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blockmeifyoucan
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Comment #27788109
This is brilliant!
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Comment #27373495
Whataboutism doesn't help here and paper ruins the coffee anyway.
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Comment #27373426
Even in case that is true - 1000 uses is about a year at 3 brews a day and my french press is still going strong after 15 years and I fail to see a reason why it wouldn't hold up a…
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Comment #27173078
I suggest you actually read the article you posted. "The death was not part of a "fad" for getting high"
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Comment #26843096
This disingenuous argument the author is using should make you question bis other points too, even (especially) those you happen to agree with.
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Comment #25814399
Science wins again.
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Comment #25777692
Yes. All studies have limitations. You report them and interpret the results accordingly.
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Comment #25355766
Can you please cite and link the relevant part?
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Comment #25322803
I think you are misunderstanding. In common Lisp you can call a regular function defined with defun as (foo "something"), but if bar is a variable containing a fuction you have to …
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Comment #25315071
If only you could see how entitled and childish you sound. But I agree: with that mentality, please stay away from any free (as in freedom) software. Please continue paying MS to d…
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Comment #25314963
Making all vaccine testing data and study details publicly available might be a good start.
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Comment #25300033
I bought a forged iron pan years ago because i got tired oft buying new teflon pans every x months. It's brilliant! Used only for frying (no tomato sauces etc) and with high initia…
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Comment #25134099
Thank you for the response. this helped me understand better how people come to conclusions like this. You want to be able to buy bleeding edge hardware without checking for driver…
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Comment #25115755
Damn, that sounds frustrating :/
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Comment #25115605
> Skylake From this I gather that we are talking ~5 years ago? > First and foremost, sound. I tried to get mixing -- simultaneous playback from different programs I remember this b…
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Comment #25109116
Can you expand on the driver problems you had? I keep reading this here but people never give actual examples.
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Comment #25109087
I have 5.9 kernels running fine on two laptops with intel graphics. Have you investigated what exactly stopped your systems from booting?
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Comment #25109035
Run a memtest86 and keep an eye on the temps during usage. This is not normal. Are you running nvidia drivers?
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Comment #25108924
Can you give examples of what you disliked in each of KDE, GNOME and XFCE?
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Comment #24893441
Did you ever actually setup a graphical environment with WSL2? I run one, which is why to me the irony feels reversed to what you probably meant. It's clumsy, slow and tedious to s…
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Comment #24818391
Advertising needs to go away. All moral arguments aside, humanity can no longer afford to spend so much energy on something with so little benefit.
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Comment #24773928
Installed from AUR with yay, but there is no difference in convenience, yay teams, select package, enter. I don't remember for Skype and zoom, but iirc teams uses the deb package f…
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Comment #24773869
I think the trick with Fedora is to know the release-schedule, give them about two weeks after the release to find and fix the worst bugs and then not wait too long to update. On m…
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Comment #24744856
> but I prefer that my computer just works without fuss so that I can do actual work This is exactly the reason I run arch. I have repaired loads of colleagues fedora installs that…
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Comment #24744750
> If you need to use non-free software like Skype or Zoom you are more likely to find Ubuntu packages than Arch packages for it. My experience has been exactly the opposite. Nowher…