protimewaster

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by protimewaster 5mo ago
What's the data in the FsTx folder? Is it just some magic data that Windows looks for?
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
The Pixel devices are a good option as well. I think it's one of the last remnants of "don't be evil" at Google -- the Pixel devices are quite friendly toward alternative installs, much more so than most manufacturers. A
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
There were definitely issues, but I think that some of those basically extend from Steam and the way it worked. GFWL was Microsoft's competition to Steam, so it just copied Steam (~3 years after a Steam came out) and worked similarly t
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
I still think it's weird that Valve is viewed as so friendly to gamers when they're probably more responsible for taking away game ownership on PC than any other one company. Prior to Steam, I used to routinely buy used games, giv
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
Another user pointed out that there are actually two sets of rules. There's a general one that doesn't have the exemptions, and a tablet and phone specific one that does. It's not clear to me which takes precedence, though, a
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
Based on other comments, there are apparently two separate sets of rules. One of them has exceptions and supplies specifically to phones and tablets, and one of them doesn't have any exceptions and applies more generally.
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
I also wonder how this is impacted by time. If I have a device that's at 75% capacity at 200 cycles, but it's 7 years old, does that fail to meet these requirements? Because my experience has been that the cycle count doesn't
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
It does, but, in the previous HN discussion, there was a link to the what was reportedly the adopted version of the bill, and those exemptions were gone from the text.
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
The previous discussion of the bill on HN noted that the newest version of the bill is the one without the exemption. Is that incorrect?
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
Didn't they remove many of the exemptions in the final, adopted bill?
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
Last time this was discussed, it was stated that the text exempting based on cycle counts was removed from the final, adopted version. Is that incorrect?
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
Doesn't the article address some of that in the next paragraph, which includes a link to a study from 2013? > That sample of blind children is small, but the pattern holds across more than 70 years of evidence: not a single congenit
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
Isn't Denuvo actually implemented in a game by the DRM developers, though? I remember reading that they have a process where the game dev sends Denuvo an unprotected executable, who adds the DRM to that executable and sends it back. Th
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
> Those prices seem weird. I was thinking the same thing. In many parts of the world, even a failing / debt laden business would be worth much more than that.
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
> Sure, but if you felt you didn't get a good deal you're not going to go back. If you feel that way about all of them, you're not just going to starve to death, though. If you've got two options and they're both
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
I assume this doesn't work with every airline / in every case? E.g., if I am booking with a US-based airline like United or American, to fly between two US cities, do they really bother to offer cheaper tickets based on your inter
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
I think, if you follow the airport guidelines (at least in the USA), trains win (or at least come close) for even longer distances than that. Most airports recommend that you arrive at least two hours early to ensure that you can make it th
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by protimewaster 5mo ago
I don't find it hard to believe that both can be true. I don't want to have to commute to work by driving, but I do anyway, because there's no public transit to my work. I don't want to have to use Gmail for my work emai
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
They offer monthly subscriptions AFAIK, so I'm skeptical they'd upgrade for just any subscription. Otherwise, a person could buy one month, they have to upgrade the car, and then they never buy a second month.
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
I've seen confusion about this before with people that I know. You tell them it's against the law to drink, and they'll point out that it's restrictive and controlling. You tell them it's against the law to commit t
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
I think one thing that rubs people the wrong way is that Apple has basically infinite money at this point. They're not dropping support for old hardware because they don't have the resources to maintain the support. They're j
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
That has not been my experience, at least with Apple laptops. Even when rated for 1000 cycles, I'll get the warning that service is needed (AFAIK that means 80% capacity or lower) well before then. I've seen this on several, but t
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
I'm glad to see this. As much as optical media gets ignored, it does have some serious advantages in terms of durability and longevity, compared to some other archival storage methods. Blu-ray discs are quite rugged, and can easily sur
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
There are many studies that point toward the opposite, so I strongly suspect you're wrong.
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
There have been other papers that demonstrated LLM ability to reproduce copyrighted text as well. Will it actually impact the legal landscape, though? It seems like there's enough money being thrown at this that it'll be deemed le
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
I definitely don't think they've ever been super nice, but I still they still have a few much more user-friendly approaches than others. E.g., one of the reasons I bought a Pixel is that Google is one of the only phone makers that
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
I think Google has done some cool stuff, and I think in a lot of ways they're, at least historically, one of the less evil big tech players. I gotta say, though, that my experience with trying to get them to sort out any kind of issue
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
Surely not if I certified that the car was never going to be used on the road?
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by protimewaster 6mo ago
My thinking is that I'd pick this, because I can't just plug a Mac into a slot in my server and have it easily integrate with all my other hardware across an ultra fast bus. If they made an M4 on a card that supported all the same
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by protimewaster 7mo ago
Maybe, but I don't think that distinction matters here. Surely you're not contending that it counts as doxing every time someone collects data from multiple public sources? I've always understood doxing to be PII, which alias

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