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Not to disagree but mozilla and firefox are not the same thing
When I get fast food, I don't eat the fries until I get home.
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Idk. Hot and Ready's bring back the fond memories of self loathing and trauma bonding that were grad school
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I applaud you coming here, but you might have better luck on the steam forums as there are more people there who might have the same problem
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A good reason to walk around with a label maker
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I don't use majaro, but is there a store? Or a circle with a number that tells you how many updates are available? Or if you are considering switching to arch, do it the arch way: sudo pacman -Syu
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Semantic HTML
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Uh oh here we go again... spaces are better than tabs! Fight me! The shirt is coming off! Granular white space beats fewer character per file!
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Welcome back to school kids. I hope you all had a good summer. Today we are going to play a game. It's called Frogger
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What features are missing? (Maybe ignorance is bliss)
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Somewhat agree. The good ones you'd never know exist until you need help. They are a god send. Fuck the rest of them
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It isn't about indvidual privacy. It's about not further empowering the wealthy and the entities that serve them. I'm disappointed with Mozilla, but this seems to have become par for the course
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Seven of Nine
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See a therapist. It's great you feel comfortable reaching out to the community, but our time is fleeting and memories short. Going to speak to someone who is professionally trained to help people in these kinds of circumstances on a regular basis helps a lot.
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This is the realest meme I've ever seen
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I have never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
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This sounds vaguely illegal
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Agreed. I'm not entirely (barely) versed in the law, but at the very least, if it's a one party consent state, his mom would "have to set it up".
What's less clear to me is why the drastic action? Start by leaving a 20 on the dresser and see if it stays there.
As an American, the US participation in the Ukrainian conflict as well as the Palestinian genocide are beyond reproach. Many describe them as proxy wars, but I'm not there yet. During the Cold War, there was the Afghanistan, Vietnam, South America, Cuba, etc. These were proxy wars because there was a clear adversary on the other side. The Soviet Union. Now, who is that? Russia? China? Who is "our enemy"? I see it was war is good for business and projection of power. Am I wrong?
Obviously, a bit of clickbait. Sorry. I just got to work and plugged my surface pro into my external monitor. It didn't switch inputs immediately, and I thought "Linux would have done that". But would it? I find myself far more patient using Linux and De-googled Android than I do with windows or anything else. After all, Linux is *mine*. I care for it. Grow it like a garden. And that's a good thing; I get less frustrated with my tech, and I have something that is important to me outside its technical utility. Unlike windows, which I'm perpetually pissed at. (Very often with good reason) But that aside, do we give Linux too much benefit of the doubt relative to the "things that just work". Often they do "just work", and well, with a broad feature set by default. Most of us are willing to forgo that for the privacy and shear customizability of Linux, but do we assume too much of the tech we use and the tech we don't? Thoughts?
FOSS or otherwise
My understanding of google analytics is that it is a 'free' tool which gives site operators bird's eye information on site traffic like the old fashion visitor counters all the way down to very granular information like what buttons users click on. I have no idea what google tag service does. Based on a prior conversations I've had, I believe it has something to do with SEO. If you don't know what I'm talking about, use the developer tools in Firefox to view the HTML of the page you are on. In the header you'll see javascript blocks. You'll see google analytics and tag service on just about every site, often meta or amazon, and some with completely unidentifiable names. I imagine the latter are the non big tech third parties we accept with cookies, but I'm not sure about that either.
My upstairs neighbors seem to like clog dancing at 2am. What would you do?
I spend a lot of time fixing things, for myself and others. (Computers, electrical, plumbing, etc). While I learn a lot, I wonder sometimes if it would be better to pay a professional and do something else for which I am more 'valuable'. Do you do the same, and do you find it worthwhile?
When you connect a new device to a 'smart' tv, you must pay homage to the manufacturer with a ritualistic dance. Plugging and unplugging the device. Turning them on and off in the correct sequence like entering a konami code. Every time you want to switch devices, the tv must scan for them. And god forbid you lose power, or unplug something. You are granted the delight experience of doing it all over again. I have fond memories of the days of just plugging something in, and pressing the input button. Instant gratification. It was a simpler time. What is some other tech that used to be better?
I gave my students a take home exam over spring break. (This is normal where I teach) One of the questions was particulary difficult. It came down to a factor of three in the solution. That factor inexplicably appeared with no justification on many of their exams. I intend to have the students I suspect of cheating come to my office to solve the problem on the board. What would you do? Edit: I gave them the Tuesday before spring break until the Thursday after. I didn't want it to be right before or right after. When I say normal I mean giving take home exams.
I have a 2010 Toyota Corolla. She's been my trusty steed for the last 14 years and is in good working order. I recognize she won't last forever, and if, god forbid (mostly for her) I get in an accident, I will need to get a new car. So what dumb cars do you drive, and what would you replace them with?
My reading has found things like generic phishing becoming more like spearfishing and blue teams finding preexisting problems using AI. Have there been any zero days? Do you think quantum computing will have a more significant impact on security than AI? Relatively speaking, how significant a role does good personal security practices like password management play relative to these two?
Here's what I'm rocking: - Aegis - App Lounge - AntennaPod - Bitwarden - Dicio - Doodle - F-Droid - FeedMe (Not FOSS. Open to suggestions) - Firefox - FNG - InvizBox - Jerboa - Mastodon - Music Player GO - Obsidian - OpenLauncher - Organic Maps - OsmAnd~ - Proton Cal/Drive/Mail/VPN - RadioDroid - RedReader - Signal - Silence - Simple Keyboard - Tasks (Not the built in. I love this one) - Unit Converter Ultimate - Wikipedia This is just about everything I have on my phone. I'm on a FairPhone 4 running /e/OS. What's your load out like? I'm looking for a new keyboard. Glad for suggestions :D
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