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by tpxl 11mo ago
> That is, unless the last UI element you've touched was the volume bar, in which case the side arrows will also change the volume, and you'll have to use the mouse to clear the focus away from that volume bar to be able to see
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by tpxl 11mo ago
Ctrl + Right click, Show controls will bring up the classic controls (play, pause, volume, seek, full screen) on Firefox. I'm sure other browsers have something similar. Haven't found a way to turn this on permanently for all vide
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by tpxl 11mo ago
TF2 hats used to bring an advantage until about a decade ago.
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by tpxl 11mo ago
Except that one line of Microsoft PCs that only run Windows because secureboot enabled Microsoft to make it so.
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by tpxl 11mo ago
> I'm sorry but linux gaming absolutely does not support "support everything from 90s to cutting edge modern games without hiccups" Neither does Windows. W11 (or was it W10) famously broke a bunch of old games. Running Win
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by tpxl 11mo ago
Same thing they do now: Get a nanny, ask the grandparents, playdates, ... Putting kids in front of a device is lazy, and unfortunately, most of us are lazy.
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by tpxl 11mo ago
> Would it be better than trying to set up a call and discuss things, try to find some compromise Are you serious? First, make a decision without consulting anyone, foist it on people that don't want it, then 'try to find a com
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by tpxl 11mo ago
> I don’t much like MS, but in their defense they are trying to sell operating systems in a market where the going out-of-pocket price is $0. The price of the windows license has been included in the price of PCs for literally decades no
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by tpxl 11mo ago
Place the laptop behind/below the TV, hook it up via HDMI, install whatever software you want on it (I use plain linux and VLC, but you can install Jellyfin and use the web interface if you want to), use a bluetooth keyboard/mouse
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by tpxl 11mo ago
> With Netflix, there are never visible artifacts Uwotm8. Any sufficiently dark scene will have artifacts out the wazoo. Not to mention other stuff like subtitles mentioning the wrong spoken language (ie. the character is speaking French
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by tpxl 1y ago
Check protondb.com. Current protondb status for Lake, Calico, We should talk, Beasts of Maravilla Island: Platinum, Apico: Gold, Kana Quest, Bombfest, Where the Bees Make Honey: Uknown, Onsen Master: Uknown (but has native build), Beans: Th
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by tpxl 1y ago
> People feel like there's some man in a dark room somewhere looking at each and every image posted everywhere with evil intent. Yeah when there's precedent for people doing exactly that the feeling is justified. How many times
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by tpxl 1y ago
Print copy: 57% of the price Amazon: 40% of the price Author: 3% of the price (half of which goes to taxes)
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by tpxl 1y ago
> I personally observe that a lot of nerds who barely use Excel Most people using Excel/Sheets/Word/Docs are not power users. Pretty much all home use is covered by OpenOffice and that is the majority by user count.
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by tpxl 1y ago
> I don't see how my TPM module will prevent me from using the machine the way I want. "Your version of TPM is unsupported. Please update your hardware to enjoy playing Battlefield 7". Your 69.99 per try just went up to 76
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by tpxl 1y ago
> Is that NIMBYism? No. You recognize the drawbacks and still support the project for the good of others. That's the opposite of NIMBY, it's a high level of emotional maturity.
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by tpxl 1y ago
I think the author may have misunderstood the redundant GROUP BY columns with UNIQUE indexes. If you group by columns (A, B, C) and there is a UNIQUE index on (A, B), you can remove C (all parts not in the unique key), as there will only ev
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by tpxl 1y ago
> That's also why taxing real estate on land value is a very, very bad idea - land values rise exponentially or at the very least far faster than wages If you tax real estate, owners of real estate will make sure it's not overv
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by tpxl 1y ago
I'm not a lawyer and have little experience reading legal text. I can't find the text of the license saying SaaS is covered. Can you point it out?
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by tpxl 1y ago
> housing should act as store of value Why? Housing should act as a means to live decently. If my house depreciated to 0 once I'd built it, I wouldn't mind at all. > You need socialism to do this efficiently No you don'
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by tpxl 1y ago
They clearly have all the control they could possibly need to prevent such cases. They just sold out your mom for a buck.
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by tpxl 1y ago
> Could you please give me your real name "celticninja", your phone number, your address, your NI number The police can and will request this information from you, digital ID or not. If you have actual beef with digital ID, pre
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by tpxl 1y ago
Can they? Yes. Will they? Likely no. You can buy a kitchen oven with pyrolysis functionality connected to the internet right now. I'm not sure if running that for an extended time can burn down your house or just destroy the oven, but
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by tpxl 1y ago
Strapping explosives to hobby level drones has been standard operating procedure for some time now. You can also find videos of regular handguns strapped to drones being fired. Certification cannot help with this issue.
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by tpxl 1y ago
> And because there has been an inflation in how complimentary these letters are, people started suing when their letter wasn't flowery enough, because that somehow could be read as an implicit criticism. You got a source for this f
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by tpxl 1y ago
They already do something like this - some videos have an indicator for how many times a chunk of a video is played.
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by tpxl 1y ago
Scenario 1: You don't say yes and they lie you acknowledged something. You sue or you don't. Scenario 2: You say yes and they lie what you acknowledged. You sue or you don't. The math on your end doesn't change, no matte
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by tpxl 1y ago
How does that help them? It's not gonna pass any legal scrutiny. If they were going to lie, it doesn't matter whether you said yes or not at any point in the call.
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by tpxl 1y ago
Daily reminder that if a manager can't tell if their employees are effective working from home, that manager is incompetent. There are a million ways to check if someone is actually working, and butt-in-seat isn't one of them.
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by tpxl 1y ago
> So where is the burner phone kept? It can't be kept at your home - you have to assume its location is being logged. So you have to purchase and store it somewhere besides your house You can remove the battery, put it in a Faraday

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