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potemkinhr

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    Comment #43514032

    Do banking apps work normally if downloaded from the aurora store? I'd very much like to fully degoogle my next phone when I get to replacing it, and it's the last stumbling stone

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    Comment #39696803

    Good one, added it to my Powershell profile for the occasional giggle so I can invoke it on demand, feel free to reuse it function Insult { (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri " https://cheswi…

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    Comment #39623513

    Damn it, I just realized AWS online exams for certification are pretty much the same if you read the TOS, I just might book a exam in a physical exam center. Too many unknown ifs a…

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    Comment #38431569

    What other raid could he have on a two drive NAS? I have the same setup at home with some push to the cloud and have the peace of mind that if one drive fails I can recover from it…

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    Comment #38402455

    Well VPN is off the table as almost all of them will be blocked by russia's regulators

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    Comment #38222478

    I have a hunch if they remained on android core and specifically prevented sideloading it would spark more backlash than simply switching to another platform. This way they gain co…

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    Comment #38216971

    I totally interpret this as a move to prevent any sideloading and ensure data collection and ad injection are being done on their part. Can't easily prevent those on something that…

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    Comment #37646656

    There's the odd game that uses registry for the purpose of save files for some reason, which is stupid when you have several PC's and want to sync progress for the odd session. The…

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    Comment #35945806

    Care to share that one?

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    Comment #35578738

    It's actually worse, they pulled the legacy version from the users and forced the (effectively) downgraded version to everyone. Even the owners of the legacy version were shafted a…

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    Comment #35547044

    Yeah, the irony in that one is great

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    Comment #27223629

    It's probably just WebView but from the UI and elements it was obvious that it's IE-based. What's also interesting is that for the manual's videos Flash was required which now obvi…

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    Comment #27220163

    IE is used in some unexpected places, one of the weirder ones for example a ingame display frame for the ingame wiki of older Total War series games. They'll need to update the gam…

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    Comment #26410954

    I don't opening it at any point before decomissioning it completely is even an afterthought with that. They just write off any failures and roll with it as long as it's viable.

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    Comment #25940771

    Anybody care to make a Archive snapshot of the article?

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    Comment #25287302

    "Hello Computer" seems pretty neutral, it reminds me of this sketch from IT crowd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu88J5JL8Hw

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    Comment #25241194

    The ages old AMD philosophy, shovel more cores at it? With such low TDP it might work

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    Comment #24868979

    Also a stellar Photoshop alternative is Paint.NET https://www.getpaint.net/ I wasn't happy with GIMP's interface since way back but this one fulfills pretty much my every need, and…

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    Comment #11158966

    Do you have an example article or resource for such a use? I'd like to carry over notifications to the IM instead of cluttering my e-mail needlessly.