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zecg

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    Comment #49229897

    > Resilient replicas of your data will live in the US (for now). As we only have one location in Europe so far, the geographically separate copy will remain on servers in one of ou…

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    Comment #48917987

    > The moment I am too scared to do something because I might damage the tool, it stops being a tool. What? You can damage even the most robust and simple tool by using it wrongly o…

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    Comment #48802715

    You mean this one: https://www.comaps.app/download/

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    Comment #47931759

    When I heat the word "digitizing" I reach for my gun.

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    Comment #47931704

    > smartphone pairing enables automatic time correction I like how they're advertising this shitty feature that's much more cumbersome than what their watches have now, namely https…

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    Comment #47716627

    Except today games all work and invariably markedly better on Linux. Even the games that stopped working on Windows for me work great, like https://www.protondb.com/app/2008510

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    Comment #47502593

    This FLOSS RAW editor works really well, btw: http://www.rawtherapee.com/

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    Comment #47476199

    > What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better. Fuck your weasel words

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    Comment #47454265

    ...for people who insist on using only Windows on their personal computer.

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    Comment #47385945

    I gave up, bought a kobo libra2 that never saw an internet connection (you can find updated firmware online to download) and now just borrow epubs in the soulseek library.

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    Comment #46957994

    Luckily, they well enshittified it prior to this move, so my account is already deleted. I wish Discord a swift irrelevance.

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    Comment #46870639

    I don't want to download the code or models for those features in the first place, Mozilla.

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    Comment #46869424

    You can on Android, using this: https://f-droid.org/it/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/ (it's also on Google's store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.celzero.br... …

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    Comment #46703912

    I can tell, because I now use forks of Firefox decrapified by nerds in their basements.

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    Comment #46679007

    > In europe , this is not news, never. That's just false. Example, here's a shitty tabloid in Croatia: https://www.24sata.hr/news/vrh-europske-komisije-mijenja-pra...

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    Comment #46678463

    > Vibe coding didn't make me a 10x engineer. But it gave me permission to build again. Ideas I've had for years suddenly feel achievable. That's honestly the bigger win for me. Did…

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    Comment #46606105

    CachyOS, it's basically a nice installer to jump into rolling arch. (I made sure it's a Ryzen thinkpad, might be relevant)

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    Comment #46587499

    I feel like people who say this haven't seen KDE in a very long time. On a thinkpad it not only "just works", it works flawlessly, never demands attention without justification (i.…

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    Comment #46326419

    I'd download epubs of everything from Anna's Archive and/or soulseek (Nicotine+ is nice) and kindly tell them to fuck off with their account.

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    Comment #46022076

    Basically Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)

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    Comment #45979917

    > “Who is going to trust somebody who got a degree in airline engineering who doesn’t know how to think through a problem without a computer telling them the answer?” I think the a…

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    Comment #45413679

    I only tolerate the piece of shit phone because of F-Droid. Most of google's apps are banned from connecting to the network (like their fucking keyboard, I don't need or want any i…

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    Comment #45331711

    Let me be reasoned and measured and say fuck the entire gallery of those assholes. I only use Signal now, but I'm fully willing to give that up as well if this goes through and go …

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    Comment #44308787

    I recommend "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Something