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    Comment #49225583

    > The quote I like is "The only intuitive interface is the nipple, every other one has to be learned" And then some dickhead put nipples on laptop keyboards and it was awful.

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    Comment #49225455

    > I have exactly one intel cpu in my house in a NUC I got off eBay and it’s about to be replaced by my M4 mini. Do some tests pre and post upgrade. It’s ridiculous how efficient th…

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    Comment #49218953

    Mentioning the recent Chernobyl accident is weird too. Surely an accident from long ago that is expected to be detectable is far more helpful. All they proved is that nothing had e…

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    Comment #49218927

    > Things like thumb drives physically connected to cabinets can just disappear in your environment with no followup whatsoever? Yes. I follow up. No one ever knows. > And that's re…

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    Comment #49217764

    Governments regulate all sorts of things that could be handled by the parents. However it works better setting a standard via regulation. The world is moving to regulate these comp…

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    Comment #49206710

    An arm Mac mini server in my basement has averted 4.9w over the last month.

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    Comment #49193951

    > I switched to Apple. Sadly, the dirty money is luring them in too.

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    Comment #49179934

    Does Musk count as outside or inside politics?

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    Comment #49165944

    I have no idea and want the answers: Boat + bowling ball = level stays the same? Ball roll = the constant gradient is quickest?

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    Comment #49165253

    > I guess they learned it from Elon: if people like you, they’ll just hold your stock forever, even if you don’t make much money. Is that the Elon lesson? I see him behave terribly…

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    Comment #49165012

    I’m using Calibre Web and it syncs with Kobo just fine. It’s a minor change to the config and then you can sync with your own library. Self hosted in Docker, I browse to the book I…

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    Comment #49165007

    No, but they can help me fix my devices. What’s your solution? A whole new e-reader with a model you don’t like?

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    Comment #49160099

    > Literally the only issue here is the concentration of it. And the fact that there is 900k litres of it.

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    Comment #49159808

    If somehow someone hasn’t seen this, they are in for a treat. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM&pp=0gcJCWgCo7VqN5t...

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    Comment #49159693

    You might like the UK. The place is wall to wall with allergen lists.

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    Comment #49159681

    Is that true though? Trump was very clear about what he would do, and was voted in. And here we are.

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    Comment #49159621

    ‘and learning about them’ I’m not at all convinced about this part.

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    Comment #49147177

    Thanks for this.

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    Comment #49147127

    I wonder if AI recommends regular full reinstalls?

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    Comment #49147083

    Schrödinger’s Licence.

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    Comment #49142858

    > USA will get Chinese payback. The only way to stop this is to invoke friend and savior role. Unfortunately, USA is playing the ultimate sore loser card with a generous dose of bu…

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    Comment #49141399

    > The shared "hacker house" scene in SF is really weird, though. The startup incubator in Silicon Valley, the tv series, was good comedy.

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    Comment #49141298

    In a gold rush, sell spades. But how do you apply that to start up San Francisco. Sell brewing consumables? Orgy stuff? Wood tables?

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    Comment #49140757

    > TLDR scams and hostile UX have made mobile phones unusable. I’m guess that I’m in too much of a backwater, but here in New Zealand I couldn’t tell you the last time I got a spam …

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    Comment #49137508

    If you want a decent review of something, you could do a lot worse than Reddit. But they do seem to be trying to destroy themselves at the moment.