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I had that issue. I just created a new account solely for YouTube

I haven’t seen a single ad in over a year. You still get paid sponsorships depending on the channel though

I paid for a family subscription a couple of years ago. It is very reasonably priced. Probably one of the least regretted subscriptions I have given the amount of use I get out of …

I’m in a similar boat. I jumped to pop!os from Ubuntu for the nvidia gpu support (and snapectomy) which has worked pretty well. I think I’ll be upgrading to an AMD gpu next though …

The article even uses them interchangeably between the title and the first paragraph

Same in Scotland. And our tax burden is even higher (if you’re a middle or high earner at least)

I’m fairly certain L2 caches were external (and could be purchased separately) on 486 and earlier systems

Yes. That’s the race condition

Although it looks like BGA, it actually uses a QFN package where all the contacts are accessible at the edge. With a little practice they are relatively easy to hand solder (I've d…

I think they would have just brought you another. They unclip from the seat very easily (in a safe way of course)

They did. My wife plays it constantly

I live in an Edwardian street and my house should have been 13 except it isn’t. They skipped it and my house is 15 instead. Hopefully the universe doesn’t spot this deceit!

FAANG is dead. Long live MANAMA! (Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon) Silly, I know but I’ve always wondered why Microsoft was left out of the original 5

I had almost exactly the same career arc. Perl became Python, Sun became Linux and I eventually moved beyond sysadmin work into automation, then API development and now I lead soft…