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>Anyone who has browsed through one of these personal VPN services - or even a DIY VPN from a datacentre IP - for more than about 10 minutes will have experienced the increase in c…

What's up with KYC "in accordance with German and European regulations" to use it? A number of EU member states don't require any id/registration for prepaid (e)SIMs. How is that a…

> like the way daemons autostart post install This can be configured with service-policy.d(5), see https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/policy-rcd-declarative-... for example.

MZ-1 was also featured in Last Action Hero (1993).

>And my understanding is SMS can still be pricey. It hasn't been for like 15+ years since pretty much every subscription has either unlimited*/or more than you can reasonably use m…

> As someone else mentioned, it's probably also true in Europe that a lot of people would see having WhatsApp as close to essential. What are you referring to? While it may be the …

> A lot of banks don't even have web interface and those they still do require you to install and link smartphone app to be able to log in or to pay with card online. Which "classi…

The problem with Toshiba is that their enterprise drives have no warranty for non-enterprise customers in the EMEA region.

> IMHO, generally speaking, Samsung SSD products are the best on the market. There seems to be 870 EVO reliability issue going on for years now [1]. Shit happens, what matters is h…

>in suid binaries; like ping ping hasn't required suid in ages, there's net.ipv4.ping_group_range and CAP_NET_RAW.

SIM swap attack is really baffling to me. Over here, even if someone gained access to your account and initiated porting, you still need to go the store and present your ID to comp…

>camera What is it used for?

>Should carriers still support something that was created 100 years ago? No one is saying ATT should continue operating their 3G network. On what grounds are they terminating subsc…

I'm sorry, what? First, moreutils package installs its parallel as parallel-moreutils. Second, pacman (like any other pm) wouldn't allow overwriting files belonging to other packag…

Fish doesn't source /etc/profile{,.d}, so it won't pickup additional PATHs and other env vars that packages set there, for example. A workaround is launching it from .bashrc/.zshrc…

Nokia's first touchscreen smartphone came out in 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7710 it was an oddball, for sure, but still.

> but ZFS doesn't like living on a partitioned disk nearly as much. Don't know how true is this, since it's not even possible to create a zpool on the whole unpartitioned device on…

Early 2008 MacBook4.1 with GMA X3100 originally shipped with 10.5 were only supported up to 10.7, and Lion was hot garbage.

No such law exists EU wide.

Unfortunately, no: https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/7509

Are there European countries left which don't allow AM or SSB? I know UK was an outlier, but they allow it since 2014.

You are talking about HD Radio, which is quite different from DAB/DAB+ used in Europe.

You don't need ID in Lithuania. You can also buy top ups with cash.