biddy

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Star Wars despecialized edition.

In 1997 George Lucas updated the original trilogy with new special effects, and every release since then has been the new special edition.

Fans have gone through a painstaking archival effort to track down the "despecialized" original release in as high quality as possible.

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Also r/piracy stayed shut for a while with a direct and easy link to this community. That's how I found it.

Yes, they are also as painful as possible for every other browser. That's the point.

It gets better. Their Instagram is canadapetcareusa

Browsers themselves are easy to make.

What makes you say this? There are only 2 fully featured browsers, Chromium and Firefox. Anything else isn't a viable alternative even if we compare stock to stock.

If you've seen enough wan show you can get a pretty good idea of his personality. He spouts so many controversial takes without thinking through the consequences, so he's doing a terrible job if he's actually an evil mastermind. Most people are well intentioned and Linus is no different.

He's also naïve, arrogant, and defensive, as we've seen lately.

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You can use the email for password reset, so it must be stored by the instance. Whether or not it gets overwritten is up to the instance, so it's good security practice to assume it's stored in perpetuity unless you have reason to suspect otherwise.

Debian. The basic install is very bare bones.

If it's faster to get an AI to write your commit messages than to write them yourself, your commit messages are too long. They should be one sentence.

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I will as well, unless it's necessary for work/school, or to participate with the government, or not using it will isolate me from friends and family.

Google has close to absolute control of the internet, which is now an essential tool to participate in society. The amount of power they have is insane, it rivals governments.

And a trust me bro guarantee that no employees were harassed in the designing or making of this product

IOS is worse. You can't even be sure that it's saved, let alone where.

It makes sense that they don't want to maintain 2 versions. What doesn't make sense is that when you ask it for an apt, instead of saying "this package isn't avalible as an apt" and maybe "by the way it is available as a snap if you want", it just installs the snap without telling you.

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Email is the only federated social platform that every normal person is familiar with. It doesn't matter that the technical specifications are completely different. The metaphor goes as far as "in the fediverse anyone signed up with any instance can communicate with anyone on any other instance, like email". For that purpose, it's a good metaphor.

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The multiple communities doesn't bother me, I just join both and usually don't notice the difference. It's a better problem than all the communities being on lemmy.world which defeats the point of federation.

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So a property development company is developing a property. What's the mystery?

Podcasts are just a RSS feed with an mp3 downloas link. It's trivial to open the RSS feed in your browser and locate the mp3 download link. Download the mp3, open it in any audio editor, edit out the ad. Or find the folder where your podcast app stores the mp3s and edit them from there.

Personally, I'm OK with podcast ads as there's limited opportunity for tracking or personalization. If we don't encorage podcasts to remain as an open platform, they will be swallowed up by Spotify.

Conversely, I'm so opposed to the enshitification that I've carefully tailored my internet usage to places that aren't shit and have no prospect of becoming shit, like Lemmy. Since I don't even have the motivation of not supporting an evil company, I'm more addicted that ever.

I liked Quora as recently as a few years ago, it had some nice explanations that you couldn't get anywhere else. Obviously you have to take everything with a grain of salt, but you have to do that anywhere on the internet.

It doesn't have a physical address. Very suspicious.

You can be a pirate? Why join the navy when

Yes, it's super easy. Amazon has an email address for your kindle, all you need to do is email the epub or pdf and it shows up on the kindle automatically. This is the first guide I found on Google. https://www.howtogeek.com/798894/how-to-transfer-epub-to-kindle/

Don't buy a Windows key. If Windows was installed initially it should remember your hardware and activate. If it doesn't, there's numerous ways to pirate Windows.

That sounds like a great outcome for the original company

Elon must have spent so much on x.com yet it still redirects to the primary URL twitter.com

That wasn't an opinion, it's a statistic.

No (large public) company ever has altruistic motives. They aren't inherently good or bad, just machines driven by profit.

I disagree, a lot of white collar work is simply writing bullshit.

Can I have some of whatever supplements you've been taking. 48km/h is really fast. If you have a fast bike and you're trying hard some cyclists could hit that speed briefly on the flat before they become exhausted. With a tailwind or a downhill it's easy, but then you don't need the help from the motor.

But I agree that we need to focus on the real danger, which is cars.

By the way, 1 tablespoon of peanut butter does not weigh 14.79 grams. 1 US tablespoon is a unit of volume that's equal to 14.79 milliliters(mils). Grams are a unit of mass. In order to convert between them we need the density. Because the metric system is great, the density of water is 1g/mil, so 1 US tablespoon of water weighs exactly 14.79 mils. However the density of peanut butter is a bit higher, so the US tablespoon of peanut butter will weigh a bit more.

Additional pedantry, yes I did have to write US tablespoon every time. A US tablespoon is 14.79mils, a metric tablespoon is 15mils, a traditional Australian tablespoon was 20mils although now they mostly use metric tablespoons.

Yes

In the case of social network like this, bigger generally is better for the users. The thing that made Reddit great was that whatever your niece interest, there was a community of thousands of other interested people. There was so much information and advice on whatever obscure topic.

There's a reason why there's only around 10 really popular social networks and it's certainly not that those platforms are any good. The network effect is important.

Huh? The ad revenue it replaces can't be more than $1/month.

That's not what happened.

Runions told police that she had taken a 9 mm handgun out of its case, removed the magazine and called Evangaline over to “show her firearm safety.”

Runions pressed the barrel of the gun against the child’s chest and pulled the trigger, police said she told them.

The irony of calling this "firearm safety" is absurd. It's being charged as first degree murder because nobody points a gun at someone's chest and pulls the trigger unless they intend to kill.

Quantum mechanics, as far as we know, requires imaginary numbers.

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Further evidence for this is ChromeOS. It's just a Linux distro, but worse. It does little more than run Chrome. Yet it's popular. Anyone that tolerates ChromeOS would have an even better time on most of the standard distros if they had someone to set it up for them.

If you're confused about a specific term, ask about that specific term, and you'll get many people eager to help. Sorry nobody wants to get on an open ended video call with a stranger to teach you how to run a server, but that's just how these forums work. Everyone's setup is different so there's not much I could do to help in your video call.

Learning this stuff is hard, don't let anyone tell you any different. We all went through the same struggles, perhaps for some people that was so long ago that they forgot how hard it was.

Third party servers aren't always enough. Microsoft managed to ruin 3rd party Minecraft servers.

I prefer reddit-esqe to twitter-esqe too, but I also think fediverse suits reddit-esqe better. The only reason I used Twitter was content from people I was interested in, and most of them aren't on Mastodon. Here, I don't care about any individuals, so Lemmy being fairly small is fine.

I haven't had any issues with Nextcloud yet. But any torrent client refuses to work. I've tried various qbittorrent containers, transmission, deluge briefly, they all work for a while but eventual refuse to do anything.

We aren't saying that they should be driving, quite the opposite. We're saying that it's completely fucked that in some places you have to drive to participate in society, precisely because many people shouldn't. There needs to be alternatives to driving so that law enforcement can remove anyone's license without effectively placing them in house arrest.