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by techrat 5y ago
rasengan... nobody's buying your clown prince bullshit, bro. Whatever sort of obsession you have with irc in general, all you've managed to do is give freenode an early funeral and turn the vast majority of the FOSS community agai
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I would assume what she got is worth approximately 30 pieces of silver.
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Reading email within a usable UI where you didn't have to download the spam first before it could be sorted was a pretty fucking big deal. It's still my preferred method of dealing with email to this day. I never want to deal with
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"Unlockable" == "The option exists for the user to unlock the bootloader if they wish to do so." Even as a native speaker, it can get awkward explaining 'unlockable bootloaders' because the impliction is that t
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>I wonder if in the future you could have micro-fluid channels underneath the screen where you can pump fluid to create raised bumps for the buttons. The problem with this technology is several-fold: 1) Areas that can be raised are fixed
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Thus defeating the entire purpose of having a two screen setup where one screen acts like a controller. You'd be better off getting a larger screen phone and a bracket to clip the phone to a physical controller. Especially with one tha
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That sounds more like a hardware cost cutting measure than an issue to do with Android itself.
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I deny functions to apps in Android all the time. I've yet to run into an app that will refuse to run unless that denied function is explicitly needed for that app to do what it was designed to do: eg, location for maps.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-... >McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states. >Oth
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Pretty much. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-... About 70% of those receiving federal aid were already working full time.
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(Not much) additional discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27243814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27234948 With more said under a different submitted link: https://news.yc
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xUbuntu really is one of the better polished distros. When I had a spare laptop, I tried some distrohopping on it. Little quirks existed in most distros but it just felt like xUbuntu was the most (for the lack of better words) sane overall.
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> I'm interested to see Steam on the iphone rather than anything Epic might do Steam isn't even an app store on Android.
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>All of this is available if jailbroken. should read: All of this is available if you use the same exploits that malware often use to compromise systems. "Jailbreaking" is not a feature inherent to iOS so stop trying to say it&
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>Apple allows you to sideload those kinds of apps using the developer certificate. A TEMPORARY developer certificate that expires and requires a MacOS system to install. Meanwhile I can click to download an apk through the browser on my
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I guess we're going to pretend that all those Humble Bundle users don't exist at all.
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I've been trying to import a FairPhone, myself. Why they're making it so difficult to get one in the states is beyond me.
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When Apple based their keynotes on how this device is "xxx THIN" instead of "xxx THICK"... that really pushed the god-awful trend of making devices thinner at all costs when I never had a problem pocketing my smart phone
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Even 360MB seemed a bit high to me so I had to open it up in a few apps to get some perspective. Ristretto: 48.8MB. EOG: 51.3MB. ImageMagick: 169MB. Firefox: 305.1MB. Vivaldi: 185.2MB. Edge: 196.5MB. GIMP: 244.8MB. OS memory usage remained
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Circular arguments are circular.
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> I would've assumed that the freenode irc network is comprised of volunteer servers. It is. That makes the whole situation that much more suspect, why someone like Lee should desire to take over a network not knowing that it consi
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https://www.kline.sh/ Statement from the ex-Freenode Staff is now official.
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Nobody? Not one single person? That must be why there isn't a large jailbreaking community behind iOS. Or why there hasn't been a lawsuit over...
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It gets worse when you try to look up the spec sheets on these processors and their supporting boards. Since for most at the time of copy writing for manuals before production, 8 or 16GB sticks were largest, so naturally the highest support
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> Is an average Android user actually going to do any of that? It really doesn't matter if the average Android user will do it. What matters is that you have the option to do so.
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Not if they already have the device. With most Android devices, you can unlock the bootloader and replace the Rom, root the device for administrator style access, debloat and remove system components, generally modify the hardware as you se
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>Linux will forever be just a grand experiment for frustrated hobbyists and unfortunate professionals around the globe. Linux is the most widely used kernel in the entire world. If you consider 'Linux' to be the OS, it is #1. I
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I've noticed that for a while (with many exceptions, of course, purely anecdotal), you can generally double your ram for the same price about every 3 to 5 years. That's also about as often as you see process refinements leading to
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> Eh... the problem is even with Proton it's extra work and sometimes not pleasant try to keep games running natively in Linux. I flipped one switch in settings and restarted Steam. I install Windows-only games in Linux just like I
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679682 Not OMG SHADY! but definitely gives me cause for concern. As one comment said: "Trust and ethics are important."

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