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dezzadk

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    Comment #43942320

    Gosh, "Hacker News" has become such an abstract garbage can for farfetched longwinded bs articles.. Today I'll unsubscribe, I won't miss your preference for normie filler content..…

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    Comment #43789727

    Stopped reading at "Use Brave", "Use Mullvad Browser". Know your local noob by which browser fork he uses. Upstream security response will always be better, your "builtin" features…

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    Comment #43579226

    Interesting. I think the software is absolutely tasteless. For a long time it had to update "twice", asking you to restart steam 2 times in a row. It defaults to showing an "ad" on…

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    Comment #43578031

    You are still downplaying the effort of Wine massively. Wine is several millions lines of code compared to Proton and it isn't just "syscalls", its decades of trial and error and b…

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    Comment #43575075

    >There's certainly cause to celebrate Wine's accomplishments reverse-engineering Win32. But it's far from the only thing required to get games running, and I think you've oversold …

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    Comment #43573394

    Totally. Steam store looks like a god damn aliexpress marketplace and is tasteless design. The Store UI is disgusting and intrusive compared to all other competitors who actually h…

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    Comment #43573309

    this is what happens when you ship experimental software as "stable" on a handheld system. could have told you in advance. expect game-breaking crashes and bugs sooner or later the…

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    Comment #43573246

    > The Steam Deck is a great gaming system. This isn’t because of it’s great battery life. A Nintendo Switch would probably have better battery life. It’s not because of its great p…

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    Unfollow accidents on GitHub/notifications is too darn easy

    I was looking at https://github.com/notifications when I accidentally pressed the mouse over the [unsubscribe] bell icon twice. Did github show a confirmation dialog? Nope. It unsu…

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    Comment #43200425

    I will gladly uBlacklist (browser extension) medium, substack cancer off my searches Less of a product probably doesn't exist on the internet. Its one step from a link shortener.

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    Comment #34411944

    He also paid an advertisement (still running on youtube I assuming, seen it within the last week) "Anyone who visits this page get $1200" or something in that range..

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    Comment #34404788

    He's a clickbaity youtuber profiting on 'free money scams' I hope he gets banned.

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    Comment #34404778

    YouTube Posts - go away.

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    Comment #34093046

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Martin_(hacker) https://youtu.be/dF2YQ92WKpM Hector Martin of Asahi Linux. Some talks on reversing M1, I thought it was one of the best I've he…

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    Comment #33970174

    Vim is way more customizable and portable than any gui editor imo. An extreme amount of filetype support is builtin to the vim runtime, try to peek how many definitions there are i…

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    Comment #33582317

    True, however at some point you have plugins that take near 1s to load like syntax highlighting and its just not possible to reduce that to 100ms

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    Comment #33581915

    This tip beats all tips https://asciinema.org/a/274255 You can move the line below your bindkey defs so you still have keys.

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    Comment #33427145

    All laptops suck nowadays. Lenovo and Dell learned from Apple that laptops don't need to last to be expensive.. since Ultrabooks happened laptops have serious QC issues.

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    Comment #33237138

    1. Write cheatsheet while you learn. 2. Hang out in #vim :)

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    Comment #32644998

    Give it to me for a week and I will tell you everything wrong with it including all the bugs you haven't found yet.

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    Comment #32642761

    IDGAF about their "sent DOA and fix later" on-site support. It will NOT fix terrible QC of their motherboards.

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    Comment #32642596

    Nope. Its all buggy and shitty. Dell XPS had coilwhine for several ages despite numerous complaints and other laptops with same chipsets didn't. The cause? Cheaping out on inductor…

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    Comment #31202407

    Would be an odd reference without context, but I'm not sure. I just hope he is alright.

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    Comment #31186805

    Yeah he seems very depressive, going through some personal stuff. I think his (pinboard) Twitter-bio said something dark like "The light inside is broken, but I still work" at some…

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    Comment #31084694

    You're right, nothing is made to last. But Macbooks aren't any better.. You'll be paying for a new logic board exactly 1-2 years later out of warranty. Lenovo has firmware issues w…