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by tinus_hn 4y ago
The Windows kernel has a system to decide which parts, that only matter during boot, can be discarded and which parts can be unloaded safely when memory is tight. This saves megabytes!
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
You know there is an obvious solution to this problem!
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Unfortunately many of their albums are unavailable to the public at large because the use of samples makes them impossible to license for streaming services.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Perhaps there should be a site with metrics on which services only provide social media outrage mediated support.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
If they don’t, why would you buy their service?
636.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
For a while; after some time probably an alternative store will appear that is full of crap.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
How are they going to prevent people from sharing their patches, as the license on most of these packages allows them to do?
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
These pieces enrage people because it makes them feel they are being manipulated. Because as it shows they clearly are.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
As far as I remember the (W3C) standard wasn’t really unmaintained, it was going in a direction nobody cared about with its focus on xhtml. In the meantime IE6 had all but won the browser wars and completely strangled innovation in a striki
640.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
The solution is simple: for a monthly payment of $1 per gigabyte the downloads are stable. Otherwise they are not.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Like a CD?
642.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
That’s actually quite impressive!
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Or it has nothing to do with the work-from-home dream and everything with the 18000 jobs they’re cutting.
644.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Clearly fake AirPods would pair like a regular Bluetooth headset, not like real AirPods where Apple shows the rotating case and provides the special AirPods only features.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Pretty bizarre this ever was stable in the first place. Unfortunately for this kind of service you need to actively fiddle with the bytes to prevent people from relying on an implementation detail like this and prevent them from digging you
646.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
In theory the process of getting off the list is transparent. In practice you can’t be told if you are on the list in the first place.
647.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Correlation does not equate causation.
648.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Yes, it’s actually a bit disappointing they didn’t implement keychain support which makes this a lot harder. But then people would be screaming that Apple is peeping at your private keys, even though Apple can’t see the contents of the keyc
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
At least they should try to avoid the explosive instrumentation that causes your keyboard to light on fire if the ship is damaged
650.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
The biggest annoyance while flying is other people. Luggage is just a proxy.
651.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
The pandemic shifted business from brick and mortar stores to online, along with all the services you need for an online store (payment, logistics) and made people work from home, where they needed devices like a decent computer and webcam
652.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
I would hope that the password manager application does not itself have access to the unencrypted passwords, without the user providing the master password.
653.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
If you can virtualize the FireWire connection you can probably make this work by running a supported OS in a VM.
654.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Where are they going to put the button to turn it off when they need to convince a stubborn citizen?
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
I don’t see how this service checks if the website is supposed to be using it. So it seems any website can get all this information and use it to track users.
656.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Smart recycling centers and refurbished, like Apple, don’t take possession of MacBooks with Activation Lock turned on. Legitimate people can easily turn it off.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Those poor prisons lost their ability to price gauge on phone calls, they have to make up for the loss! https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/01/19/martha-wright-r...
658.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Patent US9165040B1 does not cite US5920859A, I’m not sure what you mean.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Sound like the old matter of it being a big problem if somebody else has to fix it, not worth the effort if I have to fix it.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
At least you got to delete your account, with me they demanded identification during the sign up process and refused to delete the halfway made account without identification.

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