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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Also the only way such a file can be editable which was a major design goal of the zip format and which is not really possible with Tar files.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
You can actually go all the way to the prohibition era and create the printer yourself, the designs are free.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I’m sure the kernel team would welcome your contributions.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
How does that solve the problem of links pointing places where you don’t expect them to, or any of the other issues in this article? The problem here is trying to cross a security boundary where your only tool is shell scripting. That’s jus
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It is of course much more useful to sue the well-known billion dollar company than some fly by night endeavor where your contact information is ‘China’.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
What used to just be called tv is now ‘linear tv’. It is no longer the default.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Censorship as the answer to unwanted opinions. Along with the old adage ‘But think about the children!’
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
You can also insert the USB-a connector upside down, if you use enough force. It won’t really break anything but it will bend the plastic part so it becomes hard to insert the right way.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
But did it do the things people wanted? Why have the complexity of a multiuser system on a single user PC? Why have multitasking when the system can barely run a single task competently?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Geolocation is a fiction, it’s just lists that claim addresses are in some country. Nobody is under any obligation to make sure those claims are true.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Especially when they have a phone that is secured well enough. As long as the EU can keep itself from meddling away the security in their special well intended way, of course.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Be aware of two things: Modern HP is not the HP of the LaserJet 4. The new printers, also the lasers, are crap. And second, these old printers are workhorses but they waste energy like crazy, the standby mode still uses a lot of power so un
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
As long as those users do their own tech support, don’t cause trouble on my internet due to the unpatched security holes in their ‘viable’ operating system and don’t demand the apps I use are dragged down trying to limp along with their obs
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The solution is to take these people from the sea back to where they came from. The idea to rescue them onto a small island so they can flood Europe has been tried, doesn’t work, it only causes more people to try to cross over.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If their favorite apps only run on Windows and Windows is no longer a viable solution, the logical conclusion is that they need to switch to a viable operating system and give up on their favorite apps and try out new ones. The only alterna
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Let’s hope Apple never discontinues GarageBand lest your world collapses
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I read the comment as a generic statement about parents/old people, but as it refers to the parent comment it indeed makes little sense
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s not hard to believe someone would like to have their cake and eat it too. That doesn’t make it a reasonable demand though. The parents say the iPhone is what they want and that is because the iPhone is the phone you can’t accidentally
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So you want Apple to not be able to earn money from you having the device, yet spend money on providing security updates for it.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If only there were phones that did exactly what you wanted
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
While the first minutes appear recorded on a phone two rooms away, after approximately 10 minutes they switch to the microphone on the desk and the sound becomes clear. So it’s worth skipping ahead if you’re thinking about abandoning the vi
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
You do know we have the technology for wireless data transfer already? And it has even been standardized! You like bad products as long as they’re standards. Anything that is wrong with the bad product is handwaved away as just too hard. Th
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Yes, companies should be punished for creating superior products and earning a lot from selling them! Or perhaps it’s the dumb customers, spending all their money on those overpriced phones using inferior cables! The EU knows much better th
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
What’s the model? I’ll be calling the EU so they force all the manufacturers to support the qi charging standard that is actually useful. Oh and of course lightning cable is the spawn of evil and glorious USB-C can do no wrong and any concr
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It all looks really nice, until you start wading through the dredge of fast charging, thunderbolt, displaylink over USB-c and whatever they’ll add in the future. But hey, you can basically charge over the same connector. Which was however a
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Oh, they have, many times! That’s why we have msi, app-v, appx etc.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
You don’t need to do complicated MITM attacks to abuse these issues if you control the DNS servers, like if you’re the ISP or one of the parties that provide fashionable DNS servers like Google or Cloudflare.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Reinstate the fun police from the COVID era. These people will decide for you how you will be allowed to entertain yourself. That means no gathering in groups, no traveling and an end to all that frivolous activity such as dancing and drink
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
They send these takedown notices ‘under penalty of perjury’ so all you need to do is jail a few executives and it’ll be over soon.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The bad original library, the original lack of features that help against bad coding practices and the fact that it is so accessible to beginner programmers that you’ll find a lot of beginner code. The ability to mix html and code means it’

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