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Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself in The Woodlands
Get a dash cam folks, you never know when you are going to need it.
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Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself in The Woodlands
Get a dash cam folks, you never know when you are going to need it.
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I've never played games. Suggest a couple of addictive games I can play on Linux
Factorio and OpenTTD
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I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America.
If you have Costco membership, their optical department is pretty affordable. Frames are $50-80. Lenses another $80 or so, but depends on complexity and of you get transitions and whatnot.
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Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself in The Woodlands
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Yes, but the cop outright lied by claiming he was hit.
The driver should get their $200 fine, but the cop essentially attempted to frame another person.
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Ron DeSantis: I’ll purge FBI on day one of my presidency
I wonder if he would actually do half the things he is campaigning on. A lot of what he doing in Florida are just populist policies to score points with idiots. He is fully aware they are gonna be challenged and likely overturned (or scaled down) by courts, but he just cares about the immediate "news" points he gets when the law is passed and he brags about it.
Definitely abhorrent human being willing to do anything just to score politically.
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what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion
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Yes, all packages in nixos are available as binaries to download.
The comparison with Arch was just in terms of number of packages. Not the binary availability.
At the bottom of this page, they say that binary cache is currently at 120TB. https://nixos.org/community/index.html
If packages being available as binaries is the main criteria, nix has you covered there.
The biggest issue for most people with Nixos is the learning curve just because it's so different.
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Photoprism or Immich
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Such a good point. I'm honestly surprised people recommend Nextcloud so frequently. I've used it in a commercial environment and it sucks ass. It broke numerous times when upgrading, it was buggy and slow. At the time their GitHub page had like 4k open issues and another 8k closed. Looks like it's somewhat better now. Many of issues we've experienced were reported but no movement for years. It's like least stable OSS I had dealt with.
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Getting unhappy about DuckDuckGo
Been happy with Kagi for the past few months. So far no thoughts of switching back to either Google or DDG.
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EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk!
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Both US and EU are big enough markets that two models are totally feasible. Actually, radios inside cell phones are already different due to slightly different frequencies between the two continents. Take a look, but a lot of phones have US and EU version already.
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What are the best customizable routers nowadays?
MikroTik is super powerful, customizable and affordable.
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what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion
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Nixos will use/download cached binaries that are available in its repo. It has one of the biggest repositories of any Linux distro. It's on par with Arch with around 90 thousand packages.
Unless you are doing something custom or niche, your nixos won't have to compile anything.
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[Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins?
Plazma (Lane) Biscuits, 600g https://a.co/d/2zIZ29U
They have some vitamins and iron, not too much fat or sugar, but still taste great. There is also a ground version that can be eaten with milk, kind of like a sweet porridge - but better.
Here is one link to nutrition facts label. https://assets.wakefern.com/is/image/wakefern/860004300332-577
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US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now?
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They don't expect to go bankrupt by 2033. That's when the surplus/reserves will run out. The system doesn't have the fixed amount of money. Current employees are constantly paying into it.
20% is the shortfall between payout vs people paying in. And it will only happen if it's not addressed. Which I'm sure will get addressed last minute or something like that.
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House GOP Sneaks Pay Raise for Themselves in Shutdown Bill
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I was wondering the same thing. But it appears that cost of living adjustment is not considered a pay raise in the context of 27th amendment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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Can you take the lint from your dryer and make clothing?
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Does burn ban apply to BBQ? I always assumed that's enclosed fire.
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The Google messaging update looks bad. It reminded me I purchased textra a while ago.
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This doesn't seem correct. RCS is supposed to be supported by you mobile provider, if it isn't only then your messaging app on Android will use Google's service. The whole protocol was meant to be open to entice companies to adopt it.
I understand Google dropped don't be evil, but they are not a villain in every story.
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[Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins?
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You're welcome.
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[Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins?
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Glad to hear. Our little ones love them too!
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How to drop files from Android to home server?
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Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate?
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It's not right now, that's true. Both sides are moving more extreme and away from a peaceful solution. But historically Arabs were far less open to the idea of two state solution. Starting with the partition plan of 1947.