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by techrat 5y ago
i'll argue it's because any given linux install is less likely to shit all over itself and the filesystem compared to windows.
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by techrat 5y ago
Gonna be one of those to disagree to some extent. I flirted with Linux but never used it full time until about 2017 when the C710 Chromebook came out. What I really wanted was a basic laptop that was cheap enough to toss into a bag. So I nu
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by techrat 5y ago
some =/= all, which is the point I was addressing in my original comment.
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by techrat 5y ago
How does having a default web search engine equate to "[Company] is sending *all* search traffic to [other company]"? Users have preferences and may change the engines they search with, not use Safari at all or be already using Go
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by techrat 5y ago
As impressive as it was at the time (and still is), a floppy is writable. Booting from read only media and having a fully functioning OS was completely groundbreaking. Especially when you consider how much hardware was supported without con
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by techrat 5y ago
They should have just stuck with Hangouts. They had name recognition, the name itself was appropriate for the service and it worked with the existing services structure. There was no reason to depreciate it and abandon it.
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by techrat 5y ago
Coming from someone who grew up during the floppy diskette booting and installing era of computing... what Knoppix managed to do by giving us the LiveCD just still seems like pure black magic fuckery to me. Install an OS from CD? Fine. USIN
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by techrat 5y ago
False dichotomy. You're not going to enable an honest debate by going straight to fallacies.
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by techrat 5y ago
The worst part for me was when Rogan started allowing people who were spewing obvious bullshit... to have his platform unchallenged. When someone tells you who they are, listen. But I'd add this: When someone lets someone else speak fo
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by techrat 5y ago
You forgot the third kind of guest he has... White supremacists and Crypto Fascists. He just lets them talk unchallenged.
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by techrat 5y ago
With a host MacOS computer and a certificate that expires after 7 days. Whereas on Android you can simply download the APK from within the device. No host PC needed. No developer cert. No expiry.
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by techrat 5y ago
7 steps isn't cumbersome. -- 1) Open Chrome. -- 2) Find and Download APK. https://i.imgur.com/ZFZb1uE.png -- 3) Accept warning and Open APK. -- 4) Go to settings. (This only has to be done once) https://i.im
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by techrat 5y ago
Have you noticed that in Best Buy stores their price tags are now all eink paper? If they can 'electronify' a price tag, you know they have some precise beacons in that store.
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by techrat 5y ago
Firefox made it to about 32%. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/internet-browser-market-sha... Chrome took more away from IE initially than it did from Firefox. And yes, I'm arguing a technical difference. I've use
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by techrat 5y ago
Netscape was the dominant browser from at least 1995 to the end of 1998. It overtook Mosaic to become #1 with Mosaic being a very, very distant #2. At its peak it had 90+% of the market share. Firefox nearly overtook IE until Chrome was rel
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by techrat 5y ago
Personal accounts can be configured to simply not have access to those apps. "Oh, I don't use Whatsapp."
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by techrat 5y ago
> Just disconnect the light Thanks, I'm cured. 1) A lot of laptops are sealed with glue. "Just disconnecting the light" would involve prying layers apart. 2) Companies may frown upon that if you should try to modify a comp
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by techrat 5y ago
The problem is what you consider 'talent' to be. 18-25 valley girls are not representative of the actual entertainment industry. Nor are they relevant.
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by techrat 5y ago
Or they're using a different codec which is not supported by Firefox.
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by techrat 5y ago
> Non-google app stores cannot automatically update aps, They can in Android 12. > side-loading is hidden in menus behind scary warnings. The warnings are minimal. -- 1) Open Chrome. -- 2) Find and Download APK. https://i.i
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by techrat 5y ago
I work in the entertainment industry. You're full of shit.
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by techrat 5y ago
I would argue that makes it worse.
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by techrat 5y ago
> I don't want to carry two phones. Ah, so you're willing to trade privacy for convenience.
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by techrat 5y ago
That goes right up there with the advice of putting a jade egg in your vagina... CBD the cure all! ...except for several things: 1) CBD may not be legal/available where they are, 2) They may be in a job that tests regularly, 3) You&#x2
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by techrat 5y ago
The worst part is that he's allowed to recommend his own answers above others, inflating his own stats... regardless of how much of an unhelpful arse he is in his own replies.
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by techrat 5y ago
> Act now or life is gonna be that much harder in fifty years. We've been saying this about Global Warming for a while. (An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006) By the time people say "we need to do something," sadly, it&#
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by techrat 5y ago
Ah yes, but Haliburton couldn't spend money on a 'war against mask wearing', so they were the true victims here. /s, of course. It's been obvious early on that the whole motive for our ratfucking of the middle east
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by techrat 5y ago
I encountered the same issue once. Was trying to identify a song in a DJ set and all I had was a tape dub converted to MP3. Making a snippet and playing it back to my phone through a TRRS cable didn't work to identify the song through
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by techrat 5y ago
What was said: > Google admits it tries to prevent sideloading as much as possible in their own court filings with Epic. Your citation? Still shows that sideloading is possible. Derp. That's not preventing sideloading. Some one time
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by techrat 5y ago
https://i.imgur.com/LV6umMH.png

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