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AbsentBird

@ absentbird @lemm.ee

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  • Really?

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  • Sensor fusion is another F-35 feature. Elon seems to think visible spectrum cameras are all you need. Even if you could capture a couple dozen photos reflected off a fighter jet from miles away, how could you reasonably know it's speed, distance, and location like you get with radar?

  • Really?

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  • But also, how far can low light sensitive cameras see into the sky? Maybe a couple miles with some sort of telescopic optics? The F35 can attack from beyond visual range using its 100 mile range radar system.

  • Demand privacy

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  • So it's not enough to brag about being on Linux ourselves, we should be encouraging our friends to switch to Linux as well?

  • Demand privacy

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  • You speak the truth.

  • Scotty doesn't understand the future

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  • I'd imagine it's sort of like how a lot of people prefer to wear glasses even if they're a good candidate for laser eye surgery. Personally I like how my glasses protect my eyes from debris and radiation, and I like wearing them.

  • How diffrent OSes evolve

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  • The sad thing about being a Windows user is they've got you between a rock and a hard place. You either upgrade or lose support, and in a lot of cases you can't upgrade without buying a new system.

    I know a lot of people resist learning Linux, but it really is the only way out of the cycle. You can start small at first, dip your toes in. Before long it will feel more natural and familiar than the next release from Redmond. On that day you will be free.

  • How diffrent OSes evolve

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  • If you have a hard drive reader and spare thumb drive it's not too hard. Just put clonezilla on the thumb drive, boot it, put the new drive in the reader, and clone your old drive onto the new one.

    Back in the day I usually just put a fresh install on the SSD and downloaded their personal files from the network copy. I found that upgrading from 7 to 10 had a uncomfortably high failure rate, so it was easier to just put a fresh install of 10 on and go from there.

  • How diffrent OSes evolve

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  • I guess it depends on what your standards are for 'fine', or maybe it's a 10k rpm drive. Win 10 on a standard HDD is dog shit, I personally had to upgrade several offices from HDD to SSD when Windows 10 came out.

  • Blue state resistance builds against Trump

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  • Their refusal to fund his priorities resulted in the longest government shutdown in history.

  • Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

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  • Why are you being so condescending?

    Phones get lost, stolen, damaged beyond repair. I knew a woman whose phone fell into a body of water on vacation and couldn't be recovered.

    When you have an app used by millions of people, which they depend on for tracking wellness, health issues, reproductive planning, etc. it makes sense to have a cloud backup for those inevitable situations.

    Also yes, not everyone knows how to initiate an NFC file transfer, or even how to navigate their phone's file system to select the data to transfer. You often have to develop software to the lowest common denominator. There's open source options like Mensinator for people who want more control and privacy, but most software on the app store is targeted at less technical people.

  • The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++

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  • kill -9 You gotta learn when it’s time for your thread to yield; you shoulda slept; instead you stepped and now your fate is sealed.

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    I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised

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  • Personally I'm antiwar, but to each their own. The way I see it, a civil war becomes more likely through the tolerance of fascism, but I suppose if you have a just-war mindset it could make more sense to let it boil over to the point that generals march in with a list of rules to make the carnage appear civilized.

  • Removed Locked

    I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised

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  • Ah, so you aren't opposed to killing fascists, you just want it to be done on the orders of a military.

  • Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

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  • Sure, personally I think we should do that for all personal data. It's a bit depressing that period trackers are being targeted in this way though.

  • Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities

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  • Sometimes people get new phones 🤷‍♀️

  • Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?

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  • This is a great explanation, well done.

  • Windows is actually pretty good OS

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  • Most games work day one these days with proton. How is modding more difficult on Linux? I feel like it's easier, but maybe I'm just used to it.

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  • I think you're the one who is moving the goalposts. There's no requirement for the monkeys to submit their output, the test is whether the text of Hamlet is among their key presses. As long as there is a nonzero chance, then there is a 100% chance it would appear in an infinite system. Any non-zero probability times infinity has a 100% chance of occuring eventually.

    The monkeys mostly produce gibberish, that's the vast majority of the potential outputs, but among that massive number is also the full text of Hamlet.

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  • There aren't an infinite arrangements of keystrokes that are the length of Hamlet and aren't Hamlet. Hamlet is 191,726 characters long, it's like guessing a password.

    44 keys on a typewriter, 191726 characters, makes 44191726 or about 4.054 × 10315094 combinations.