sbcd

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by sbcd 4y ago
As someone who has an interest in etymology and historical changes in vocabulary, I'm always amused by how fruitless the attempts to avoid negative connotations have been with regards to terms that used to be considered "normal&qu
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by sbcd 4y ago
>Speak for yourself Haha. Firefox went from above 20% marketshare in its early days, to below 4% today, and the number is continually dwindling. At this point it's the few defensive, aggressive fanboys left who are "speaking fo
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by sbcd 4y ago
There is an epidemics of people who argue on bad faith on the internet and just google links from pubmed to add to their ""argument"" without ever reading or understanding the articles they link to, expecting others to n
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by sbcd 4y ago
>They're proposing removing most of the nicotine from real cigarettes, too. This must have been imagined by people who have no understanding of drugs whatsoever. Lessening the content of nicotine is likely to make people smoke -more
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by sbcd 4y ago
No. Swing does not suffer from that problem because Sun actually cared about accessibility requirements back in the days, in fact, the only reason there's a desktop on Linux that has decent accessibility, Gnome (through the Orca screen
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by sbcd 4y ago
>Caries are a sign of an immune disorder or imbalance Or just terrible habits like drinking liters of soda everyday. Besides the diabetes, the mix of sugar and acid is terrible for dental health, and contrary to the myth, brushing your t
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by sbcd 5y ago
Yeah. I've finished Elden Ring, and as a long time admirer of what From Software did to revitalize the action RPG genre, I felt the open world was a deeply unnecessary addition that brings nothing but time wasters. The truly wonderful
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by sbcd 5y ago
I play elden ring on windows.. with dxvk/vkd3d dll because they fixed the massive stuttering issue that this console port had on PC. Even on windows this translation layer can give better performance.
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by sbcd 5y ago
>That scratch was caused by a bump into metal while she was carrying it by hand Not to defend samsung, because foldable phones are a flimsy bad idea, but it's to be expected that bumps that wouldn't damage other phones (includi
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by sbcd 5y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if the flash chips might be wearing out and take longer to read/write to. This is what happened to the Nexus 7 tablets, I owned one and the experience, which was great at first, became terrible over ti
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by sbcd 5y ago
>I have a sense that this is the dirty little secret of the spyware advertising industry, personalization just isn't that great. Personalized adverts and recommendations can be incredibly, horrendously dumb. Here's what I see w
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by sbcd 5y ago
France is not America, thank you very much. I have never seen people leave tips here.
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by sbcd 5y ago
This is just anecdote versus anecdote, but I've never had to replace a LED because of them blowing out. Just recently, I replaced a LED that has been turned on for 24 hours a day every day for a whole 5 years, and it was still working.
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by sbcd 5y ago
Likely not caused by the fact that the charger is high wattage. I have an Anker charger with two ports which use different tech to detect what the device needs : an USB A with Anker's poweriq (which supports multiple fast charging stan