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by techsupporter 3y ago
23ish years after the Free-PC ended, we've come back around. What a world. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/30/business/no-more-giveaway...
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by techsupporter 3y ago
The behavior of ultra low cost airlines is often inexcusable, but understandable, and why I don't fly them. Their employees are usually not allowed to make "good reason" exceptions because exceptions are nebulous and passenge
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> should we take care of our own (American) citizens first? We should take care of the planet. We all live on it and catastrophic heat waves and extreme weather are not polite and do not respect the thick black lines we've drawn on
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> control over your user's device security, MDM seems like the only option. I hope that both the person to whom you are replying and their users and bosses remember that once someone has that level of control, it's not really t
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by techsupporter 3y ago
I noticed a couple of weeks ago that First Technology FCU allows using a TOTP second factor and deleting the mobile number entirely. Due to this, I'm in the process of changing over all of my regular banking stuff to them right now.
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> This comment presumes that public universities are the proper venues for this type of research. They're not. Why aren't they? It reads to me like you are making the same presumption, just in the other direction, without the s
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by techsupporter 3y ago
And notice how "Yes" is permanent. Once you "agree," you can never go back without starting all over again, if even then. This is why there are no more "No" selections. The developers--from marketing to the p
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by techsupporter 3y ago
> I'm curious if you're considering things like pedestrian safety or just driver/passenger safety. I'm sure some people do hold this view, but I've never met someone who's buying a vehicle and looks into how
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by techsupporter 3y ago
If you've ever done something to get yourself added to the unholy nightmare that is Chexsystems, you're either excluded (if you are in a metro with a small number of financial institutions) or you have a lot of hoops to go through
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by techsupporter 4y ago
I like this method as well but boxing up my computer and carrying it around with me is a little unwieldy. Plus, the headphone cable is really short and if I move my head too quickly it gets yanked out of the back.
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> if all you care about is the bottom line then sure I guess the casino is the way to go, but lets not pretend there's capital-A Art in those games the way there is on consoles or PCs. This is why the games I play on my iPhone and i
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by techsupporter 4y ago
The new live-action Star Trek shows have taken to this madness as well. Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager were both bright, open shows. But you'd think with Discovery, Strange New Worlds, and Picard that we hadn't invente
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> The real tragedy is that Americans have built a country where stepping out of your home once a day is a miserable chore to be avoided at all costs if possible. This is exactly it for me. The job I've held for many years is in Sea
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by techsupporter 4y ago
The EFF has always been deeply interested in the intersection of privacy and the digital world. That has oftentimes manifested as privacy in the digital world, but not always. This is one of those examples. The EFF is saying "priv
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> Games like Plants vs Zombies and Angry Birds used to just be skill based journeys... And in the case of the original Angry Birds, Rovio even removed it from the app stores (and renamed it for past purchases to "Red's First Fl
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by techsupporter 4y ago
I don't play a lot of games, probably so few that even spending on this is a "waste", but this is why I subscribe to Apple Arcade. IAPs and upsells are completely banned and each game in that separate market is included. (I
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> licensed stores, which is what you'll see in a Barnes and Noble FWIW, Barnes and Noble operates its own brand, Barnes and Noble Cafe, that isn't a licensed Starbucks. Licensed stores have full branding and, these days, accept
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> On a mostly unrelated note, Seattle proper (as I mentioned, I live in a suburb which is an affluent one) has really gone downhill in the last 10 years. The homeless/drug problem is very bad and the local government seems so entire
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> My home router is a MikroTik CRS309 ... advertises my home network blocks over BGP How do you fit two full BGP tables into 512MB of RAM? I've looked into MikroTik boxes before and maybe they're doing something I'm not u
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> It really depends on the metro area. Completely agreed. Seattle and Portland seem to be high on the list of "places telcos think they can take complete advantage of." For what my employer pays for two (locked) racks of colo
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> I've occasionally daydreamed about buying a condominium near one of the Seattle Internet Exchange's PoPs, buying a 400 gigabit port, paying to run a fiber pair, arranging for transit, etc etc For what it's worth, this is
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> it'll often just reinterpret your query as if it were a typo even if you quote it This is exactly it for me, there's no way to tell the computer "this is what I want you to do." Maybe it's because product desi
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> It’s be somewhere with a reasonable CoL but still nice to live in… The funny thing is, this is why companies were in San Francisco. Back when the tech industry was far less than it is now, San Francisco was "a reasonable CoL but
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by techsupporter 4y ago
Another instrument took an image of an exoplanet, in 2005. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/300/2m1207b-first-imag...
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> If you want a stable pension alongside an often decades long retirement, then start saving when you're young or have a lot of children to support you. I just want to point out that you're largely proving my point. I got start
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> People are saying that these mass layoffs and the way they are conducted are harmful to society and not as beneficial to the business as CEOs and investors want to believe. Exactly this, though I also propose as the end of your sentenc
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> being a citizen if you have ancestors after 1904? Prior to a 1914 change in the nationality law, a German citizen lost citizenship if they lived outside of Germany for more than 10 years and didn't file to retain citizenship. The
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> In your world, everyone counts except the people who actually live in the community today and will be affected by changes. In my world, everyone counts including the people who actually live in the community today and will be affecte
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by techsupporter 4y ago
> If the truth is that zoning is the only obstacle holding us back from idyllic, beautiful mixed-density cities, then I'm showing my ignorance, but I'm not convinced that it is. It definitely is. I work in IT but one of my kids
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by techsupporter 4y ago
I'm truly sorry if this comes off as a personal attack because I'm trying really hard for it not to be but my frustration bubbles over. > demolishing beautiful, sustainably-built housing with shoddy, ugly, mass-produced 5-over-

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