waspleg

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by waspleg 10y ago
Got laid off yesterday. Hooray.
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by waspleg 10y ago
This. I donated to the defence fund when she was Bradley and I'm not sorry I did it. Secret courts and whatnot have no place in America. At all. Ever.
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by waspleg 10y ago
I confess to disabling SELinux being one of the first things I always do on a new Linux box. It gets in the fucking way. A lot.
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by waspleg 10y ago
I bought that humble bundle as well, but I didn't know that there was a website too. Thanks for the information.
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by waspleg 10y ago
Seems like you made some enemies with the truth. Nothing has come out for several years and the prices on the high end cards haven't moved an inch because AMD had nothing to compete with. Nvidia absolutely sits on tech and milks everyt
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by waspleg 10y ago
Completely agree. I was an original Prime member when it first came out which was before price increases, add on items, restrictions and bullshit. After learning about how they treat their workers as well as them adding sales tax on to thin
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by waspleg 10y ago
I never owned an xbox, but for games that require a controller and suck with a mouse and keyboard, the 360 controller is the best one I've used.
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by waspleg 10y ago
I'm a card carrying EFF member. The EFF supports Internet Freedom and Privacy (those things go hand in hand). Without even looking, if they're against you the chances are they're in the right. I've yet to see them do an
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by waspleg 11y ago
To be honest, this is a first world problem. Most people on Earth (and honestly, at least the in US, the majority of people http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/05/news/economy/job_satisfactio... ) work at a
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by waspleg 11y ago
I completely agree with the author of the article. Apple is the real-world incarnation of the economic premise of Huxley's "A Brave New World". This was just the mask dropping for a second to pander to the faithful. I'd
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by waspleg 11y ago
Only because they don't know what it is, nor largely that it exists, nor what it means for them to not have it. Most of the big tech companies prey on ignorant users these days in the most insidious and pernicious ways for their profit
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by waspleg 11y ago
Neither. I prefer a completely open non-marketplace aka PC minus Windows 10. Phones in their current iteration are the death of device freedom. Sure there are work arounds for some things but they're band-aids on bullet wounds.
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by waspleg 11y ago
"Operating through a company doesn't make me immune from the law, and neither should working through an algorithm." That might be technically true but in reality it quite often does. See nearly all bankers from 2K8 melt down
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by waspleg 11y ago
My best friend is a devout atheist and he likes to quote dawkins and hitchens and other high priests of his religion. I use these terms purposefully. He's every bit as fervent as any hell fire and brimstone Baptist. We are/were bo
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by waspleg 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing.
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by waspleg 11y ago
That's already an issue. I also don't see how it's reasonable to ask someone to essentially sign a contract with a third party entity to do one's job while sacrificing that individual's personal privacy in the proce
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by waspleg 11y ago
That last point is far worse than you think. In my school the principal is entirely enamored with all things apple and google and wants to mandate certain staff have twitter accounts. This is unwittingly signing up lots of people for life l
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by waspleg 11y ago
An anonymous source... must be gospel.
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by waspleg 11y ago
I put early access games I'm interested in on my "wish list" aka watch list and then wait for them to be released and received. I no longer buy games in early access. I really wish that Steam had much better filters for what
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by waspleg 11y ago
Find a local credit union. They'll pay you interest with no fees for holding your money (aka using your money to invest and making money with your money).
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by waspleg 11y ago
Why do you require a sign in/sign up in the first place? My ad blocking is configured to disable all that crap and I don't make accounts unless I really want whatever is behind it (which is exceedingly rare). On the other hand,
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by waspleg 11y ago
My guess is, it's more likely he's a micromanager, but, he also spent $250 million of his own money on it as well.
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by waspleg 11y ago
Maybe it's because a lot of Germans have already experienced a total surveillance state and what that means for their freedom/well being when the information is turned against them, or, at least, remember the stories from their re
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by waspleg 11y ago
Maybe you should handle the "unusual" transactions? I bet you don't pay them much - maybe not even enough to live on (that would definitely be the case here in the US I don't know about Australia). I've worked shitt
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by waspleg 11y ago
I don't know about you but my primary system disk is an SSD, which is far less than 2 TB... Guess what kind of partition it is (and guess which one it came with)? I've found AOEMEI (?) to be good for converting other partitions fr
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by waspleg 11y ago
I agree. I don't know anything about either of these but this has been interesting to read.
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by waspleg 11y ago
I agree with all of this. For your sales people getting paid on commission they will, of course, flat out lie and try to up sell you things or combine those together to say they're out of something they have and try to sell you somethi
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by waspleg 11y ago
tl;dr - My best isn't necessarily your best. We're different people with (likely) different needs. That seems pretty foreign to me. While I would definitely look at something like that (although I've never heard of either of
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by waspleg 11y ago
I know of people who would lose their jobs if some of their stuff went public. I don't think that's what it's for though. This seems to be more fodder for the insatiable targeted-ad/law enforcement data crunching monster
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by waspleg 11y ago
Yes. I also abhor their walled garden business practices. Here's Richard Stallman from 2011 on Job's death, I completely agree with him: "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools fr

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