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What's one brand whose products you can always trust?
  • Ogio. I have 5 or 6 bags including some luggage. All have held up for 10s of years. Recently the luggage (7 years old) had a zipper break and Ogio just replaced it no questions asked.

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    127 degrees: Heat record shattered in Death Valley, with high temperature of 130 in forecast
  • Thermometer from my deployment to Iraq in 2008. Pretty sure that day we were over 130F. I have to do some more digging but I believe I have a photo of one over 140F.

    Anything metal becomes burn your skin hot in just a few minutes. Exposed skin is very uncomfortable almost immediately.

    Can confirm hair dryer weather at those temps.

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    Unnamed island
  • So Bigland then.

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    Don't let the corporations tell you otherwise
  • I suppose we should just start throwing people "likely" to do crimes in prison preemptively!? That's not how anything else works. Why would it work like that here?

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    Don't let the corporations tell you otherwise
  • Most of the back and forth is predicated on the idea that the digital world works the same as the digital one. It does not!

    In the physical world you cannot produce and exact copy of something for zero dollars.

    In the digital world you can make many copies at effectively zero cost.

    Stealing, theft, is predicated on taking something from someone so they no longer have it.

    Making a digital copy does not steal or remove access.

    The whole argument, which I would posit is deeply flawed, is that pirating removes imaginary potential profits for reselling the thing copied (not stolen). If that's so then prove it. Prove that at some point in the future I, or any other given person, would have bought that digital thing. Unless you've invented time travel you just can't.

    Copying digital content isn't theft and pirating isn't the right thing to call it.

    We have to figure out how to better frame or address the digital world that just fundamentally doesn't operate the same as the physical one.

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    Man Displays Father’s Severed Head in Horrific Video Railing Against Biden, Immigration, ‘Far-Left Woke Mobs’
  • Yeah I don't think we want to demonize the folks that work at Redhat.

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    Twitch updates attire policy to prohibit implied nudity.
  • Hole up! Doesn't the existence of clothing imply nudity? Covering the nudity is what clothing is for! I feel like they hadn't thought that through all the way.

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    "Innovation"
  • Search engines exist. Pretty easy to find facts from a large number of different sources. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/jul/14/food-monopoly-meals-profits-data-investigation

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    Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
  • Sure, now which pre-existing piece of xmpp based software checks all the feature boxes as noted by both Signal adherents and myself regarding Session? Are you implying the lay user code their own? If that exists you could have just linked to it rather than engage in whatever this is.

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    Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
  • I will preface this with, I may be wrong, but as I understand it xmpp is just a protocol. One that, unless it's been revised, imparts no encryption at all. Signal, and Session, are full architectures that enable all of the afrementioned features from my initial post including server and client.

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    Gamedev and linux
  • Wow, a bit touchy. I didn't indicate that your world view was problematic. Just US centric. Was not in any way implying some morals to the debate.

    Simply stating facts that not all, arguably not even a majority are IT professionals, except perhaps in the US.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Gamedev and linux
  • Not sure what windows apps you're using but in my 20+ years IT that has absolutely, in most situations, not been the case.

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    What did Canada do?
  • Canadian Federal Government? So Britain then? /S

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    Gamedev and linux
  • This is pretty US centric thinking. Linux doesn't have licensing. That means it's used extensively in other countries, especially poorer ones. Some countries entire governments use it. It's pretty huge in India too. Africa. Places where common folk, not IT professionals, use it but either have rough or no Internet and aren't communicating in English, especially not GitHub.

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    Gamedev and linux
  • I think part of this that I'm not seeing talked about, and perhaps confused for "more tech savvy users", is just the user hostility of Windows.

    9 times out of 10 when a Linux app or game crashes I get a verbose error and more often than not one that I can simply copy and paste.

    9 times out of 10 when Windows, or much of windows software, crashes it gives some random number or code and in a window I can't even copy and paste out of.

    My skill level doesn't change. Linux just isn't user hostile in nature making it easy to search for fixes and report issues. Where as on windows I can't summon the care or effort to manually transcribe the error so I can then do something with it.

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    Add-on: same password, same identity.
  • I get the joke.

    But related real talk phones get got a lot. They won't need to steal your phone they'll just hack it like every other computer on the planet.

    You don't have to look much for the evidence.

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/ileakage-flaw-can-prompt-apples-safari-to-expose-passwords-sensitive-data

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/samsung-galaxy-s23-hacked-twice-on-first-day-of-pwn2own-toronto/amp/

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    Police say there’s an active shooter in Lewiston, Maine, and they are investigating multiple scenes
  • I agreed with your factual correction. I'm not sure why you're coming at me so hot.

    I will maintain that while their facts may have been incorrect the intent isn't what you seem to want it to be. Of course the op of the reply we're replying to is the only one who can say.

    Also, yeah, you're right no systemic change has ever been successful ever so why try. /S

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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