sippingjippers

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by sippingjippers 6y ago
It's cool bro, just recompile libinput after commenting out this line. 2020, year of the Linux desktop :)
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
You are extremely lucky if you get a contemporary online livestream under 10 seconds, this includes AFAIK all of YouTube, and the vast majority of HLS-based streams - which are often 30 seconds latency or worse. Getting buffers down to 50
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China is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google(reuters.com)
3 points by sippingjippers 6y ago|0 comments
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
I once sent a 20-ish page written letter of complaint about British Airways to the UK regulator before they finally unsubscribed me OP, make a complaint to the ICO, it actually works
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Don't shrug it off, shame and peer pressure those around you who continue to use it, like smoking or drunk driving. Network effects work in reverse too
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
I think past around 20Mbit or so the returns are diminishing. My flat has 400Mbit or so from Virgin, and although the WiFi is excellent (uncontended airwaves around here), actually availing of it requires you perched within reasonable proxi
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Make up a support e-mail address at random, send refund request to it, wait 14 days, file chargeback, be sure to mention no response to refund request which is attached to the form. Don't worry, they probably don't pay attention t
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
unsourced twitter rumour
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
I seem to remember this movie. In the following scene, some spammer forks the code and claims to be the new maintainer, but threads some horrible spammy behaviour into the code. The spammy fork (under the original name) gains significant po
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by sippingjippers 6y ago
Probably the most important tradeoff between nbd/nfs is that NFS by virtue of supporting shared mutation, means client-side caching is either non-existent or barely useful With NBD you're giving a filesystem driver exclusive acces