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waigl

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  • Removed

    Remember this when you think about buying from Modretro. (Palmer Luckey, being the founder of ModRetro, Oculus VR, and Anduril Defense)

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  • I appreciate what he’s done for VR and retro gaming.

    He took money from a lot of donors, used that money to get patents for his company, then sold that company, including the patents, to Facebook (now Meta).

    I do not appreciate what he did there.

  • Trump Says Maduro Captured After US Airstrikes Hit Venezuela

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  • It's not like Putin hasn't tried that…

  • Gotcha!

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  • Honestly, this is a major weakness of Lemmy. The OP of a thread can destroy a lot of content by other people, and they often do. I really don't get the reasoning behind allowing them that power.

  • NTFSPlus Becomes "NTFS" as Driver Moves Closer to Kernel Integration

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  • It's hard to believe how insanely long it took, and still is taking to get a production-ready, solid ntfs driver in linux.

  • What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025

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  • The emergence of a deadly new disease

    Wishy-washy question. New diseases emerge all the time, and what do you mean by "deadly"? Almost all diseases can be deadly some of the time, almost none of them are always deadly. We've had several "new" diseases that are deadly often enough to be worrying, but no wide spread new ones that are as deadly as rabies. Also, what does it mean for a disease to be "new"? Because of a lack of sexual procreation, and therefore lateral gene transfer, neither viruses nor bacteria are species-forming. Every new individual ever is a new diverging point for a line of successors, and that line will never, can never merge back with the rest of the population. The point at which a strain has mutated enough to be called a new disease is basically a matter of opinion.

    Gay marriages will be commonplace

    Again, wishy-washy question. What is commonplace? I don't know a lot of people who would still object to gay people's right to marry, but I personally don't know a single married gay couple. Is it commonplace? I can't tell.

    Country will have elected a black president

    Clear yes. A big part of the country had a very dangerous and still going meltdown over it, but still, the answer is a clear yes.

    Country will have elected a woman president

    Clear no, if by a small margin on two occasions.

    Illicit drug use, such as marijuana and cocaine, will be commonplace

    Again with the "commonplace". It's hard to define. I'm going by "illicit drugs" meaning drugs that were illegal on a federal level in 1998 (not that this will make that much difference). By my gut feeling, I would say this was already "commonplace" in the eighties and nineties. Though it does seem to have increased since then.

    AIDS will be cured

    There have been a small number of cases where it actually worked, but to my knowledge nothing universally applicable. AIDS treatments, however, have become so good that the disease is no longer seen as a major problem of our times.

    Cancer will be cured

    That was always a non-starter, and even people in 1998 should have known that. Cancer is not one disease, at best you can cure a small specific subset of cancers.

    Most stores will be replaced by shopping on the Internet

    Brick and mortar stores have become fewer, but it's hard to tell how much of that was Internet shopping and how much was market consolidation into powerful big-box stores.

    Most people will do their jobs from home.

    We didn't even come close to "most" during Covid. Most jobs just cannot be done from home.

    United States will be involved in a full scale war

    What's "full scale"? There were certainly a few that were "full-scale" for the other side. Shit, there only just was one shortly before this poll was conducted…

  • time will tell

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  • I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

  • Finally completed my fireplace bookshelf

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  • Congratz on the woodworking achievement! But,… somehow a fireplace seems like an inappropriate place for books…

  • German bank heist: Thieves use drill to steal €30m from savings bank

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  • From the photo, there seems to have been a substantial-thickness concrete wall and then a brick wall. Obviously, they were still not enough, but it wasn't just a brick wall.

    And about the wooden shelves: So what? They are not security relevant or customer facing, they just need to work as shelves.

  • Sekyuritee

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  • The password for the hard drive encryption and the system login are two separate things, so, yes, this combination is easily possible. You'll have to input a password for system bootup, but not for logging in.

    How advisable that combination is is another question entirely.

  • Resistance is futile

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  • I found two posts in this entire thread asking what these actually are. That's not a whole lot.

  • Resistance is futile

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  • It's a pack of resistors. Electrical resistors for building electronic circuits.

  • One or the either. Or neither. Or both.

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  • Those are not mutually exclusive. ADHD people notice different things in life than others do.

  • Ich🐮❤️🖥️iel

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  • Der wird seinen Wert wahrscheinlich wesentlich besser und länger halten als ein Diamant.

  • Our payment systems are too dependent on the USA

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  • Wero is not widely supported yet, it's not even finished yet, it doesn't have feature parity with existing solutions. Compared to its predecessor, Giropay, it's also rather intransparent, in a "just trust our app, bro" kind of way, with little in the way of open standards.

    It needs support from every single bank to work (in stark contrast to PayPal, btw), and that support requires quite a lot of development and maintenance effort on the part of the bank. Parent poster (BarHocker) said many European banks already support it, but the practical reality is most of them don't, and largely didn't have any plans to, either. The number of supporting banks is artificially inflated by the fact that the German Volksbanken/Raiffeisenbanken and the Sparkassen, respectively are technically hundreds of small regional banks.

    This requirement to have direct support from the individual banks is, the way I see it, the main reason why Giropay failed. If Wero has the exact same problem, I don't see why it would succeed where Giropay did not.

    I do still hope for it, though.

  • Boycott Loblaws & Empire!

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  • Grow your own = Insanely cheap, very easy, super delicious.

    Not going to be anywhere near enough food for one person unless you have more land available for yourself than people in a city or even most modern suburban developments are likely to have. Also takes a lot of time and effort if you want more than the occasional tomato, cucumber, lettuce head or zucchini to enrich your diet a bit. (Can be fun on a small scale, though.)

    Farmer’s market = Cheap, convenient, super delicious and big.variety.

    Nice, but takes a lot of planning, storage and home cooking to work out. You may need to start planning your life around when the farmer's markets are and what they carry. Also, the variety is necessarily limited to what farmers in your area are growing.

    Friends with chickens = Delicious high quality free eggs offloaded onto you every week.

    Cool if you got those, but most people don't.

  • all the proof i need

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  • Proof by break: Before the break: "We will proof this theorem after a short break", After the break: "As we have proven before the break…"Proof by unavailable literature: The prrof can be found in a publication only available by in-person request in one library of one university in Brno, Czechia. That closed 30 years ago.

  • ich📃☝️iel

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  • Die große Hand hat drei Finger (plus Daumen), aber wie viele hat die kleine? Ich weiß gar nicht, wie ich die zählen sollte.

  • TIL that the Irish flag was invented by the French

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  • If it's supposed to represented the union between those two, than why are the green and the orange regions separated by a giant white border?

  • One bottle please!

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  • Why does the lower-case n in your caption look like it's on the wrong baseline? Did you arrange those letters manually?