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kennethrc

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    Comment #48833546

    Stories like this worry me- I've got a fair amount of stuff connected to Google and I'm afraid one day I'll sneeze in the wrong direction and end up disabled and no way to talk to …

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    Comment #48216257

    > COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177 It may be sick, but someone's got a sense of humor over there :)

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    Comment #48089699

    Ditto for me on every one of the ~20 places I've logged in starting in ~2017

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    Comment #47823547

    Pressure from rights holders or law enforcement? Amazon has sold ~250M Fire Sticks; there's just no way most of 'em aren't used by regular people as vanilla FSs

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    Comment #47817508

    "Basically the main reason"? I can count among my friends and family some 50 Fire Sticks, and we're all happy with them, as they do what they say on the box. We Tech folks (and som…

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    Comment #47454197

    > You really only need dirty_ratio/bytes and dirty_background_ratio/bytes set to something lower than default. The vm.swappiness=1 was very necessary for me as well, and made as mu…

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    Comment #47450343

    > Even something as simple as alt-tabbing lagged for seconds on an overpowered machine. This may not be KDE's fault; I tracked these kinds of issues down to some bad tunable defaul…

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    Comment #46878661

    Couldn't care less, honestly. That being said, I don't use any LLM for coding and it'll be a long time before I do.

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    Comment #46862072

    I love(d) it and used it every time I'd go to WF, but TBF I heard about it by "accident" (some small ad somewhere, or maybe it was in the Amazon app?) ... I got the impression Amaz…

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    Comment #46791288

    Aw ... it was really nice at Whole Paycheck, I'm going to miss it. Any guesses as to why? Unlike Google Maps Timeline data being subpoenaed, I can't see what LE could use with this…

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    Comment #46517797

    > I grew up drinking the 'American culture ...' > misspells "Kool-Aid"

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    Comment #46496355

    ... excuse me while I Nope! TF out

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    Comment #46109420

    > in the era of the most cutting edge breakthroughs in video ... and what are those?

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    Comment #45985626

    Likewise with decorative hedges and other gardenwork; your post brought to mind this one hotel I stay regularly where a hedge is high enough and close enough to the exit that you h…

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    Comment #45510762

    > IF they're proven to be dangerous to others if they access the internet ... which means what? They espouse ideas "you" don't like?

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    Comment #45173367

    This. Don't get your downvotes, either. Sometimes you just wanna get something done, and hell, it's usually quiet AF on the weekends in-office, too.

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    Comment #44934968

    > Has anybody ever actually destroyed a chip with static electricity? Piling on, but yes, you very well may have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRqj9FhgcE

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    Comment #44587623

    "Fuck you, Shoresy!"

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    Comment #44292092

    I have Wireguard (and OpenVPN off TCP/UDP 443 as backup) on a router connected to residential symmetric 1G fiber. Among the many uses for that means I can watch the NFL (et al.) wh…

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    Comment #44292026

    It seems as it would average out, but I wonder if the equation between " ~2500 people for a 7-14 days" vs. " ~175 people for 2-5 hours" incurs more "costs" for the former?

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    Comment #44291928

    ... and even if you're just on vacation it's not like you're doing nothing else but being online, OP ...

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    Comment #44221210

    I've been a "Sabbath Goy" a couple of times for some of my friends :)

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    Comment #43977921

    It's been down there waiting!