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by readread 2mo ago
What are the "trusted sources" that are better than Amazon (which is itself no better than Aliexpress)? Or Walmart, or target, or Newegg, which, ditto? I buy straight from brands I trust whenever possible, not even trusting Amazon
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by readread 2mo ago
Yeah, it's great if you have money already, or are willing to roll the dice on your family's health. Or have another country to go back to if anyone in your family gets really, really sick.
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by readread 2mo ago
Wrong. For that, we’d need universal healthcare.
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by readread 2mo ago
I had a disk in my ZFS pool (a relatively tiny one, among the kind of people who have a home ZFS RAID5 array) go bad earlier this year and bought a used disk for the first time ever. Never even considered it before. Still cost me as much as
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by readread 2mo ago
> Eh, more like cringe. Yeah, true. > They'll get over it. Has not been my experience. > You'll also get better. Ditto. I am not gifted at music but my affinity for it and ability to play music is above-average (not har
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by readread 2mo ago
For some of us, attempting to dance causes greater amounts of depression in those nearby than it cures in us.
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by readread 2mo ago
Meh. I never have more than one at once, and destroy my access to old ones before creating a new one (often taking weeks or months off from posting in between). I'd be a lot more "dangerous" or "risky" if I were sit
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by readread 2mo ago
I abandon accounts when they get way into the hundreds of karma, generally, or a couple times I’ve let it get a ways into the thousands before destroying the password. I prefer not to become attached to it, and find the minor clout of recog
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by readread 2mo ago
> Also, sarcasm isn’t welcome here. Please read the HN guidelines. Ah yes, I didn't couch my post in any of the various, rampant HN-friendly versions of shitposting. I'll try to follow your example from here on out. Excellent t
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by readread 2mo ago
I've build some moderately sophisticated server systems up on "bare metal" (as the kids say), know my way around a shell better than most programmers, understand networking better than most programmers, et c., and I still f
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by readread 2mo ago
Oh good, nothing's possible then, we should give up on regulating bad things because hitmen think murder isn't bad when they do it.
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by readread 2mo ago
"Accept all" always makes it go away immediately. Some variant on "reject" takes more effort like 70% of the time. Which is on purpose, of course. The ones that aren't maliciously-complying have a "necessary on
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by readread 2mo ago
Anything with the Red Hat stink, these days. Which, yeah, a lot of that’s Poettering. If they haven’t been executing a plan to make it extremely painful to maintain a distro that differs significantly from whatever Red Hat’s preferences and
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by readread 2mo ago
That is a weakness of sorts, but yes, unless one is attempting a particular, niche affect, an urge to nest parenthesis is usually a cue to re-write the sentence instead.
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by readread 2mo ago
Bahrain is host to the headquarters of the US fifth fleet, a notable US airbase, and thousands of US military personnel. These assets are being used to attack Iran. They’re involved.
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by readread 2mo ago
I sometimes prefer parenthesis for very short asides—say, three words or fewer. I find m-dashes easier to read for most other purposes. They’re nicer in longer asides because they’re a little more visually prominent, while also (for some
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by readread 2mo ago
> Ecosystems are either too fragmented or too monopolistic. In this case, it's actually both at the same time! No, for real, that's why it sucks so bad, both of those things are simultaneously problems with the streaming servic
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by readread 2mo ago
Thanks to Jellyfin + Infuse (on AppleTV), even family and visitors have no trouble using my "streaming service". And I can reach it on the road with TailScale. Takes me laughably little time per year to manage (maybe an hour in a
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by readread 2mo ago
Haha, this thread has prompted me to follow some of the discussion about stupid bullshit like requiring "user is present" attestation and banning passkey programs (LOL wut?) if they lie about it, or resistance to allowing exports
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by readread 2mo ago
My usernames and passwords auto-fill with faceID already. Lots of forms even (somehow?) auto-submit after that, don't even have to press a button.
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by readread 2mo ago
I’ve just been operating under the assumption passkeys are gonna lock me out unrecoverably in some way at some point, and have been avoiding them for anything important while allowing them for low-value accounts so they’ll stop nagging me.
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by readread 2mo ago
LLMs really shine at speeding up corporate bureaucratic busy-work and nonsense. We’re in a golden era when same busy work has not yet expanded due to LLM influence. Let’s appreciate it while it lasts.
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by readread 2mo ago
I don't see how it's not him, Whitman (the timing of his work is a strong point in his favor, being so concerned with the civil war and that apparently-neveaending struggle in America's metaphorical soul ), or maybe Melvil
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by readread 2mo ago
Which of the proposed answers in the linked article would you characterize as one or both of "inaccessible" and "politically charged"? I think a couple are bad answers (Wilder? She's fine-ish, but America's Hom