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firen777

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    Comment #49117879

    > access and ease of sharing I'm gonna sound argumentative, but what happen if you lose access to computers in general? The thumb drive or hard disk or whatever will just become a …

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    Comment #48942233

    I guess companies saw SKG being effectively thrown out by the EU, got bold enough and decided to normalize this practice to the rest of the digital medium.

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    Comment #48842320

    I was about to say the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse#Equus Of all the examples to pick from, seeing GP picked horse made me wonder if GP was doing it f…

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    Comment #48772805

    > Upload asset directly to album on the mobile app Does this fix this problem? https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/12748 It's a pretty big issue for me having multiple…

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    Comment #48458613

    Similarly: https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/us-news/top-maga-influencer-em... Some highlights: > The move made him a mint — and Sam was soon raking in thousands of dollars a month. > …

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    Comment #48044020

    I feel like a lot of things Valve does, with the exception of loot boxes, are the bare minimum of what a good (not great) companies should do. So of course every single company loo…

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    Comment #47687005

    It's like LibreOffice all over again: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-devel...

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    Comment #47608406

    > a vendor uplift our quote 50% per unit Try 200% (tho tbf our boss sit on that quote for like a year and a half because he thought it was too pricey. Bet he regretted it now). And…

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    Comment #47294072

    > most countries in the world Can you provide actual statistic to support this claim instead of just saying hip anti-America rhetoric to sound cool? There are a lot of legitimate c…

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    Comment #47030617

    >giving up privacy may, in fact, enhance security When the check and balance got tipped over, all this promised "security" will only surface when it benefits the regime. I'm still …

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    Comment #46998209

    > because applications and windows are a separate concept Is this the reason why "closed" applications still show up in cmd+tab?

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    Comment #46549452

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    Comment #46431673

    Tangentially related, but some banking apps also implement their own in-app keyboard in their password fields, making password manager unusable and basically forcing me to use a ea…

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    Comment #45988442

    >It’s sole value proposition is a means to facilitate criminal activity I used to feel this way until visa/master pulled that project-2025-mandated stunt on nsfw games.

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    Comment #45908982

    >"Coming Soon" (January 10, 2017) | December 20, 2024 | 7th Issue of Team Fortress Comics: The Days Have Worn Away Out of all the IPs Valve owns, somehow it's TF2 that got a story …

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    Comment #45908895

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster#Decline

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    Comment #45651301

    just feed the thing to any base64 decoder like cyberchef: https://cyberchef.org/#recipe=From_Base64('A-Za-z0-9%2B/%3D'... Isn't it just basic problem solving skill? We gonna let AI…

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    Comment #45614496

    >if they have the capability They absolutely do: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown...

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    Comment #45574890

    >you can install your own OS https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame

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    Comment #45511406

    > only 8 gb of ram I still have fond memory of my brother upgrading his windows XP desktop to 1 GB RAM to play BF2142 and I was like "school hasn't even taught me that number yet".…

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    Comment #45166426

    It's both frustrating and all too common to see blatant historical falsehood being casually thrown around as if it's well known fact. Doubly frustrating knowing that in order to re…

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    Comment #44197330

    >Generally, my advice would be to stick to country code TLDs. Why? Unless you're talking about the country code of the same country you are operating in, (mis)using ccTLDs is basic…

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    Comment #44057522

    While it's been improved a whole lot, it's not all sunshine and rainbow as some game companies decided to drop support after they decided kernel anti-cheat is the way (notably GTA …