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  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read by Stephen Fry. Free download

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  • I didn't mean that King had read the stand, just that he would be wrong for that part. I can't think of one he read that he wasn't a good choice for, except maybe Desperation.

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read by Stephen Fry. Free download

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  • Stephen Fry has what might be the best voice for audiobooks ever. It's like having your British grandfather read you a bedtime story. I imagine. I mean, my grandfathers were from Chicago and Missouri, so I guess I wouldn't know, but still.

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read by Stephen Fry. Free download

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  • I agree in this case, but not every author is a good reader, and even when they are, their voice isn't always the right voice. I love Stephen King to death, but I'll pass on him reading The Stand. Meanwhile, I wouldn't listen to On Writing read by anyone else.

  • Tell us your definitive "I really should not do this" moment.

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  • Oh, no dude, it's not kind of weird…

    It's fucking creepy and bizarre culty shit. And that's coming from someone who grew up doing it.

  • remember when companies didn't have the right to price gouge or steal wages from labor? pepperidge farms remembers. so does nestle. which is why it union busts

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  • You're not wrong, but this still isn't one.

  • remember when companies didn't have the right to price gouge or steal wages from labor? pepperidge farms remembers. so does nestle. which is why it union busts

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  • So I'm in the weird position or really, really liking the content of a post, but feeling compelled to downvote it because sir, this is a Wendy's.

  • Test Firefox Android extensions and help developers prepare for an open mobile ecosystem in December

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  • This seems awesome and all, but I can't install any of the add-on on my Firefox Beta. The add-on site says I need a newer version of Firefox.

  • Fedora 39 beta offers the best-performing Linux distribution I've seen in a long time

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  • "It has a cool default theme for Gnome, and there's a colored bash prompt."

    The "cool default theme" in Fedora is the default Gnome theme. There isn't a "colored bash prompt." Fedora is a major distribution on par with stuff like Arch and Debian, so news about Fedora is news about linux.

    Love Fedora, hate Fedora, I couldn't care less. But at least do a little research.

  • Fedora 39 beta offers the best-performing Linux distribution I've seen in a long time

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  • Fedora 39 beta offers the best-performing Linux distribution I've seen in a long time

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  • During the initial startup, you're asked if you want to share telemetry. I honestly can't remember if it's default on or off, but you can't miss it.

  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™ 1 + 2 is coming to Steam on October 3

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  • Which lazy bastards?

  • Oh no youtube

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  • Err… no?

    As far as I can tell, "hyperpolic" is a typo, and you meant "hyperbolic", which kinda fits, but it would be "contains a hyperbolic statement," rather than "contains hyperbole." It would be less clear, though, since "hyperbolic" can refer to either "hyperbole" or "hyperbola".

    Meanwhile hyperbole refers only to a figure of speech and not potentially an open curve with two branches.

    …

    Sorry, did I ruin your joke? I ruined your joke didn't I. Man, I just can't stop myself from being a pedantic jackass…

  • Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than Bluetooth competitor

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  • Oh, I agree it's a leap. It's just slightly less of a leap than complaining about the NSA. I'm not saying you're wrong about the knee-jerk reaction some Americans have to Chinese tech and China in general.

    It's just that the sputtering nonsense makes very slightly more sense after you mentioned the ban in the original post. You opened a crack in the door, is what I'm saying, and if an American Jingoist Asshat can get his head in the crack, he's gonna get all the way in.

  • Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than Bluetooth competitor

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  • Well, it doesn't really, except that you mentioned the US trade ban, which brings the reason for the US trade ban into the topic at least tangentially.

  • Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than Bluetooth competitor

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  • I do. I'm with you on that. But it makes marginally more sense that bringing up the NSA would.

  • Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than Bluetooth competitor

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  • Oh, I care about Five (Seven, Nine) Eyes every bit as much as I care about China, I assure you. But in a thread about a Chinese company's new tech, it would be a bit weird to complain about NSA data mining. Kinda off topic, if you see what I mean.

  • Oh no youtube

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  • Here's the thing, YouTube. When you first started running ads, I didn't really mind. They were short, there weren't that many, and if they were particularly annoying or repetitive, there was a skip button. I respected that you needed to make money and that you wanted to pay the content creators, and you respected my time.

    But then you decided to flood the fucking platform and cut the revenue share with the creators. Without adblock, I can't watch a 5 minute video without 5 minutes of ads. You're trying to force me into paying for your premium service by annoying me to death.

    Which I might do if I thought the people whose videos I actually like got a decent share of the revenue. But they don't. Hell, at least one of my favorite YouTubers is regularly demonetized, so they wouldn't see a penny.

    So, YouTube, I'll keep blocking ads and use services like Patreon to support my favorite YouTube folks the best I can. And if you won't let me use adblock? Well, I guess I have to find some other way to occupy that hour or so a week I use your service, because I'm sure as shit not using half of it to watch ads that don't benefit the people whose videos I enjoy.

    ETA: this post contains hyperbole (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperbole ).

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    Ukraine Gets First Abrams Tanks, Long After Russia Claimed to Destroy One

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  • As a recovering Abrams driver, this makes me giggle a little.

  • META: The automated discussion threads do more harm than good.

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  • I have to agree. I applaud the idea, but I've been tempted to block the community because of the constant posts.