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by z9znz 4y ago
> And that’s why most people buy $500 laptops. Most people is a sketchy expression, but I would venture a guess that "most people" buy cheap laptops because they don't really care, they don't know how to adequately ju
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This is obviously a serious issue, perhaps with manufacturing or a batch or two in the supply chain. Thankfully my M1 Air has been fine (aside from one fully dead pixel from day one), and it has traveled around the world with me. Apple shou
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by z9znz 4y ago
> extreme outlier Contrary to popular myth, not all of us live and work in a basement. Myself and many people I know, my non-technical girlfriend included, use our laptops all around the country and in multiple other countries. I do agr
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by z9znz 4y ago
TLDR: take a break with no job if possible... a few months to a year ideally. Feel free to work on your own ideas or hobbies or something that gives you a feeling of reward or satisfaction. > Anyone managed to move from front-end to ano
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The story continues: You open the door, and immediately a banner slowly slides up asking if you'll accept a virtual cookie. Obviously you want that cookie, so you agree. The banner slowly descends back into its slot. Now you identify
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"We" as evolved social animals have pretty universally come to the agreement that humans should have a few basic necessities, such as food, water, shelter, (and less agreed but equally important) personal safety. I could ask if yo
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Some of us can change how we think, but big corporations and investment firms (and banks with investment divisions) are not going to adopt our way of thinking. They are thinking of what to do with their piles of cash, and how to make their
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The problem is more fundamental or broad than housing. The problem is that a few groups have amassed way too much money, and they are desperate for solid places to put it (especially in those times when interest rates were negative!). Natu
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> when the last time was that Mark or Sundar actually wrote any code they pushed to prod That would be a surpreme waste of company money, and probably they have engineers working for them who are far better developers than they are.
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I would connect to the server as my VPN host, so all my traffic was routed through it. With it running the Pi-Hole ad blocking, I had much faster general web performance. That had nothing to do with CodeServer except that it was all runnin
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I setup coder self-hosted on a hetzner server, and it was great (and cheap). pair that with a vpn and pihole (same server), and you have a great home-base machine to do all your heavy lifting on. It was especially cool connecting my ipad a
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And yet, this game was clearly intended to be a throback to old arcade games. And old arcade games like this typically modeled tanks (and didn't have strafing). Old arcade games also DID have loud music like this, and as I noted abov
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Who really wants to stay in areas which become increasingly gentrified (and lobotomized)? This will be for the simple tourists and the other fakers to enjoy, something nice and artificial and tidy.
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> the best contribution to culture one can make is a molotov cocktail through the window of these places I strongly disagree. That just gives them an excuse for why their stupid venture failed. They blame some other group. It's m
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> “radical new technology-driven marketing, entertainment and information service housed in a super-flexible, digitally enabled streetscape” How can you argue with that? It has to be a success! This will be the perfect street for the fa
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But tanks can't usually strafe... The sound is very reminiscent of the old video game arcades. Just about every game cabinet was pumping out some soundtrack and game sounds like this, so the entire place had a certain acoustic charact
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MITM could change what the client receives, right?
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Indeed: thick layer of people in the middle who are deciding I have no objection to buying something from China that is decently made and of decent materials (and by workers who are not abused).
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That is true also. I would never buy a TV from Walmart. That said, there have been some rare moments where tech reviewers have looking into Walmart budget computers and found quite decent fundamentals. Still, chances are it's a miss
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> Amazon doesn't come close to occupying "the bottom" so far as shopping experiences are concerned Amazon exists well beyond the realm of Walmart. Even when I lived for several decades in the US, Walmart was place you only
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by z9znz 4y ago
Sorry, as a self-discovered empath... > Why enjoy this and not videos of people falling off of skateboards Because watching people suffer makes me _really_ suffer. That's why the Office and other Ricky Gervais self-deprecation shows
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> chinesium Thanks for the new material name!
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This was fantastic! :) I did laugh, and it's a good characterization. I only wish he had shown the same chair with different colors. The company names were great though.
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I can't speak for the poster, but back in my young kids in suburbia life, it was common to get invited to kid parties for kids are hardly knew. And most parents wouldn't be bothered with getting a "real" gift. They wou
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Absolutely. It's just becoming difficult to even find such local options :(.
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> If I don't notice counterfeit items then why would I care as a consumer? Well, superficially it doesn't matter for something like a handbag, assuming the handbag doesn't wear out any sooner than the original. Maybe the k
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I have read some photography equipment teardown articles, and the level of counterfeit effort might shock you. Plenty of electronics get counterfeited. And where some of them are concerned, the consumer will never noticed. Perhaps it&#x27
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I bet that same patio set is listed on Amazon (multiple times under different names and with different photos), and it's the same mfg. This is kind of my point. It seems that we now have millions of psuedo-offerings which ultimately b
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I don't blame the foreign manufacturers. I blame the companies that make decisions, contract the manufacturers, and specify the quality level. I don't care what country those decision makers are in; they are to blame. However, if
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> And we throw away those toys Exactly. It's a surpreme waste, especially in a time where we should be working to reduce our global environmental impact.

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