techrat

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by techrat 5y ago
I think the post you replied to is a fantastic example of what I was referring to, btw.
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by techrat 5y ago
> Apple employees are reportedly required to link their personal iCloud with their work account/devices That's a big fuckin' nope and likely illegal.
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by techrat 5y ago
> One specific Linux issue I ran into repeatedly is that Chrome and Chromium by default refuse to trust Linux graphics drivers and instead do software rendering. https://i.imgur.com/u1sKBiu.png
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by techrat 5y ago
From my experience: Linux > Steam > Proton > Windows Game works better than Linux > Wine > Steam > Windows Game There's really no reason to be running Steam in Wine when Steam runs natively within Linux and Proton doe
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by techrat 5y ago
Consumer Reports buys the products they review. They can't be blacklisted if they're not relying on the manufacturer to send them a free demo/item. (Youtube/Blog) Reviewers get blacklisted by companies by not providing a
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by techrat 5y ago
> Just interested to see whether this approach is viable. Spoiler alert: It's not. The better SOCs end up becoming more proprietary because it's the companies' own implementations that make them perform better. That leads
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by techrat 5y ago
> Why is there no money to be made? Not enough people care to use cut rate hardware that actually conforms to the 'wholly open' philosophy. Even Stallman couldn't maintain using fully open hardware. He had to switch to a T
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by techrat 5y ago
> Doctors are not immune from the effects of ego and hubris. And that's why you recommend someone who isn't a doctor at all for issues with the body? Sounds like ego and hubris to me: "I can fix things that I've never
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by techrat 5y ago
I get zero suggestions for that within Google Chrome. https://i.imgur.com/2uREs6u.png I think it may be your own history popping up there.
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by techrat 5y ago
Color theme is generated from Wallpaper. Color theme consists of at least 3 colors taken from the wallpaper. At least 3 unique colors is enough to make the user potentially uniquely identifiable, depending on how rare the color combos are.
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Firefox now shows ads as sponsored address bar suggestions(bleepingcomputer.com)
8 points by techrat 5y ago|3 comments
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by techrat 5y ago
MacOSX was released in 2001, so it would have had to have been System 7/8/9 by that point.
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by techrat 5y ago
Reusing passwords is one of the single dumbest things you can do online these days. Do not recycle passwords. Ever. Why? Any breach that involves usernames/passwords are account name and password combos that get tried on EVERY POSSIBLE
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by techrat 5y ago
The bigger point that I've been trying to make (regardless of whether or not you think Apple would try to lock down an M1 Macbook) is that I don't trust Apple because of their history. They have a LONG history of making decisions
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by techrat 5y ago
That sure don't look like commits to open source projects managed by other people, bucko.
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by techrat 5y ago
The one you're defending... linked a benchmark of the Mac Mini. Not an M1 based Macbook. Try again.
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by techrat 5y ago
Nice dishonestly selected single benchmark screenshot. https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-vs-amd-ryzen-... The Ryzen 5900HX is more than 70% faster than the M1 in Cinebench Multicore... and 1% slower i
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by techrat 5y ago
At least Oracle supports open source. Apple does not.
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by techrat 5y ago
Way to blow me over with facts and citations. Apple: Prevents sideloading without a host MacOS computer. Sideloading is temporary. Blocks third party app stores. Blocks any and all browsers using a non-Safari engine. Not one iPad or iPhone
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by techrat 5y ago
Openess. Apple is the #1 most restrictive company in the world. "the ability to install Linux" with zero commits and support from Apple themselves, all reverse engineered. Meanwhile Intel and AMD both contribute to the Linux kerne
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by techrat 5y ago
Fanboys have driven the word 'revolutionary' into the ground so deeply that it ceases to have any actual meaning anymore. Meanwhile, through temporal prescience, the previous Intel based Macbooks were simultaneously revolutionary
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by techrat 5y ago
And before the M1 variants ever existed, people moaned about how they only tolerated the Intel MacBook/Air/Pro variants? Bullshit. It's fanboy revisionism.
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by techrat 5y ago
Surprise. Heart attack, stroke, hypertension, kidney damage are also risk factors of NOT taking NSAIDs for the reasons people commonly take NSAIDs for.
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by techrat 5y ago
Nice to see braindead design from 2008 persisting. https://www.engadget.com/2008-11-22-macbook-and-macbookpro-s...
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by techrat 5y ago
I guess you missed all those stories of Apple doing the same thing to developers... even going as far as to shut down accounts when they want to use the features from their apps in the next version of iOS.
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by techrat 5y ago
TIL someone who bans you for life is forced to do business with you.
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by techrat 5y ago
Ah. That explains why job applications often don't have the line where you check next to a box to indicate if you've ever been convicted of a crime. Oh wait. They do.
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by techrat 5y ago
> So if you want to write a mobile app, what are you supposed to do? Not hire someone who had been banned before due to ad fraud.
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by techrat 5y ago
I like how you think you can infer the way the rest of the world should be just based on your local petrol prices.
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iPhone 13 teardown and repair assessment [video](youtube.com)
85 points by techrat 5y ago|125 comments

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