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adar

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About adar

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #31224548

    Are you sure you correctly read the post you're replying to?

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    Comment #30783641

    As someone who just turned 35 last week, thanks for this.

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    Comment #30294276

    Does one count as a nonprofit if their company is losing money? :v

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    Comment #30215664

    My favorite riff on these is when the poster is headed to an interview but saves a dog along the way, and the dog turns out to be the interviewer.

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    Comment #30057495

    Yep! I speak from experience as an Indian.

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    Comment #30056263

    It's a Hindu/Buddhist swastika, which is still widely used by adherents of said religions.

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    Comment #29389379

    > So you say your current position is to be rather carefully around anything by/from Google, but you trust Internet randos to build the binary of the browser you use? How did you c…

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    Comment #29368306

    This is a good tip but unfortunately I'm on Windows on one computer and Fedora on the other.

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    Comment #29337435

    I've been looking for a simple way to be able to listen to audio from my desktop and laptop simultaneously without requiring a hardware mixer or something. I'm currently using Scre…

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    Comment #29087891

    > Edge has built in support for vertical tabs, tab groups, and chrome extensions. IMO Vivaldi's implementations of vertical tabs and tab groups is superior, but Edge is definitely …

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    Comment #29083587

    100% in agreement with you. I liked the idea of Manjaro but the way they deployed Nvidia driver updates made it feel like absolute luck of the draw whether you'd have a login scree…

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    Comment #28913624

    I'd feel deeply uncomfortable backing up 80tb of data to a $60/year plan, tbh.

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    Comment #28784885

    I like Vivaldi but the issue is that you're still locking yourself into Chromium's Blink rendering engine which just serves to strengthen Google's push to be the de-facto standards…

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    Comment #28784848

    I'm not quite sure scripted dialogue in a fictional TV show about murderous superheroes is the correct comparison for Mozilla putting ads in search results...

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    Comment #28744487

    Is there a non-North American context for the word "Hiawatha"?

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    Comment #28557137

    The comment was quickly flagged by other users and is now dead. I'm not sure the hysteria is warranted, you're never going to find a public site where nobody ever posts anything du…

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    Comment #28313159

    It takes about 10 seconds to create a new Reddit account so it's the moderators who'd be fighting the uphill, impossible battle to keep someone banned.

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    Comment #28200514

    While I agree about not just being positive for the sake of it and this product is certainly not for me, I'm not sure what's constructive about calling something a "cheap ripoff" o…

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    Comment #28139215

    And? They lose absolutely nothing by asking.

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    Comment #28085990

    Do you have a link to the bug report?

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    Comment #27963360

    I hate being the kind of internet guy who's like "X sucks" about something a lot of people have worked on, but I really, really, really dislike Finder. It fails as a file explorer …

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    Comment #27846713

    What else would you call the Play Store on which the vast, vast majority of Android users acquire apps? Please don't bring up F-Droid or the Amazon App Store as alternatives, that'…

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    Comment #27807749

    Using something you consider "spyware", even without paying for it, sounds like just as much of a self-own.