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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Same here. The missus is almost crawling on the walls due to the lack of social contact, while I'm having the time of my life; the lack of social interactions gives me so much extra spare time.
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
> in terms of excess deaths all Nordic countries look identical Finland, notably, doesn't even count covid deaths outside hospitals according to the THL, so comparing Swedish and Finnish covid stats is a bit silly Where did you get
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Yeah, pretty much every single "smart" device I've ever bought has had vulnerabilities that never got patched. It's ridiculous. On the plus side, my 10 year-old laptop still finds a use as an access point/firewall f
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
I have a dummy hotspot with no access to anything whatsoever, and which I allow my TV to connect to. Apart from exposing an undocumented API (with code execution capabilities), and allowing logging in as root over Telnet (without a password
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Sweden failed to protect their own elderly, mainly because national authorities simply assumed that local authorities were ready to fight a pandemic, when they were in fact hopelessly underfunded and staffed by underpaid staff with no PPE a
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Pretty much. We wanted a simple life and we got it. Only going to the supermarket twice a month saves a ton of money, and working remote saves me a lot since there's no commute.
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
> They are toast. Many traditional petrol stations are toast already. The one in the village where I live closed decades ago. The one in the next village only survives because it's got a fairly successful tire business run by the ow
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
It was a cool machine, and AmigaOS was simply awesome compared to contemporary consumer operating systems, but alas Commodore went belly-up before they managed to modernize the platform.
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
This. I've used it extensively and it's simply unparallelled.
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Semi-semi-related, there was a commercial distro named Amithlon that booted straight into AmigaOS 3.9. Alas, it was discontinued, but it had a really nice AmigaOS feel to it.
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
It isn't, really. The command-line is a beautiful thing!
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Definitely. It affects then entire experience to such an extent that you want to go to bed early in order to lie between freshly dried sheets.
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Let's hope someone with a similar view-point doesn't discover Earth, then! :D Jokes aside, you are right, of course. We don't have to worry about environmental effects or native populations in the same way when dealing with o
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
There are some latency involved when it comes to interplanetary exploration, not to mention communication between planets. That alone gives human exploration a certain advantage in some cases. I suspect the majority of future exploration wi
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
It's definitely an alternative to text-based browsers if you need something dead simple. And it's fast enough to run on an old 486 if needed.
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
It is definitely possible to get it up and running, but there's often problems due to entire ranges having bad reputation. There was a gigantic thread about it in the Mailop mailing list last year. If you have access to it's archi
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
http://www.arngren.net/
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
That sounds like Dillo using a TOR proxy. It's quite usable, but it's limited CSS-capabilities break more sites than the missing JS support does.
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Just an addition to that: Don't use the cheapest possible provider available if you get a VPS to use as an email server; chances are the spammers are doing the same thing and that your emails will be sent straight to spam. DigitalOcean
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Yeah. Makes the rest rather unneccesary.
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Well, there is a lot of graduates from those universities to begin with, so it's only logical that there is a certain amount of useless graduates that end up unemployed. The same logic applies to the rest of humanity. The real question
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Yeah, the current offerings just won't cut it for professional use though, which I suspect account for much of chainsaw emissions.
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
This. A 5l can of fuel is easier to drag along and I suspect current battery tech won't be good enough for professional use. I have a chainsaw that runs on mains power. It's really nice (and quiet) for smaller tasks close to the h
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Yeah, that sounds about right. I was working for a call centre providing support for Dell at the time, and the year before this was introduced we had a LOT of customers who got their laptops fried by dodgy chargers. I'm not qualified t
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Yes, hybrids are definitely a viable use-case. There are also other applications where a combustion engine makes much more sense, especially if this design can be used for smaller engines like chainsaw engines and lawnmower engines. The art
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
Yeah, and here in Finland we have North American Beavers too, since someone decided to introduce them in the 30's. They have a somewhat devastating effect on the local forests...
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
I think the largest change will be that we, as a global society, have discovered that there is a lot of things that are easier and better done remote, and that we will keep doing those things remote once we're done with the pandemic (w
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
We do have the same issue here in Europe, albeit at a smaller scale. If the old dams can be re-purposed and brought back to use, then that would be a nice compromise. Some old dams and sluices are beyond repair, though. In those cases it&#x
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
The grandparent does have a point when it comes to assigning blame; when you have a hardware-based solution then one can always blame the hardware manufacturer. If you use an open-source solution then there is typically no warranties, and t
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by 1bc29b36f623ba8 6y ago
I cancelled mine a few months ago, and could do it through Microsoft's web site. It was a pain to find the option though. The best way to handle Xbox payments is to buy pre-paid codes in the store and use them (assuming that's an

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