by neelc 5y ago
This. The sad thing is that people like the convenience of centralized systems. Humans are lazy. They'll go with the #1 option, even if it means building a centralized monopoly. I should've made this point clearer. Note: I am the
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Web3 is centralized and inefficient(neelc.org)
801 points by neelc 5y ago|751 comments
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by neelc 5y ago
I only joined Microsoft not because I wanted to, but because I really had to. I was a pretty die-hard *nix/self-hosting person for many years, and years of habits and conditioning can't be unwinded so easily. I use Git in a cmd ev
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by neelc 5y ago
> From the perspective of market fit and success, there are countless less-technical business users who swear by Outlook. And I find Outlook painful enough that I use Windows Mail at work. That only because my team disabled EWS for using
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by neelc 5y ago
Yes, and that. I don't use Outlook/Exchange outside of work, frankly never did, but did read from time to time the issues with Outlook norms versus *nix email norms. I didn't need Outlook before I joined Microsoft, every stud
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by neelc 5y ago
I *work* at Microsoft 365, and yet my personal email is self-hosted Postfix and Dovecot. Why? Self-hosting email has been a part of my life since my high school days, I have a sort of attachment to it. I know "you shouldn't run yo
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by neelc 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: IMHO single family homes are an idea whose time passed, at least in big urban areas. While the "American Dream" is to own a home with a backyard, it is logically easier if everyone lived in highrise condos and a

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