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vmlinuz
8y ago
Been using Slackware for over 22 years, and don't have plans to stop using it any time soon... I did throw out the last of my floppies many years ago, though!
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8y ago
Just to point out, for the record, that Hong Kong has had a minimum wage in operation for 7 years, and while of course there are people living in crappy conditions at the bottom end of society, "favela like living conditions" is a
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8y ago
Thailand has a fairly large medical tourism industry - a number of hospitals in Bangkok are considered world-class (if not world-leading). I know a few people who just go there once a year for a weekend for their annual check-up, since the
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vmlinuz
8y ago
pop goes the bubble!
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9y ago
Can confirm, mine was approximately US$59 from the Xiaomi shop here in Hong Kong, with full English support etc. I don't know what, if anything, the US model has to justify a 40%+ price bump...
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9y ago
One of the two Patreons I support ( https://www.patreon.com/mitchbenn ), who is working on a pay-per-thing model, decided to start doing very short daily videos as well as occasional longer ones. All he does is mark one short
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9y ago
That's Skyscanner, acquired last year by "leading Chinese online travel agent Ctrip"?
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9y ago
I went to the (private) Leeds Grammar School, and our alumni have always been Old Leo(densian)s - there's also a rugby club in Leeds of the same name, which was originally associated with the school/alumni, and it's mentioned
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10y ago
Seen it a few times, although not so much recently... An app would pop up a rating dialog, asking you to give it 1-5 stars. If you chose 5 stars, it would send you on to the Play Store to leave your rating - if you chose 1-4, it would inste
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10y ago
For what it's worth, I used PiVPN ( http://www.pivpn.io/ ) for a quick setup of OpenVPN on a RasPi3 earlier this year - can recommend for convenience, with no comment on security. My main goal was place-shifting...
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10y ago
It's not as extreme, but I used to live in this building: https://goo.gl/maps/wqrAnDrxZjs If you look down, you'll see there's a lively market in the street - clothes and household stuff on one side, foo
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vmlinuz
11y ago
So nice to be remembered! Reading some of this MS stuff has given me serious deja vu... (Source: I worked on Project Janus, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away)
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vmlinuz
11y ago
You need to get a better VPN my friend - mine still works!
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11y ago
(video plays fine here in Hong Kong)
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vmlinuz
11y ago
You might find there's a SickBeard fork for torrents called SickRage...
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11y ago
A few years ago, I was almost forcibly prevented from leaving a Hawaiian burger joint in Nagano by a waitress who was concerned that I'd accidentally left some money on the table. I tried to explain that it was a tip, but they were qui
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12y ago
Assuming by "the real review" you mean "the mostly cut'n'pasted rant against the first Pixel, published by Sam Biddle on Gizmodo 2 years ago". http://gizmodo.com/5986031/every-reason-not-to
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12y ago
Been living and working in HK for almost 10 years - currently all visa-ed up and legal, but haven't necessarily always been... There are persistent stories of people who've been living here for years doing regular visa runs, but o
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12y ago
If the G1 had been discontinued at 3 days' notice - and without there being a replacement already on the market - I'd have expected people to have some pretty harsh things to say about the future of Android...
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13y ago
In about 6 weeks, my girlfriend and I will be flying into Frankfurt - because that was an available cheap flight via China from Hong Kong, where we live. We will be travelling from Frankfurt to Strasbourg (fast train, 1 change), from Strasb
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13y ago
I don't know if that site has now been opted-out of whatever Feedly is doing, or something else - but the example link given goes straight to the-digital-reader.com for me... Without being able to see what's going on, I'd hav