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by pwg 3y ago
yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Once downloaded, the video files can be played anywhere, on any device.
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by pwg 3y ago
> The distance that this kind of amperage has to flow through is very small, meaning that the resistance along the path isn't that bad. The formula for resistive wattage dissipation does not include "distance" in it. The f
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by pwg 3y ago
> how do you handle super users? You did not indicate whether this is a "free for use" app. or a paid app. The answer differs depending upon this fact. > It certainly makes me think about algorithmic complexity every day. R
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by pwg 3y ago
Chris may have missed what may be the most probable reason. Integrated graphics onboard the CPU's eviscerated the sales of "low end graphics cards" to the point that few to no makers are building and selling "low end car
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by pwg 3y ago
> People are buying bigger cars for some reason. Is it actually necessary or is it just marketing at work? For /some/ subset, not that I have any percentage to quote, the bigger vehicle is possibly necessary. I.e, contractors w
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by pwg 3y ago
With one or more large Oak trees the amount of leaf cover is such if left untouched that the yard would revert, typically in only one fall season, to "forest ground cover" (old rotting leaves, mud, and the hardy weeds/vines t
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by pwg 3y ago
There exists in very many areas of the US a common property size for single family homes that is large enough to make "rake by hand" a significant time investment, but that is simultaneously small enough that a riding mower and sw
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by pwg 3y ago
> How could it become so popular, does it have any benefits apart from using a machine for the sake of using a machine, and showing off (as it initially has been probably)? When one has 10,000 square feet (or more) to "rake" an
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by pwg 3y ago
I've been a customer since 2019. Have had no issues that would lead me to any conclusion that they are anything other than trustworthy. So yes, I believe they are trustworthy.
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by pwg 3y ago
If you are willing to "loosen" your requirements slightly, VOIP.ms ( https://voip.ms/ ) VOIP phone numbers support SMS send/receive (including a web interface in your account to do send/receive) and using
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by pwg 3y ago
I use Hacker's Keyboard from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyb... It meets your #4 requirement, as to the others I don't have those myself so have never investigated i
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by pwg 3y ago
And actually have a second computer -- "elderly couple" quite highly implies that this computer is likely the only one they have.
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by pwg 3y ago
And, sadly, given the rate of "click through" on all warning dialogs, a very many users will not read even the "better message" and will simply reflexively hit the "ok" button to "make this popup go away&q
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by pwg 3y ago
> Paying for premium would go a long way to improving the situation for everybody The recent change to Amazon Prime, where everyone using "Prime Video" was already "paying for prime video", which recently added advert
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by pwg 3y ago
> Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web Because for the great majority of users, i.e. those who thought that "the internet" lived inside the blue "e" icon for IE on Win XP, or those who &q
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by pwg 3y ago
> you never know when you need to write https:// It is not a proper URL without the protocol part up front. Browser creators improperly trying to hide the protocol not-withstanding. > just happened to me: in a youtube des
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by pwg 3y ago
Effectively, the top eight bits of the address bus are hard wired to always be 0x01 when the "stack" is being accessed. It is part of the decode and execution hardware of the CPU. It is also why the stack is always in page 1, and
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by pwg 3y ago
It does not store 01ff. It stores 00 to ff. The stack is always on page 1 (0x01..) and can not be moved elsewhere. The CPU hardware simply outputs 0x01 on the upper eight bits of the address bus while outputting the 8-bit stack pointer o
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by pwg 3y ago
> our packages are written with the intention of staying as close to upstream vendor's vision as possible. This sounds very similar to Slackware, with the largest difference being source distribution vs. binary distribution as the i
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by pwg 3y ago
Per the bottom of the article, there is not yet any code that anyone (besides the current author) can look at: > Source code release in 2024.
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by pwg 3y ago
>I think drivers should be compulsory to open source 5 years after the hardware is no longer sold, Why wait five years? The hardware stops being sold on date X, the software/firmware must be published the same day. > In a lot of
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by pwg 3y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012
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by pwg 3y ago
UblockOrigin - set to default block all javascript on the website, and one gets no "sudden sound notification", no "chat widget", no "popup" and no "random decorations".
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by pwg 3y ago
This pdf ( https://f.hubspotusercontent30.net/hubfs/8968533/CS-2%20Data... ) says the power supplies are 6+6 redundant 4kW supplies. Assuming 100% utilization (not realistic, but it makes the "math" easy)
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by pwg 3y ago
> It’s happened to everyone: No, it has not happened to everyone. > you plug your smartphone into your car, and then cringe when that song — the same song every time — begins to play. No, this has never happened to me. Nothing star
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by pwg 3y ago
> I’m not a chemist, but as I understand it, meth isn’t too often made with PE anymore, yet, it sits behind the counter forever now. Sadly, far too many laws, once on the books, are never considered for removal, even when the original re
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by pwg 3y ago
This is a perfect example of the "Politician's syllogism" [1] > We must do something. > This is something. > Therefore, we must do this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
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by pwg 3y ago
These two wikipedia articles are a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nntp As for "why pay separate provider" -- that would be because circa 2000 m
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by pwg 3y ago
And it is also /interesting/ that the evil one's [1] blog post mentions "and spam" as a reason for this, but fully fails to mention that 99.8% of the "spam" flood is coming from their own system. [1]google
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by pwg 3y ago
> All my work is probably like 50GB, but I have it backed up on an external drive AND the cloud. > It's like self preservation instinct is missing. And if, as happened in TFA, you are raided by the FBI and all your local comput

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