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by refracture 5y ago
I had it but got the vaccine anyway, there's places that want proof of vaccination and I'm just not interested in arguing about not needing it.
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by refracture 5y ago
EVs will be better in plenty of ways, lack of exhaust is good (though at the moment all of my electricity is produced by coal so.. not really a win in my opinion until that changes), regenerative braking is probably better than brake pad du
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by refracture 5y ago
I now regret having read the plot summary to refresh my memory. It's terrible!
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by refracture 5y ago
My parents watched a lot of sci fi TV when I was kid, SG-1 is the only show that I ever actually sat down and watched more than the occasional episode of. I remember being struck by a scene that was (I believe?) pretty early in the series w
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by refracture 5y ago
I'm in this juxtaposition where I love that PCs are open, particularly when using FOSS, but use an iPhone. I accept the risk in return for the openness of my PC. I have zero passion for mobile devices though and find the iOS experience
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by refracture 5y ago
Yep, used it before, works just fine. I don't default to it generally but there have been times where it was the easy route to get something done and was grateful for it.
97.
by refracture 5y ago
An iPhone makes setup easier and it supports some neat things like using the camera on your phone to calibrate color tone, but it's optional. If you buy a new Apple TV make sure you get the one that just came out with the new Siri remo
98.
by refracture 5y ago
At least there's a setting to make the 'TV' button take you to the home screen instead of the Apple TV+ app, and unlike Roku when monitoring network traffic the Apple TV is pretty quiet when not in use, unlike the Roku that i
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by refracture 5y ago
Yeah it has been frustrating, and the limitations of a small team and basically one man making all the major decisions and changes has been on display for a while now.. add to that the store falling apart and Pat's financial problems.
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by refracture 5y ago
Slackware is the only Linux distro I have been able to stick to long term. A dual boot between Slackware and Windows 10.. pretty crazy contrast of a colossal OS that's always pestering you for its attention and doing lord knows what un
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by refracture 5y ago
I have a specific annoyance about that: I have an Apple TV HD that I bought second hand that had no remote; it's connected to a monitor so there's no TV remote or HDMI-CEC or anything of the sort; when using AirPods with the Apple
102.
by refracture 5y ago
SFTP is not only just preferable but so unrelated to FTP that it frustrates me that it's often brought up in the same sentence... why did they call it that.. uhg.
103.
by refracture 5y ago
Everytime I boot into Windows at home it just seems worse..
104.
by refracture 6y ago
I get using the T2 to encrypt the drives, as I understand it makes for very good hardware security, but what I do not get is why the machine cannot either: A. Wipe and then 'claim' an SSD, adding it the T2 by itself without anothe
105.
by refracture 6y ago
It's not the same thing, but personally I find the Xbox controllers are better when used with the official USB wireless adapter and xow: https://github.com/medusalix/xow
106.
by refracture 6y ago
And it always has to come down to either fat shaming or fat acceptance.. It's like we can't have an honest dialogue about abusive relationships with food (be it using food as a coping mechanism for other things going on in their l
107.
by refracture 6y ago
I used Meebo a lot, and I'm only just now realizing the shutdown was because of Google. They bought out the company to assign the staff to Google+. What a waste.
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by refracture 6y ago
Doom 3 holds up pretty well actually. People revisiting it via YouTube with the original game often disagree because of an unfortunate bug that causes the image_downsize variables to increment, so despite cranking the settings in the menu t
109.
by refracture 6y ago
I don't consider the armor light an equivalent to duct tape. Duct tape at least attempted to balance things. The light was only available on the shotgun and machine gun, and had a smaller cone of light projected compared to the full si
110.
by refracture 6y ago
Game breaking bugs? Check. (allegedly fixed in post release patches) Unskippable cutscenes? Check. Reduced FoV? Check. An auto save system that pauses the game to save unlike the original which did it seamlessly? Check. Lighting ‘improvemen
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by refracture 6y ago
I can't stand this aspect of newer cars. It also means you're often hosed if you want to update the infotainment system. I've driven a model 3 and I find the gigantic tablet to be not only distracting but impossible to safely
112.
by refracture 6y ago
To be clear I wasn't trying to defend Apple here, it's more in the spirit of meaning they should just shut up about how great they think iMessage is so long as it's only available on Apple devices.
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by refracture 6y ago
This is cute and all but so long as Android (and to a lesser extent Windows/Linux PCs) cannot run iMessage... what does any of this matter? Yeah iMessage is great between me and anyone I talk to with an iPhone, but it's still larg
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by refracture 6y ago
I installed Windows 95 and 98se in DOSBox-X, it's pretty neat. Unfortunately my main motivation, an old Windows game called The Divide: Enemies Within runs poorly, either with software mode or using the emulated voodoo. On vintage hard
115.
by refracture 6y ago
You know it's sad when I feel no anxiety over a major redesign. It's so awful right now that the idea of them throwing it all in the trash and starting over is very appealing.
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by refracture 6y ago
Maybe it's because I was never a newgrounds kid or whatever but every time I had to use flash for video playback it was always awful and I don't miss it. Good riddance you CPU hungry abomination.
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by refracture 6y ago
Fortunately I've been able to find native alternatives for almost everything. If it wasn't for games and Winamp I'd probably not bother installing wine. (Winamp is the only player I've found that I can get midi files to
118.
by refracture 6y ago
I ran it for most of 2020 before moving to KDE. I hadn't looked at the project recently until today and saw that it now has 'Chicago95 Plus! A tool to preview and install Windows 95/98/ME/XP themes'.. I'm
119.
by refracture 6y ago
Chicago95 can take that a step further if you like. I'm running KDE lately too (Slackware-current finally got KDE5 recently so I'm trying it out), but XFCE is the old trusty default for me.
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by refracture 6y ago
It's sad to say but I've had more hassle with Windows 10 than any previous (NT based anyway) release. 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 all served me well. 10 has done everything from deleted my files (thanks, October 2018 Update) to DESTROY

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