theodric

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by theodric 3y ago
This is the site that convinced me to seek out and buy a PDP-8 of my own back in 2008. Not a PiDP-8, a 1971 PDP-8/e with 12KW of core memory, a TU56 DECtape, a VC8E vector boardset, and a couple teletypes. And then a '73 8/m.
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by theodric 3y ago
If it can't, someone will massage it until it can. Porn, and probably also stock video to sell to YouTubers.
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by theodric 3y ago
There's only one iPhone manufacturer, and that seems to be extremely important to many people-- even extending to limiting their dating pool, apparently. https://www.cnet.com/culture/iphone-or-android-your-phone-ch
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by theodric 3y ago
Irish countryside reporting in, brought to you by Starlink
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by theodric 3y ago
Has existed for over 20 years: https://www.cnet.com/reviews/digisette-duo-review/
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by theodric 3y ago
Metros got the good stuff earlier! The little rural town in Illinois where I grew up, Bushnell, only got local dialup in early 1997, and something approximating broadband in about...2010(? I left in 2001); even that was lastmiled with wirel
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by theodric 3y ago
Money does expire: it's called inflation
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by theodric 3y ago
Group threads in one manufacturer-provided chat program get annoying. Venturing outside the defaults by using Signal or WhatsApp (or Threema or Messenger or...) would mitigate this. I suspect the root of the problem is folks accepting def
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by theodric 3y ago
Then I still have the local backups that I make every time I clear out my phone. Now, if I get banned from Google the same day my house burns down, that could be a problem.
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by theodric 3y ago
What I get from Google Photos is that, regardless of bad luck or incompetence on my part, someone else takes care of backing up a copy (at reduced quality) of all my photos no matter when I take them, and does so for €0 additional spend or
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by theodric 3y ago
Not really for ideological reasons: I simply find iOS frustrating. I bought an iPod Touch V1 when it first came out and was impressed relative to PDAs of the era; 2G iPhones weren't even available in Europe at that time. I own an iPhon
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by theodric 3y ago
Priuses are slippery little kammback hatches with hard tires and a drivetrain designed to minimize Cd and stop-start traffic fuel consumption. A semi is a brick that bullies the wind out of the way all day every day for two million miles be
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by theodric 3y ago
You're talking to me, specifically, or just the wind? I'm a Linux user who still owns a MacBook that won't be replaced when it quits. This doesn't affect me, but that doesn't mean I think everyone else who uses Wind
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by theodric 3y ago
It's ridiculous that it requires a law to make companies dial back the pushy advertising and user-hostility on a product the user has ostensibly paid for, but here we are
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by theodric 3y ago
The cheapest iPhone is $429. An iPhone 15 not-Pro is at least $799, a Pro $999, up to $1599. Is that cheap?
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by theodric 3y ago
Yes, I do. And Android an "anti-status" symbol. cf. https://archive.is/0Mpc8 Edit: and this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38272193
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by theodric 3y ago
In Europe - NL/CH/IE, specifically - everybody I know uses WhatsApp and Signal (except the Swiss who sometimes insist on Threema), even between iPhones-- iMessage never even comes up. I don't think anybody's sent me an S
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by theodric 3y ago
What on Earth would drive that perception? Do iOS users prefer dating other people who will spend lots of money on a status symbol? This sounds like nothing but a thinly-veiled attempt at discrimination based on an assumed level of wealth.
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by theodric 3y ago
Alright, looks like I got bad intel. It's F40 that will drop the X session for KDE[1,2], coinciding with the Plasma 6 plan to phase out X support. I understand GNOME is also planning to drop X. Evidently Nvidia is not being allowed to
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by theodric 3y ago
After 23 years, I got fed up with Debian's many idiosyncrasies/breakage and decided to try Fedora. It's been a breath of fresh air, and I've been pleasantly surprised how much of the stuff I want which required fiddling
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by theodric 3y ago
Fair enough.
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by theodric 3y ago
Or "has died"
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by theodric 3y ago
If - to paraphrase the other folks before me - it causes more annoyance than it does good, then the fact that one can spend more effort undoing its damage after the fact is, in fact, a bug rather than a feature.
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by theodric 3y ago
I'd argue that putting the USB-C charge port directly on the motherboard instead of a replaceable carrier was an equally poor choice. One booboo or too many accessory plug-unplug cycles requires a motherboard replacement, RMA, or a hot
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by theodric 3y ago
Given that my pension age has already gone from 65 to 68 in the last 18 years, and I have another 27 years of work ahead, I'd say the trend line easily points to a mandated pension age over 70. It's not even a stretch.
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by theodric 3y ago
This is how they fix the problem of falling birthrates incapable of supporting pensions with infinite growth: retirement carrot on a stick, tiny percentage of people actually get to eat it. Suicide will grow in popularity, mark my words.
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by theodric 3y ago
The true object of my lust is one of these electric tractors, which can also serve as a mobile power bank, but I might have to resort to converting something instead: https://solectrac.com/
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by theodric 3y ago
BYD and ORA (Great Wall) are both operating in Ireland. I've sat in them, not driven, but they seem fairly well-put-together on the surface. The little ORA Funky Cat city car is adorable, though not exactly cheap as chips at €32000 for
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by theodric 3y ago
An EV would work great for me, though: -no public transport inside of an hour's walk -sky-high petrol/diesel prices, but I can charge from solar -cheap road tax for EVs -I leave the farm once every 1-2 weeks and generally only go
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by theodric 3y ago
I'm not running a study, I'm making an anecdotal statement. That said, my actual position is that inconveniencing every single person who posts an image on a microblogging service by forcing them to write a description of it on th

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