firen777

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by firen777 24d ago
> But also I use 240hz monitors for everything, and when I had a config bug on my Mac that degraded my connection to 180hz, my computer felt slow and laggy, and I only realized when it drove me crazy enough to check the settings again. N
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by firen777 2mo ago
> access and ease of sharing I'm gonna sound argumentative, but what happen if you lose access to computers in general? The thumb drive or hard disk or whatever will just become a magical rock you cannot communicate with. Honestly,
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by firen777 2mo ago
I guess companies saw SKG being effectively thrown out by the EU, got bold enough and decided to normalize this practice to the rest of the digital medium.
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by firen777 2mo ago
I was about to say the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse#Equus Of all the examples to pick from, seeing GP picked horse made me wonder if GP was doing it for gits and shiggles.
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by firen777 3mo ago
> Upload asset directly to album on the mobile app Does this fix this problem? https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/12748 It's a pretty big issue for me having multiple devices and multipl
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by firen777 3mo ago
Similarly: https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/us-news/top-maga-influencer-em... Some highlights: > The move made him a mint — and Sam was soon raking in thousands of dollars a month. > “I was spending m
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by firen777 4mo ago
I feel like a lot of things Valve does, with the exception of loot boxes, are the bare minimum of what a good (not great) companies should do. So of course every single company look at Valve and decide they should do the complete opposite o
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by firen777 5mo ago
It's like LibreOffice all over again: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-devel...
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by firen777 6mo ago
> a vendor uplift our quote 50% per unit Try 200% (tho tbf our boss sit on that quote for like a year and a half because he thought it was too pricey. Bet he regretted it now). And all the quotes are now only valid for a week due to insa
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by firen777 6mo ago
> most countries in the world Can you provide actual statistic to support this claim instead of just saying hip anti-America rhetoric to sound cool? There are a lot of legitimate criticisms regarding the US infrastructure. I'd even
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by firen777 7mo ago
>giving up privacy may, in fact, enhance security When the check and balance got tipped over, all this promised "security" will only surface when it benefits the regime. I'm still amused by a certain ccp propaganda video m
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by firen777 7mo ago
> because applications and windows are a separate concept Is this the reason why "closed" applications still show up in cmd+tab?
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by firen777 9mo ago
Tangentially related, but some banking apps also implement their own in-app keyboard in their password fields, making password manager unusable and basically forcing me to use a easy to remember (to guess) password.
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by firen777 10mo ago
>It’s sole value proposition is a means to facilitate criminal activity I used to feel this way until visa/master pulled that project-2025-mandated stunt on nsfw games.
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by firen777 10mo ago
>"Coming Soon" (January 10, 2017) | December 20, 2024 | 7th Issue of Team Fortress Comics: The Days Have Worn Away Out of all the IPs Valve owns, somehow it's TF2 that got a story conclusion and it couldn't have been
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by firen777 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster#Decline
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by firen777 11mo ago
just feed the thing to any base64 decoder like cyberchef: https://cyberchef.org/#recipe=From_Base64('A-Za-z0-9%2B/%3D'... Isn't it just basic problem solving skill? We gonna let AI do the thinky bit for
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by firen777 11mo ago
>if they have the capability They absolutely do: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown...
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by firen777 11mo ago
>you can install your own OS https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
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by firen777 11mo ago
> only 8 gb of ram I still have fond memory of my brother upgrading his windows XP desktop to 1 GB RAM to play BF2142 and I was like "school hasn't even taught me that number yet". What the hell happened to software develo
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by firen777 1y ago
It's both frustrating and all too common to see blatant historical falsehood being casually thrown around as if it's well known fact. Doubly frustrating knowing that in order to rebut such falsehood, you have to either do your own
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by firen777 1y ago
>Generally, my advice would be to stick to country code TLDs. Why? Unless you're talking about the country code of the same country you are operating in, (mis)using ccTLDs is basically gambling your domain's survival on the gen
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by firen777 1y ago
While it's been improved a whole lot, it's not all sunshine and rainbow as some game companies decided to drop support after they decided kernel anti-cheat is the way (notably GTA onlin & Apex legend). That being said, I perso
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by firen777 1y ago
I appreciate your effort to reign in some reality here to show how privileged Americans are, but the word of the day is "trajectory" and it's aiming right at bottom right now.
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by firen777 2y ago
Judging from the way things are going, what's the difference?
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by firen777 2y ago
In the future these kind of "whatabout" comments should be auto-flagged due to how unproductive they are.
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by firen777 2y ago
Xitter is the least of the issues considering his tie to China and Russia and the all-you-can-eat buffet happening right now in the US government.
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by firen777 2y ago
From my own experience: 1. It makes git diff less noisy when I need to add new element at the end since you don't need to add an extra comma at the end of the now-second-to-last element. 2. It makes reordering the last element a lot mo
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by firen777 2y ago
> But being someone who HATES trump as much as they hate Hamas is a bit lonely Sometimes I genuinely feel like the world is being shoved into some manufactured simulacrum where we must reside in one of the two arbitrarily binary politica
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by firen777 2y ago
> Israel has likely also created multiple generations of anger and hate against themselves Israel would have created multiple generations of emboldened anger and hate against themselves if they failed to respond to the massacre and mas

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