xethos

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by xethos 1y ago
The famous example is the removal of George Orwell's 1984 . Note that Bezos called it all kinds of things, but did not revert the change according to the article [0] [0] https://www.npr.org/2009/07/24/10
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by xethos 1y ago
Overall I agree, and I'm not about to refute the statement, but I never thought the phrase "Linux users are easier to support" would be taken seriously - I find that marvelous and hilarious.
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by xethos 1y ago
The study in question is... questionable, at best, IMO. Discussed elsewhere, and a comment there summarized (and led to further discussion) why the study is not as representative as we might assume. Link below [0], as it's simultaneous
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by xethos 1y ago
They've got a deportation order, so somebody is being put on a plane to El Salvador. Whether the name of the person being deported matches the name on the deportation order is another question, but not one ICE seems bothered by anymo
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by xethos 1y ago
Is "Message List Display Options -> Table View" not pretty well exactly what you want? I enabled it (on desktop) shortly after the roll-out, and I've never had it revert back. There's no CSS hackery, no forced reversi
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by xethos 1y ago
I mean, Jeep and Dodge (when owned under their American umbrella corp., FCA) were later found to be using similar defeat devices (see "Other manufacturers [0]). Though if you want to smear them, you may as well go all in and point out
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by xethos 1y ago
My mistake, I'd forgotten Dodge was owned by Stellantis. That said, multiple American car companies (Dodge, Jeep, Chrystler) going under and ending up owned by an EU conglomorate sure doesn't feel like a stirling defense of GP&#
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by xethos 1y ago
Commuter rail, public transit, a social safety net, and I personally would take anything from Volkswagon group over the average Dodge vehicle
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by xethos 1y ago
Microsoft locking out third-party applications with Windows S, and/or pushing users to Microsoft's own game store, was actually a real threat to Valve. That's one of the major reasons Proton is a thing: Valve realized they we
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by xethos 1y ago
Now do parking minimums and how much they increase the cost of rent for business and residential properties
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by xethos 1y ago
> uniquely dense, rich and collectivist And yet on the list of North America transit systems by ridership[0], while New York City takes the top spot, every other city in America loses first to Mexico, then to Canada. I can't speak
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by xethos 1y ago
Owning a home isn't much of an investment if the jobs, people, or weather shift out from under you. You're then stuck selling your investment, likely at a loss, while also moving to where you can make a living
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by xethos 1y ago
I can live in Albera. My commute to my job in British Columbia would be hell though. Owning a home too far from amenities isn't worth much. Same with living too far from where the weather is hospitable, food is available, or the people
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by xethos 1y ago
While not dramatically better, just a few posts down[0] someone paid for the "Welcome to Mazda" service manuals/program for $30 and shared the fuse box schematics [0] https://www.cx90forum.com/posts/270
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by xethos 1y ago
Because Google wants to have their cake and eat it too. They want to leave "products" in beta for years (gMail being the canonical example), they want to shut down products that don't hit massive adoption very shortly out of
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by xethos 1y ago
I appreciate the clarification, my mistake taking your original comment the wrong way. I'm a little reassured too - what seems to be an Americanism (things that don't turn a profit aren't worth doing) feels like it's see
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by xethos 1y ago
No, but like roads, public transit leads to greater economic activity and boosts GDP. Good public transit also increases social and financial mobility, makes other clean air targets easier to hit, and decreases medical costs [0] while incre
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by xethos 1y ago
> Though I trust him this far - he's got his hands too full at the moment to try it. I legitimately can't tell who you think has their hands too full to start something: the West's old superpower opponent currently waging
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by xethos 1y ago
The hope is the "A" plays a role there too though
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by xethos 1y ago
I'm sitting in a battery-electric bus from New Flyer this very minute. BYD is hardly the only bus OEM around
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by xethos 1y ago
I at least am contrasting > [running a relay being cheap and easy] wasn't asserted anywhere With > I recall posts of people running their own relays on RPi4s with NVMe drives I would absolutely consider software I can host at hom
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by xethos 1y ago
From the outside, this reads well. My takeaway is that the current goal is to become more engineer focussed by driving away middle management, and removing the OKRs that some managers may be hiding behind (or using to entirely justify their
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by xethos 1y ago
> When the walls fell and everybody left, I dropped 200 followers to 500 but by X's own metrics no one sees my tweets > I have presences on Mastodon and Bluesky, but my follower count on both remains in the low teens So we all ag
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by xethos 1y ago
It's a Google Play Services update, likely explicitly to be able to push it to all (Google-using) Android phones immediately, without waiting for OS updates. This will not be a "Guess I'll get it in a few years" update.
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by xethos 2y ago
Those are preferences, and unique to each individual. I work in trades, I work the overnight shift, and I do 4 10's. I wouldn't want to change any of that. Someone else will feel more at home in an office, and that's okay. Th
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by xethos 2y ago
> making software instantaneous does wonders for improving how it feels to use. When you phrase it like that, I'm actually more surprised Linux suffers from the extra latency. When most software is written to scratch an itch and opt
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by xethos 2y ago
> I wouldn't recommend it for a layman though; I did have to do some initial tinkering to get it spot on. The flip side of this is that regular computer users don't actually have preferences nearly as strong as anyone browsing
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by xethos 2y ago
Fast, free, and frictionless payments allow the economy to run better. That's better for the government and the people. Only corporations like Visa and Mastercard lose.
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by xethos 2y ago
> It's really tough to apply anti-trust law to companies that aren't selling commodities. The EU, rather famously, managed with Microsoft. It's mostly the US that's beholden to large corporations over people, rather t
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by xethos 2y ago
Good thing all of us here are following (and extolling) the advice to never reuse passwords, espcially when ones device is in an evidence locker and subject to controlled access by authorized personnel

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