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by spl757 2mo ago
That plane still looks bad-ass today. I heard that they just leak oil constantly on the ground before the engines warm up and the metal expands the the O rings make a seal.
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by spl757 2mo ago
If you are running this stuff on a cheap VPS with limited bandwidth, you will not want all of your traffic being routed as ingress and egress as that could easily eat your monthly bandwidth limit depending on the size of files and frequency
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Ubuntu Pro auth service down?(ubuntu.com)
2 points by spl757 3mo ago|1 comments
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by spl757 3mo ago
I've been trying since yesterday to attach a new ubuntu install to Ubuntu Pro. 'sudo pro attach' runs, and gives me the key to enter on the link they provide but I just get '502 Bad Gateway. Is anyone else experiencing t
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by spl757 3mo ago
I remember when Plex wasn't a money grab. Many moons ago.
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by spl757 3mo ago
Easy fix. Don't use Windows. It's been enshittified so many times over that I can't believe people put up with what it has become. I haven't used Windows on my desktop for well over a decade. People are switching away fr
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by spl757 3mo ago
In the US, people are going to shoot at it with guns. Bullets that go straight up? Probably not lethal when it falls back to the ground, tumbling and lacking ballistic energy, but bullets that follows a ballistic trajectory are going to hit
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by spl757 3mo ago
Willie Nelson.
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by spl757 3mo ago
When a corporation makes playing by the rules harder than pirating, especially after "selling" you a movie, then people are going to pirate. Corporations bring it on themselves by acting poorly and just being greedy and giving the
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by spl757 4mo ago
Car mechanics at dealerships are in shortage. You use a laptop more than a wrench these days, and they want people with tech experience now. If you are struggling to look for tech work, that's a tech-adjacent job market right now, at l
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by spl757 4mo ago
A poorly documented, poorly implememented, and poorly understood protocol is a worthless protocol. More than that, it's a potential attack surface, and the idea is to reduce those. If you are the admin of something, and you are putting
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by spl757 4mo ago
This is a harbinger of darkness.
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by spl757 4mo ago
The term "forced consent" is an oxymoron. It shouldn't take much more critical thinking than reading that term to know it makes no sense.
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by spl757 4mo ago
If I had a nickel for every time a corporation cancels "lifetime" subscriptions I'd be rich.
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by spl757 4mo ago
As stated on the project page, by design, this is not meant to be a full-featured X11 server. As such it will have it's own use cases, so I wanted to mention that there is a project that is a fork of X11 called XLibre. It is, by design
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by spl757 4mo ago
This is extremely disappointing corporate behavior coming from Motorola. I've had better luck with $350 unlocked Moto something I can use anywhere and comes with no bloatware. I like that part, do more of that.
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by spl757 4mo ago
They are impractical on the ground. Why anyone would think this is a good idea is byond me.
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by spl757 4mo ago
This is what Amazon did with Amazon Prime. I was paying for no ads, then they added ads and demanded a ransomm of $36/year to return to the no-ad experience I was already paying for. I cancelled Prime and vote with my wallet by not giv
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by spl757 4mo ago
CEOs and the like speak Weasel and only use Weasel Words.
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by spl757 4mo ago
Channeling my inner-masteroftheworld, No.
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by spl757 5mo ago
work without the internet/power
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by spl757 5mo ago
Now they sprinkle dopamine rewards all over the place to incentivize the thirst for even more. Especially if there are ads shown every time you get that dopamine hit.
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by spl757 5mo ago
There are people with billions of dollars that want the population of the US to drop significantly. It's hard to control 300+ million people, and that many people can just remove unpopular governments by marching in the millions. Also,
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by spl757 5mo ago
I'm a proverbial greybeard and Ctrl+Alt+F7 used to just be what you did to get back to your desktop GUI. FWIW, right now I'm typing this from Ubuntu Studio 24.04 and it's Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get back to the GUI. Ctrl+Alt+F1 shows
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by spl757 5mo ago
I'm just going to assume this is a bullshit distraction simply because of the source.
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by spl757 5mo ago
in response to most of this thread, the answer is summed up in one word. greed
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by spl757 6mo ago
Hate begets hate. Call for the death of others, and you might take a bullet to the throat and live just long enough to realize why this is happening to you and the irony.
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by spl757 6mo ago
Sounds like it's time to abandon it for something new and more stupid
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by spl757 6mo ago
90% spam/hack?
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by spl757 6mo ago
You have a 99% email reputation with a company THAT IS NOT GOOGLE and that reputation scrore means fuck-all to Google. If you want to know what score GOOGLE is giving you, which is they metric that GOOOGLE uses, you can find that by signing

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