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by rodgerd 5y ago
That will be a fascinating experience: we've had decades of film and TV made either me-too or as a riposte to the films - and The Sopranos was the latter - so it will probably land very differently for you to people who saw it before C
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> All of the (Garmin, Strava, Apple, and Google [who is trying really hard but failing]) want a monopoly on your health data. Garmin is the only one I actually trust currently, as they've shown 0 willingness to monetize your health
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Cloud is like changing cars, if changing cars meant that a Toyota had pedals and a steering wheel but a Mercedes had a joystick and a throttle lever.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Ah yes, the answer to "I would like a reasonable degree of support and security for my phone without having to be a full time sysadmin" is "treat your phone like a 1997 Linux PC project.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
If you're very clever (unlike me) and you break into a modern running system, you'll find that there are a lot of protections to stop you just inserting your own code and running it. Smart people will look at the current executabl
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by rodgerd 5y ago
There's also the endless juggles of "is this phone supported, do I need to root it, is the root current, no wait this version is just different enough from that version that I need a custom version of the ROM from a third party, o
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I'm not a person with lots of free time > CalyxOS on Android Pick one.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Putin's whole ambition ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics ) is to expand to and beyond the Russian Empire. Becoming a Chinese client state would be a massive failure for him.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
For me, "Give War a Chance" was where I started finding him less and less interesting, as he seemed to move closer and closer to Republican orthodoxy; "CEO of the Sofa" consolidated that for me. The most memorable chapte
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> But when I was at Google, we would schedule VC meetings with people in a different part of campus just to avoid the walk. This is a solid point; I work for a company that had four key buildings in two cities at the start of the pandemi
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> It's their entire strategy, or lack of strategy that is in question. So, bearing mind that I'm just shitposting on the Internet and have no military expertise, I do think that they had a strategy; based on the automated relea
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I guess you also missed Putin characterising Lenin's actions post-revolution as a mistake, and that the Russian Empire should move back to its pre-USSR borders? Or the prepared article that was mistakenly published crowing about the &q
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by rodgerd 5y ago
They aren't going to give your their money if you shill for them, you know.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> This war just makes 0 sense to me. Killing one third of the population of Chechnya made zero sense. Murdering so many people in Grozny that it's still only a third of the population pre-war makes zero sense. Legalising domestic vi
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Attacking icons; the classic iconoclasts wanted to destroy sacred church imagery as a distraction from the proper worship of god. In O'Rourke's case it meant that while saying that he was a republican and having a go at cyclists a
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> anti-Americans (including Americans) Alas, tankies and campies exist.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
When Malaysia Airlines 17 was shot down by Russia, a local part of the story was a couple whose three children were all on the flight. How do you even go on after that?
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Monopolies are good if they're Google's, apparently.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
There was quite a big court case about it, you know.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Seriously, what kind of argument is this? Whataboutism. It's become the main pro-Putin talking point in the last couple of days, after an abrupt drop-off when the last one (Russia will never invade, Biden is a madman, etc) abruptl
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I guess that it's a substantially different internal protest than ordinary Russians.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
To your first point, there was an absolute classic ( https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2001/oct/14/foodanddrink.... ) where a Guardian food writer took his kid and their friends to Fat Duck. Two of the ki
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> salary depression. You mean like the salary depression when Google and Apple illegally co-ordinated the supression of worker salaries?
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I guess you managed to selectively edit out of your mind when Putin characterised the shape of post-1917 Russia as a mistake by Lenin. He has been quite clear about his desire to invade and subjugate countries to re-create the Tsarist empir
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I believe Putin enjoys a very strong approval in Russia An autocrat who routinely imprisons and murders his critics does not inspire honest opinions to be shared by his people.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
There's the third option, which is that the Russian elites simply murder Putin and use his corpse to blame Russia's problems on, not unlike Stalin and the post-Stalin denunciations.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I would fear that Apple forgets about the feature after a few years and then just drops it. It seems unlikely, given that it's tied into Family and Apple One offerings.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
The idiot in the driver's seat is likely the idiot who thinks that lowering their car by cutting the coil springs is a good idea, and will be the same idiot who thinks that messing with the ABS logic is sensible.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Using that logic, we don't have free speech in the US either. Only if you are so monumentally stupid as to equate being murdered by the state with people not buying your albums, I guess.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
There is no lack of people in the world. This is only an issue if you have some sort of deep-set racist need to only be around people of a particular skin colour.

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