Just finished Hyperion, curious to hear the community’s thoughts
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    Read all four books. I have read the series now. Perhaps 3x in the last 25 or so years since I discovered it.

    The Fall of Hyperion is 100% a recommendation. The Endymion books are somewhat controversial. But I love them.

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  • ‘Dream team’: How all the EU’s top jobs could be held by women
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    The nature of these posts is that by default the 4 posts are filled by reps from the 4 largest parties in the EP.

    So there’s a conservative, a. Social democrat, a liberal etc.

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  • Has google stopped working for finding anything?
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    Photographers are it an obvious term to search for on maps. “Photo studios” sure. But event/wedding photographers are a google search not a maps search.

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  • Volvo CEO Jim Rowan thinks dropping Apple CarPlay is a mistake
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    You’re close to the point but missed the elephant. The valuable thing we’re fighting over in this case is all the data collected by the cars.

    Automakers lose some access when it’s Apple or Google serving the infotainment. Apple and Google also get access to this data for free.

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  • Musk wanted to use Tesla cameras to spy on drivers and win autopilot lawsuits
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    I think that is why Ford’s Blue Cruise that uses IR sensors like iPhone’s Face ID You s the better way to go.

    But ultimately al L this tech can be misused. And will be misused.

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  • Why the US is the only country that ties your health insurance to your job
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    It seriously saddens me how much 25 years of GOP propaganda against the Clintons has turned reasonable people among Democrats and those further to the left into parrots that try to pin everything on Hillary or Bill.

    There are legitimate criticisms of The Clintons. But they are way less involved than people give them credit for.

    To your comment, I have seen no mention of Hillary - then Secretary of State dealing with multiple conflicts - having any involvement in ACA. She had plenty other work. And there were other key advisors Obama picked that were the actually directly tasked with putting together ACA and making it pass.

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    Also let’s not forget such hits as Bill Clinton attempting a border healthcare reform which died very promptly. Which is why Obama and his advisors chose the republican approach.

    Also let’s not ignore that ACA originally had the public option in it. But as always, there is always enough money in bribes to turn just the right amount of Democrats against core wins so that it was a Democrat (I forget the twat’s name) that demanded the public option be stripped from the bill.

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    [EU] How many months savings do you consider enough?

    As the title says I am trying to see where people stand on this. Obviously this is all personal preference. But that is what I am after. After depleting our savings when buying our apartment 2 years ago, we’re about to cross 6 months liquid savings in just plain old savings account with ability to immediately withdraw money. (To clarify that is 6 month assuming 0 income, which is very unlikely given the social system of our country - so realistically we have even more in savings.) As you can imagine, the interest in this account is not great, so I want to set a limit as to when we stop dumping every spare penny into the savings account and begin doing other things (likely try to invest).

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    www.synology.com

    Inclusion of BTRFS makes this an excellent entry level data backup solution.

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    This site is for nerds right? If you want to talk post processing and lightroom, please join me at /c/Lightroom

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    I am a bit at a loss what to do next. 2 days ago I got some notifications that Synology could not reach my box. When home I began checking and in fact most things could not find the box. (though fascinatingly SMB could access the box - Lightroom was happily seeing its files on the NAS). Then I used Synology assistant and found the box (with a new ip ..ugh). But even when I connected the box is not connecting to the internet. I can access it via WIFI on my LAN .. I see the router sees the box, but I cannot connect to the internet. (I attempted restoring network settings from backup, I rebooted router and box .. no change) Has anyone seen anything like this before? Is there any good guide how to re-set and set up network settings and external access ? If I need to restore to factory settings what is the best way to get back up ad running after? and not lose my data?

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