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Rimintil

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    Comment #35910457

    Don't forget National Wilderness, which is run by all of them, BLM and US Fish & Wildlife, included.

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    Comment #35906377

    > The entire point of working for someone else is to attain enough money that you don't need to any more and you can treat it as more of an optional thing. If that were the singula…

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    Comment #35906358

    Very few of us in society do work that truly matters. Work is like a colouring book: A complete waste of your time (though work might be less fun, YMMV). It would be lovely to give…

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    Comment #35867435

    And one of the most security and privacy user-friendly features, defeating MiTM attacks from corporations and governments.

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    Comment #35847435

    > I have to believe most of us here on HN are in the boat of keeping a W11 partition for work and a Linux partition for everything else at this point. If statistics bear out, you'd…

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    Comment #35805619

    Visio documents can be edited on ODfB and SPO within the browser. https://support.microsoft.com/office/overview-of-visio-for-t...

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    Comment #35792003

    The passphrase is what makes it a poor user experience. Many people simply need an encrypted disk that you can't boot offline and not the boot-time PIN/passphrase (which Microsoft …

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    Comment #35781304

    It would certainly make you stand out on that network map compared to others who are even more boring than you are (read: just about everyone, sans criminal enterprises as noted ab…

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    Comment #35781111

    > The process of moving from App to App generates friction that takes you out of flow and distracts you from your intentions. Please tell me why my workflow, which works for me, su…

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    Comment #35776776

    That's cheap. $12K/month for two self-administered biologic injections.

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    Comment #35671685

    Yep, I feel (a little) bad for anyone doing node development on Windows (though I probably should feel bad that they're having to dev in JS). But this isn't an "NTFS problem" as yo…

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    Comment #35661407

    This is due to file system filter [drivers], not the file system. NTFS is perfectly fine and performs well.

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    Comment #35639252

    > The font rendering subsystem is why macOS is the go-to choice for graphic designers IIRC. Nah, it was for the color accuracy of _classic_ Mac OS. Windows caught up in the Vista t…

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    Comment #35628901

    > fonts as this is an area where I believe both Linux and macOS are ahead of Windows. Windows caught up quite some time ago to macOS. I don't see Linux as superior with font handli…

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    Comment #35619728

    You'll be trading one set of known frustrations with another set of unknown frustrations. A few years ago, I ran Fedora w/ KDE Plasma. What _seemed_ to be random is the GTK fonts t…

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    Comment #35619682

    > bloat What _is_ bloat to people? Is it because it has Candy Crush pre-installed? The Settings menu? The install is bigger than Windows 3.11 so it's bloated?

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    Comment #35618297

    > Is reddit going to pay users? They don't need to as they claim a royalty-free license [0] over all content posted to reddit (Section 5). [0] https://www.redditinc.com/policies/us…

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    Comment #35617478

    > That Cupertino offered the best deal for them is a quirk of the law, not a shady deal by Apple These two things aren't incompatible with each other. > So $4m a year? A $2tn compa…

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    Comment #35609576

    Windows has always had this churn. Upgrading from NT4 > 2000 > XP > Vista, etc all required a time investment to figure out new features, group policies, creating an image (Autopil…

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    Comment #35593855

    Use resolvers that support eDNS Client Subnet, otherwise geo-resolvers like Google/CF DNS may cause your traffic to be misrouted. You can use Quad9's EDNS [0] so your client is pro…

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    Comment #35460455

    What-ifs get in the way of the facts. Perhaps we should just not go there since your scenario isn’t applicable to NPR as it stands today.

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    Comment #35428827

    > They did not give anywhere near proper notice about the TPM/UEFI/Secureboot requirement ahead of time. Nearly all machines, DIY included, would have met these requirements. Intel…

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    Comment #35428760

    Macs drain to 80% when plugged in all the time.

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    Comment #35428710

    The chip in the Air is no different from the Pro. And the Air has enough unified memory to drive >1 external display at high resolution. This limitation is purely artificial/for ma…

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    Comment #35413532

    Philip Glass did incredible work in the film, Kundun[0][1]. This movie has unfortunately been buried by Disney in the US and is not on any streaming platforms. [0] https://www.yout…