resfirestar

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by resfirestar 5y ago
Of course it's not as good as MacOS + Apple headphones but I think more recent Linux distros that use PipeWire as the audio backend are ahead of Windows. On Windows, A2DP support is so limited that headsets like the Sony XM4s suffer fr
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by resfirestar 5y ago
The potential for this is overblown and I think a lot of people haven’t taken the time to understand how the system is set up. iOS is not scanning for hash matches and phoning home every time it sees one, it’s attaching a cryptographic vouc
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by resfirestar 5y ago
Good thing this system doesn’t scan browser cache, then. Unless you’re programmatically extracting photos from your browser cache and uploading them to iCloud, which would be a pretty impressive way to make sure you’re using up all your sto
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by resfirestar 5y ago
>dont like someone who uses an ios device, msg them some cp and destroy their entire life. For this to work one would have to send multiple photos and convince the other person to save the photos to their library.
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by resfirestar 5y ago
My main question is whether the system makes it highly impractical to look for 1 to a small number (let's say 5) newly introduced images. We have the secret sharing threshold, how easy is it for the server to change this on the fly? Pu
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by resfirestar 5y ago
Not sure where you got that information. I haven't seen any official announcements, so I assumed based on it being US-only and rolled out with no fanfare (except critical press stories citing unnamed sources) that it's something t
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by resfirestar 5y ago
If Apple thought this kind of dragnet was a losing political fight that tells me they've become too weak to stand up to unreasonable government demands. Where is the company that won the public opinion battle over unlocking a mass shoo
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by resfirestar 5y ago
It feels like a stretch to call this an ad. Does the strip of recommended movies across my homepage on desktop, which appears despite being a premium member and having adblock turned on, also count as an ad? Arguably it might be more of an
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by resfirestar 5y ago
I’m sure speculators and drug buyers would go on using Bitcoin, but businesses can only be persuaded to do these ransom payments because they can buy Bitcoin legally with a normal wire transfer.
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by resfirestar 5y ago
The offers for ridiculously long term (2+ years or lifetime) discounted service seem like bets that most users are not going to be long term VPN users. If the objective is to make a user pay $60 for a product they’ll use for a week or two a
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by resfirestar 5y ago
That would just mean the platform isn’t tracking you (unless you use GOG Galaxy in which case it still is) but nothing stops publishers from having their own analytics code built into the game.
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by resfirestar 5y ago
But the EXO module is not one of those Windows-only modules.
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by resfirestar 5y ago
I noticed the URL bar can look a little squished if you had the UI density set to compact before the update (it now says "Compact (not supported)" in the customization menu). When trying out the new UI you may want to switch to No
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by resfirestar 5y ago
Man, I felt this stuff a lot when I was in college. Coming from a lower middle class family in a poor state to a private school in California, there were so many little things to make me feel like an outsider. The part about hobbies was the
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by resfirestar 5y ago
In Minneapolis there's no municipal broadband, but there is a local company that offers FTTH. I use it and it's clearly superior to any cable company I've ever had (more speed for the price, more reliable, when you call custo
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by resfirestar 5y ago
That article says: >Nintendo's new president Shuntaro Furukawa told Nikkei that they don't have a big focus on their consoles. And then attempts to illustrate this point with a quote saying the exact opposite thing: >At the
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by resfirestar 5y ago
It's a relatively new feature (announced at the beginning of March but actually present since version 2004) called Known Issue Rollback. Non-security fixes in Windows now now check a configuration synced from Windows Update to decide w
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by resfirestar 5y ago
Susan Wojcicki started out as a marketing manager, not an engineer. By contrast Mary Barra, the CEO of GM, started out as an assembly line worker and moved up through engineering positions into management. I think people have some pretty ba
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by resfirestar 5y ago
Was referring to my phone's battery life, not the battery on the Tiles themselves. Could have been location services usage as well as Bluetooth, and to be fair to Tile they have rolled out a lot of updates to the Android app since I st
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by resfirestar 5y ago
Hollywood doesn't want people using PCs as a primary media device because they'd have to compete with pirate streaming services, so they want to push people to invest in more locked-down devices and ecosystems. One way to do that
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by resfirestar 5y ago
I had a Tile set that I put on my keys, backpack, wallet and luggage. In the end it was too annoying with bluetooth usage draining my phone's battery and not working reliably enough when I needed it, now all the Tile stuff is sitting i
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by resfirestar 5y ago
Spotify still doesn't allow the user to add an RSS feed in the app, right? Until they support that it makes no sense to use as my main podcast app because the (admittedly few) podcasts I listen to are mostly either too behind the times
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by resfirestar 5y ago
What? It's a self-certification checklist for apps (really the cloud services behind the apps, it only has one section about the app itself and one of the items is just "provide a privacy policy"). Nothing to do with the OS o
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by resfirestar 5y ago
I think it's a non-answer that doesn't need a new response. "You don't have to use it if you don't want to" doesn't address the GP's concern around recommending the app to people who might not know be
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by resfirestar 5y ago
If the answer is yes, I think the far more important question is how do we stop destroying it. That's where the little "nitpicking" details start to matter. An even greater conspiracy at work here is one the filmmakers are co
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by resfirestar 5y ago
It’s definitely still pretty big for the reasons others mentioned as well as the growing popularity of indie 18+ material (whether it’s photos, videos, or art) on sites like Patreon. If you pay for something like that it makes sense to save
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by resfirestar 5y ago
> Does anyone have a decent WAP where I can use PoE, deploy like 5 of them and have them support roaming between APs, all managed locally? Is that too much to ask? Not as comprehensive as Ubiquiti’s management interface but the CAPsMAN f
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by resfirestar 5y ago
> We suspect the “sensitive” field restriction refers to content that is “politically sensitive” but could not confirm. The other search restricted categories they found (hate speech, limit, suicide prevention) all cause the app to displ
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by resfirestar 6y ago
I think one could argue that there hasn't really been a regulatory opening for any serious moves against net neutrality in the home broadband market. The FCC repealed the Obama-era rules in June 2018. Comcast/Xfinity was still und
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by resfirestar 6y ago
>The government doesn’t own the debt, it just insures the loans Federal Direct Loans are in fact owned by the government. This forgiveness does not apply to the pre-2010 FFELP loans that you're describing.

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