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by pwason 5y ago
It depends on the OS/application. My accelerated A500 at 14Mhz is perfect for playing VIRUS, my accelerated A3000 at 25Mhz makes the game almost impossible to play. The A500 is too sluggish for PageStream and PageRender 3D. Both these
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by pwason 5y ago
After pulling several desktops from a metal dumpster: 1. Windows, auto-login (!): Complete records for a real-estate company. 2. Windows, auto-login (!): A family computer with pictures, etc. 3. Windows, auto-login (!): A shared church comp
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by pwason 5y ago
Depends on where you work. In my IT job at a university, I make about 40% of what I would make at a commercial company, but the benefits are arguably better :)
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by pwason 5y ago
https://lifehacker.com/why-you-shouldnt-trust-the-flccc-prot...
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by pwason 5y ago
What if Germany just put a bigger pump at their end, turned it on so the gas was going the other direction, and lit that motherfucker up?
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by pwason 5y ago
How convenient. Any reason they couldn't have done this years ago? I suspect in this case, "arrested" = "hired".
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by pwason 5y ago
But, can it ride a bicycle?
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by pwason 5y ago
gods! what is this?
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by pwason 5y ago
Jamie Dimon and I don't get along. Elon? I'm sure we could have a hell of a game of Cosmic Wimpout.
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by pwason 5y ago
I have a smartphone, but disabled everything except calling and messaging. And I always have it on vibrate. It's amusing to walk through a crowd of people and realize I'm the only one who isn't staring at something a foot in
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by pwason 5y ago
3x 12hr days, then 3 days off. Over a year, the employees get more days off and more paid hours, and the employer gets more hours worked. Works for me.
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by pwason 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDEm8mC-Nw
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by pwason 5y ago
Scientists Study Something But We Won't Tell You What They Discovered.
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by pwason 5y ago
Sailfish? https://sailfishos.org/ Purism? https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
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by pwason 5y ago
my brain
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by pwason 6y ago
They've been doing that for years at the massage parlors.
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by pwason 6y ago
1000 cases in 20 years? Out of tens of millions of ballots? Oooooh! NOT
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by pwason 7y ago
It does now.
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by pwason 7y ago
Once you realize that your life is like a piece of string, with a beginning and an end, yet you never know where you are currently on that string, it's somewhat easier to focus. Bullshit tends to become more obvious and avoidable. If t
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by pwason 7y ago
Tornado - which ended up being the IMHO insanely overpriced and now almost unusable InfoSelect. I once wrote an inventory app using Tornado, batch scripts, and a barcode interface... Was insanely fast.
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by pwason 7y ago
We're competitive creatures. [Cue: Blazing Saddles]
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by pwason 7y ago
rich people.
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by pwason 7y ago
Don't depend on online services, other than for metadata lookup. I have a Logitech Squeezebox and run Logitech Media Server on a DIY Windows 10 fileserver. I also use MP3Tag extensively to clean up my media files. Looking at getting a
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by pwason 7y ago
Bah. My Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra lasts for 10 days on a charge.
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by pwason 7y ago
While some nights I do struggle to sleep, this is unusual. Most nights I can do it in under 10 seconds. This is through a combination of: 1. simulating sleep to avoid further disturbing interactions with humans. 2. active visualization of m
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by pwason 7y ago
Ah, institutionalized climate-change denial spewing-points for the individual libertarian, ignoring the fact that our species is killing itself, along with everything else on the planet. Good show, old boy!
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by pwason 7y ago
stop sitting on your ass. sell the chair.
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by pwason 7y ago
We live on a spaceship.
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by pwason 7y ago
Red.
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by pwason 7y ago
Get a Sony Xperia X* and load Jolla's Sailfish X on it. I have the Xperia X2A Ultra, and it rocks. Battery lasts 8 days. :)

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