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by techrat 5y ago
Funny because I've never had problems with, what is commonly accepted as the lowest of the three you mentioned: Acer, like I have with Apple. I have an old Chromebook C710 that just. will. not. die. My Partner's newer Macbook only
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That puts it pretty damn close to the 50-55% wireless efficiency figure I keep seeing thrown around. Yay! Wireless!
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Inefficiency at several steps. Battery voltage to charging voltage is a step. Charging method (wireless) adds a step. Input voltage to battery voltage is a step. Plus you have the extra circuitry of Wireless to power. Nothing runs straight
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At this point, Reddit is just Facebook but with more restrictions and fake names.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8 - The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures. - Louis Rossmann
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by techrat 5y ago
To be fair, you're comparing netbooks then what what we have now. At the time, the pokey, sluggish Atom was the best you could get for a lightweight system and longer-than-usual battery. Remember... the common alternative to a netboo
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freenode.net and libera.net use the same CF nameservers. Freenode.net: Name Server: DINA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM Name Server: NOAH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM Libera.net: Name Server: NOAH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM Name Server: DINA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM https:/
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by techrat 5y ago
> Is all of this really just schoolyard ego stuff? Yup. Plus copious amounts of cocaine.* Someone once pointed out that IRC is Andrew Lee's 'security blanket' and it's been impossible for me to see it any other way si
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Insider trading charges filed over Long Island Iced Tea's blockchain 'pivot'(cnn.com)
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Terrible attempt at a "No, u, lib" retort. https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case... > A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News after lawyers for the network argued
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by techrat 5y ago
Leopold. $109. One of the best boards you can get. https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_lis... It's not rude to point out that you impulsively bought low end stuff and expected it to be better
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>What's the play here? If Freenode is anything to go by... Greed, ego, self importance, the need for control... and cocaine.
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Then stop buying the crappy ones. Like with anything else, you get what you pay for.
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The 'popcorn' issue is pretty much linked to one artificial flavor... Diacetyl... anything that involves a buttery taste. Often found in microwave popcorn, hence popcorn lung. Custards, a popular group of vape flavors, was the mai
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by techrat 5y ago
...and far less data collection, dark patterns, and helps to eliminate the temptation to soil ones' self by responding to the horrendous comments on that site. At this point, Reddit is just Facebook for people who think they're to
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Even their mobile site and app has become more hostile and laden with dark patterns. At this point, I can't even treat Reddit like a collection of community forums anymore... They make it impossible to read a thread when you come in fr
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The point may be that, by default, Reddit's website is now incredibly heavy for something that was once a lean and nimble site when it comes to media.
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I wonder if the xkcd comic about this is still accurate, being that it's generally safer to have longer passwords regardless of how it's formatted. https://xkcd.com/936/ I recently signed up for a ticketing w
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by techrat 5y ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/au...
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Previous related discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16454796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091391 https://ne
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Psst. Chrome on iOS is still using the same engine as Safari.
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Yet Chromium's Blink engine is a fork of WebCore from WebKit and it's still open source. (LGPL and BSD Licenses) It gets contributions from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Opera Software, Adobe, Intel, IBM, Samsung, etc... It is not
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by techrat 5y ago
> These comics (and the ones suggesting "defunding police" will lead to school funding) are essentially a trick because 1. reducing police funding won't lead to money going to those other places 2. half those things are do
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https://citymonitor.ai/government/the-reality-of-us-city-bud... Compare with: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/19/alexandria-k...
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What's not to get? https://i.imgur.com/8xlOIW9.png The whole point of defunding the police is to get the funding back to where it belongs. https://citymonitor.ai/government/the-reality-of-us-city-b
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Not only was the cancer he had easily treatable had he done what he needed to do when it was first discovered... He also bought his way onto the top of a transplant list by buying a home in Tennessee... despite also knowing by this point th
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by techrat 5y ago
Uh huh. Ask me how I know you've never used a Linux distribution before. We could easily have an honest debate about operating systems if you didn't decide to be so dishonest about the actual process. Ubuntu itself has less steps
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by techrat 5y ago
> I've never spent hours trying to debug why I need to reboot to get wifi back on Windows. I have. (Windows update official drivers broke Wifi, the site for the Wifi card no longer had older drivers available to download. Thus, brok
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Other side of that coin. I have a game that doesn't run at all in Windows, despite it being a native Windows game, that runs flawless within Proton. Also, you may need to check that you actually have nVidia's drivers installed.
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> As long as any troubleshooting on linux will require the user to open terminal... You need to update your 10+ year old talking points if you want to have an honest debate about this, bud.

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