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darklamer
darklamer @ darklamer @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Bone conduction headphones?

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    • Your first distribution

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  • Seriously, Slackware at that time was wonderfully well planned and optimized, the stack of floppies needed for a fully usable system was remarkably small and downloadable.

    • Your first distribution

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  • It was the only distro I could get my hands on because who would download a distro on dialup.

    I would, I downloaded Slackware through dialup, sometime late 1994.

    • If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?

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  • Random thought: how did beer refrigeration work pre-industrial revolution?

    Cellars (and sometimes caves) were both popular and effective, even sometimes still used today.

    • What is the dumbest reason to kill somebody?

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  • It's fascinating how often this actually is a viable option.

    • Punkt rocks its minimalist roots with first smartphone

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  • Nice!

    • Why do more widely-adopted OSS take so long to review patches?

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    • TIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing.

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  • At today's gold prices, 800 US dollars is just one single small gold coin. A classic 1 oz Krugerrand coin is currently worth more than 2,000 US dollars.

    • To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol

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  • I don't think it's ever happened to me that anyone told me that it was inconvenient for them that I didn't have iMessage, compared to pretty much weekly exclamations of "But why can't you just use WhatsApp like everyone else!?"

    • What media sources have you outgrown, when, and why?

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    • Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

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  • Why do you call it "your" physical device?

    • What are your top 3 purchases of all time?

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  • A computer — no other item I own has changed the course of my life as much as owning my own computer has.

    • NVK is now ready for prime time

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  • How could you possibly know that?

    • TIL North Koreans cannot go to Japan

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    • Permanently Deleted

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    • Taylor Swift threatens legal action against Florida student who tracks her jet | CNN Business

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    • How many pillows under your head in bed?

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    • I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software

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  • Yes, exactly. Why would anyone ever use an editor that doesn't work like that, where unsaved work could disappear? I can't understand that.

    • I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software

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  • Why would you ever use an editor that could lose your work unless you save? Vim users will never understand that.

    • What has been your best financial move in life?

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  • Indeed that is a bit funny, showing how one-size-fits-all really doesn't exist.