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You don’t need iTunes to manage an iPod. There are tons of alternative apps, as well as plugins for music players like foobar2000 and Winamp.

iPods are still great. You can even replace their hard drives with modern flash storage and they work. It’s actually really impressive, i built a 256GB iPod Mini and iTunes has no problem with it. For the Mini, any compact flash card works as a drop-in replacement for the hard drive. Other models require a cheap adapter.

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it’s also not a good way of actually figuring out who is critical.

you can have people who keep the lights on and if they do their job right few even notice they exist.

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relevant username

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I’ve always wondered, what do Comcast’s boots taste like?

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A website isn’t a common carrier, you cannot argue that a website isn’t allowed to control who they serve their content to. An ISP is a common carrier because they simply act as a dumb pipe between the provider (websites) and the consumer.

Cloudflare is a tool websites use to exercise that right, necessitated by the ever rising prevalence of bots and DDoS attacks. Your proposed definition of net neutrality would destroy anyone’s ability to deal with these threats.

Can you at least provide examples of legitimate users who are hindered by the use of Cloudflare?

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Given that the FBI’s targets probably don’t type in Chinese or other logographic languages very often i doubt they care.

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that is why spotify is a scam. it may be a good deal for you, the consumer, but it has made it even harder for artists to make money off their work.

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the system wasn’t as magic as they made it out to be. turns out it was powered by a team of 1,000 people reviewing camera footage in India.

this is probably why they’re killing it.

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The elongated muskrat is learning first hand how the Nazi Bar Problem works

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-antisemitic-comments-x-post-actual-truth/

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This is the same Microsoft that has consistently delivered a better Office suite (including Outlook) on macOS than Windows for almost 20 years now. It’s like they are afraid of their own technology or something.

Apple (slrpnk.net)

I don't care if anyone has a Xiaomi, Oneplus, Samsung, etc. Each brand is using a modified version of Android, and they chose to be compatible with each other. But for example the "blue vs green bubble" drama is a thing specifically because of Apple locking their unsuspecting users into a closed ecosystem. And it sure isn't...

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Fanboy wars are exhausting, stupid, and unproductive.

You will be a happier person when you stop giving a shit about what phone or operating system someone else uses.

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On Windows, NanaZip is even better. It’s a fork of 7zip focused on performance and UI improvements.

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Tacking a license to the end of a comment posted to just about any website does not actually change how the sites content is licensed.

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Analog telephony was still built on a complex automated network. Those rooms full of operators manually connecting callers by plugging in physical wires haven’t been a thing for 70 years. They even started going digital in the ‘60s.

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the whole point of a truck is to get shit done.

this truck destroys itself if you try to get shit done with it.

how they fucked up so badly, i have no idea.

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Sounds an awful lot like that thing boomers used to do on Facebook where they would post a message on their wall rescinding Facebook's rights to the content they post there. I'm sure it's equally effective.

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i play games online, and wireless is prone to jitter and lag spikes.

you don’t notice these things when browsing the web, streaming movies, or even downloading large games. but in multiplayer games it’s a problem

i have gigabit fiber in my neighborhood though, so i’m not being forced to choose between shitty cable and compromised wireless

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Average ping isn't really the problem with wireless, it's packet loss. But my concern wasn't WiFi, which has gotten pretty good, though still prone to issues with certain home designs and building materials. My concern was cellular networks. 5G reception at my house with two different major carriers (AT&T and T-Mobile) is just OK at best, and I measure plenty of packet loss and lag spikes. It's not a problem for my phone, but I would find that unacceptable for my home internet.

I don't think we will ever reach a point where wireless technologies are as good as a hard connections. All the neat tricks we use to eek more bandwidth out of wireless spectrum like time division multiple access are equally applicable to both copper and fiber optic lines. And those copper and fiber optic lines have the benefits of having much more spectrum available to use, not having to share spectrum with nearly as many devices, and not having usable spectrum limited by line-of-sight. They also benefit from not needing to share nearly as many clients over the same medium, since each individual wire is it's own medium, rather than sharing the same RF medium as every other wireless device in your locale.

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An added 20ms is pretty noticeable in a video game. That's more than one whole extra frame in a game running at 60 fps. Liberal use of client-side prediction means it won't feel the same though, and instead of manifesting as delayed input response, you get more instances of being shot around corners and hits not registering.

But the bigger problem is packet loss, which leads to occasional lag spikes. Just like with frame rates, the average latency isn't the whole story. Those 1% lows are just as important to ensuring a smooth and consistent experience.

