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Brett_Riverboat

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    Comment #48109520

    Second/vacation homes should be taxed at 200% per year with all revenue going toward low income housing.

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    Comment #46473021

    I don't know about anyone else's reasoning but personally IPV4 works just fine for 100% of my use cases. I don't have anything against it per-say but I have no reason to use it eit…

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    Comment #45770833

    Nice find. Those sort of thing always make me nervous however because it's not easy for the average user to tell if its running any sort of malicious scripts in the process. This o…

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    Comment #45761925

    Yes this is about a local login, it has nothing to do with hardware.

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    Comment #45761897

    Hey thanks, I needed a little boost today. You have been my little ray of light in a sea of darkness.

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    Comment #45758894

    If you practice good operational security and maintain a decent anti virus and fire wall you will probably be fine. I know people who still run Windows 7 to this day with no troubl…

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    Comment #45753382

    defaultUser0 is used by windows for the OOBE if you don't delete it along with the registry keys it will just boot back to the OOBE again. defaultUser0 gets removed by the OOBE aft…

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    Comment #45749473

    Thats always the worst part of linux for me. Everyone is always so hostile, I have to say though I have had a little success finding help on lemmy but not much.

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    Comment #45748277

    A few typos were brought to my attention in my previous comment and as the time frame to edit it has passed I am replying with the required edits so that if anyone does want to att…

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    Comment #45747478

    My guess is some of the better videos will post the text in the description and some folks are very visual and need to be able to reference an image or video. But that aside I appr…

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    Comment #45746815

    gets you a local account

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    Comment #45746112

    For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing…

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    Comment #45624249

    just another reason among many for why I refuse to own a car with an internet connection.

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    Comment #42339965

    There are people in here defending ads while I'm over here in the Bill Hicks camp.

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    Comment #41913543

    Shame on me, Its so easy to assume google did another stupid thing that I just skimmed it and made an assumption. My bad.

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    Comment #41903015

    Google is nothing but blinded by greed at this point, they are so shortsightedly chasing a dollar that they can't seem to recognize this behavior is exactly what is losing the mone…

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    Comment #41719602

    Radio shack is at least indirectly responsible for me disassembling ( and sometimes successfully reassembling) most of the electronics in the house growing up. The tools and DIY ge…

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    Comment #41684577

    As much as I love giving the middle finger to a company as awful as HP, people need to stop supporting garbage companies like this and then this wouldn't be necessary.

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    Comment #41563822

    Nothing to see here folks, this definitely is not just another violent gang stealing from the populace with zero repercussions. It's a state sanctioned violent gang that also happe…

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    Comment #41401042

    One of the few tech outlets that I find to be trustworthy, it's sad to see them go.

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    Comment #41310187

    Just what my car needs, a government mandated attack vector. As if the crap that car companies are already forcing on people isnt enough.

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    Comment #41283626

    Good luck enforcing it.

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    Comment #41265747

    Well of course, the big three would hate for you to have access to affordable, reasonably sized cars. Then they would have to compete or innovate, It's much easier to just pay some…

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    Comment #41254805

    You put it into better words than I could, thank you.