tacticalturtle

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by tacticalturtle 20d ago
I replaced some parts on my M1 MacBook Air. For 90% of the parts it’s honestly pretty easy to work with. You just need a few screwdrivers. And I sourced all my parts from eBay. The documentation is excellent: https://support.appl
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by tacticalturtle 1mo ago
Which itself is a dupe of the original reporting on this by 404 media: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330742
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by tacticalturtle 2mo ago
It’s been stunning how often this story is reposted from various news sources across Reddit and Hacker News. Each time it’s some different outlet - but when you dig in, the piece is just verbal framing around the original story written by 4
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by tacticalturtle 3mo ago
Which you can explicitly buy a disk drive for, if that’s important to you: https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-accessories/disc-dr... They actually did a good job giving the consumer choices - it’s just custo
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by tacticalturtle 3mo ago
It’s not corporate speak - they have hard data in digital vs physical sales that they report on every quarter: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...
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by tacticalturtle 3mo ago
At this point it’s a pretty small portion. Last quarter 85% of all game sales were digital. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...
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by tacticalturtle 3mo ago
> Amending this rule requires a federal supermajority (66% in House and Senate) or a state majority (66% of state legislatures vote in favor of said amendment). This is actually just the first step - to propose an amendment. To ratify it
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by tacticalturtle 3mo ago
Because a society whose quality of life depends on robust social programs needs working age adults to man those programs Because a demographic crisis is a real problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan htt
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by tacticalturtle 3mo ago
Immigration sounds good for Sweden then, because they have a fertility rate of 1.42, well below replacement. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/sweden-pm-ivf-...
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by tacticalturtle 3mo ago
You can run steam link on a Raspberry Pi. Or like the other commenter said, Apple TV is what I use.
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by tacticalturtle 4mo ago
My phone slipped out of my pocket as I was getting into my car, and I unknowingly ran over it. When I submitted an AppleCare replacement request for it, the employee said “Oh man, I hate it when that happens!” and approved it. I figure that
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by tacticalturtle 4mo ago
In most cases dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
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by tacticalturtle 4mo ago
Is it actually breaking DRM? Or is it just creating a 1:1 copy of a proprietary format? > Game consoles that are supported include the original Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and Dreamcast. Physical media from other consoles, such as Pla
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by tacticalturtle 4mo ago
I’m not an expert with web sockets or web development - but re: Get Params, Vaultwarden has to follow the API of the upstream Bitwarden implementation: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/15
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by tacticalturtle 5mo ago
Visual impairment was just my naive example - but maybe there’s a better one that still persists. Regardless, maybe there’s a path to legislation forbidding smartphone requirements for huge monopoly businesses like national professional spo
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by tacticalturtle 5mo ago
In the linked video they explicitly print him a paper ticket that he purchased separately.
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by tacticalturtle 5mo ago
I don’t think this policy would pass muster under the ADA though. The guy might not be sufficiently disabled to qualify - but for example if you have a blind person without a smartphone, you can’t tell them they’re out of luck - because you
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by tacticalturtle 6mo ago
> Laws apply to actions in the country, they’re not based on citizenship. According to what? Laws can be whatever a country says, so long as they have the mechanism to enforce it. See: the US using special forces to kidnap Maduro
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by tacticalturtle 6mo ago
Again like doctors, nurse wages aren’t a major factor in the discrepancy between US healthcare costs and elsewhere. They are a factor, in a death by a thousand cuts situation. In a source posted by another commenter, their wages are accou
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by tacticalturtle 6mo ago
I really don’t think doctor salaries are the primary difference when they make up less than 10 % of health care costs: > However, new research by Stanford health economist Maria Polyakova and colleagues — using unique data on physician i
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by tacticalturtle 6mo ago
You probably know this - but in most jurisdictions in the US, including federal, charges have to be approved by a grand jury of your peers. There’s an old adage “a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich”* implying that the grand jury is eas
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by tacticalturtle 6mo ago
The relevant part is that the judge declared traffic ticket proceedings “quasi criminal”: > In the order, the court found that red-light camera cases, although labeled as civil infractions, function as “quasi-criminal” proceedings becaus
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by tacticalturtle 7mo ago
Supreme Court transcripts of arguments are posted to supreme court.gov the same day the arguments are made: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr... There’s no secret sauce here - their guess as
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by tacticalturtle 7mo ago
> Retail businesses pay property taxes to support that. But they don’t? Copyright infringement is a federal crime - your property taxes don’t fund that. The income tax that we all pay, including the IP holders, do the funding. Additional
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by tacticalturtle 7mo ago
Touché. This will arouse the ire of the “copyright infringement isn’t theft” people - but we also have the government enforce shoplifting and larceny from retail businesses. I believe the legal cost to recoup the loss of either IP revenue o
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by tacticalturtle 7mo ago
The state isn’t enforcing your rights for free - you still have to hire a lawyer and pay legal expenses yourself. The state is just providing the infrastructure where you are allowed to make a claim, if you choose to do so. This is like com
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by tacticalturtle 7mo ago
Ok Looking at Anthropic’s response they agree with the parent response: > Secretary Hegseth has implied this designation would restrict anyone who does business with the military from doing business with Anthropic. The Secretary does not
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by tacticalturtle 7mo ago
That doesn’t seem to match up with the original tweet though - it sounds a heck of a lot stronger: > Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commerci
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by tacticalturtle 7mo ago
Unless he links directly to evidence that backs up what he says, I’ve learned to tune out Robert Reich. For a guy who is a Rhodes Scholar, a college professor, and a former Secretary of Labor he has a remarkable tendency to leave out qualif
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by tacticalturtle 8mo ago
The site guidelines is supposed to be anything that a hacker finds interesting. This feels a bit like dumping the manual to a Toyota Camry without explanation. It’s technical, but what’s interesting? Maybe there is interesting stuff in he

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