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by throitallaway 1y ago
Still waiting on that coast-to-coast FSD that was supposed to happen in 2017. Elon is a fantastic showman.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
I'd be so happy if the Internet moved away from Cloudflare for Captcha. I got on their "bad list" at one point (for who knows why), and no matter how many times I checked the "I am a human" box their Captcha wouldn&
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by throitallaway 1y ago
From my POV Amazon designs its services from a "trust nothing, prepare for the worst case" perspective. Eventual consistency included. Sometimes that's useful and most of the time it's a PITA.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
If my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike. Yes, things change over time. I cringe to think of what some of the original 42" flat screen displays cost relative to the huge (much better looking) OLED panels of today.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
Do they use MS Office for work, or just simple hobby stuff? If it's work stuff - leave them alone. For hobby stuff LibreOffice is a good replacement that you can trial on Windows. As far as distros go, I don't like some of the dec
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by throitallaway 1y ago
I have not used swap for about 10 years and I'm not about to start.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
IME the tradeoffs (reduction of ads + malware) are well worth the very occasional exception that needs to be made.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
Yeah, Apple's bottom barrel pricing isn't terrible, but as soon as you start upping specs the price goes out of control (disproportionally from the underlying costs.) Looking at pricing for the current Macbook Air, it's $400
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by throitallaway 1y ago
Lenovo currently offers Linux (Ubuntu) as an option Thinkpads. Dell used to once upon a time; I don't know if they still do.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
I absolutely hate how Windows now basically forces you to sign in with a Microsoft ID in order to facilitate this kind of stuff. I just want a local system; I don't need all this online crap built into my desktop OS. For the last two d
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by throitallaway 1y ago
The first "email" was sent in the 1971 and SMTP was designed in 1983. Back then the implementers didn't dream of the adoption levels of these protocols that we see today. Your same complaint could be levied against the best p
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by throitallaway 1y ago
It makes me wonder what type of access support agents have in the first place. A lot of this information should require "unlocking" on a case-by-case basis by challenge/response while interacting with a customer.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
Vanguard supports Yubikeys. I'm yet to use a bank (~8 of them so far) that supports anything other than SMS.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
That same rationale wouldn't support SMS as "something I have." iMessage and other solutions easily spread SMS into cloud and PC lands (ones that are more easily accessible than password managers.) More likely it's becau
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by throitallaway 1y ago
Microsoft has jumped the shark with the way they're pushing their apps through this. It recently took me ~15 minutes of figuring out how to install the Windows Terminal on a newish version of Windows Server. Visiting Microsoft's w
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by throitallaway 1y ago
I have a dedicated Windows 11 gaming laptop and I'm about at my breaking point of putting another drive in it to test out the games that I care about on Linux. Windows was tolerable to use just for gaming, but the hoops that you have t
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by throitallaway 1y ago
If they don't it's bye bye Teams for me (a blessing in disguise) because they discontinued the Linux client a while ago.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
Yep, joining Teams meetings from a browser on Linux is a flaky experience at best (despite Meet and Zoom working fine.) I'll happily send back a Google Meet invite to anyone that invites me to a Teams meeting.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
Orthogonal comment, and that was not inferred at all.
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by throitallaway 1y ago
I don't do much with Windows nowadays, but I do touch it from time to time and I don't think much has changed in this regard. Off the top of my head: driver installers for Intel, Nvidia, and Brother printers all look unique. Same
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by throitallaway 2y ago
Don't forget all the beak-wetting that happens along the way when signing contracts etc. That's where an actual difference could be made.
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by throitallaway 2y ago
Come again? This is Hacker News, a heavily moderated forum with a narrow focus. We don't discuss Israel or El Salvador here (unless it's tech related.)
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by throitallaway 2y ago
> Trump tells them they are OK. They are worthwhile. The chasm between what Trump says (and what the propaganda says about him) and what he actually does is astounding. Most of his fans are completely uninformed of what he says and does.
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by throitallaway 2y ago
Also ~12K IRS workers (7x per head ROI) and inspectors general (who actually get results and are fully accountable) have been cut. And our already bloated military budget is increasing to $1 trillion without an eye being batted. DOGE is the
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by throitallaway 2y ago
> You need to make it in Trump's interest to keep the CVE program. This guy is ~80 years old and bragged about "person, woman, man, camera, TV." He recently got into a Tesler and exclaimed "everything's computer!
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by throitallaway 2y ago
I feel like we're only a few weeks away from someone "home grown" experiencing an "administrative error." The slide into madness continues.
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by throitallaway 2y ago
Every now and then the government decides to fund things. Public schools, roads, police, firemen, GPS, NOAA, cybersecurity, government cheese, etc.
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by throitallaway 2y ago
True, although Google's Project Zero seems to be run pretty well.
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by throitallaway 2y ago
Yep, DOGE is a song and dance distraction. If they were serious about lowering the deficit they wouldn't have laid off ~12K IRS workers (whom show a 7x ROI per head.) They also wouldn't be asking to increase the military budget to
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by throitallaway 2y ago
Exactly. The Trump admin is well on its way tanking the USD with tariffs and getting every country (including the penguins) mad at us. The rationalization given by the admin for tariffs (trade imbalance) make zero sense, and they haven&#x27

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