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Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:03PM (#50343700)
As a freeloader, I would look at how little benefit there is to paying for support and reconsider my choices. Especially when other, purely community-powered distros are running rings around them.
Re:The Kevin Bacon on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:16PM (#50214715)
Tapping right side goes forwards, tapping left side goes back. Really not obvious and frustrating to find out.
Re:I paid people to try and follow my README on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:18PM (#50045477)
That's the "drunk" theme the site has. Scroll all the way to the right in the switcher, and select "reset".
WTF is TFC?
Re:I am done with this shit on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:33AM (#49814476)
You know the reddit post that is the subject of discission already did what you did, right?
Way better to abort and try again, than commit and run the risk of something going wrong. What harm is there in doing a go around if you can? They have plenty of fuel to try multiple times, and have clearance to do so if required.
How much would support increase when manufacturers realise how few of their TVs don't get connected to the network?
Re:Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:09AM (#49420890)
Why did you post the exact same comment three hours before this one?
Re:HMD Touch 4G on Monday July 20, 2026 @07:59AM (#48977557)
Cricket season is just starting up. I could see this ad in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or hell, even Australia. India's not special.
Re:HMD Touch 4G on Monday July 20, 2026 @01:31AM (#48974686)
Because India is the only country that cares about cricket?

They're not even the only country in Asia where cricket's big.

Wrong term, indeed :)
Re:Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week? on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @10:37AM (#48733308)
Re:Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity on Thursday June 18, 2026 @12:20AM (#48580770)
There is a gender-indeterminate alternative: people.

Using "man" to refer to all people stopped being popular last century.

Re:Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:13PM (#48573420)
Only men?
Is this long-form /r/linkedinlunatics?
Re:Google changes its search box on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:19PM (#48198068)
Real-world Prisoner's Dilemma.
Re:Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:03AM (#48134826)
Twelve years later, if there's still so much misconception about /dev/(u)random, has the man page been fixed?

Edit: can't count.

Re:Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) on Thursday May 14, 2026 @08:58AM (#48134764)
That was hard to tell where the additional commentary on the fact ended and the next myth started.
Yeah requires a free Bluetooth radio and has a bit of setup, but in my opinion, it's well worth it to not be reliant on Android or iPhone, which has always given me problems.
> Now if home assistant could get thread network join*ng working without an android phone with a google account

There is already a way to do this. It's fiddly, but not by much. Once set up it's a much better experience, though.

https://www.matteralpha.com/how-to/how-to-use-home-assistant...

I can tell you don't actually know what goes on on a dairy farm.
To misquote Douglas Adams:

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what Kubernetes is for and how it works, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

11 years of mandatory telemetry in Windows, and it still takes a huge amount of noise from users and journalists online over a long time for Microsoft to notice and finally make change. What good is the fucking telemetry then? Why can I still not turn it off?
You can disable the YouTube app's handler for YouTube URLs. In the app info, open by default. I haven't tried it, but presumably, all YouTube URLs will then open in your browser.
In all these nostalgic retrospectives, I never read how the zip drive can achieve 100x or more capacity than the floppy. What is the engineering feat that allowed this? There's one paragraph in Wikipedia that says the heads fly across the disk like a hard drive. OK, how did they manage that while the disk isn't sealed? Is that all it took?

Similarly, articles just gloss right over the "click of death" without any technical explanation of what goes wrong. Why were these drives and/or media so prone to failure?

There's nothing new in this article.

Re:The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces on Thursday April 16, 2026 @08:26AM (#47791986)
If I were an epileptic, I would appreciate seeing the warning before I buy the game, not once I've launched it. Which, by the way, invalidates Sony's return policy.
That's interesting. Do you have further reading? I've seen AFACT v iiNet, but that doesn't look to be the source of "cost of renting", just that the ISP isn't responsible for their users.
> The email is optional and only if you want to see the calibration curve and the question breakdown sent to you.

That still doesn't make sense. Why can't it just be shown on the page?

Why do I need to sign up to get the results? Why couldn't it just be on the page?

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