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by psy-q 4y ago
Android TV now also comes with forced ads (since rebranding to Google TV). I was pretty upset when the very expensive Android TV gadget I bought (Nvidia Shield TV) specifically to have an external device without ads suddenly had them. They
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by psy-q 4y ago
Were there significant downsides to the laptop solution? I have a similar setup with a NUC mounting storage from a small ARM-powered NAS, but I was thinking of changing this to an old ThinkPad X230 with just internal storage and offsite bac
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by psy-q 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/accidentallyliberian/
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by psy-q 5y ago
Oooo! Depending on your taste you're in for either a very boring movie or the experience of a lifetime. Complete with an associated rabbit hole of mystery surrounding the director: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The
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by psy-q 5y ago
I took it as a reference to The Room. Isn't it? :|
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by psy-q 5y ago
I think in this case it's more like you've bought a truck but you put a lawnmower engine in it. It's a big step between esoterics and "please don't use the cheap shitty DAC that was integrated into your monitor to s
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by psy-q 5y ago
I see your HDMI cable and raise you a USD 1000 audiophile Ethernet cable complete with esoteric review https://audiobacon.net/2019/11/02/the-jcat-signature-lan-a-1...
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by psy-q 5y ago
They were the ones opposed to this sale. The sale was basically not a sale but a hostile takeover, and the former staff have now created a non-profit organization under Swedish law to hold the new network so that this kind of thing can&#x27
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by psy-q 5y ago
This does not apply to state events. I still had hundreds of MBs of those after purging :( I think it's not impossible to manage this, just a pain in the ass :D
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by psy-q 5y ago
Yeah, it worked fine for me a bit later.
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by psy-q 5y ago
Running a Matrix homeserver is still quite a pain in the ass, especially because there is no real automatic way to purge old history. Join a busy room once and pay for it in megs or gigs of text stored in your DB forever. Just using a matri
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by psy-q 9y ago
That's horrible. I just looked at some farming methods. Man, all the evils of humanity... Caging has been illegal in Switzerland since 1992, that probably makes part of the price difference. So egg collection can be automated easily in
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by psy-q 9y ago
Wow, U.S. egg pricing seems crazy to me. It's US$ 9.90/dozen in Switzerland at a normal nationwide store vs. US$ 5.90 at Aldi Suisse (both selling free-range Swiss eggs). This can't be explained just by purchase power differe
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by psy-q 9y ago
Doesn't mean the German versions can't be good :) In Switzerland they usually import from Italy, but I couldn't tell the difference between a German, Swiss or Italian one blindfolded.
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by psy-q 9y ago
Consider seeing if the particular pieces of software you use have their own donation system, then donate there. A donation to a smaller project could have a very large impact on its future. The Linux Foundation is carried by billion-dollar
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by psy-q 9y ago
I'd suggest adding sources of fat or protein to their snacks: https://www.thespruce.com/good-bread-for-birds-385833
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by psy-q 9y ago
Microsoft explicitly warns people in big red letters never to open any WSL files from Windows. I'm not sure if that will ever be possible.
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by psy-q 9y ago
> under linux it creates minilags Samsung 840 series? Well-known bug in their firmware. Update your firmware.
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by psy-q 9y ago
Indeed, and if they'd spent their time creating a standard protocol for "modern" chat and implementing a native app per platform they could perhaps be the harbingers of the world's best new chat protocol with a host of g
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by psy-q 9y ago
I think that's not really fair, only a few bundles a year are actually labeled "Humble Indie Bundle", and those do usually fit the bill and check all three boxes. There were 13 Humble Indie Bundles since 2010 and 94 other typ
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by psy-q 9y ago
It has rows and WIP limits, but does it have the rest?
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by psy-q 9y ago
I've been with them for over a year now as well and not a single issue. The interface is a bit cumbersome in some ways, it's a customized OpenXchange, so some mailbox.org-specific settings are done outside of the rest of the more
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by psy-q 9y ago
> The fact is ~99% of Mac switchers like me previously owned Windows boxes and ran mostly proprietary Windows software And now it's mostly proprietary macOS software. As you mention, the hard hitters in Apple's lineup are propr
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by psy-q 9y ago
I see it advertised a lot and the biggest kiosk chain in Switzerland accepts it. But I don't know anyone who uses it apart from some overheard conversations on the tram. Totally anecdotal, though. I don't think Apple releases numb
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by psy-q 9y ago
It's interesting that they worry about lock-in from Tencent and Alibaba in China while not mentioning the same lock-in and issues for Google, Microsoft and Apple in the rest of the world. People who don't want to get a Google acco
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by psy-q 9y ago
The PC market is devolving into something where you can't do any of that anymore either, with non-upgradeable devices like the Apple MacBooks or quite sealed things like the Microsoft Surface products. And average users don't seem
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by psy-q 9y ago
Yes, and you have to swallow the whole blob as soon as you need any single one of the services. Just want "cloud" messaging for your app? Force anyone who uses your app to install the whole blob. Want just assisted GPS? Too bad, y
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by psy-q 9y ago
Don't forget that the proprietary Google Play Services are required by more and more apps and that Google is doing everything it can to push these services to the largest number of devices by weaving some sort of web of interdependency
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by psy-q 9y ago
I always hoped for a more 30%/30%/30%/10% distribution, with two big proprietary players, one FOSS one and a bunch of other more experimental or niche systems. Guess that hasn't happened so far. The only place in technol
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