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by techrat 5y ago
Digital Millennium *Copyright* Act. To use a claim for any purpose other than enforcing your own copyrights (since 'illegal images' is such a broad term) is illegal in of itself. The DMCA itself has no jurisdiction outside of the
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by techrat 5y ago
I, too, always switched on Classic Theme after every Windows install. It was a large part of what drew me to XFCE/xUbuntu in the end. Numix and Adwaita-dark gets close enough to the Classic UI Windows the way I had it configured.
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by techrat 5y ago
I'd love to see Win NT4 sourced. Rock solid and minimal compared to Win95 and Win98. I loved using it... until I realised how much slower everything felt because drivers were optimised/accelerated for the other Windows OSes instea
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by techrat 5y ago
I recently revived an old laptop that was sold for scrap, it was fully working... just missing a power adapter. Dos 6.22 and Win3.11. Much more usable than I remembered. Was kinda sorta able to get online with a PCMCIA Ethernet card. Aside
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by techrat 5y ago
Depends on how you want to set the goalposts. By version, MacOSX is faring worse. By total history despite a good chunk of old Windows malware not being net capable or able to run in current modes... perhaps. https://www.vox.com&
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by techrat 5y ago
The response, for the longest time, from a lot of MacOS users was that "Macs can't get viruses." No thanks, in large part, due to Apple's own advertising. This led to decades of bad online practices on the part of Mac us
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by techrat 5y ago
It's because Apple framed themselves as the company of "LOL Macs don't get viruses" and emphasize themselves to be more privacy focused than Android... ...and they made the same basic mistake of allowing one of the singl
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by techrat 5y ago
This is the same exact issue that used to plague Outlook back in the day with the automatic handling of attachments. You'd think Apple would have learned from others' mistakes.
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by techrat 5y ago
For me it was because more devices were coming with unlockable bootloaders and stock roms that didn't suck. Motorola is a good example: Very minimal bloatware and all of their devices come with unlocked bootloaders off-carrier now. Thi
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by techrat 5y ago
> It is still possible to get OTA Updates for the ...for as long as the maintainer continues to support the device. And maintainers are all volunteers.
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by techrat 5y ago
Similar Microcontroller to others like the Teensy, Elite C, Proton C, Pro Micro, etc... All of which have been used in custom keyboard builds but are capable of doing other things as well.
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by techrat 5y ago
Good thing being able to sideload an app also implies that you can detect and disable or remove offending apps. Something Apple still doesn't let you do.
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by techrat 6y ago
Google also allows app sideloading which is something that becomes critical during civil unrest in the countries mentioned in the article.
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What happens if you put your head in a particle accelerator?(youtube.com)
2 points by techrat 6y ago|0 comments
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by techrat 6y ago
Steam does not exist in repos on ARM based distributions. So no, you can't just also run the Linux version of Steam and games without a need to use Wine... When it comes to using Box86 on ARM.
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by techrat 6y ago
For the occasional single static page website I sometimes need to have hosted for a domain, even Blogger does a pretty good job. Make a new blog on Blogger, switch to classic theme, edit the template, delete everything in that box and cut&#
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by techrat 6y ago
What I don't understand (due to my ignorance, please explain if you can)... what keeps the driver blobs from continuing to work from one version of Android to the next? What prevents people from using the same drivers for a device on A
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by techrat 6y ago
I wonder if it's OS dependent. xUbuntu 20.04, Chrome 88 and Chromium 89, could not duplicate.
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by techrat 6y ago
I know you said it's too time consuming, but it took me less than 15 minutes to get mine up and running with the Argon40 case. Argon40 has a M.2 (SATA B and M keys) to USB 3 addon part as well. So if you have a Pi4 that has already bee
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by techrat 6y ago
My question was meant to be rhetorical in response to the OP. We have many things labelled to be a theory that are complete enough to be acceptable answers while still being considered relatively incoherent or insufficient to science.
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by techrat 6y ago
Is the theory of gravity still something to be considered only a theory?
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by techrat 6y ago
> now flashed with lineageOS Your device is not stock and is, therefore, an exception.
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by techrat 6y ago
Does an Android phone without security patches cease to function? OS security patches are less of a concern for older devices because the majority of the OS was still moved into Google Play Services and as long as the apps are still updated
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by techrat 6y ago
Definitely a case of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." The pin works well for motherboard headers in several ways. It's compact, robust and straightforward. Even if someone doesn't get the orientation right of
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by techrat 6y ago
Can confirm. Suzy Q cable. SparkFun sells one. Had to diagnose a Pixelbook that got bricked on an update that Google was refusing to warranty. Thought the cable was bad before someone in Discord suggested that I flip the plug. Still not sur
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by techrat 6y ago
Bear in mind, all of this is still possible, and an issue, on ICE based vehicles. Even my older (pre in dash screen) Mini will throw up fake check engine and engine failure warnings if you don't take it into an authorized dealer for se
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by techrat 6y ago
> Ah yes... such as push notifications. Firebase would be so much more useful if Safari supported push notifications... All part of Apple's plans to enforce their one and only apps store for use on the iOS platform. Wouldn't wa
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by techrat 6y ago
It wouldn't be a black mirror episode unless these militants were able to record the memory of each of the animals before they were slaughtered, record that into the prions to have people experience the entire lifetime of an animal rai
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by techrat 6y ago
Less so now that ChromeOS runs Android Apps and Linux in a VM. Both, unfortunately are heavily restricted to local storage so there's no real sense of being able to log into another Chromebook and have those ready and waiting for you.
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Some long-haul Covid patients report symptoms are subsiding after getting vac(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by techrat 6y ago|0 comments

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