branon

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by branon 6d ago
I mostly remember how it felt to be a child and it's extremely important to me that I continue to do so as I get older. The best days of my life are when I can capture the perfect nostalgia, or deja vu, of the past when I was much youn
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by branon 12d ago
This is against site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usua
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by branon 14d ago
Perhaps that's the grandparent commenter's idea but I don't think it's the point the article is making: > So, seriously, I do really like the smartphone idea. It’s just that I don’t have any browser or "social&qu
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by branon 14d ago
Depending on what type of computer (if not smartphone) you have at hand, you can probably use a search engine to find the same menu. Or ask somebody at your table. Or ask the server. Or point at somebody else's food and say you want wh
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by branon 23d ago
File is File not exclusively because it has to do with files (though file-related actions should also be there) but because of relative significance versus the other menus In the "File" menu you are doing something that has the
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by branon 23d ago
Propaganda to what end? Are you referring to anything in particular? Is your angle merely that shadow library hosts should be operating their services entirely for free (to the point of refusing payment) or is there something we're mis
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by branon 23d ago
I doubt most dontators think of it as "paying for Anna's Archive" - I pay to contribute to the institution more than for the minor convenience of the fast download links. I'd still donate even if I got nothing extra in r
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by branon 26d ago
I have a year membership to AA now, been meaning to contribute for some time, archive.org is next on the list Much like the pushback we are seeing from the citizenry against things like Flock and AI datacenters, we can push _forward_ too by
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by branon 28d ago
People are, absolutely, yes! In the tech world there is an ever-growing focus on devices which can operate independently of smartphones, even to an offline/local-first extent. The trend is trickling down into other circles as well. Peo
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by branon 1mo ago
I bought the regular mouse and had a fun time assembling it. It works fine. However the "ergonomic" design is extremely uncomfortable for me and caused hand pain. I let it ride for a few weeks hoping I'd get accustomed, the p
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by branon 1mo ago
One thing I've found that purports to address (some of) these risks: https://mail.cock.li/cock-mail/ Haven't tried it yet though, done some reading but don't know enough to be sure their proposed paradig
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by branon 1mo ago
I refuse to go running with a phone - too heavy, and too distracting, running outside is one of the few places I _escape_ the phone for a bit. So I made sure to get a fitness tracker with onboard GPS. It syncs to the phone later, when I ret
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by branon 2mo ago
My cats rarely chew, either dry or wet food, even treats they inhale and swallow without chewing. If I want them to chew, I have to give them meat trimmings or something large enough that they can't swallow it without chewing. They see
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by branon 2mo ago
And I just bought a Garmin Forerunner 55, too. I'm still within the return period, will have to consider this...
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by branon 2mo ago
I got Robert Fitzgerald, wish it would tell me which passages were by which authors after I finished though ah, it does, to an extent at least - about 2/3rds down the front page, ctrl+f for "opening"
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by branon 2mo ago
This is a nice idea but I think practically the shift will come not from instituting gender-affirming nomenclature but rather redefining male biases. The idea of being involved in an important (and historically female) profession dedicated
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by branon 2mo ago
My thoughts were along this line too. Being laid off is unfortunate, but being laid off after making $500k/yr for a mid-level managerial position is a karmic self-correction. The opening sentence of the article even tacitly admits this
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by branon 2mo ago
For me, the hard-and-fast ruleset is implemented from an ideological perspective rather than a technical one. Stipulated, UE5 games can be fun and certain genres suffer less from upscaling than others. Fact remains though, that homogeneity
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by branon 2mo ago
For me this falls apart on the consumer side of things. UE5 games are manifestly lower quality than games built on custom engines. Optimization is especially worse. UE5's performance baseline _requires_ the use of upscalers (DLSS/
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by branon 3mo ago
There was probably a case to be made for this stance when systemd was very new and getting shoehorned everywhere but increasingly I don't see the point I think the issue people took with it was less on technical merit and more about th
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by branon 3mo ago
I do still enjoy the odd >30 day uptime on my PC. Usually only reboot when a new kernel version is cut. I used to reboot into every kernel patch but often I leave .0 running for a very long time now. They seem stable and the kernel moves
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by branon 3mo ago
Here's RuneScape 2 in a browser: https://2004.lostcity.rs/client?world=2&detail=high&method=0
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by branon 3mo ago
I respect what Valve is doing here and I loved the Steam Deck but a prebuilt desktop PC with 16 GB system memory and 512 GB storage for $1,000+ is insulting. Those are specs that belong on a laptop or a lowend console offering like the Seri
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by branon 3mo ago
From the two pictures I hadn't inferred that it was specifically a preponderance, hence naïveté of my original conclusion
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by branon 3mo ago
Ah, is that why... I noticed this too but assumed it was due to some communist ideal of gender equality leading to more women tradespeople, wishful thinking I guess
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by branon 3mo ago
It seems that way, marketing page claims broad support incl. VoLTE which bodes well for US compatibility, however I noticed this in the FAQ: Q: What network bands are supported? A: Please see the Network Specifications section above this FA
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by branon 3mo ago
> we ordered a Commodore-branded Sailfish-OS phone from an ODM Is this true? I did some research on flip phones the other week and I didn't turn up anything running Sailfish. Options seemed limited to * custom AOSP derivatives (Punk
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by branon 3mo ago
This occurs for me on desktop as well (Firefox, Linux)
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by branon 3mo ago
I'd be concerned a kid would lose this. Sure it's got Find My but that only tells you where it's at, doesn't guarantee retrieveability. Also do you need an iPhone to manage the kid's Apple Watch or can you do this w
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by branon 4mo ago
I'll never, ever forgive Google for killing the "Basic HTML View" client mode for Gmail.

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