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throwfgtpwd234

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    Comment #42947271

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42947269

    GNU Make and GCC, of course.

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    Comment #42947258

    Based on what specific evidence?

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    Comment #42947206

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42947200

    Money and resources are the same thing.

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    Comment #42947165

    Agreed. It's groups in multiple camps that want to force everyone to change how they do things. Superficial, performative "action" and causes don't change anything. Let's just be s…

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    Comment #42947082

    There was a much more thorough treatment for the reasons and causes in the body of work of Chalmers Johnson. Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope was recommended readin…

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    Comment #42947063

    Nuclear terrorism hasn't been a trope in mass media for about 10 years, and 20 years since Graham Allison's book Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. This book …

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    Comment #42947018

    The reason Windows gets slower and slower is to continue selling PCs. It never gets faster.

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    Comment #42946981

    And the LTSC version won't keep trying to upgrade itself. LTSC enterprise version of Windows or bust.

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    Comment #42946960

    That's an Arm version of Windows though. The main reasons to install Windows revolve around the need to use Windows only x86/x64 versions of drivers or software.

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    Comment #42946952

    vTPM only works if there's a real TPM available.

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    Comment #42946946

    Microsoft sends telemetry and displays ads all over Windows unless it is 11 Enterprise.

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    Comment #42946928

    That's on newer machines where it's likely built into the processor, not for older machines that had a TPM as an option that connected via a header.

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    Comment #42946922

    It has to be a TPM 2.0, not 1.2.

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    Comment #42946906

    This is exactly what I needed as I'm dusting off my modded Prusa MK3S+ w/ MMU and piles of vacuum-sealed filament.

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    Comment #42946866

    Proton also suffers from a pathology similar to the LavaBit problem. Better off using some other email service that doesn't insist on keeping GPG keys on its servers and using some…

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    Comment #42946857

    Signal leads to metadata by virtue of demanding a phone number. Use the fork Session instead that doesn't have this vulnerability. Or Mega, which does audio and video calls, chat, …

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    Comment #42946736

    Cainiao (AliExpress's shipment arm) and others will probably end up chartering planes to get customs' cleared packages to the US and then cross-ship them from somewhere in the US l…

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    Comment #42946702

    The point is Jeff Bezos wanted AliExpress shutdown because $$$$.

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    Comment #42946697

    That's not the point. The point is the USPS is abusively discriminating against trade for political purposes.

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    Comment #42946689

    It's effectively the same price as on Amazon but good luck ever returning that to China. https://amzn.com/dp/B0CSYB8RNC

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    Comment #42946639

    This is $$$$ compared to China Post Epackets.

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    Comment #42946460

    The type of business that rests on its laurels and believes ratcheting continuously-increasing rent seeking at the expense of goodwill will soon find themselves without new custome…