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by encom 11d ago
Quoting a dead comment: >I wish we didn't have to use email at all. Email has big problems, but contemplate the kind of lovecraftian horror the great minds of silicon valley would replace it with today. Imagine the worst parts of Fa
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by encom 12d ago
Elon Derangement Syndrome is real, like the Trump equivalent.
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by encom 12d ago
All of the WWW was better in 2008. Unironically. We've all been frog-boiled into this current hellscape.
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by encom 12d ago
I know for sure NT4 didn't have defragging built in, because I was a Windows server admin back in the primordial soup that was sysadmin'ing in the 90's. >OCD soothing experience I've always felt it was a certain kind
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by encom 13d ago
That's 5 years longer than Apple.
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by encom 13d ago
>defragmentation Windows has had built in defrag since at least WinXP. I can't remember if Win2000 had it - I think it did. It runs in the background and you don't have to worry about it. 3rd party defrag tools are snake oil, l
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by encom 13d ago
This truly is the clowniest timeline.
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by encom 21d ago
For that argument to hold, they'd also have to blacklist any phone not running the newest, most up to date Android version, because all older versions presumably have known exploits. So that basically leaves Pixel phones.
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by encom 21d ago
How does a rooted phone enable bank fraud? This smells like pointless policy checkboxing.
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by encom 26d ago
>Not what he did. Maybe "antagonise" isn't the right word (ESL). By tricking the border agent into wiping the device, you have made him annoyed / angry / look foolish etc. No matter how much you are in the right
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by encom 26d ago
>arbitrary Border searches aren't arbitrary. Sure, in the sense you may or may not get searched, but not in the sense that cops come and turn over your house for no reason. Crossing the border, you know some fraction of travellers w
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by encom 27d ago
“Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?” -- Galatians 4:16
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by encom 27d ago
Things that are unneeded, ie. unmaintained, eventually get purged. It happens quite regularly. For nearly every kconfig option, someone needs it enough to maintain it. But I agree, `make menuconfig' is overwhelming.
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by encom 27d ago
>popover Why are we cool with popups again? Anything that interrupts and blocks content is annoying, and is nearly guaranteed to make me leave immediately. It can be used responsibly, but it almost never is.
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by encom 29d ago
>deposit a cheque That would be inconvenient if this was 1985.
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by encom 1mo ago
I'm not saying it isn't, but I don't have a shred of sympathy for the developers manning the ovens. Pick a job that isn't actively harmful to society. If you're responsible for the system at Facebook that serves end
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by encom 1mo ago
I don't want to Godwin this thread so early, but you know what analogy I'm thinking of. If you work as a developer for Google, Microsoft, Flock, CloudFlare, Facebook etc. etc. you are complicit in making the world a crappier place
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by encom 1mo ago
This. Debian+KDE. No AI and nothing happens on my computer that I don't know about.
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by encom 1mo ago
A developer made whatever tech is currently pissing me off. I don't care about the supply chain.
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by encom 1mo ago
Never has anything been blown out of proportion more than this Hot Coffee nothingburger. It astounds me that anyone took this seriously at the time.
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by encom 1mo ago
>warnings in cigarettes packages Oh how I miss those warnings. Nowadays the packages are covered in graphic body horror pictures. And there's no branding on them any more, just white text on a black background, so I have to carefull
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by encom 1mo ago
But if you go too far in that direction, you end up at the Mozilla school of design. Alienating your core users, and designing a product for users that aren't there. Look at them now.
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by encom 1mo ago
>My favorite watch (excuse me, "chronograph") EXCUSE me... It's a time-piece !
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by encom 1mo ago
>The charging port doesn't work half the time Give it a blast with an air compressor.
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by encom 1mo ago
This, but set it to disable all animations. It makes using the phone so much quicker, not having to pause for pointless animations.
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by encom 1mo ago
>I bet Facebook would prefer to get rid of the website entirely For some parts they did. I tried Facebook Dating, and it's only available on phones. Also, to save you the trouble, don't use Facebook Dating. It is, to use a tech
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by encom 1mo ago
>!! you can do just as easily with up-arrow enter sudo !!
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by encom 1mo ago
I haven't logged into LinkedIn in over a year. My contacts are only people I've worked with or good friends (or that cutie from logistics)... people I've physically met and respect. I'd like to keep up with what's g
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by encom 1mo ago
Only about a third of London population is White British.
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by encom 1mo ago
Neither Norway, nor any other Scandinavian country is socialist. We're just taxed up the arse.

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