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by pixxel 3y ago
Heh yeah. People here also jump into X/Elon threads to whine and pontificate. Move on or STFU.
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by pixxel 3y ago
> I don’t want to own movies or discs, because I never consume the same thing twice. For real?! You don’t have movies you love and rewatch? Are you not one for watching much TV? I’m intrigued :)
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by pixxel 3y ago
Cancelled my Prime the other week (had it since launch). Opened the Prime app by habit and saw something crazy. Right at the top was “live” TV (called Freevee or somesuch). The programs play at certain times. You can’t pause and you can’t r
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by pixxel 3y ago
I had a Spectrum +3. I can still recall vividly the smell of the unboxing on Christmas morning. Actually I had slid the box out of the wrapping paper a few weeks prior when my parents were out. Just to look at it :)
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by pixxel 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042564
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by pixxel 3y ago
> and that's when I left Your virtue signal still shines into the night sky the symbol of a bird. You should update it to an ‘X’ if you insist on shining it in 2024.
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by pixxel 3y ago
As always, thank you.
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by pixxel 3y ago
If grown men want to pull emoji faces that fine but I won’t click, and that’s fine too.
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by pixxel 3y ago
They really aren’t. Even the comments here involved a long scroll to get to a hint of the unmentionable possibility .
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by pixxel 3y ago
I like Steam, including the work they’ve done with Linux/Proton and their hardware access. I wouldn’t give Tencent Epic Games a single penny.
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by pixxel 3y ago
I buy games via Steam and then grab a DRM-free backup elsewhere. Same with movies and music. I own my media just like the good old days.
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by pixxel 3y ago
With respect, we’re discussing people struggling to feed their families, not the privilege of higher education.
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by pixxel 3y ago
Just to give you feedback: Personally I find this game too difficult to be pleasurable. It’s like the difference between playing an easy-medium sudoku and a real hard sudoku. The former is relaxing whilst the latter is frustrating, time con
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by pixxel 3y ago
This is a terrible analogy. Ramps don’t impede society; anyone can make use of them.
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by pixxel 3y ago
With respect, pandering to outliers is never the answer.
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by pixxel 3y ago
Sure I get it. I’ve just not commuted since the iPhone was first released. Imagine for a moment that we don't use our hands to use a device: you wake up one morning, board a train and everyone has a head-harness holding a rectangle in
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by pixxel 3y ago
I travelled into London by train recently for the first time in 15 years. 95% of commuters were staring at their phones. Perhaps previously they were staring at newspapers etc. I don’t know. I don’t recall people walking and reading newspap
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by pixxel 3y ago
> I'm not aware This public admission is a great start; keep going.
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by pixxel 3y ago
Hipster-flation.
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by pixxel 3y ago
Well said; I agree wholeheartedly.
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by pixxel 3y ago
Lutris is wonderful. I also recommend Bottles. https://usebottles.com/
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by pixxel 3y ago
>grifters AKA Google employees, heh
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by pixxel 3y ago
Thank you for the insight.
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by pixxel 3y ago
> Dutch technicians then developed a technique to copy the random access memory (RAM) of one of the Sky ECC servers without causing them to offline Teasing! I wonder how. Thanks for sharing.
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by pixxel 3y ago
lol! I’m leaving it unedited.
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by pixxel 3y ago
Interesting piece. I’m left more interested in this: > breaking into the encrypted chat platform SkyECC Psychical access to a device or something more technical…
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by pixxel 3y ago
All comments here are so far are in the spirit of HN (fuck ads and fuck google). San Francisco is currently asleep…
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by pixxel 3y ago
Depending where you live you may recognise this popular Christmas song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
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by pixxel 3y ago
Yet here you are…again.
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by pixxel 3y ago
>true number True numbers. Let’s not allude that only China’s stats are… I’ll be kind and say ‘massaged’. How high is the western “died with Covid” tally?

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