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Lammy

19,532karma·5,232submissions·July 30, 2008
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> (despite your attempts to conceal it) Huh? I am very open about what I like and why.
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Seeing how much effort this takes makes me feel vindicated for never buying in to the wireless-earbud trend at all. I love love love having one of the few modern Androids with a real TRRS jack (REDMAG…
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> You have a very interesting idea of prison life. That was intentional, because not only are you trapped and told exactly when and where to go by the obnoxious Cult Of Security, but every once in …
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Please point to which 802.11 standard has changed since 2023 that you would like to see supported: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/browse/standards/get-program/pag... …
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FUD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt I'm so sick of people telling me to BE AFRAID . If you want to live without the risk of a little danger, go …
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The people who make their living Caring A Lot would be out of a job without a constant fresh supply of things to be very concerned about.
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There was also “Winamp:Mac” 0.71 alpha version official from Nullsoft: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/winampmac Its awkward name was because “MacAMP” dev became third-party: h…
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Fuck “buying it legitimately” anyway when it's old enough that it would be Public Domain under a sane copyright regime. Relevant: NOLF Revival Edition (same as mentioned in the article and quoted…
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Meta: forthcoming Ruby 4.0 feature formerly called “Namespace”: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21311 …
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It's an excellent example of the fruitlessness of technical solutions to people problems. Some people are just destined to get scammed, and it isn't worth throwing away General Purpose Compu…
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I do not want to be in the business of key management. This is not something that needed encryption. More encryption ≠ better than. I also dual-boot Windows and that's a whole additional can of w…
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The name “Secure Boot” is such an effective way for them to guide well-meaning but naïve people's thought process to their desired outcome. Microsoft's idea of Security is security from me…
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I agree with you and run with it disabled myself, but some anti-cheat software will block you if you do this. Battlefield 6 and Valorant both require it.
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Google have their own reasons too. They would love to kill off YouTube ReVanced and other haxx0red clients that give features for free which Google would rather sell you on subscription. Just look a…
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And it won't even be necessary for many people since a lot of work has gone into FreeBSD's Wi-Fi support recently: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/improving-and-debug…
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Four H100s in an Alphabet datacenter somewhere, obviously.
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> I don't know if I trust Waymo cars with my life, but at least there are SOME standards, compared to the natural variance of humans. The one thing you can trust Waymo to do is spy on you. H…
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> For example, ZFS seems interesting but Btrfs is probably close enough for most people. They are not directly comparable since ZFS is also the volume manager for your ZFS filesystems, enabling fea…
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I really really like the feel of the textured ABS though :)
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I haven't tried putting any on my Framework 12 yet, because the ABS has this sort of rough texture that's very soft and pleasant to touch but seems like it wouldn't hold stickers well l…
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One time when I left a job and had some really rare stickers I bought an identical ThinkPad and swapped the entire upper half of the machines with each other.
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> Firefox has had profiles for years. What the heck is new? Even further back — Netscape had profiles! https://web.archive.org/web/20000816175642/http://help.n…
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No, it's funny because of the way they feel the need to glaze Apple over doing something Apple are required to do. Very transparent way to avoid writing a headline that is entirely negative about…
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This is one of the funniest headlines I've seen in a while RE: “ahead of regulatory deadline”, because deadline is the new year. Citation: https://www.jftc.go.jp/file/240612E…
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Why did they say it? https://xcancel.com/wef/status/983378870819794945
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Don't care, I'll go where the funny is. Simply amassing that much money makes one complicit in The System, effectively ceasing to be human and embodying the will of the money itself, so let&…
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Strawberry can do this and was already my favorite music player on Linux/BSD systems even without that: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/#features It's a maintained Qt6…
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> modern equivalent of the classic WinAmp that runs on Windows WACUP — originally Win Amp Community Update Project, although they have distanced themselves from any mention of the original for lega…
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