vladvasiliu

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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Oh, I thought those signs were on the products themselves. I was probably confused because of the "handlebars being a cancer risk" comment.
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
> they think if my car is just an appliance to me it’s annoying when others treat theirs as special and I feel less than. I doubt that's the point. People are mostly mad about what actively bothers them. Most recurring complaint: th
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Here in Europe, fat American-style SUVs are still somewhat rare, especially outside cities (!). People still can't corner worth shit in their "regular" sedans. And I say this as a pretty chill motorbike rider. I've lost
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
I think there are plenty of places that need to be up to spec and whose tolerances may add up. I have a USB-C cable pretending to do 10 Gbps + 4K60 display port. I've used it to connect my HP laptops to my HP docking station. I have tw
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
The issue with a generic cord is that it won't connect the earth pin on those chargers. But it does work in a pinch.
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
This often comes up in discussions pitting the US against the EU countries. I'm not familiar with all of them, but here in "free, socialized healthcare" France, if you don't have a "mutuelle", which seems simil
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
> If you can afford it, anywhere has excellent healthcare. I don't think so, judging by the many heads of state and other filthy rich people choosing to get healthcare in the West instead of their local countries.
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by vladvasiliu 3mo ago
Well, here in France, pregnant women are also discouraged from drinking alcohol because of birth defects. I don't know about aloe extract, but pregnant women are also discouraged from taking aspirin. Here's a random online store s
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
I don't think they are. I've already filled a ZFS pool almost to the brim with no adverse effects.
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
> The centering will continuously nudge you towards what it decides is the center of your lane. This. It's not just beeping; if it thinks you're moving too close to the edge of the lane, it will steer the car to the other side.
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
> IIRC, veering from the lane is the cause of most collisions, so it makes sense to have this. My dad's Toyota has this. The issue is it seems to have a hard time actually centering itself in the lane, so it'll just sway from s
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
It takes ages to cold boot. My desktop is ok-ish, but it doens't matter since I only use it occasionally. My old HP laptop had a slow-ass BIOS that I was convinced had some kind of bug. I replaced it with a brand spanking new thinkpad
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
Single-family homes are built out in the suburbs. In the city proper, they build multi-story buildings. There are SFH inside the city limits, but these are old, and I'm not aware of any such new developments. But the thing is, just l
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
Why has it been broken? I’m running secure boot on all my machines with my own certs. It works fine. Whatever ms and hp / Lenovo do with their certs doesn’t affect me, since I only have my certs installed. Except on a single machine wh
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
> So, what do you actually want? This. Also, not everybody wants the same thing, so there's no single universal solution. I live in the big city because I enjoy going out dancing, having a drink at a bar with a bunch of acquaintance
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
I don't understand what you mean by your first point. The delete button I was talking about is in Outlook running in a browser: https://i.imgur.com/k4ejdw4.png Pressing the delete key on my keyboard brings this up: ht
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
> 1. You can't run all the rules on your inbox to sweep the piled up email after a weekend reboot. No such option while it is still present in the legacy native Outlook. I'm not sure what you mean. I have rules running regula
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
> You can not take a zpool out of a QNAP system and access it on another system with ZFS. Too bad... I always wonder why companies do this...
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
> QNAP supports ZFS filesystems Do they have ecc on those models? Do you have an example model on hand?
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
IME running the new outlook in an actual web browser (through outlook.office.com) is waaay faster than the heavy (heh) client. Bonus points for it running fine on Linux, too. I understand there are some missing features compared to the old
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
I think that when you have an MS account with the automatic online key backup, BitLocker is actually turned on automatically, and the user isn't presented with the option to back it up elsewhere. You need to know about this, and manual
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
I think the biggest scandal in this whole thing, which isn't talked about enough, is just how much of a joke enforcement of labelling is.
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by vladvasiliu 4mo ago
The way I understand it, at least here in France, the complaint isn't exactly that some other random EU country has lax enforcement of the EU laws. Rather, it's about the various trade agreements with non-EU countries not known fo
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by vladvasiliu 5mo ago
Indeed. But as a very introverted person, I find it much easier to socialize when it's on my terms. I get to choose where I go, the kinds of people I interact with, for how long. Sure, it's very easy to just "not feel like it
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by vladvasiliu 5mo ago
Well, my integrated GPU has a hard time with external 5k screens on Windows fairly often. I need to manually install the Intel drivers, which work for a while, but then Windows helpfully updates them to the earlier, borked version. At least
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by vladvasiliu 5mo ago
> Vertical integration matters. If BYD controls much of the chain from the mine to the ship, they’re not paying everyone else’s margin along the way. That can translate into more car for the money. This is interesting. Wasn't the
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by vladvasiliu 5mo ago
Apart from the "maintenance" thing, how are these "untangible"? Needing a restaurant reservation or whatever is not free. This shouldn't be hard to enforce.
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by vladvasiliu 5mo ago
Indeed. I have an M1 Pro from work, but I honestly can't stand macOS anymore. The machine itself is great, especially the touchpad. And I love the aluminum body. But I hate that empty window chrome eats up half the screen. But now I&#x
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by vladvasiliu 5mo ago
> Until you need to repair something or change some hardware How often does this happen, though? I have a 2013 MBP that still works perfectly. And I'm not even talking about the screen, which is ridiculously better than most new p
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by vladvasiliu 5mo ago
> if you don't like that car/company, don't buy their product. buy competitors. that will show them much better. I'm all for voting with my wallet, but it gets exhausting trying to be a few steps ahead. And then not

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