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aredditimmigrant

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  • How did money work on deep space 9?

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  • In real life you have to make your own food, make your own drinks, use your own plates/glasses/etc. and deal with cleanup.

    In ds9 the replicator does everything for you.

    But I get your point

    Thanks!

  • How did money work on deep space 9?

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  • This makes much more sense. On my first run through of ds9 and this has been bothering me

  • How did money work on deep space 9?

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  • Ok so next question. If the computer can magically create anything. And they are on almost all space stations (including cardassian/federation ones) what's the point of a bar?

    Gambling makes sense. Paying for food/drink when you have a replicator doesn't.

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  • Right, I get that. I'm just thinking that the song isn't about racism. Other than the fact that he's black and has the black man's blues. If the song was talking about his life as a black man or how he ended up a bum that would be different. But it's the way a child sees a black guy with killer guitar playing skills. Very innocent

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  • Call me naive, but I always thought Curtis Lowe was about society not respecting bums who play good music for beer/wine money aka the starving artist. Even though the protagonist loved him as a mentor/entertainer.

    Racism or the fact that he was black wasn't the main factor in the issues the protagonist is singing about, just that he happened to be black.... though I'm betting it didn't help the way people/protagonist's mom viewed the two of them spending so much time together

    I always say him as an inspiration to Bleeding Gums Murphy and Lisa in the Simpsons.

    Just my 2 cents. I agree with the rest of your list though.

  • Can you hear the drums?

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  • Similarly, I dated a woman named Annie a few years back. Everyone of my geekier friends, when I introduced her, asked, "are you ok? Are you ok Annie?"!

  • The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...

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  • The thing that is killing me is Netflixs attempt to crack down on password sharing.

    I share an account with a few family members. If I want to watch a program on Netflix, which my brother pays for, I have to call him up to get the unlock code. He has a newborn and sleeps weird hours.

    I end up just pirating it myself.

  • The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...

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  • Not after we demonstrate the power of raising prices princess!

  • The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...

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  • Hmmmmm. Let's see here.

    People don't like cable, because it's too expensive and inconvenient

    People start pirating

    People like having 2-3 streaming services that show everything, without ads, for much cheaper even combined than cable. They stop pirating.

    People don't like having 20-30 streaming services that show only a little in each service, NOW WITH ADS!?!?! and that become MUCH more expensive than cable ever was.

    People start pirating again......

    I wonder what happened?!?!

  • Do the right wing women in relationships with right wing guys think it's like a draco malfoy thing where they're a good guy underneath?

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  • Right. If the 20 teens and 20's taught me anything, it's that everyone has a story going on behind their eyes and they're always the main character/hero in their own story.

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    Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?

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  • Worked at a medium sized retail startup as a software engineer where we didn't have root access to our local laptops, under the guise of "if you fuck it up we won't be able to fix it" but we only started out with a basic MacBook setup. so every time I wanted to install a tool, ide, or VM I had to make a ticket to IT to come and log in with the password and explain what I was doing.

    Eventually, the engineering dept bribed an IT guy to just give us the password and started using it. IT MGMT got pissed when the number of tickets dropped dramatically and realized what was going on.

    We eventually came to the compromise that they gave us sudo access with the warning "we're not backing anything up. If you mess up we'll have to factory reset the whole machine". Nobody ever had to factory reboot their machine because we weren't children... And if there was an issue we just fixed it ourselves

  • Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly'

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  • Similar. MacBook pro from mid 2014 for personal stuff

  • Anon finds a glitch in the modern dating system

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  • How does the math work that they did it 10x with 85% working?

    Also wtf gaslighting. This is a whole new level of negging

  • Phone Notification When Watch Battery Full?

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  • Accubattery works for me on my p7p. It defaults to alerting you at every %point after 80. But you can change it to 100

    There's a few permissions you have to give it, which I don't remember the precise names, but it basically wants to know how much power other apps are using and allows to always be on "no optimized" is the wording I think.

    And I didn't upgrade to pro

  • Case reccomendation for the P7P?

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  • Thanks for the suggestion.

    There wasn't a screen protector for yours right? How is the magsafe though?

    Mous was one of the vendors that's only magsafe from what I saw .... Hoping I missed something.

  • What makes your life well-lived?

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  • Life well lived for me is the following.

    1. My life ends in a comfy bed surrounded by friends and family having died before becoming a burden on them.
    2. I've made a positive impact on those around me
    3. I've left my children/family in better financial shape than I was born into (which, frankly, was pretty good already)
    4. I traveled and saw what the world has to offer

    Yeah, life is meaningless, and we're one small speck in a universe so big it breaks our brains to think about and we only last a similar amount of time in regard to the vastness of time itself. . ..... so I might as well make myself and the people around me feel good

    As far as the short term? Have a good conversation with friends/family, go for a walk through a nearby forest.

  • Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?

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  • 1 Pi 4 for two things

    1. Download media over a persistent VPN that auto-moves to my NAS
    2. Fun play toy as a dev box to test new tech and try to stay current and keep my Linux skills sharp since I use osx at work

    1 ends up blocking 2

    I really want to buy like 5 or 6 with temp sensors to put around the house to see how good my heating/ac are working, and confirm wifi strength

  • Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

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  • I was 14 and just got a cable modem when Napster came out. I just got introduced to modern music, had no way to pay for it other than asking my folks. Let's jump on the pirate ship!

    Now I'll let you do the math on my age, I have very stable income, and a fair amount of disposable savings, and I still pirate pretty much my ears will be hearing. Plex has equal or better tools for watching/listening than every other service I've tried (shuffling episodes is my favorite)

    I go to concerts, watch movies in the theatre, read physical books and support creatives in other ways.. so I feel different about that..

    I also started noticing this when itunes came out. You could only listen to music YOU PAID FOR on devices you've authorized. Then soon after I saw this, a friend was down on his luck but had a very good and varied cd collection. He started selling them to second hand shops and his friends.

    I ended up seeing this dichotomy and thought to myself.... this sucks. Let's just pirate it..

    I should note the amount of physical unread books I have on my shell are similarly rationed to the amount of music I haven't listened to or movies I haven't watched yet that I've also pirated