techrat

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by techrat 5y ago
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gatekeeping > When someone uses a hobby or interest as a means of elevating themselves above others to give oneself a sense of being superior transforming their passion or
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Hell, even the mouse scroll wheel works.
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> It's not gatekeeping, > you bet I will judge your ability to code by your preference of editor, FYI. That's called 'gatekeeping.'
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You must also think Apple invented the notch, fingerprint scanner, capacitive touchscreen phone, music playing device, the desktop GUI and mouse.
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What you speak of does not appear to be the case. https://i.imgur.com/3R6JzvB.png The search results even gave me the correct name of the app in f-droid that is named differently. (firefox > fennec)
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Nearly everything you've said was bullshit. Google has never restricted sideloading. Android 12 even enables sideloading further by allowing third party app stores to auto update. AOSP exists. Third party roms exist. All of the devices
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In the case of the nVidia presentation, it's quite obvious from the video where it's CGI Ceo: Awkward standing position, stiff arms and fairly inarticulate fingers. He looks fairly suspended, as if there's nothing to convey w
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For every person in the hospital due to covid is another person not able to receive care. Hospital beds aren't unlimited. ICU beds full? Someone has a heart attack? Well, sucks to be them. That's the part of covid everyone is igno
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> Given the low infection fatality rate, if everyone under 50 in the US caught it, we would have around 30,000 deaths. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-... If everyone under 50 caught
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You do realise that TWO THOUSAND YEARS worth of server time just from six (of about 138,000 active subreddits) pays for more than just a handful of employees? And this is before ad sales. Hell, when it comes to ad sales... They hit > $
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> Seems strange to me that a 16 year old company still isn't self sustaining. Based on Reddit's own information, it would appear that they are. Picking just one frontpage sub, /r/News, you can check the guilded page
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I'd argue that the majority of the users that made the site worth using have already left.
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Reddit has had off site tracking for quite some time. Remember those little snooheads where you could 'reblog' about something? or vote on a site while on it? Seeing the reddit bugs/icons/badges was about when the site s
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A lie is a lie is a lie. Being misleading is what Randy does and Randy doesn't really have anything else.
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> What's your excuse to stay on Freenode? None whatsoever. Andy's most recent coke fueled changes have rendered the burning dumpster into a smoldering pile of slag. It's done. Over. Dead. In a bit over 2 months, Andy has t
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> Geopolitically, Arctic countries are going to receive big benefits on balance from climate change, including new land use options, new oil and gas exploration and new commercial shipping routes. And now we have exactly why Russia has b
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The privacy issues with apple pretty much lie within their software. Going hackintosh isn't going to move you further away from the issues you have.
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> Am I really in the minority if this kind of thing couldn't even cross my mind or feels like written by someone living in a parallel universe? Nope. I know what Captcha photos are. Photos from the Google Maps car driving around. It
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That's why Apple needs to unclench and give up its need for absolute control and just allow bootloader unlocking. Users who modify will always want to be able to modify and the only way to have that and have security as well is to allo
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Because FTL travel is not possible, so there's no way to know what would 'really happen.'
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Not to nitpick here, but there is no way any device you buy from Verizon is discounted, regardless of what they advertise. Everyone pays _full_ price for any device they get on contract or payment plan. Back when contract pricing was a more
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> Pixels that come from Verizon > Verizon again. > Verizon Google didn't sell you that device. Verizon did.
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People need to remember that most of Android got moved into Play Services. It was the only way to keep a system relatively up to date when the OEMs won't update the OS itself. Yeah, it's a dependency... as much as the Google Maps
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Loosing sight of the forest for this one tree. 1) Google doesn't release devices without unlockable bootloaders. They have always been transparent in allowing people to unlock their Nexus and Pixels. Nexus was for developers, Pixels ar
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> Copying Chrome is a safe strategy that just doesn't seem to be working. > more innovative up-and-coming browsers like Brave. Copying Chrome is not a good plan, but copying a browser that engages in shady tactics, referral link
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He's a major fuckup and cokehead. Take everything he says with a winter's road crew pile of salt.
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Even brand new ones. On my Windows 10 system, Katamari Reroll wouldn't even launch. Just a black scfeen. In Proton on my xUbuntu desktop, it runs flawlessly. I tend to expect older games to run better due to Microsoft depreciating olde
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TLDR: DG incentivizes laziness.
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> Since when is Texas a pejorative? 'Pray for rain' type politicians and Taliban style government. (Rick Perry, the Bushes, Paxton and Abbott) Cronyism run rampant. Some of the most corrupt corporations. The electrical grid col
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Physical keyboard phones still exist. Probably not how you want it, though. https://www.unihertz.com/titan.html

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