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xist

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    Comment #43382629

    > Surely, if you support something, you have some familiarity with it? You'd really hope that's the same logic used when someone doesn't support something too. Rarely are people's …

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    Comment #41628373

    Stuff You Should Know had a podcast last year on it with the back story of how it was created https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-stuff-you-should-know-26...

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    Comment #41551855

    I still think of the freebsd server with just under 13 years of uptime when I killed it. No one can explain the rush of happiness that comes with issuing a shutdown command. I trie…

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    Comment #40403416

    DFS-N != DNS a.) lack of monitoring for running services b.) cruft/old configurations

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    Comment #40402249

    When will this tired meme be retired? There's almost 300 RFCs related to DNS. It can do many things, and some of them are complex. But human error is almost always the root cause. …

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    Comment #39317440

    I remember the days when theregister could be considered good newsource. Did the author need to crank out an "article" before the weekend? This has been talked about for decades. I…

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    Comment #39139328

    Vmware products are quite good at scale and support enterprise features that a casual user won't need/cant use. Virtualbox is designed to be ran on a machine that is already runnin…

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    Comment #37765883

    208.67.222.222 / 208.67.220.220 do not have the functionality worldwide. The IPs ending in .123 do have parental control enabled worldwide

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    Comment #37117584

    The article is about use in an enterprise. An enterprise runs professional/enterprise/ltsc versions which do NOT steer you to the cloud - what data sovereignty concerns have you se…

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    Comment #37115623

    The article is referring to enterprise usage - and you're quoting all the consumer level attributes (aka cheap/sometimes subsidized version). At the enterprise level where this is …

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    Comment #35406841

    Make sense, rich people would have an easier time to immigrate. But how many of this dozen are here on TFW like you're suggesting? I'm doubtful that it's TFW that are buying the pr…

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    Comment #35405742

    > Businesses underpay and when they can't find people willing to impoverish themselves to work for them, they apply to the government to bring in "temporary foreign workers" - for …

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    Comment #35405703

    In those 2 examples, they have nothing to do with WEF's goal as far as I can tell. In fact, Indian Brahmin would seem to contradict with WEF's supposed goals. wrt Mexican cartels, …

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    Comment #35405526

    > its not even trying to hide any of this, you can still find it on the web > this was the goal of Lenin and Trotsky - complete destruction of the idea of the individual person You…

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    Comment #35405487

    > They can totally do it and there is nothing people can do about it, so they don't even have to hide that much. All the "theories" I've seen conveniently forget about China & Indi…

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    Comment #34431119

    I asked a friend who just left med school. He laughed and said yes there's lots of evidence supporting this in his profession alone. He suggested you pick up a copy of "Principles …

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    Comment #34429434

    >No there isn't. There isn't any science behind this to begin with. Sorry I didn't realize you were an expert in this topic, but you must have slept through the lessons of SRY gene…

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    Comment #34420309

    I'm surprised that this was an exhibit in the first place tbh with that limited information. My comments were related to the hyperbolic comparison OP did. Trans people exist. Full …

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    Comment #34419192

    Gender identity is something that is nuanced and complex. I'm not looking for an argument but I would invite you to think of the opposite: - What is the proof that this person is n…

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    Comment #34418453

    That's ... a pretty inflammatory and dismissive point of view. There's lots of evidence going back to egyptian times supporting the science behind this. Unfortunately most people o…

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    Comment #34224382

    The shortcuts are what you're seeing on a naked windows install, not the applications themselves. This can be proven by when you go into uninstall it look at the space used. It wil…

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    Comment #34224327

    There's not as much bloatware in Windows 11 as you might think - most of it is links to install applcations, not the applications themselves. Part of it is due to advertising - you…

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    Comment #34223685

    I do somewhat agree, however the title is a bit misleading then IMHO. It's not so much a debloat as it is a how to make a very customized installation for your very specific enviro…

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    Comment #34223628

    On a vanilla windows installation, almost all of those are only shortcuts to install the application is included as a convenience to endusers who may want this. You can confirm thi…

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    Comment #34223589

    Enterprise is more what you're looking for, LTSC is designed for special use cases only. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/l... has some examples of why yo…