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Markoff
2,755karma·3,272submissions·December 31, 2016
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I'm not Russian, don't even speak Russian, just liked John Markoff in 90s.
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open camera pretty much always delivers worse results than gcam, have you tried it? https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/p/gcam-asus-zenfo... …
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tried to visit it without ublock, I still don't see any ads at all and see no reason why there would be any, can you tell me were are the ads?
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Wouldn't make more sense to not store information (or have it encrypted without proton having access to it), so they would have nothing to share even if they were forced to comply?
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please stop spreading lies, Wikipedia is swimming in money and they have money for years or even decades if they would not waste them on various seminars and other nonsense unrelated to running Wikipe…
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> I guess he achieved the same thing Bill Clinton achieved - he took the spotlight off of his personal issues. Not, if you start calling US+Israel an Epstein coalition (forces). :-)
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Wait, you need to go to about:config to customize your right click context menu by disabling items one by one and you don't have normal Settings UI to customize it? Vivaldi browser desktop user (…
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As long term Outlook.com user all I can say it's their service is extremely unreliable, my emails are either not delivered at all or end up in junk mail, some emails I don't receive at all o…
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it's literally one of the smallest Android phones with good specs here you have filtered Android phones since 2020 under 71mm with OIS camera https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3…
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You can have more than 32GB RAM in T470s (btw. I'm using T480s with 40GB RAM) https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/bibx3p/t470s_supp... …
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that depends what you consider a healthy resale value, I bought my Pixel 6a with no issues for 100EUR :-) (and not because I care about Google's business, I don't have gapps in my phone, I j…
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> The small form factor phones simply do not sell. yeah, clearly nobody buys Samsung Galaxy S series for years, they are like the least popular Android phone model... /s I'm running Pixel…
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Helsinki has population 690K as they mention in the article, while Berlin with 5 deaths 3.7M and also many people commuting, so it's not really that big of an achievement. Also the article is mis…
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it's quite a big deal Motorola will have officialy devices with unlockable bootloader now that Samsung is ditching it and Xiaomi is making unlocking almost impossible, Sony reintroduced it but ha…
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Is the cost per shot even relevant if you don't include value of the saved property?
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I live in Europe, I experienced many people paying with the phone/watches, it was never faster than tapping the bank card. Anyway PIN is required only for purchases over 20EUR.
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iCloud subscription
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I used to do this during long travel in planes, buses or trains when I was single backpacker. Now traveling with my own family is just exhausting chore and I couldn't care less about stranger sit…
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I think this applies for most of the Europe other than south, though smaller the town more talkative the people I think, in villages with nothing to do are people more likely to be curious about the s…
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> I just want a cheap phone that can run like five apps (sadly one is the type that won't work, i.e. payments), and not run Android or iOS. https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io https:…
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what good cameras? all I see is "Sony" without mentioning chip, even cheap phones like Poco X7 Pro or similar have nowadays comparable cameras as what they claim
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maybe stay away from news if they make you anxious?
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huge notch and huge bottom bezel with mediocre Mediatek Dimensity 7100, all this for 650EUR with specs worse than 200EUR phones, that's like 450EUR for software, a bit high surcharge...
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I assume he meant coaching full time would not pay the bills for living. My kids elementary school doesn't have their own teams/coeaches, everything is managed through different NGO/non…
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I mean if you have already adult kids (or no kids at all) you have lot of spare time, my kid's head coach is 68yo, so he has time to train them twice a week (sometimes accompanied his similar age…
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how safe is Chinese Lenovo with closed sourced firmware? btw. Motorola has absolutely trash cameras, doubt GrapheneOS will change anything about it unless you put there gcam maybe, this is significant…
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you better not look at screen:body ratio since Pixel 6a, it decreased for few generations and only now it's finally back on par, that's not what I call evolution/progress same with Amaz…
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well health tracker which stops tracking when it's battery optimized isn't very useful, is it?