margana

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by margana 5mo ago
You do realize you can buy DDR5 SODIMM from anywhere, right? Even if they didn't have it in stock for individual purchases, how did that force you to abandon the whole system? That's like throwing away your phone because you could
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by margana 6mo ago
Not just "could be used in one", but age verification is the raison d'être for the introduction and existence of these fields. Not sure why some people pretend otherwise when it is obvious.
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by margana 7mo ago
The problem isn't just getting something that works across all European countries. It's getting something that works globally. While we may make most of our payments within EU, basically everyone still occasionally pays for someth
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by margana 1y ago
Almost all PCs do however have USB ports, which means they can have anything you can plug into an USB port.
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by margana 1y ago
Sounds similar to ignoring clearly fraudulent DMCAs. Technically you are not allowed to ignore one no matter how clearly fraudulent it is, but in practice no one would follow up on those.
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by margana 1y ago
As I understand, there is also a rule that you must be able to buy an exact amount of premium currency for a specific thing you want. So if that's also enforced, clearly the price shown would have to be how much it costs to buy that ex
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by margana 1y ago
The hard part about ditching Visa and Mastercard is keeping the ability to make international payments even outside of EU. If you still need Visa or Mastercard to buy anything from outside of EU, including any non-EU digital service, most p
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by margana 1y ago
Why not both?
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by margana 1y ago
I thought it would be something like recompiling to utilize AVX512 capabilities or something.
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by margana 2y ago
Saying that something that has ~40% market share "doesn't matter" and the other thing that has ~60% is suddenly orders of magnitude more relevant sounds ridiculous.
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by margana 2y ago
Piracy isn't even the main use case of yt-dlp. It's archival of videos that you want to keep a copy of in case something happens to the video. There is literally no way to get that "feature" by paying Google. But you are
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by margana 2y ago
Even entertaining the idea is extremely disturbing and dystopian. Having control over what we watch and what we listen to should be basic human rights. And those are inalienable, meaning we can't sign away those rights, not in a contra
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by margana 2y ago
That's just personal preference. It works the other way around too.
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by margana 2y ago
The goal of Asahi Linux is to create a Linux distribution that is compatible with Apple devices. Using Rust is not a goal of the project, it's just something they decided to use due to personal preference, and is making the process of
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by margana 2y ago
This. It's gotten to the point where I don't check email at all because of the constant spam of mails that are not actionable and/or urgent. There are so many different types of automated mails that setting up filters is a ne
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by margana 2y ago
There are Apple phones and there are Android phones, that's pretty much it. It's a duopoly. It is practically impossible for a third player to enter the market. This circular logic of "if Android does not offer enough liberti
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by margana 2y ago
What are you even talking about? The vast majority of hardware that can run Windows has no technical measures in place to prevent some other operating system from being installed. Windows itself does not prevent third party applications fro
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by margana 2y ago
Ah, can trust HN to always derail the topic whenever EU is mentioned. This has literally nothing to do with the subject matter of the article.
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by margana 2y ago
Odd that you would say "only Suspend to RAM", because that is far more difficult to reliably implement in terms of hardware compatibility than Suspend to Disk.
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by margana 2y ago
Because the phone market is a duopoly that was impenetrable for even Microsoft. This "why don't you just make your own Apple?" argument is ridiculous, it will not happen no matter how much you "encourage" it as a co
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by margana 2y ago
You can't play 4K Netflix on Linux, period. Because of DRM. Before you say "this is just a Netflix issue" - you can't play 4K Prime Video on Linux either. Nor 4K Disney+. And many other services. Piracy is the only way t
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by margana 2y ago
Why is this such a huge issue if it merely shows it's busy, but the performance of it indicates that it actually isn't? Switching to Linux can be a good choice for a lot of people, the reason just seems a bit odd here. Maybe it wa
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by margana 2y ago
The lack of awareness of this post is incredible. Apple is leveraging intentional incompatibility to make people use social pressure on each other to switch to Apple. That is not a good thing. This is a great example of why interoperability
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by margana 2y ago
If the consumer intentionally uses the affiliate links to support the creator, then they are deceived if someone else steals that cut. This would be similar to charity money being stolen by some third party - the donator would not be gettin
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by margana 2y ago
I would argue that the consumer was deceived as well. People may click the links intentionally to also support the creators. They expect the affiliate money to go to that creator. Saying the consumer was not deceived would be similar to arg
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by margana 2y ago
The same way that uBlock Origin was built. Scams being the only way to make your product "profitable" doesn't validate the scams. That's like saying "I made a business offering to clean people's houses for free
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by margana 2y ago
Apple refusing to notarize it actually makes me want to use it more. That means Rossmann and his associates have got under Apple's skin enough that they would try to sabotage projects that he is involved with.
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by margana 2y ago
Do you also suggest never releasing any software for Linux because there is no megacorporation there policing what software you should and shouldn't run?
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by margana 2y ago
EU constantly does things the US hasn't - such as consumer protection laws. But HN response to that is always "oh no EU is bullying US companies".
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by margana 2y ago
Hello, a person from a country with a public health care system here. There is no concept of a per incident denial. There is a list of procedures that are covered, and if the doctor decides you need a procedure from that list, it is covered

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