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bacchusracine

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    Comment #49245081

    I wish someone with a Book 8088 or a Pocket 386 would give this a go and report back.

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    Comment #49169117

    As someone who used Firefox (then Phoenix 0.2) I keep wondering where the binaries are...

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    Comment #49029727

    They’re not trying to fool God, they’re trying to fool you into going along with it. They don’t care what God thinks and may not even believe in Him at all, but unless they can con…

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    Comment #48125668

    I tried for years to get this operating system to run on my hardware. Last year I succeeded. Only...there was no software. The system ran beautifully. But I had no web browser that…

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    Comment #47441694

    I'm thinking...give me a minute....

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    Comment #47391371

    >I turn around, and a guy is getting a handjob. I motion to my wife that we need to move a few seats over. To get a better view, right?

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    Comment #47131039

    Please don’t mistake description for advocacy.

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    Comment #47124953

    I think the word you're missing is fatigue. The average tech literate person keep seeing their data breached over and over again. Not because THEY did anything wrong, but because t…

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    Comment #47034628

    Without Linux support, unlikely.

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    Comment #46355347

    >I think you severely underestimate how powerful familiarity is in anchoring non-tech users to particular platforms. What familiarity? Microsoft has changed the look and feel of th…

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    Comment #46266926

    Don’t forget about the BeOS being the Batmobile!

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    Comment #46122223

    As do people. Which ends up weakening copyright even further as it becomes a law everyone ignores, on the level of speeding or jaywalking. The same knock-on effects as Prohibition,…

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    Comment #45733846

    Shhhhhhhh....

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    Comment #45051471

    This post may or may not violate our community standards so we aren't going to display it.

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    Comment #44560061

    Does it actually do anything? I'm seeing a lot of posts from people discussing everything and anything other than whether or not the application is fit for purpose and does what it…

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    Comment #44480348

    >there's a famous video of an interviewer asking people on the street ca. 1997 whether they would want a mobile phone. So not even a smartphone, just a mobile phone. The answer was…

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    Comment #44327977

    I miss DrunkenBatman... I used to regularly check for years after he stopped posting, just in case... The last it was active was in 2019, then it disappeared forever. https://web.a…

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    Comment #43410955

    Burger King.

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    Comment #43036527

    Not sure it matters. It's still way too tied to the Apple ecosystem to be useful. I wanted to get a family subscription about a year ago and it was basically impossible to manage t…

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    Comment #42990796

    >Can you be more clear? How many times has ikey pulled this now? It's no longer a surprise at this point.

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    Comment #42974454

    Let's be honest. Is anyone surprised?

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    Comment #42951602

    I know I'm late to the discussion but can you comment on the hearing aid compatibility (HAC) of the phone? It's something that keeps me tethered to bigger name phones since most of…

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    Comment #42935737

    It literally doesn't work because the login is busted. I tried to email you to inform you of this but for some strange reason the email address listed doesn't work, thefirstname.th…

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    Comment #42931983

    It would be nice if I could at least look around before immediately being demanded to login.