potemkinhr

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by potemkinhr 1y ago
Do banking apps work normally if downloaded from the aurora store? I'd very much like to fully degoogle my next phone when I get to replacing it, and it's the last stumbling stone
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by potemkinhr 3y ago
Good one, added it to my Powershell profile for the occasional giggle so I can invoke it on demand, feel free to reuse it function Insult { (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri " https://cheswick.com/insults ") .ParsedHtml.getEl
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by potemkinhr 3y ago
Damn it, I just realized AWS online exams for certification are pretty much the same if you read the TOS, I just might book a exam in a physical exam center. Too many unknown ifs and I don't have to expose my machine.
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by potemkinhr 3y ago
What other raid could he have on a two drive NAS? I have the same setup at home with some push to the cloud and have the peace of mind that if one drive fails I can recover from it with a rebuild of the other drive
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by potemkinhr 3y ago
Well VPN is off the table as almost all of them will be blocked by russia's regulators
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by potemkinhr 3y ago
I have a hunch if they remained on android core and specifically prevented sideloading it would spark more backlash than simply switching to another platform. This way they gain complete control of the ecosystem with less backlash. Less tec
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by potemkinhr 3y ago
I totally interpret this as a move to prevent any sideloading and ensure data collection and ad injection are being done on their part. Can't easily prevent those on something that's not a fully baked Android.
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by potemkinhr 3y ago
There's the odd game that uses registry for the purpose of save files for some reason, which is stupid when you have several PC's and want to sync progress for the odd session. There's one example with a very solid puzzle gam
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by potemkinhr 3y ago
Care to share that one?
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by potemkinhr 3y ago
It's actually worse, they pulled the legacy version from the users and forced the (effectively) downgraded version to everyone. Even the owners of the legacy version were shafted as they forced a update which removed much of the functi
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by potemkinhr 3y ago
Yeah, the irony in that one is great
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by potemkinhr 5y ago
It's probably just WebView but from the UI and elements it was obvious that it's IE-based. What's also interesting is that for the manual's videos Flash was required which now obviously doesn't work as it was remove
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by potemkinhr 5y ago
IE is used in some unexpected places, one of the weirder ones for example a ingame display frame for the ingame wiki of older Total War series games. They'll need to update the game and replace it in some way else ingame help will be u
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by potemkinhr 6y ago
I don't opening it at any point before decomissioning it completely is even an afterthought with that. They just write off any failures and roll with it as long as it's viable.
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by potemkinhr 6y ago
Anybody care to make a Archive snapshot of the article?
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by potemkinhr 6y ago
"Hello Computer" seems pretty neutral, it reminds me of this sketch from IT crowd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu88J5JL8Hw
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by potemkinhr 6y ago
The ages old AMD philosophy, shovel more cores at it? With such low TDP it might work
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by potemkinhr 6y ago
Also a stellar Photoshop alternative is Paint.NET https://www.getpaint.net/ I wasn't happy with GIMP's interface since way back but this one fulfills pretty much my every need, and I gather would for most other us
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by potemkinhr 11y ago
Do you have an example article or resource for such a use? I'd like to carry over notifications to the IM instead of cluttering my e-mail needlessly.