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beerbaron23
7y ago
That is dependent on your IRC client not on IRC itself, just use a more robust client. I use Textual and it provides embedded previews of pictures and video directly in the chat window/feed...
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beerbaron23
8y ago
If you are going amplified computer speakers (or any speakers for that matter) make sure you buy a set that enables you to hear all the sounds in your music. You can even indulge, spend a bit more then you would as there is a good chance th
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beerbaron23
8y ago
I'm wondering this very same thing, now that Reddit has been flooded with Teens, Meme's, Dueches, Knobs and Troglodytes... I am seeking a Reddit alternative that features semi intelligent posts like Reddit used to provide around 5
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beerbaron23
8y ago
That creating your own redundant Linux distro based on an existing one for bragging rights is not the only option!
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beerbaron23
8y ago
I vote Portland, Boston or Swastica, Ontario
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8y ago
This plan worked for this dude, worth a shot :P https://np.reddit.com/r/casualiama/comments/2lbqym/traveled_...
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beerbaron23
8y ago
DSLR Photography? Sure it does, CaptureOne is superior in most regards, especially in the commercial landscape. Although on the Linux side Darktable just isn't there yet
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8y ago
> Lower tier isp’s usually pay the big guys for peering. In most all cases they don't peer with the "big guys" they simply refuse. What they do is peer up with the local public peering exchange that's non profit/
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beerbaron23
8y ago
Your ISP will physically link up to peering exchanges in the closest major city. There are public exchanges and private exchanges, for instance my ISP is Electronic Box and they are linked up to "QIX" (the Montreal public exchang
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beerbaron23
9y ago
Waaaay too much false information (or lack of) by the author and respondents here.If people would read before installing things they would be aware of this. It is right out in the open in plain comprehendbale wording (not bunched together l
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beerbaron23
9y ago
There certainly is hardware acceleration in Firefox on Linux, more then likely it has been disabaled because of your configueration/set-up/drivers. To turn it on go into your "about:config" and toggle the entry "lay
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beerbaron23
9y ago
I'm guessing people still running XP are running Firefox or Chrome anyways, I'm not sure if IE8 can even render most pages on the internet. That would be like trying to surf the net with Firefox 3.5 :O
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beerbaron23
9y ago
Agreed with everything said here, I think the worst thing above all is that most call centers are outsourced and get paid by the amount of inbound calls taken per hour and hold time metrics. It like solved solutions are not even part of the
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beerbaron23
9y ago
Very much so, in all the call centers I've worked in there was no "complaints department" we are just told to listen to the customer, relate with their concerns and tell them it will be "reviewed" by another departm
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9y ago
What is happening is that they are telling you to restart it and to call back later because that's there main goal, to get you off the phone asap in any way possible. Most of the time you get the "authorization" when the call
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beerbaron23
9y ago
having worked for many large companies in call centers I'll tell you why this happens, In the call center, when you call in, our number one goal is to get you off the phone ASAP. Every major corp I've worked for never had a way to
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beerbaron23
9y ago
During login try picking X.org instead of Wayland, you probably have something that doesn't play nice with Wayland yet.
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9y ago
In my many adventures testing out all the Plasma based distro's, OpenSUSE was the most stable and polished version of Plasma available right now.
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9y ago
Defiantly not totally true, I have multiple accounts on the mac store and I've never once been asked for a credit card, I download free apps via the store at will. If that bothers you, you can always just download the app from the dev&
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9y ago
I will say it's mostly due to the amount of effort creating power-saving features in OSX that are not present in other OS's. It's quite interesting all the little things they do to prolong the battery. I have Fedora 25 with T
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9y ago
Errrr Android ART is a VM and no you can't write games in C/C++ on Android. While technically it can be done it's pretty much impossible to get it off the ground and running because of the VM in place. There is a website that
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9y ago
Same engine but it is tweaked heavily to run lighter and they have a nice power saving mode as well. Watch out for Opera's add block, it works through a proxy to compress data, thus they know your every move online too...
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9y ago
If saving battery life is your goal then run Safari, nothing can touch it. Although Opera does now have a mobile energy saving mode you should check out.
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9y ago
But they are tracking and spying on their users and using strong arming tactics to keep the "Chrome" branding. Firefox has been faster and uses less resources for a good while now and Opera is at least offering Mobile mode to say
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9y ago
Yeah, some users created a channel on Soulseek and it's now the biggest channel on it.
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9y ago
Correct, Montréal is already way way ahead of Toronto on the AI front. Google and Microsoft already invested heavily into Montréal. M$ donated 7 million to UdeM and McGill as well.
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10y ago
Well the OS's do manage memory differently and would expain the high OSX memory usage. OSX soaks up most of your ram at all times and will put programs in the background into a sleep state. When they are woken up everything is transiti
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10y ago
I live right near OVH in Quebec, most of the data center was retro-fitted inside an abandoned factory. It's also apparently the biggest data center in the world and features it's own hydro-electricity station (although I'm no
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10y ago
Would this apply to thalassemia too?
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10y ago
I did, the solution was to uninstall signal, install it again. Then head to the app section in android and make sure the notification permissions are enabled
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