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by arthem 2y ago
Have had a similar experience with Dell. Have exclusively used new and second-hand Dell Laptops (Inspiron & Latitude) for the past fifteen years with no problems. Purchased a XPS 15 directly from Dell five months ago and the battery cha
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by arthem 3y ago
> I’ve only ever see Prozac as a part of a turn for the worse. You might be interested in the book "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty"[1] by Patrick Radden Keefe. Although it focuses on Oxycodone and oth
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by arthem 3y ago
With the daggers that I have seen and handled, the blade is curved but does not run the full length of the scabbard. It is not unusual for the blade of a L shaped scabbard to be cresent shaped[1], meaning that it is quite easy to pull the b
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by arthem 3y ago
>This is one of those comically out of touch armchair historian takes. Having lived in the Middle East and owned a traditional curved dagger, I can safely say that the type of dagger mentioned in the original article is not used primaril
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by arthem 3y ago
Historically in the Arab countries, people mainly rode camels or horses while wearing a dagger in their belt. A pointy scabbard would foible the wearer in the leg and groin. Curving the scabbard solves that problem nicely. The blades do ten
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by arthem 4y ago
I am in a similar positon, Ubuntu LTS being the only Linux distro that I have ever used on my primary daily computer. Will most likely move over to Debian instead of "upgrading" to 20.04LTS.
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by arthem 4y ago
> I trust Apple more than Google personally Curious as to what the basis for this is? As I understood it much if not most of Apple's OS and software is a pandoras box so we have no real idea as to what it tracks and/or sends b
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by arthem 5y ago
There is a well researched documentary presented by Ray Mears entitled "The Real Heroes of Telemark" where he recreates parts of their journey which puts the feat of the resistence members into perspective.
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by arthem 5y ago
> And so there's a "ventilator farm" industry, one that maintains a very low public profile. This sounds like an interesting rabbit hole to go down. Unfortuantely I could not find any websites/articles on this topic.
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by arthem 5y ago
Still clicking away the once proposed dialogue of Whatsapp to give all my data away to Facebook. I have not accepted it!
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by arthem 5y ago
Parents should be responsible for regulating the access they allow and time that their children spend on social media. There needs to be laws on how addictive social media can be intentionally made by companies. Furthermore I don't see
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by arthem 5y ago
Reebok Floatride Energy 3.0 Running Shoes for £50
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by arthem 5y ago
> If Ubuntu forbid me to use apt The issue is that if you try to install something via apt, the system will install a snap instead
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by arthem 5y ago
PopOS Sounds interesting, I will be playing around with it for sure.
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by arthem 5y ago
I'd rather install an OS that works the way I want it to rather than work around it.
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by arthem 5y ago
Just to clarify, I am asking this question as I recently found out that on the next LTS version of Ubuntu, firefox will only be available as a snap. I myself am considering moving to vanilla debian but am interested in what others may be do
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Ask HN: With Ubuntu pushing snaps, are you considering moving to another OS?
7 points by arthem 5y ago|14 comments
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by arthem 5y ago
If you are outside the UK then you can download the PDF version of the form and email it to (enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk) after completion. ( https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/manage-your-choice/... )
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by arthem 5y ago
Depends on how far your willing to go and/or if you buy into the "Audiophile" scene. For me the price that I am willing to pay for a pair of Headphones comes down to quality of sound, build and ease of repairability. The Beye
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by arthem 5y ago
Interesting! Anywhere that I could get some more information on that?
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Ask HN: What is the weirdest Hardware you have used as a workstation
4 points by arthem 5y ago|4 comments