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by warner25 4y ago
The ads are baked into Windows 10 too, although might be worse in 11.
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by warner25 4y ago
Without name-tapes, I guess the car keys become your unique identifier to find your phone later.
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by warner25 4y ago
True. That's what my hat is for (I'm in the Army): my phone goes in my hat, my hat sits somewhere near the boxes, and the name-tape on my hat helps me find my phone later (since all the phones are indistinguishable black rectangle
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by warner25 4y ago
I'm thinking similar things. I could happily live without a phone. As it is, according to the Android "Digital Wellbeing" tool, I've opened / unlocked my phone only 10-20 times per day for the past week. I actually
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by warner25 4y ago
I've wondered about this too. Like, what's the advantage of it? It looks like they've gone back and forth on this. RHEL 7 and 6 used LTS kernels. Before that, RHEL 5 did its own thing instead of using the LTS. Of course, RHEL
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by warner25 4y ago
I agree, not just for the SharePoint but for things across our wider intranet that are completely undiscoverable except by word-of-mouth.
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by warner25 4y ago
I've never made extensive use of bookmarks, keeping only one or two dozen, but in the past couple of years my workflow on my personal machine has become exactly as you describe, just typing "n" to get "news.ycombinator.c
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by warner25 4y ago
Coincidentally, I was a Windows user from 2008-2015, having used Linux (SUSE on my laptop and Debian on a server) prior to that and then coming back to Linux (Arch derivatives, Ubuntu, RHEL, and now Fedora) since 2015. So what happened with
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by warner25 4y ago
I thought there were STIG checklists for Ubuntu now, no? https://ubuntu.com/security/disa-stig With that said, you're right that RHEL is firmly entrenched in the DoD. I previously worked in a DoD shop that ran a f
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by warner25 4y ago
You're not wrong. Fortunately, I was insulated from a lot of that climate, got what I needed from the job, and moved on. I definitely don't aspire to more senior levels of management, certainly not in this organization, after seei
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by warner25 4y ago
Personally, I became slightly uncomfortable with having 100% of my online identity and data under one account with one company that can use my data however it wants, and offers little or no customer support (because I'm not really the
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by warner25 4y ago
Nice, thanks for the tip. I actually don't even use a lot of the features of Voice. I mostly just like having my phone number decoupled from any carrier or handset, so changing them is seamless, or they aren't even necessary. I do
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by warner25 4y ago
Sure, I don't think Microsoft's stuff is necessarily terrible. At work I've always been fully immersed in Windows and Office, as both a regular user and IT guy, and it's fine for that. I was even using Windows and Edge o
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by warner25 4y ago
There's no mention of Google Voice. I've been hooked on it for 12 years, with my primary phone number being a Google Voice number for the last 10 years. I've started using a lot of the suggested applications and services - Fi
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by warner25 4y ago
I too am laughing at the suggestions to swap Google for Microsoft stuff.
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by warner25 4y ago
I second this. It can take multiple man-hours among native speakers to craft an email in a politically-sensitive, high-stakes professional environment. I worked under an executive who would keep her people (inner-circle advisors, direct rep
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by warner25 4y ago
I've offered, but she declined. She really likes sales and coupon offers, extensions for cash-back that are based on tracking, etc. Someone else said it best about their spouse on another thread: "...whenever a website doesn'
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, I've said before that whenever my wife wants to show me something from the web on her laptop, I blown away by how bad it is. The experience in her browser (Chrome with all defaults, usually on ad-supported social media or puzzle
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by warner25 4y ago
> they'll lash out at you Not only that, but they might have a legal case against you. I've been slowly working through Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy , and my main takeaways have been: (1) The co
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by warner25 4y ago
I'm wondering about helicopters too. I was a helicopter pilot for a few years. We rarely flew much higher than 1,000 feet AGL, but we crawled all over the aircraft during pre-flight, drew fuel samples, etc. While deployed in a flying p
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by warner25 4y ago
I've moved towards this too, for better or worse. Between 18-25, I was very passionate about national politics and macroeconomics and consumed by following political news and fiery debates, as many young people are. As my adult respons
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by warner25 4y ago
A quarter million is still a big number, but I'll admit to my family having 60,000 photos in storage. They're mostly since we started having kids in 2014, which works out to 20 per day. Of course, some days we take zero photos, an
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by warner25 4y ago
We upload and organize our family photos in a private Flickr album, and the grandparents have access to that. The presentation is beautiful and I update it at least once a month, so they should be able to enjoy it. If they pull up the album
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, this has been a source of hurt feelings for my parents, my wife's parents, and the parents of many of our peers... Facebook-addicted Boomers literally crying, "But everyone else gets to put up pictures of their grandchildr
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by warner25 4y ago
> One point I would like to make is how virtual environments are designed to be disposable and not relocatable. Is the author saying that relocating them will actually break things, or that it's just as easy to recreate them in a di
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by warner25 4y ago
Sadly, I did notice only after I couldn't edit anymore.
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by warner25 4y ago
When I was looking for a new laptop in 2021, the price and availability of Framework was very good compared to other laptops with similar specifications at the higher end, like 32 GB of memory. The ability to repair and upgrade was icing-on
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by warner25 4y ago
My wife and I each got an 11th Gen Framework in late 2021, and I think it's mostly this - e.g. my wife wanted an HDMI port and I didn't - but I've also found reason to switch ports around a few times. It's certainly not
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by warner25 4y ago
I've never thought that I want to own a coffee shop, but I've sometimes thought about being a barista (i.e. "Barista FIRE"). I make my wife a latte every morning, and it can be fun and satisfying. I imagine being focused
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by warner25 4y ago
Warrant officers, not NCOs. But yes, this is the crux of it. New lieutenants go to flight school alongside new warrant officers, and then their day-to-day responsibilities rapidly diverge. The lieutenant becomes an administrator who, at bes

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