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20 packets is a very small sample size.

ping also won't necessarily capture all lost packets over wifi. Many are lost and re-transmitted by the wifi hardware without anything higher in the stack being aware.

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20 packets is a very small sample size.

ping also won't necessarily capture all lost packets over wifi. Many are lost and re-transmitted by the wifi hardware without anything higher in the stack being aware.

Online shooters are always a no win situation anyhow, unless you happen to be one of the top 200 players of that game in your region. Outside of that all the games place you with a bunch of similar stat players. You don’t play with all random people. You get grouped up with people like you, so you never really get to even know if you’re “one of the best” players or if you’re worse than most. You either play them to be extremely competitive and you’re one of a handful of players good enough to actually be one of the best, or you’re just playing for fun. If you’re just playing for fun then 20ms is really, really, not important.

This is just not true. I play online shooters pretty casually, but I've been playing them regularly since 2001. When my ping time in Overwatch or Apex goes from the usual 35 to 55-60, it feels pretty noticeable in-game. Even though I'm nowhere near top 500. If you don't notice the difference, that is great, but it doesn't mean everyone else has the same experience.

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Hey man, I'm just speaking from 15 years of industry experience. Like I said, if you're happy with the performance, that's great. But I can objectively measure (and feel) the difference, so don't go trying to tell me my personal experience is somehow invalid. People should know that there is, in fact, a difference. You're not even addressing what I said about the latency and just getting hung up on packet loss.

Also my internet is not expensive. My city has a municipal fiber network, and I only pay about $50/mo for symmetrical gigabit service. I don't need to "vindicate" myself here. I don't think people should have to settle for wireless internet to get away from Comcast when fiber is a faster option without compromises.

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Industry experience in networking

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runas will do it, but the syntax is awful. i’m so glad windows is finally getting a real sudo

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    it’s wild to me how willingly people will give themselves over to nicotine addiction

    i blame our nonsensical drug laws that rank cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms as “worse” than nicotine and alcohol, even though the latter two are more harmful and much more addictive

    i love me some cannabis, i’ll have the occasional mushroom, and i even enjoy a glass of whiskey every now and then, but nicotine scares the absolute hell out of me

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    alcohol is physiologically worse than nicotine, but not nearly as instantly addictive.

    i’ve watched people with much stronger mental fortitude than i try to quit nicotine and fail spectacularly. i don’t know any smokers who aren’t addicted.

    nicotine scares the hell out of me because i do not want to be a slave to it

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    There absolutely is.

    SODIMM slots disappeared from laptops because of technical limitations, and it took an entirely new design to eventually bring socketable RAM back to laptops. And those new sockets still take up more space than just soldering the RAM in place.

    Engineering is all about tradeoffs.

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    Why?

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    Why do you think aiming for NT 5.2 compatibility should preclude them from building a modern GUI-based installer?

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    So from the title, you could already tell this wasn’t a project for you. Yet you still felt the need to open this thread just to complain about its existence?

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    Also, Stop Using Brave Browser

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    The HP instructions didn’t say that if you connected the cable between the printer and the PC before you had installed the drivers, the printer would not mount as a device. In fact, it would never connect to that PC ever again. Apparently, it ruined the registry until you reformatted and reinstalled the OS.

    How do they manage to fuck something up so royally? They clearly knew it was a problem, as they outlined it in their manual. But there's no way it was cheaper to deal with all the angry support calls and lost customer confidence than to just add some code to the driver installer that fixes the registry settings...

    If this happened to me, I wouldn't reinstall my operating system, I would tell their support technician to fuck off and go buy a printer from a different company.

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    Even the leaflet is just a shitty bandaid. What if someone picked up a printer used and it didn't include the leaflet.

    It's outright unacceptable to ship a consumer product that so easily bricks itself like this.

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    Critics didn’t necessarily go to film school, but they see everything under the sun, so when a movie doesn’t do anything particularly new or is highly derivative without adding its own twist, it bores them. The person who goes to 3-5 movies a year doesn’t care, to them something derivative of 10 movies they haven’t seen is still new and fresh. This is in addition to the technical competency component you mentioned.

    I watch a ton of movies so my tastes are more likely to align with those of a professional critic.

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    the stuffed crust is prepared as a calzone but becomes sushi once the pizza is sliced.

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    The Gartner hype cycle strikes again.

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    Kagi has better search results than any other engine I've used. That is why people pay for it.

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