ooz

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by ooz 12y ago
I'm not making that comparison. Not sure where you got that from. If you want me to make that comparison: The net effect of taking that cash out and burning it or spending it on an Apple 1 assembly is the same. It devalued the moment y
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by ooz 12y ago
I agree entirely. Perhaps they should be seen as wasteful here and it certainly shouldn't be beyond judgement. For reference, I do practice such things. My entire computing and mobile outlay has been about $250 in the last 5 years.
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by ooz 12y ago
You're right it's not your money to spend. But if someone threw $900k at crack and whores then I'm sure you'd have a moral judgement to make? This is no different to my opinion.
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by ooz 12y ago
I'm certainly allowed an opinion and yes I will quite happily judge the validity of those things. Why shouldn't I? The item has no inherent value to anyone other than the status of aquiring it. This is a fine example of why the
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by ooz 12y ago
Similar story. It started as a tidied up Debian fork. Then since about 12.04 LTS it turned into a tidied up Debian unstable fork with all the bugs in it. As a server only and LTS only user, I had no end of problems from there on with unstab
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by ooz 12y ago
Yes. I had RadControls inflicted upon me once. I, like many people here by the looks, spent a good deal of time removing them. We had one issue where the page response with an AJAX Manager (or whatever it was called) was 5x as slow than a f
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by ooz 12y ago
Good stuff. Glad to hear! I've been foraging for 25 years so that knowledge is sort of built in (at least in the UK) but I still won't touch mushrooms!
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by ooz 12y ago
So you can read the "how not to be eaten by bears" section while being eaten by a bear? If you're going to rely on stuff like that, its best to commit to knowledge and practice.
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by ooz 12y ago
Most people I know buy second hand TIs which aren't expensive. They are around the $20-50 (GBP conversion) mark here in the UK. The Pi is not exactly a good proposition for a calculator either based on form factor and power usage. Also
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by ooz 12y ago
The Earth's magnetic field and poles do change slightly, but it's not the end of the world as those guys would suggest. It's quite interesting really purely from a science and navigation point of view. So far the only thing I