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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s stopping you from connecting it to the local network but denying internet access? E.g. via a firewall rule or separate VLAN?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhm this is exactly why you only store already-encrypted data on remote servers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like obsidian specifically because you don’t need to rely on some built-in sync tool. The files are right there and in a sane format, you can sync them however you want. I use syncthing for this at home, but the choice is yours

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life goals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can find these stations in lots of public places in Europe. They usually have some tools for basic bicycle repair too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What it means to sign Elsevier's Copyright Transfer Agreement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad the preprint is already on arxiv

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It eludes me how people pay to ‘buy’ something that they cannot download in the first place. If I don’t have it as a file on my computer, I don’t own it. You wouldn’t pay to ‘buy’ a physical item if that meant only being able to look at it at the store, without the ability to take it home and do whatever you want with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner bell is going off⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The power of munchies transcends eating disorders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seek these nuts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you actually have 10G switches and network cards, or is everything behind your router on 1G?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that it sold out proves that no one wants it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jewel Beetles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see that bodybuilders are not attractive to most people, but how are their bodies ‘fake’? Getting to look like that is hard work, and not just a matter of money, makeup and plastic surgery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the lifestyle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about tikz?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Optimisation is a Slow Process⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever heard of a cloaka?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows is just not quite there yet for desktop use. Give them a few years to clean up their sharp edges and clunky UX and add some long overdue features, then maybe it’ll be a real alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With the 10G NIC upgrade, I would see some use in this if it ran Linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grr Windows⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe this is due to my flake setup, but the way I currently update (nix flake update, then nixos-rebuild) I can only update everything at once. At times, this can feel clunky compared to e.g. arch which lets me update individual packages. Do you have any suggestions on how to do partial updates?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern men should learn from him smh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, he really has his shit together

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have also encountered games that needed tweaking (like changing settings in an .ini file that weren’t visible in the game’s menu) to run in an acceptable way on windows. Does this mean that Windows is ‘not quite there yet’, or is the game to blame?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but which drivers do you have in mind? You can install Linux on almost any machine, and if there are driver issues the culprits are usually nvidia, realtek, etc. for which Microsoft is hardly responsible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The big Windows 10 problem is that it is Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But 8% and 13% are both below 10

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In high school, I used to be frustrated by this as well. But now, I’ve come to appreciate being able to get a reminder for a definition or a famous result just by googling and clicking on the resulting wikipedia page. Way better than having to find and dig through a badly-scanned pdf of a paper from the 70s which presented the definition that everyone in the field now uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not familiar with iphones, can’t you just use plain wireguard?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is ‘Thinking Through’ How to Make the Pixel Watch Repairable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like something you would think about while, you know, designign a product? And not after its release?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mornings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My condolences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mornings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys are using windows?