Tarball10

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by Tarball10 8mo ago
Until they switch to eSIM...
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by Tarball10 9mo ago
Apps need to adhere to some new conditions to contribute items to the Win 11 context menu. The 7-zip creator has been unable or unwilling to make these changes[1]. There are other open source projects which do display in the context menu, s
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by Tarball10 9mo ago
Not paying full price is not a "lost sale". People unwilling to pay full price wait for a discount or price reduction. Look at how popular the seasonal Steam sales are. Pirating the game very likely means they never purchase it at
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by Tarball10 9mo ago
Isn't that exactly what companies use as justification for DMCA and DRM protection? Without those, you'd have sites full of pirated game downloads easily found through search engines. DMCA takedowns force those sites into shady co
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by Tarball10 9mo ago
They might spend $600 on 10 of those games, though. It's not all-or-nothing.
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by Tarball10 10mo ago
If you're running a media server (like Plex or Jellyfin) you can do hardware accelerated transcoding on the GPU.
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by Tarball10 11mo ago
There was a long period (15-20 years) where LCDs were quite a downgrade from CRTs. Poor contrast ratio (gray blacks), backlight bleed, low resolution, poor color gamut (they're still putting 45% NTSC screens in budget laptops!), stuck
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by Tarball10 1y ago
Might depend on location but I've always had Express packages delivered by a dedicated Express truck. Which feels wasteful sometimes when both a Ground and Express truck come down my street within the same hour.
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by Tarball10 1y ago
Good point. I should have clarified that I'm referring specifically to PayPal in the US, which themselves state that "PayPal is not a bank, does not take deposits and is not FDIC insured". https://www.paypal.com&#x
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by Tarball10 1y ago
Fair enough, maybe "outsourced" would be a better way to put it. Basically they want support to cost them as little as possible and do not particularly care whether it actually offers any useful help to customers. More specificall
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by Tarball10 1y ago
Holding money (or crypto) in PayPal is a terrible idea. They are not a bank, they do not abide by banking regulations. They can lock you out of your account and your money at any time and leave you going in circles with their offshore suppo
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by Tarball10 1y ago
>Most Americans continue to express positive views of the military: 60% say it has a positive effect, while 36% say its effect is negative. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/02/01/the-u-s-mili.
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by Tarball10 1y ago
For a limited set of DoH providers. It does not let you enter a custom DoH URL, only a DoT hostname.
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by Tarball10 1y ago
The governor is a Democrat, though. I imagine this is punishment/retribution similar to cutting Maine's federal school funding after its Democrat governor publicly confronted Trump.
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by Tarball10 2y ago
This is about sunsetting the WHOIS protocol in favor of RDAP, not doing away with domain owner registration data.
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by Tarball10 2y ago
Also false, you can build a custom configuration of the gen12 with the 165U cpu and 64 GB of ram.
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by Tarball10 2y ago
120Hz on Snapdragon/Mediatek Android phones works great with little impact to battery life. Pixels are hobbled by the poor power efficiency of their Tensor chips.
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by Tarball10 2y ago
Check out the Auto Tab Discard extension for Firefox. It removes the contents of tabs from memory after a period of time, but keeps the tab icon/title around. Next time you click the tab, it acts like a bookmark and reloads the page it
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by Tarball10 2y ago
OP was suggesting an outright block of traffic from ad providers. I don't believe any US ISPs have gone to that extreme, at least not yet. They allowed peering points to become congested which affected Netflix traffic, but weren't
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by Tarball10 2y ago
That sets a terrible precedent. You do not want ISPs picking and choosing what content to deliver, or forcing content providers to pay extra to deliver content to their customers.
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by Tarball10 2y ago
I don't usually snoop around other people's bedrooms when visiting.
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by Tarball10 2y ago
Thanks to DFS restrictions in the US, there are effectively only two 80 MHz channels that can reliably be used in the 5GHz band. 2.4GHz only has three non-overlapping 20MHz channels, and those can only do ~286 Mbps throughput in the best ca
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by Tarball10 2y ago
I think you're underestimating how important the out-of-the-box experience is to casual users. Having Steam games "just work" and being able to do the familiar double-click of an exe file to install a Windows app in compatibi
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by Tarball10 2y ago
Aren't Chrome tabs supposed to be isolated processes? That seems like quite the vulnerability if it can crash the entire browser.
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by Tarball10 2y ago
None of that is required to compromise SMS. A SIM swap is much easier to accomplish because the cellular carriers have historically had woefully insecure policies and their support agents could easily be socially engineered into moving your
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by Tarball10 2y ago
This is nothing new. Just yesterday this AG was blaming a fight between students that hospitalized one on the district's DEI programs. He also continued 7 lawsuits started by his predecessor against school districts that dared to imple
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by Tarball10 3y ago
AT&T is headquartered in Dallas, TX. Verizon Wireless headquarters is in New Jersey.
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by Tarball10 3y ago
You still have to make the minimum payment on time when carrying a balance.
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by Tarball10 3y ago
I see Corporate Memphis has even infected status pages now.
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by Tarball10 3y ago
A theory for the reported Verizon/T-Mobile issues is that when AT&T went offline, all of those phones went into SOS mode and tried to register on the remaining available networks (Verizon and T-Mobile) to allow 911 calls to be made

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