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by stegosaurus 11y ago
That is certainly true. All distributions work much better because the kernel and userspace are just more solid now.
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Interestingly I've had far, far less issues in Arch over a year or so of using it, than I did trying to use Debian stable ~10 years ago. It could be that I'm just more of a unix beast now and so do it automatically without thinkin
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Lazy language, perhaps. Ultimately, I doubt that every piece of media that is currently on YouTube will be available for as long as I need them. That could be a year, or it could be fifty. For my purposes, if a video gets taken down, it&#x2
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
It's more videos I've already seen. I find it absurd that I can have a copy of a video in my brain, but potentially not be able to show it to someone else. It feels like an arbitrary limitation on knowledge transfer. If we had bra
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
I wasn't really advocating a huge library either. I think the idea I have is that there's not really a benefit to trying to 'optimize' watching movies. I guess I see it in the same way as healthy eating, or something. I
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
This looks like a way to break BitTorrent, as other posters have outlined. Streaming in general (apart from via a local server) frustrates me. The entire idea is simply a way of relinquishing control to an external body. Hard drives are not
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
I like the idea but it's still an odd compromise. The Jorno looks like I'd be better off carrying a full size laptop. It's not about fitting in my pocket, it's about usability on the bus, train, standing up, etc. The Tex
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Well, I'm me, and it's a bad thing for me. I don't want the world to change so that these devices don't exist. I'm just sad that there aren't options. It feels like a huge waste of potential. Creation benefits
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Very interested in the Nexus 7 progress. I may have to pick one up and grab a hardware keyboard. Killing off Android and getting X11/Wayland on there with a regular DE would be amazing. I can deal with WiFi only - a workaround would be
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
I just wish all devices were more like PC's. My desktop computer is a glorious, glorious device. I have millions of different bits of software for it, many operating systems, open source, proprietary, etcetera. It's all there. It
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
I don't have children. I can't afford them. I think the solution is to move away from cities. I'm planning to do so. I'm just going to be sad if it means leaving my country because you don't want me anywhere near yo
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
The issue is that taking away that choice is damaging to many people. I think that the statement "most people in the West agree" glosses over an important detail - perhaps most people who have the money agree, and the others are f
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Do I think I pay too much tax? Yes and no. I'd like to pay more, but I have basics to take care of first. I think that taxes should be reserved for those with some level of financial stability/independence. I don't know how t
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Interesting video, but it feels a bit 'icky' to me, for lack of better words. The voice feels patronising, perhaps even scary, and towards the end it suddenly turns into a description of a dystopia. If this were an advert I think
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
So basically it's either a game of coming up with ridiculous schemes to skirt the law, or lying. I'd rather have a judge say to me 'we think you're the wrong sort, go directly to jail' than have to sit there and say
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Same. ES and QuickPic tipped me over the edge into just uninstalling everything and using my phone as a phone. Two very good programs that gradually became malware, pushing cloud options onto me, pushing arbitrary notifications when I insta
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Just another law that exists to arbitrarily criminalize people as far as I'm concerned. If a government agency claims that you have indecent images on your hard drive and opens an investigation, you can be forced to give up your keys.
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
I see your words. Let's do some math. Please explain to me, using a worked example, how a person earning 30,000 GBP pretax (triple minimum wage) can buy an apartment that costs 200,000 GBP (cheapest I can find anywhere apart from under
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Affordable housing is a misnomer. Definitionally: afford: 'To have the financial means for'. Affordable housing in London, UK. Does it cost 3.5x the minimum/living wage, affordable to a single person? ;-) Does it cost 6x the
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Non-linear utility of money. Going from $1bn to $50m (a loss of 95%) in wealth might be psychologically damaging but you're still independently wealthy. You'd lose the jet (if you chose to buy one), but you'd keep the house,
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
The thing is that even these cities aren't that vulnerable. Imagine you're a terrorist. Where are you going to attack for maximum impact? Piccadilly Circus? Heathrow? Gatwick? Or a random suburb out at the end of a line somewhere?
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
To me personally all of this just seems like fluff. I can't be the only one that feels this way. I don't want to 'prove I'm a human' to view your crappy site. I'll go and look at the other bits of the Internet
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
'Unfairness' is an incorrect term and brings to mind whining. It is inefficient. It is sub-optimal, for the progress of humanity, that good, motivated developers have to spend most of their time (or frankly, any time) on capitalis
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Most of these cases strike me as being quite worrying with regard to 'just following orders'. A police officer must, must have discretion. The individual, the team, that steps into a home must be able to decide whether taking item
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
That doesn't answer my question, though. All of those are reasons to suspect Tor exit nodes, but not reasons to place CAPTCHAs on standard article pages on a site. The only vaguely reasonable one I can see there is 'ad click fraud
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Why do CAPTCHAs even exist for standard websites (as opposed to account creation, etc)? Wouldn't something like rate limiting or proof of work achieve the same result? If you're simply allowing someone to browse, you don't ac
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
Pressure is the wrong term to use because life doesn't have a difficulty level. For lack of a better term.. it's nonlinear. Thought experiment: you're working at a charity for a cause you absolutely love. You're putting
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
>> I don't want to research the 200 brands of almond milk or 85 sushi restaurants in my neighborhood Neither do I. I'll just pick one arbitrarily. It's almond milk. I might even just skip it entirely. I don't even
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
"risky because you could be fired and lose your $42,382 income" What good is said income if you have no free time, and no savings building up to produce future free time? Let's call it a day here - you think I'm insane,
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by stegosaurus 11y ago
"You'll run out of time because you have to go to the job that pays your rent." I think we have a fundamental disagreement here in that I don't believe that the answer to having a bad work-life balance is to try to incre

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