the_solenoid

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by the_solenoid 19d ago
GUI Desktop = MacOS Gaming desktop = Windows All the servers are a mix of linux and windows I wouldnt wish Linux desktop on anyone whos not willing to learn at least some troubleshooting, with is 99.9999999% of people. I lament the communit
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by the_solenoid 20d ago
To be fair, WoW is a 20+ year old game that to my knowledge never really got the ground up rewrite it has needed.... so I feel issues keep compounding faster and faster. Also - and not trying to defend MS here - I am pretty sure MS has been
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by the_solenoid 3mo ago
If you frame it as an entity that launders the military industrial complex's desires to test weapons, keep congress beholden, and keep conflicts going forever – then work backwards from there, the allowance of their subversion makes pe
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by the_solenoid 3mo ago
thats why if has to be either completely gov controlled or a public/private non-profit. Letting a cadre of companies hold the world economy hostage is just not good for anyone. This is not just for ram/ssds, theres lots of core co
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by the_solenoid 3mo ago
IMPORTANT CONTEXT TO MY ANSWER: There is no such thing as a free market There are 3 suppliers in the world that together have ~90% of global DRAM manufacturing capacity. I did not say they definitively were a cartel, but the effect is the s
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by the_solenoid 3mo ago
Honestly, the knock on effects of this cartel behavior should concern all countries, and be remediated with expediency. From consumer electronics to the data-center, the rising real mfg costs and lack of supply is putting huge pressure on p
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by the_solenoid 4mo ago
1. Same here - but it's only become a problem as protect has gained features (# of cameras stayed the same). I got a UNVR Instant and all the issues went away (I have been waiting for an updated 1U NVR but still not out yet). It sucks,
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by the_solenoid 4mo ago
It would be fine if: Labor was better protected Elections were funded by the gov and any money spent outside of that sent you to jail and confiscated everything from you and your company and your family They were taxed at the top marginal b
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by the_solenoid 9mo ago
Tax breaks for people who already have more money then they can spend fuel bubbles. It makes number go up even when the economic fundamentals are in the toilet.
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by the_solenoid 3y ago
I like your takes on this. To me, theres two issues: 1) this push is all driven by big businesses looking to just get free money for nothing, which is why I worry that the EU is so taken up with it. 2) taxes, is you want to line apples 30%
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by the_solenoid 3y ago
Stop treating the astroturfed re-definition as serious. They should be laughed out of the room but corp media gloms on for the fight and then legitimizes it in some peoples minds.
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by the_solenoid 3y ago
thats not how it works at all. You dont hire someone unqualified just because they tick a box, what kind of insane would that be?
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by the_solenoid 4y ago
I can tell you, the users on the whole know about as much about tech as a luddite from 1867. I mean, that's a huge draw in the consumer space for mac/ios. Remember the scale were at here. Something like 250,000,000 ios devices a Y
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by the_solenoid 4y ago
zero. This whole thing feels like a lobbying push, and to be frank, I am more worried about the monied interests who might have bought this kind of lawmaking and what their end game is.
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by the_solenoid 4y ago
I see this argument all the time - how is it anti competitive if you have to buy a device from apple to use the apps? Its not like anyone can just make an iphone, it's not like the PC market, it's not even like the macOS market. I
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by the_solenoid 4y ago
Todd, you owe me $20. (Todd said this would never happen) Also, this is great news, and it will be interesting to see what kind of real-world changes in performance this has.
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by the_solenoid 4y ago
You seem to understand the point exactly... as horrible as it is. (nudging people into certain jobs because they have no choice)
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by the_solenoid 4y ago
It's important to note that money is fake, and is given value by destroying it (through taxes as a major part of it) This action doesn't change the supply of money in the system, just where it ends up, so really it cant have an ef
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by the_solenoid 4y ago
I thought we have inalienable rights, and the constitution is there to carve out where we DONT have them. http://www.notguiltynj.com/our-constitution-doesnt-give-us-r...
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by the_solenoid 4y ago
It should have been codified into law decades ago, but EVERYONE with few exceptions loves to fundraise off of it. Want to know how you know the US will backslide? I Said it a decade ago - when R's are willing to pull the trigger on Roe
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by the_solenoid 4y ago
If your page is loading, there needs to be good feedback if it not yet interactive. If you click on something that is AJAX-y, you need to provide feedback that yes, you clicked something and yes, the app is processing your request. The firs
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by the_solenoid 4y ago
I agree - and will take it one step further: he misses the root causes of "instability", and I bet it tracks directly with the gutting of the middle class starting in the 70's, and/or the same flat-lining of wages (not k
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by the_solenoid 5y ago
US TV ruined it. It's entirely different coverage in at least europe, none of this editorializing, profiles, etc etc. Just coverage. I liken it to something Jonathan Demme (paraphrasing, maybe misattributing) said about Stop Making Sen
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by the_solenoid 5y ago
Because email is essentially one of the oldest internet applications and also essentially has never changed. That means, as has been stated in this thread a bunch of times, that sending spam is essentially "free", especially since
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by the_solenoid 5y ago
#1 reason, and, think back to when iOS came out, was security. The knock off effect was it ensured that ios/webkit gained defacto marketshare for each device since there was no other option - as the thread starter mentions. I disagree
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by the_solenoid 5y ago
I... have been using win11 on a few machines (gaming and a work/coding computer included) and... it's just a reskin with some long overdue features. The way MS does updates now means no more huge monolithic releases and also means
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by the_solenoid 5y ago
And, buying power was wayyyyy stronger for them. As a % of income, housing tended to cost a fraction of what is currently the norm. It's not uncommon for boomers to just have 2-3 properties because in a middle class job you could affor
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by the_solenoid 5y ago
In a perfect world, that makes sense. But, wages have been flat since pretty much the 80's for the vast majority of workers (weather tracking inflation and/or productivity) while common long term investments like housing have beco
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by the_solenoid 5y ago
I am all for the free exposure to all ideas. But. We are in a horrible time where people are espousing them either for profit or outside motive, not from any core belief structure. It is unbelievably frustrating to watch, from my perspectiv
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by the_solenoid 5y ago
All of these policies coming about are for the benefit of already monied interests and do not help small devs, or consumers. I also take huge umbrage that the framing of this is just as horrible as the framing of paying taxes in the US. Peo

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