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  • Removed

    You asked, we built it: Firefox tab groups are here

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  • I mainly used chrome for a few years when Firefox dropped it as I was so angry about them at that point. Went back to Firefox eventually as it still is the less bad browser, but compared to old one it still is shit. 10 years later we still don't have abilities for stuff like overriding keybindings back.

  • Engagement poisoning of ChatGPT

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  • Note that those are deepseek, not chatgpt. I've largely given up on chatgpt a long time ago as it has severe limitations on what you can ask it without fighting its filters. You can make it go on hallucinated rants just as easily - I just nowadays do that on locally hostable models.

  • 3D Print (and Play!) The Super Mario Tune As A Fidget Toy

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  • Only way I managed was chrome in porn mode via VPN.

    Went digging a bit after that and found a statement from them that anonymous download issues are intentional to drive people to make accounts.

  • 3D Print (and Play!) The Super Mario Tune As A Fidget Toy

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  • Can we ban makerworld links here? They have a low limit on downloads without registering an account, a very shitty default license many use without the reading and generally don't hide they want to run that thing as a walled garden.

  • Dell kills the XPS brand

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  • Which reputation? I used to work for a dell heavy hoster with thousands of dell servers almost 20 years ago - and apart from them being cheap I have nothing good to say about them. Worst is the remote management - several generations of DRACs all broken in new and interesting ways, and support is useless. You just get better discounts at that scale, which for a business owner drowns out the complaints of the tech people.

    Notebooks also have similar bugs over generations - and nowadays they also feel even cheaper than they used to be.

    Displays were somewhat acceptable - given you're fine to work around the DPMS bugs they have in pretty much every display for the last two decades - but their display selection page is unusable and lacks most interesting details. So it is better to just get something you can check out in a shop.

  • ADP gives you a person’s username and the name of all their employers when you type in their name and phone number.

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  • I expect the responsible person listed for some specific application to react to an email about it to fix it, and not send me police. Why would I want to jump through hoops for doing them a favour?

    Same applies also if there's no easy way to send a mail to someone responsible.

  • ADP gives you a person’s username and the name of all their employers when you type in their name and phone number.

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  • Depends on how the parties behaved in the past. There are a bunch of government entities which called police on me in the past when trying to work with them about discovered issues and as result also will just get anonymous 0-day drops in public forums for future issues.

  • LPIC notes (just started)

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  • Each disk needs at least one partition, but it can contains multiple partitions.

    The boot disk needs to contain at least one partition (because of the way booting works), for the rest they're optional.

  • Something something case-insensitive file something...

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  • That'd break git repos where files with the same name, but different case exist.

  • Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom

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  • SSDs?

  • Considering the Prusa CORE One as first printer - any reason to reconsider?

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  • but I wanted to fix an issue with their app (I am an app dev), to discover that it isn’t FOSS like the slicer.

    Prusa has other software than their slicer? What does it do?

  • Considering the Prusa CORE One as first printer - any reason to reconsider?

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  • My first printer back in 2016 was a FlashForge, which at that time filled a similar role in the market as Bambu is doing now.

    Their designs were initially more open than Bambu is now, but went more proprietary over time - I had a Dreamer which still used a lot of "standard" parts. Despite that I ran into several issues that were either a pain to work around, or impossible, due to Flashforges attempts at keeping bits proprietary. I switched to Prusa after that, and have been happy ever since.

    For me personally that experience was enough that I'll never by something like Bambu - though for people with less technical abilities who just want a box that works they're perfectly fine.

    Currently I have a mk4 upgraded from a mk3s as main printer, in the enclosure, with mmu. I'm considering upgrading it to a core one next year, purely because of the lower footprint of the core one in a case compared to the prusa enclosure, and my limited space. My old flashforge was corexy, and was quite annoying about bed leveling - which lead to me avoiding corexy for a while after that. But as far as I can tell the bed mount on modern corexy are way better than on the old flashforge (which had a tendency to bend forward), plus there's autoleveling now.

  • Firefox becomes slow after a couple of weeks open

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  • I currently have a bit over 2400 tabs open, and it has been roughly a month since I restarted firefox for being too laggy. It is becoming an issue again.

  • TPU wall thickness for shoes

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  • I did tank tracks in TPU - I've since stopped using it, but not because they broke, but because they keep stretching. Removing one element after 10 minutes of play becomes annoying over time. Though I am somewhat curious how long I could continue doing that before something breaks.

  • [Hypothetical] The internet is getting shut down for 5 years. You have 100 GB of storage available, you have 24 hours to prepare. What do you download?

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  • He stated "100GB only" in reply to my comment that I have a 400GB picture library - all own creation, completely unrelated to anything internet.

  • [Hypothetical] The internet is getting shut down for 5 years. You have 100 GB of storage available, you have 24 hours to prepare. What do you download?

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  • See other comments from OP where he's stating that it'd be 100GB total, and anything else would be confiscated if found out.

  • [Hypothetical] The internet is getting shut down for 5 years. You have 100 GB of storage available, you have 24 hours to prepare. What do you download?

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  • I disagree there - I think it makes the question pointless as that changes the actual question to "what is the single computing device I decide to keep, after downgrading its storage". Which in many cases will not even be possible.

  • [Hypothetical] The internet is getting shut down for 5 years. You have 100 GB of storage available, you have 24 hours to prepare. What do you download?

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  • 100GB is ridiculously low nowadays. I don't think I have a single device in regular use (including my phone) with such small storage.

    Just my picture archive (that is, pictures I took since I got mit first digital camera) is about 400GB.

  • Who can relate?

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  • That was a reason back then to pay for a distribution box - it came with a very good printed manual. Which had beginner friendly sections like "now that you have a running system let's configure and build a kernel matching your hardware".