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by stryk 9y ago
If you're buying eBay is great. If you're the seller however, it's an entirely different story. eBay heavily, heavily, heavily favors the buyer in almost all disputes -- so much so that at times it seems as if it's a
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by stryk 9y ago
I remember reading (this was around when version 17 launched) about a couple serious issues people had with Mint. Have these been fixed/addressed?: 1) the mixing and/or renaming of Ubuntu and Debian packages - resulting in the mai
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by stryk 9y ago
Transcoding on the fly takes juice
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by stryk 9y ago
What reliable alternatives would you suggest?
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by stryk 10y ago
What's wrong with taxis? Genuine question. Won't a taxi cab get you to where you need to go just the same? They may not have an app, but you can probably use your phone to call them.
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by stryk 10y ago
That's a pretty big edge. From the sidelines it sure looks to me like this happening all over the field -- and that's just the ones that are publicly reported on, how many are scared away (or scared into reticence) that we never h
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by stryk 10y ago
Oh that's not fair now, come on. My comment was in response to, and concerning, the notion of "overly offensive clothing" and in that narrow instance, your quote is on point -- albeit a tad condescending (not that you were, j
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by stryk 10y ago
"Overly offensive" to whom? Who is the arbiter of what is "offensive" or not? That is far too subjective to be enforced evenly. 'Society' is not an acceptable answer either, every individual has different viewp
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by stryk 10y ago
This shit is out of control. Put aside the sexual aspect of situations like this for a second, regardless of what you think of them (a tall order for some, I know). These days it seems as if people aren't allowed to have any individual
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by stryk 10y ago
Which of the current free-for-everyone features, if any, are you considering making available to paid accounts only? (i.e., what will your current free users lose unless they move to a paid account once you monetize?)
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by stryk 10y ago
Is this a digital-only endeavor? I don't see any mention of physical product services such as pressing CDs & DVDs, printing covers/liner notes/etc. And what about marketing materials like posters, flyers and so on. There&
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by stryk 10y ago
"Powder" Heroin is most often light-ish brown/tan (the darker the better, generally -- with exceptions of course). It will still cook up to the familiar color of motor oil. White powder is almost unheard of these days. While
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by stryk 10y ago
There are also some boards, such as the Cubieboard2 and Cubietruck, that have on-board SATA III
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by stryk 10y ago
IIRC, wasn't Tor originally either funded by, or some sort of results of a project by, the US Navy?
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I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection(vc.gg)
951 points by stryk 10y ago|593 comments
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by stryk 10y ago
I'd go so far as to say, these days, to just NEVER assume privacy. With ANY tech. Ever. Doesn't matter where it's manufactured, nor where it's sold. Everything is data mined, one way or another. The "cloud" (re
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by stryk 10y ago
Isn't Yahoo _really_ big in Japan? My understanding is a lot of their services are overwhelmingly popular there.
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by stryk 10y ago
Anecdotal of course, but my one and only interaction with Google support was a positive experience. This was on the retail hardware side rather than in software/services (IDK if there are different support depts., I would assume so). I
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by stryk 10y ago
This is fantastic! Both in terms of information provided AND in the way it is displayed and presented. Simple yet extremely functional and easy to use. Very nice
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by stryk 10y ago
Ok, this is completely off topic and unrelated to the topic of discussion, but NICE Dune reference man. NICE !
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by stryk 10y ago
And don't forget Cubieboards :)
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by stryk 10y ago
I agree. It was a great VIDEOGAME. Bleeding edge graphics -- nope, but it made up for it in spades with good, fun gameplay. Reminded me (in substance rather than style) of a PC-equivalent to a first-party Nintendo game -- not everything nee
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by stryk 10y ago
I would also be more than happy to donate all 200mbit of my available bandwidth to this effort. Maybe some folks who are much more talented at scripting than I can figure out a way to scrape a list of URLs to the PDFs.
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by stryk 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what are the residential and biz Internet connections like in Fiji? Low or limited/capped bandwidth?
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by stryk 10y ago
This looks very, very interesting. I'll have a deeper look into Qubes this weekend for sure. I wonder how good their repos are in terms of up-to-date packages and software
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by stryk 10y ago
This is EXACTLY a best-case-scenario, but I have no idea if/how it can be done. (ie: one user account, username: <user1>, but <password1> unlocks and boots into a typical desktop, and a separate <password2> unlocks in
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by stryk 10y ago
This is one reason I've always wanted to have two separate authentication credentials for one user. Unfortunately, I've yet to find an acceptable or easy way to implement that on any device that would need it (your phone, your lap
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by stryk 10y ago
I've been getting a recommended driver update for the Broadcom Bluetooth driver used by a little ASUS USB Bluetooth dongle I use (very common BT chipset), yet I cannot find any information about any driver updates on ASUS' nor Bro
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by stryk 10y ago
Bit off-topic, but Eggdrop was the very first thing I ever compiled from source WAY back in the later 1990's. I figured out how to hack together a (absolutely terrible) TCL script to monitor #fatefiles on EFNet for messages by certain
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by stryk 10y ago
I bought a Canon imageCLASS D530 in mid-2014 for $68 new, incl. shipping (and it's a bit of a beast). B&W laser, color scanning, it's wired but no problem for me. The "starter" toner cart that came with it is just no

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