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71bw

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About 71bw

meet.hn/city/51.1089776,17.0326689/Wrocław

Interests: Blockchain, Books, Cybersecurity, Fintech, Gaming, Healthcare, Investment, Open Source, Remote Work, Startups

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Trying to read something actually valuable while procrastinating at work.

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    Comment #49182285

    >And despite all of this, I am still stuck playing IT boy with my parents’ computers because they refuse to use an operating system that isn’t complete dogshit. There is no such op…

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    Comment #49181670

    Anything modern (as in, released within the, let's say, last month)

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    Comment #48757227

    But it's how the people outside of our circles see it. We tinker with our devices, which is not understandable to them - their phone just works, why would they change anything abou…

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    Comment #48757214

    ...and the iOS 27 features are not anything actually important, while China never was an established market for Google since 2009. Things have changed.

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    Comment #48731548

    ...how does that align with what the EU government is doing? The whole point is for you NOT to be sovereign!!!

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    Comment #48731261

    But this does not allow tracking nor marketing, so why would they do that?

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    Comment #48731253

    Oh they sure do, because Google/Apple have to bend over backwards for the EU as they are not stupid enough to suddenly lose 500 million users.

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    Comment #48731228

    The lawsuits, sadly, won't matter. "Security" (or, rather, totalitarian control!) is more important than the 1% of nerds who care enough to tinker with their phone.

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    Comment #48729397

    ...attendance? I landed a spot in likely the best economics uni in Poland while having 52% attendance in my final HS year, out of which perhaps 10% of the absence was due to illnes…

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    Comment #48626644

    And yet it is China who has, for the last 40+ years, successfully used the "start cheap, destroy competition, rise prices" tactic.

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    Comment #48626590

    And yet, as per usual... Not yet available in the EU/EEA while we work toward compliance with GDPR and EU-specific regulations.

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    Comment #48489759

    Truth be told, the Wii U gamepad is basically h.264 and Wi-Fi as well.

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    Comment #48457573

    I can't even get Gemini to properly call somebody - it is a mess.

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    Comment #48369250

    Does it work nowadays? Back in High Sierra days whenever I tried turning this off it did absolutely nothing and still reordered my shit.

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    Comment #48366755

    We seem to work in very similar fields. I tend to work on the back-end line. To put it lightly: it is all a big shitshow. Vendor lock-in, non-standard communication, network admins…

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    Comment #48353220

    Switch to a backpack or just leave the laptop in your car...?

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    Comment #48279473

    How much of your current knowledge would you simply lack were it not for the Internet?

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    Comment #48279396

    ...unless they go and visit Mikey over the fence, whose parents are cool unlike you and let him – willingly or not – wank to hardcore porn at 11.

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    Comment #48265617

    What did you use to ship the laptop?

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    Comment #47918755

    I presume the 968 was chosen because it all seems like the Neo is only the first hurrah into this whole entry-level field for Apple.

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    Comment #47918738

    My 2015 MacBook Air, purchased new in 2017, was already practically dead by 2021.