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by petemir 2y ago
The myth is the game being a health hazard, not if it was banned (or not).
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by petemir 2y ago
I guess it depends. My partner still gets woken up by my (smart)watch at the lowest vibration setting.
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by petemir 2y ago
Model should be available for testing here [0], although I tried to upload a video and got an error in Chinese, and whenever I write something it says that the API key is invalid or missing. [0] https://rhymes.ai/
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by petemir 2y ago
> They manage in neighboring Switzerland though At twice the ticket price, probably :)
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by petemir 2y ago
Or an accident that they try to pass as an assassination attempt, or an internal attack they try to pass as a foreign attack. Who knows. We certainly do not.
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by petemir 2y ago
OP’s clarification must come from the ambiguous HN title.
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by petemir 2y ago
> From what I can tell, Siri is still a dumpster fire that nobody is willing to use. I have no personal experience with Alexa, so I can't speak to it I use both (albeit more Alexa than Siri, both just for a really limited functional
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by petemir 2y ago
> [...] because the idea of using nicotine as a performance enhancer is crazy. It's not [0] [0] https://gwern.net/nootropic/nootropics#nicotine
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by petemir 2y ago
I doubt the consumer mass that actually matters to manufacturer's earnings understands RAM value and if the computer they are buying is RAM-upgradable or not. They are going to buy the 800$, any of the two, complain when it inevitably
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by petemir 2y ago
Now I wonder if asking about the tool is a red herring to make us watch the video...
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by petemir 2y ago
They are probably referring to the Ubuntu Pro (previously Advantage I believe) notices that appear when you login via SSH or do apt updates. They can be disabled/hidden anyway, but they are still conceptually invasive.
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by petemir 2y ago
No, it's not compatible. I am sorry, I misunderstood the purpose of your question.
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by petemir 2y ago
Ikea's PARASOLL? I would expect that for your use-case, just knowing if a/the door was opened is already enough.
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by petemir 2y ago
Similar (activity recording of each window), but not exactly the same (no screenshots): https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch
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by petemir 2y ago
> I have a friend who is a postdoc stats guy in the biology field. There's actually a deep need for numeracy in biology, people just don't seem to know it when they're in school. I was always amazed about a past acquaintan
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by petemir 2y ago
Just about to start writing my PhD thesis but... alas, no Linux love :(.
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by petemir 3y ago
> I don't think I'm alone in never wanting to read an actual book with my phone Although a koreader integration would be great, there are tablets with both Android and iOS, as well as eReaders with the former.
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by petemir 3y ago
I second this! Obviously I wouldn't expect it to be free because of the different technologies (either current or planned) involved, but the lack of clarity in all the descriptions makes me doubt investing time/effort on it.
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by petemir 3y ago
Unrelated to semantics, but whenever I hear people talking and my Spanish alarm goes off (I’m a native Spanish speaker), but I realize I don’t understand the words, it’s Greek most of the time. Italian and Spanish also share lots of idioms,
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by petemir 3y ago
Funnily/depressingly enough, not even supposedly compostable stuff is actually compostable [0] [0] https://www.research-in-germany.org/idw-news/en_US/2023/10/2...
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by petemir 3y ago
If you need help for testing the Linux version let me know, I’d be happy to help
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by petemir 3y ago
There were some comments here not so long ago in a related thread about the enshittification of either (cannot recall) furniture (compared to ikea) or household appliances (why a 1950’s fridge may still be working while one from 5 years ago
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SmartTube: An advanced player for Android TVs and TV boxes, free and open source(github.com)
1 points by petemir 3y ago|0 comments
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by petemir 3y ago
> They aren't against repair, they just want to make sure that they make a lot of money from repairs Last time I went to an Apple Store I asked about repairing the power button of a (then) three year old device and the answer was “b
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by petemir 3y ago
As JL Borges said, > [...] If a book bores you, leave it; don’t read it because it is famous, don’t read it because it is modern, don’t read a book because it is old. If a book is tedious to you, leave it, even if that book is 'Par
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by petemir 3y ago
> Reducing biodiversity doesn't equate to an extension-level event though From the Encyclopaedia Britannica [0]: __These conspicuous declines in diversity are referred to as mass extinctions__ > It also doesn't mean all spec
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by petemir 3y ago
> The tragedy here is that it is the first preventable mass extinction event I think that being responsibles for it is even more of a tragedy.
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by petemir 3y ago
And what about the species that do not warm nor thrive in tropical climates? Or those that cannot migrate? Even if some species increase in numbers, it still means that all other species would get lost, reducing biodiversity and effectively
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by petemir 3y ago
hah, I've been doing the same, purposefully calling commands I know will fail so I can flag them, even adding a swear word or two so it also gets flagged on their side and, perhaps, someone can then take action. But in the end, the sma
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by petemir 3y ago
Yes, I had interference at one moment and moved the devices to the farthest points on each room, so that doesn't happen now, but the problem I mentioned before (turning on the wrong light) still happens. I forgot to say that the proble

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