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by CaptSpify 7y ago
I don't have video/audio working on this install, so I'll try to get that set up later and make a video. I do have a video of the wifi in action though: https://tmp.thekyel.com/month/wifi.mp4 I reached o
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by CaptSpify 7y ago
Those switches are software under the hood though, at least as far as I can tell. I installed freebsd on my purism laptop, and it no longer shuts off the camera/microphone.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I think it adds a lot to the conversation. It's an obviously poor argument, which points out how poor it is when Mozilla uses it to make obviously poor choices.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Those two are far from mutually exclusive
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> Compounding the problem of enterprise software is customization. That's kind of the same-but-opposite of my experience. When software tries to control how it's going to be used, it fails spectacularly more often than not, ime
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
This isn't isolated to doctors sadly. You see this in any medium to large organization: schools, cities, companies, etc. The problem, the way I see it, is that management is the one really being sold to. The actual people who do the da
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> it's possible for apps to make the experience better in meaningful ways. Now if we could just get app designers to realize that! IME, apps are usually just poor front-ends for the website, where companies think it's OK to sho
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
alternatively: don't send them the referrer
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Canonical only gave this a very half-assed attempt though. The purism 5 should be coming out relatively soon, and it looks like they work hard to make their laptops work decently. I hope that translates over well to the phone.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> Honest question: does this actually help you get what you're after faster? For me, yes! Absolutely! Having worked in a call-center before, there is a large amount of undeserved trust in their routing. I'm usually going to b
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Thanks! I've looked at nextcloud, but IIRC, you have to have the whole suite installed, right? I'd love a way to just use the calendar function.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Which self-hosted calendar do you use? would you recommend it? I'm in the market for a new one, but the current offerings that I've seen aren't great.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Because unfortunately, way too many of us depend financially upon poor security practices.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Yeah, I did, which is why I'm asking. I never saw anything saying that women were inferior to men, or that "his co-workers are biologically incapable of doing their jobs" Can you point it out?
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> that spelled out that his co-workers are biologically incapable of doing their jobs, because... Can you point me to where it said that? I don't remember reading anything like that in his paper.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Ah, I apologize for misunderstanding you. I can't point to any specific trigger, but I notice that I get drawn to certain creators. If I start to recognize their name/brand, and I look at their past work, I get a sense of "I
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
As a Linux user and advocate, it's really frustrating to see these types of comments being down-voted. Linux still has a ton of issues OOTB, and disregarding negative experiences like this won't make them go away. I wish that in
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
*should My experience is that it does not.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Something can be a "dark pattern" and an industry standard at the same time. I agree that the consumers should change their behavior, but there aren't a lot of options for supporting good news. I can't say I've ever
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I don't know why you are asking me what you should sell. If it was easy to come up with a service/product to sell, everyone would do it. That's the challenging part of running your own thing. I love Creative writing, journali
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
But you don't need to be a battery engineer to understand statistics. If these batteries are dying early, then either Apple didn't do enough testing, they did and ignored the results.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> What ideas do you have for publishers to actually monetize their content? How about either: A) A traditional product or service, where you can skim some money off the top. B) User donations: Patreon, Kickstarter, etc I'm open to m
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Because we saw the evidence: The batteries they shipped started dying early. I'm willing to believe that they did do proper testing and ignored the results, but I'm not sure that's better.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Apple's mistake was really that they didnt do proper load testing on their batteries. Had they shipped a battery that was capable of keeping up with the phone, this wouldn't have been a problem to begin with. Instead, they pushed
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Probably because Gmail isn't the only email provider that lets you search. I run my own email server and can search them just fine.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I've run my own email server out of att, comcast home, comcast business, and centurylink. All I've ever had to do was call them up and ask them to open the ports.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I do this all the time. I'm sure some people have issues, but my experience is that this is largely overblown
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I personally looked around and couldn't find much, so I built my own with a raspberry pi running Motion. It cost ~$100 iirc.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
This, imho, is the biggest reason people don't update their software. They've caught onto the fact that the term "updates" is misleading, and it would be better call it an "anti-feature delivery mechanism". Thi
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I'm legitimately curious as to why you only learned this only today. We've known that governments have been taking data like this from companies for a long time. All access that Google has is pretty much up for the government to g

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