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Comment #47863831
Yeah it makes more sense if you consider the word Windows' to be in possessive form.
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Comment #34063610
Shipping labels, tickets etc. Printers suck, but I can rely on paper being suitable for its purpose. Can't say that about most alternatives (mostly phone apps).
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Comment #34063516
That joke is actually pretty old. In fact the link you posted says that it's not his joke. I don't really know where it came from, but it's certainly not from that guy.
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Comment #29477865
This is nice. I run dark mode everywhere and I used to use notepad for quick notes and stuff. Problem is that notepad is a giant wide window so it would burn my eyes out when opene…
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Comment #29475748
Ah so because it's flagged as offensive you can't use it in an offensive manner on the internet. Got it. Makes perfect sense. THINK OF THE POOR APPLE MONITORS.
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Comment #29475732
What issue? There's nothing wrong with being offensive, and again, in this case that was entirely the point. He's being offensive to Apple's implementation of monitor settings. He'…
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Comment #29473589
The first definition is "very stupid or foolish" which seems quite apt given the context. The second one talks about a disability, which does not really seem applicable since we're…
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Comment #29473485
>OFFENSIVE very foolish or stupid. Still seems very apt, no?
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Comment #28837536
Looks to me like they just straight up ripped the Discord front-end, changed the parts where it connects to a back-end and hosted it. Registration page has links to Discord's ToS, …
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Comment #27689347
No... Delete this!
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Comment #23735506
yup, `sudo tinc -n %VPNNAME% invite %CLIENTNAME%` will generate an invite URL on the server side and `tinc join %INVITEURL%` will let you join it. It's definitely really easy now, …
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Comment #23734892
Tinc 1.1 is actually fairly easy to set up - it's only a couple of commands for defining the name of the network, getting a link nodes can use to join etc. The only problem is that…
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Comment #21694133
Yup: https://i.imgur.com/VuawaE1.png , on Excel v1911 (Build 12228.20332).
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Comment #20949154
> We've gotten so used to phone notifications and a persistent history, that IRC has fallen behind purely from a convenience factor. I have that with a bouncer (znc) and a plugin. …
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Comment #20202257
The difference is that a TV is intended to be used to watch movies, TV shows etc. (which is why they do these effects in firmware) although a lot of TVs have a "Game mode" or somet…
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Comment #20037934
I feel like the better solution to #4 is setting up UID namespacing for docker instead of (just) creating random users within the container. Even if you create a user, it's still g…
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Comment #19917368
Can't wait for marketing people to catch up to this and call devices "SIoT" without changing anything about the product.
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Comment #19885221
You didn't translate the TLD, which is .org, not .opr.
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Comment #19827160
On Windows I have the "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" option disabled and yet in about:config Normandy was still enabled. I haven't received the fix. Could be that Firef…
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Comment #19623108
It uses VBA, so it's not going to be compatible with non-MS office products (and the author doesn't really advertise compability anywhere anyway).
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Comment #19499404
It's a comedy sketch about a courtroom case in which they "try to defend Jurassic park after the deaths of the visitors".
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Comment #19499256
Pocket knives are very useful for (adult) backpackers, mountaineers and other people who do a lot of outdoors stuff. Hell even in every day life pocket knives can come in handy. Yo…
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Comment #19451166
It's not the 90's anymore, getting a virus is pretty hard. Hell, it wasn't really all that easy in the first place, unless you pirated or installed shady software from shady ads on…
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Comment #19358648
For someone who isn't following the hashing function 'scene', what's misinformed about this rant?