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I gotchu
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this is fake and has been reposted in reddit way too many times.
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I gotchu
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this is fake and has been reposted in reddit way too many times.
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The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility
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Mkbhd is barely a prosumer. Dude knows his way around photography and can shoot videos well but regarding the tech itself he has little to no knowledge compared to an average "techie".
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What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you?
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That way you're at work during the week while not doing anything productive for yourself or the company and you then spend your free time actually working for your employer. Great idea.
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USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert
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You do realize that you can have both, right? Your laptop could have 6/7 ports but you could choose to use a usb-c hub for convenience. And, if you're travelling or your hub breaks, you still have all the ports in your laptop.
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boys rule
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Here's a crazy idea. Maybe videogame characters are separate from you and it doesn't matter if they're male, female, non-binary, etc. I always empathized (or didn't) with characters if I found their problems/feelings relatable. Their sexuality or whatever couldn't be less important.
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It’s midwinter, but it’s over 100 degrees in South America
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You do realize that both Chile and Argentina aren't in the image, right?
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Madison Reeves on why she left LMG
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She did leave a 1 star review in glassdoor when she quit.
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Android rule
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Nope. Depends on the app you're using.
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Install a custom rom and be done with this proprietary bullshit
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Fairphone 5 - The Ars Technica Review
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Stop buying crappy earbuds then. I have IEMs and headphones several decades old that still work just fine.
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what is your favorite f-droid app?
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It also (usually) manages to hide the space where the ad would be.
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There can be no rest
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Cowboy bebop's live action was absolute crap and I'm glad it was cancelled.
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Programming Languages
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It sounds like the issue was devs creating a crappy monolith, not the language itself.
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Expected: I cancelled our subscription with HP and they blocked us from being able to use the rest of the ink in our cartridge.
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You do understand what Instant Ink is, right? You're not buying cartridges, you're buying how many pages you can print. If you cancel your subscription and run out of pages to print, it no longer lets you print anything. Call me crazy but that makes sense.
This is pretty awful in the sense that it generates waste but it's also necessary for people not to abuse the system. Think about it like this, I buy 1 month of the cheapest plan, it costs me less than 1 cartridge and 1 cartridge can print more than the maximum amount of pages of my plan, I cancel said plan and keep using cartridge. Do you see how you could "game" the system to buy insanely cheap cartridges?
There's probably a better solution though. For example, they could try to come up with a way to identify people and/or printers used in the way I described before and prevent them from signing up to the service again.
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Intel is quitting on its adorable, powerful, and upgradable mini NUC computers
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Yeah, I'm not watching Tek Syndicate content.
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Fairphone 5 - The Ars Technica Review
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Ok, then you're talking only about usb headphones.
If you have a dongle and it breaks, good luck fixing the cable. God forbid the dac is integrated to the headphone itself. Also, if the dac fails you're also sol. So yeah, I wouldn't call having a more expensive set up that's also more likely to fail and doesn't have any added benefits a good alternative.
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Fairphone 5 - The Ars Technica Review
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My sony XM4s had to be replaced less than a year after I bought them because the fw killed the battery.
Even if the battery has a long lifespan, it's still impossible for it to match the longevity (and ease of repair) a cable has.
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I keep switching from app to app
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It was the best Reddit client*. The API is the backend service.
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Fairphone 5 - The Ars Technica Review
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Dude. The only difference between a normal headphone with a 3.5mm jack and a "usb" headphone is that the latter needs to have its own dac/amp. Guess what? YOUR PHONE ALREADY HAS THAT. Usb headphones are more complex, more expensive and not guaranteed to work indefinitely.
Removing the jack makes 0 sense.
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Programming Languages
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Yeah, in 1993.