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by wishfish 8mo ago
Author implies he was using a local account at the time of the error. Which answers an important question. I'd heard of people with Microsoft accounts getting locked out of their own computers, but that's a first I've heard o
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by wishfish 8mo ago
On iOS, uBlock Lite works great on Youtube. Same for Firefox + uBlock on Android. You can skip the ads on mobile.
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by wishfish 9mo ago
Medieval Dynasty attempts to do that. Despite having the word "dynasty" in its title, it's peasant centered. Early game is about building a house and trying to survive. Later game is building a village, recruiting people, ass
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by wishfish 9mo ago
Read a memoir by a KGB agent who arrested a man in Moscow who was passing info to the CIA. Had been doing so for years. The CIA had the typical western attitude towards money so they kept giving him stacks of rubles. Thinking they were bein
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by wishfish 10mo ago
I did something that was almost the same. Used to work for an educational software company that almost solely sold to schools, universities, and government institutions. Sometimes to corporate learning centers. Every sale was on a per-seat
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by wishfish 10mo ago
Reddit is a bunch of bar districts in a large city. You can find any sort of bar you want. Some of the bars you'll love. Some of them you'll hate. Some of them will make you say "what the hell is any of this?" It's
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by wishfish 10mo ago
Kobo is the sort of device which would make HN happy. The software is much more open and permissive than Kindle. Integrates with Calibre more tightly. Has a fairly rich ecosystem of tweaks and addons which don't require a jailbreak. Wi
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by wishfish 10mo ago
I've had both. Kobo is fine hardware-wise. And light years better on software than Kindle. One huge example: I have 1000+ books in Calibre. Took the time to tag them all into their respective categories. Kobo recognizes those tags and
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by wishfish 10mo ago
Buy DRM free when you can. Not only is this convenient for you but will hopefully help nudge the market. When you can't, buy the book from one of the easily cracked sources (Kobo, Google, Adobe DRM). Or you can save yourself the bother
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by wishfish 10mo ago
I guess a throwaway account would be essential then. That's a little weird to require an ID just to check the balance.
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by wishfish 10mo ago
Would checking the Apple gift card balance first be a useful precaution? Would it have saved Paris all this hassle? Seems like this might be a necessary step if checking the balance would reveal there's something wrong with the card. W
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Doing a Number on Falwell: A Computer Hack Ties Up Evangelist's Phones (1986)(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by wishfish 10mo ago|0 comments
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by wishfish 1y ago
>I think the only way desktop Linux will ever approach something an "ordinary" computer user could use is if a corporation puts significant money behind the development effort. I think you're correct, but I also think this
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by wishfish 1y ago
The reading experience is fine on Kindle. Or at least it was the last time I used it. My main problem is how they've locked down the DRM. I was on Kindle for a very long time and didn't mind the DRM because it was easily breakable
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by wishfish 1y ago
It's not the size of a backpack but my wife did home hemo dialysis with a machine that had a handle and was portable. We even took it on trips a few times. I forget the weight, but, from memory, was around 10 pounds / 4.5 kg I thi
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by wishfish 1y ago
I'm thinking about light colored roads that seem to be made of concrete. See them here and there. Seemed to be more of them when I was a kid. Wonder if that would make a substantial difference? Much brighter than asphalt but not bright
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by wishfish 1y ago
Thinking of the old Slashdot joke but with a twist. Imagine a Beowulf Cluster inside your keyboard.
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by wishfish 1y ago
Sometimes TikTok live streams are like that. Not always, but at certain times of day, there's a huge variety. For me, I interact with it like an old television. Just flipping channels. Not knowing what I'll get and not seeking out
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by wishfish 1y ago
Take a look at FuriPhone. It runs Debian with an Android kernel and runs Android apps in a container. Out of all the Linux phones out there, this is the most interesting one to me. Though I'm still just a bystander. I haven't trie
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by wishfish 1y ago
Weirdly enough, the iPad Mini is probably the iPad most used for work. The size & weight are perfect for many scenarios. Pilots, warehouses, and field work of all sorts. For me personally, it's my travel machine. I've done all
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by wishfish 1y ago
I've been keeping an eye on FuriLabs (Furiphone). They maintain FuriOS - Debian with an Android kernel. Has a container for running Android apps. Price is reasonable though I don't know how it'll be affected by tariffs in the
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by wishfish 1y ago
I had never thought of multiuser (or the lack of) with SteamOS and the Deck. That would be quite the problem with kids. I wonder if a stopgap solution would be something like Bazzite on the Deck. Then you could have true multiuser while ret
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by wishfish 1y ago
Looks like they'll be trying out the console / small box form factor again. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Valve-Fremont-Upcoming-console... I'm glad they are. There's probably a sizeable market for a con
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by wishfish 1y ago
I hope there's an improved screen. I bought a 9 Pro XL with hopes of running GrapheneOS but the PWM on the Pixel was terrible. Instant headaches. I can more or less get by ok with recent iPhone screens but the Pixel screen didn't
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by wishfish 1y ago
Here's a catalog of apps from the Obtainium wiki. https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/ They put the disclaimer on top that this list is not meant as an app store or catalog. It's meant for apps with somewhat complex
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by wishfish 1y ago
Still using it every day. Works on every device I have. Not expensive. I've only had one problem in the past 10 years that required technical assistance, and I was able to get a human to help me in a reasonable time. One reason I stick
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by wishfish 1y ago
This is why my iPad Mini is my main travel device. Small enough that it fits in my pockets. But the screen is big enough that it's comfortable to use. More comfortable than the Pro Max. Have a cheap bluetooth keyboard with integrated s
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by wishfish 1y ago
As you're working with the OEM, I hope you'll consider a model which will come with either an IPS screen or is compatible with a 3rd party IPS replacement. I bought a Pixel 9 Pro Xl specifically to use with GrapheneOS. Unfortunate
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by wishfish 1y ago
To me, the sequels were worthwhile just for one solitary scene. In the third movie, Trinity is piloting the ship and has to gain higher than usual altitude for some reason that I've now forgotten. This takes her above the black clouds
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by wishfish 1y ago
Thinking about telnet & social media, I do remember that brief moment in time when the majority of my college's students had internet access but the web hadn't been invented yet. Telnet (along with talk, finger .plan's, n

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