If that doesn't work, insulting it and telling it you're gonna kill yourself because of its bad answers triggers a lot of warnings and filters that usually get you to a human way faster.

It's sad we've reached this point.

In a lot of places in Europe, they are forced to give you free tap water. Now, the tap water is basically free for them (and that's why they passed that law), but they give it to you in one of their paper cups. Those cost money.

For years now I've been boycotting starbucks by asking for a cup of water every time I see one, and not buying anything from them.

I've probably only made them lose 2 cents, but I'm proud of it. Fuck starbucks.

(Of course, be respectful to the employees when you ask them for the cup of water)

So tired of keeping like 10 different ethernet dongles, 5 of one model and 5 of another, because half of the new laptops can't even connect to the internet with the windows install ISO due to lack of drivers.

Sometimes one of those 2 models will also refuse to work with the windows ISO, so ig fuck you if you're trying to install windows on more than 5 computers at the same time.

Oh and of course you still need to do the bypass even if you don't have drivers for the network card. Ig also fuck you too if you don't know about it, because you're never gonna install windows on that laptop.

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We should encourage more nazis to follow Hitler's steps on that one. The only good thing a nazi can ever do.

It has a headphone jack!

I already like this phone.

I once bought a cheap 3-5€ mouse on aliexpress. That thing lasted ages, and it never missed a beat until it finally broke. And when it did break, the scrollwheel still worked, and it's usually the first thing to break on cheap mice.

It probably helped that the mouse had no stupid rubber that disintegrates in 1 year of use.

It wasn't even a bad mouse. It was lightweight and it had high DPI and a good sensor.

I've never managed to make another mouse last as long, and like you, I've spent close to 100€ on singular mice, which also needed their own crappy software running in the background to work.

I work as a sysadmin (luckily I work mostly with Linux). We have lots of tools for windows server setup on our company, and for most deployments, we have templates and checklists to deploy as quickly as possible.

It still takes at least 2 hours to deploy windows server from a checkpoint, and that's skipping all the initial installation. Most of that time is spent updating, debloating, and setting the most basic stuff up.

It takes me less time to set up a Linux server from scratch, without any checkpoints, than it takes my coworkers to set up a windows server for the 9999th time, with a decade worth of tools.

And also the other way around, sometimes the windows installer will have bugs with your hardware and you will need to troubleshoot it or change the hardware.

We really assume it doesn't happen because most computers nowadays come with Windows preinstalled, but if you've ever installed Windows on many computers, you know it's not that uncommon for it to fail to recognize your hardware. The most common issue is usually the network cards.

They won't take it down if they have both an onion site and a clearnet site. The worst that could happen is that they eventually manage to take the clearnet site down (which at this rate, they won't be able to do). In which case, they will just have the onion site, just like you say they should.

I think gatekeeping information is bad. Both behind a copyright, DMCA and DRM, but also by making it more complicated to access or hiding it. Of course, the intention isn't the same, but the result often is.

Piracy is not just the act of pirating, it's also the belief that data should be free, that culture should be accessible to those who can't afford to pay for it, and that by freeing the information, we will make the world a better place. Anna's archive follows that philosophy, and that's why they did the Spotify thing. It's also why they always try to keep a clearnet site, so less technically inclined people have access to all that information.

What copyright trolls want isn't just to eliminate piracy. Making it harder is also a partial win for them.

Also not on a bike lane. Terrible cyclist.

Motion blur is necessary for movies. They don't run at 60fps, they run at 24fps. They would feel stuttery if they didn't have motion blur. That's why even computer animated movies have fake motion blur added to them.

No. I do not need good audio quality on a phone, I need convenience.

And most of those cheap DACs already use the same chips phone motherboards used to have (and still have). Despite that, there are some phone models that have actually good DACs inside, and some companies also used to put very decent DACs on their phones (like LG or Sony).

Nope. America has multiple nations, some of them developed, like Canada or Mexico, and some of them undeveloped, like the US.

Tbf, they renamed it to try to get away from the bad press they got after the Facebook Files scandal. They thought renaming the company would make people forget, or something.

At that time they were all in on the metaverse, so of course they had to name it Meta. I guess that's another bad decision from zucc added to the collection.

What I really don't understand is why they haven't changed it again, either back to Facebook or to something new. Now Meta always reminds me of both the metaverse failure and trying to weasel out of the Facebook Files fallout.

I made a previous comment praising it for its audio jack. Turns out I'm an idiot and misread a letter.

It still has no audio jack. I really can't believe all these "sustainable" "no e-waste" companies are removing their audio jacks, when Samsung themselves have proven it can be done even on incredibly cheap phones and with water proofing.

Sadly, this seems to be another Fairphone moment. Their phones look genuinely nice, but I can't justify a downgrade from my phone, which currently has an audio jack.

OpenVPN in TCP mode wrapped around Stunnel. That's the thing that works.

I have it set up to bypass VPN restrictions in some networks, but it also serves to bypass a lot more stuff if you know what you're doing.

DPI will only see TLS traffic, and assume it's HTTP. You can even try to fool it by modifying the packet headers, so dumb enough DPI will think you're connecting to the site you choose.

I should start doing this

Who uses virtualbox on Linux having KVM, QEMU and virsh/virt-manager?

It's gonna be slower, proprietary, and it's not even as easy to install

A coworker put it better than I ever could:

"Microsoft is the only company which has ever managed to make a shell that takes 10 seconds to autocomplete"

And I think that's poetry.

(Yes, I know there are many more reasons why pwsh sucks, but there's beauty in the simplicity of this one)