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HiTekRedNek

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  • Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?

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  • They don't if you're constantly taking them off to put stuff inside them between the phone and the black.

    She refuses to carry a purse or even a wallet and just shoves her ID and her teen-limited cashapp card in. And sometimes even spare cash if she has any.

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  • If I can't own it, I'm not buying it.

  • KDE creates a safe haven for Windows 10 exiles.

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  • So if you use a *buntu based distro, but prefer kde, why not KDE neon?

  • Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?

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  • My kid does.

    And I wish she wouldn't. To clarify, we've bought her cases and she destroys the case in days.

    She's more careful with her bare phone than she is with it in a case.

  • Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?

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  • I use a case to add magsafe to my android phone, because I like the magnetic holder/charger idea ,na swish all phones had it built in.

    I have a cheap, clear magsafe case for my Pixel 9.

    I also have a screen protector, and when I have the phone out of the case, it feels weird in my hand when I brush the edge of the screen protector.

  • The Faculty, any day

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  • The Golden Child.

    I I I I I want the knife...

    Please...

  • Need explanation about Usenet

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  • As someone who used to download C64 games in the 1980s, from a BBS, trust me. Pirating existed decades before BitTorrent.

    Decades.

  • This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!

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  • Don't forget to include the hacked controller firmware that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.

  • The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

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  • Then that's changed since the last time I toyed with the idea. Which, granted, was probably 20 years ago...

  • There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them?

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  • There. Was that at hard?

    It's apparently easier than you not being a jackass, at least.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • The big issue is that your network provider is also the physical provider, and there's no real competition as a result.

    When most people got their Internet service over telephone lines, your ISP didn't need to also own the telephone lines, they just needed some telephone numbers.

    When the telcos themselves got into the business of providing internet access, they pushed out the competition.

    The 1996 Telecommunications Act, written by a Republican Congress, and signed into law by a Democratic president (Clinton) is largely responsible for the current state of affairs.

    The "Information Superhighway" is a toll road, built by taxes, but owned by private corporations.

    What's crazy is that the government paid these corporations to build this infrastructure.

    When your government pays, say, a road building company to build roads, one doesn't then grant the ownership of those roads to that company.

    But that is EXACTLY what we did with our communications infrastructure.

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  • Good. That's what I was aiming for.

    It is painful.

    What was worse for me? I began suffering from a kidney stone when I was parked at a New Jersey turnpike rest area/service area.

    In a semi truck.

    Almost 1000 miles from home or anyone I know

    With my dog in the truck.

    Obligatory pic. Gina, the dog in the story, is no longer with us, but she is the golden/husky mix, while Zeus, the bigger black and white mutt still is.

    https://tinypic.host/image/Snapchat-1486115008.3dlaJ4

    A dog that had horrible separation anxiety and would chew her way out of said truck if I left her in it with the climate controls on, for more than a few minutes.

    I wound up calling 911, since obviously I'm not getting a semi truck into a hospital parking lot, and explaining the situation to the dispatcher. By the time the ambulance got to me, I was doubled over, dry heaving in the parking lot, with my dog freaking out thinking I'm about to die.

    In her defense, by then, so did I. I still didn't know it was a kidney stone, and my mind was going immediately to "burst appendix", and me dying a thousand miles from home, in the middle of the night, leaving a wife and a daughter behind....

    Ambulance crew loaded up me AND my dog, and one of the EMTs called the hospital, and got that handled.

    The hospital security team babysat her, while the nurses and doctors fussed over me.

    When it was time to get back to the truck, I tried to call a cab. None would take me back because of the dog. She wasn't a big dog, but not a lapdog either.

    Needless to say when the head ER nurse found out, she flipped her shit in perfect, foul-mouthed, Jersey attitude, and this southern boy loved her for it.

    She said "I'll take you myself if this guy doesn't, and if he doesn't, his fuckin whole company will be banned from this whole muthafuckin hospital!"

    As an aside, that's when it clicked that New Englanders ain't rude or unfriendly. They just express love differently. 😂

    Damn. I rambled like hell, but. It all needed to be said anyway

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    What do you all think about piracy?

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  • 3 words.

    Stand.

    And.

    Deliver.

    I'll admit to being mostly right of center in a lot of ways gasp HERE??! Lol.

    But I'm no boot licker.

    Anarchocapitalist is probably the closest category.

    That said, there's nothing I like more than fighting back against "the man" whether that "man" is a corporation or the government itself.

    So when corporations, or anyone really, tries to fuck me over?

    Stand. And. Deliver. Bitch.

    I turn 49 in August. I've had a home computer since 1984. I am of the generation that could work on the old school computers, and I've been pirating since the 80s.

    If you want me to PAY you, make it worth the money. Otherwise, I'll get it however I can get away with.

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    What do you all think about piracy?

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  • Got my first home computer in 1984. I've sailed the high seas off and on pretty much my entire life.

    I hung up the hat for a while when Netflix really had their heyday, and had pretty much every show and movie.

    But then studios and networks started pulling shows from Netflix, and creating their own streaming services, prices kept creeping higher and higher.

    I finally had enough. They wanna play? Ok. We'll play.

    Stand and deliver bitches.

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    What do you all think about piracy?

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  • What's hilarious is, Netflix damn near killed piracy completely. Until every single network decided to do it themselves.

    They forgot the most important part of piracy. Access.

    I am NOT paying for your entire streaming service if I want to watch a movie.

    Not to mention, a LOT of older movies should be in the public domain by now, and therefore free to watch. But nope, in fact, many older movies are simply gone. Never to be seen again.

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  • Know what else is like pinball?

    Kidney stones. Definitely feels like you're getting your balls thrown into a lot of shit.

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  • My work provided phone is, sadly, an iPhone.

    But the case they provided for it (OtterBox) actually doesn't have the window.

    Meanwhile, my personal phone, a Pixel, has a case is 100% clear.

    I bought a white phone, so dammit I want to see the white phone! 😂

  • Yes

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  • laughs in C64 BASIC

  • The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

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  • What's crazy is you can build a kit plane for less than what this costs, and flying a kit plane does NOT need a pilot license in the US.

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