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Onomatopoeia

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  • Start your meetings at 5 minutes past

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  • Or, hear me out, show some maturity and end the meeting at it's end time.

    Whoever is leading a meeting should be deferring things that can't be resolved in the current time, and be wrapping up before the end time.

    With 10 minutes left they should be reviewing "next steps", including the things that couldn't be covered, with communication of who will lead setting up meetings for those items.

    I'm even more convinced now that Google is full on amateur hour with juvenile ideas like this.

  • It's hard to justify Tahoe icons

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  • I love how that page adds snowfall over itself... Cluttered, distracting snowfall.

    Irony is dead... Long live irony

  • Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

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  • But XP never really needed actual activation, it used a key.

    So long as you had one valid key you're good forever.

    In my career and private lab, I've built literally thousands of machines - never once had to call MS to activate.

  • Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

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  • Clicks Communicator

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  • May be worth buying used in a year or two...

  • Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

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  • Like its forerunner, the MC02, the new model is a subscription-based smartphone 

    What??

  • Getting Fired over LinkedIn Account

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  • Yea, my ass would've stood up and walked out laughing at the moron "CEO".

    Typical arrogant small business owner, think they know everything.

    "No, I will not be using my personal anything for company work, and if you think that's ok, you're an idiot for embracing the legal risks of doing so."

  • Winux Tries to Mimic Windows While Staying Fully Linux

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  • I use OneNote extensively - have 20 years of notes, and I disable OneDrive integration in Windows.

    And the AI integration? Wtf?

    Android integration sounds interesting though.

  • I spent a WEEK without IPv4

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  • You’ve been using legacy methods for far too long. It’s time to move to IPv6.

    Yea, no. Are you going to pay for the transition and all the support problems it would cause?

    Juvenile thinking is so tiresome. Yes, 6 has advantages, but changing stuff always has cost and risk.

  • Free software has some glib naming conventions

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  • And this really exposes a major challenge with FOSS.

    Names have meaning - it's why Office is called Office.

    This gnu naming isn't much of an issue, because this is stuff only technical folks handle. But if we want end-users to embrace things, we need meaningful names - meaningful to them.

    Whenever I tell my friends or family to install Jellyfin so they can access my media, the look on their face says it all.

    MediaMonkey - alright, I get it (yea, not FOSS)

    Plex? OK, if someone then says "think MultiPlex Theaters", you get it. (Also not FOSS)

    Jellyfin? What is that? Jam on a sharkfin?

    These work really well:

    Resilio SYNC (Yeah, not FOSS, but the name makes sense)

    SyncThing (FOSS)

    FolderSync (not FOSS)

    Notice a trend here?

    I have a printed spreadsheet for all the software I use - if I haven't touched a service for a couple months, I'll forget the meaningless name.

  • Pornhub saw a 22.4% increase in Linux traffic over 2025

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  • Lots of pirating going on...

  • Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly?

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  • Right?

    Pretty sure this debate was settled around 1994 (1996?) when MS gave Apple a massive cash injection (effectively saving the company) so they could say "see, we're not a monopoly!

  • How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking

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  • Bullshit article when they make claims like this:

    Critically, Apple TV boxes are also an easy recommendation on the privacy front.

    Apple is no more privacy-friendly than anyone else. And while you may not see all the ads you do on other platforms, try booting an Apple TV with no account on it - immediately goes to ads for Apple's own streaming.

    Apple TV boxes don’t have automatic content recognition (ACR).

    They may not, but your smart TV still does, and still runs it against anything the AppleTV sends to it.

  • Why Isn't Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID in Person?

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  • One word: tracking

  • Is Signal safe?

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  • That still means all your chats are identifiable to your phone number.

    For an org that claims they're interested in privacy, that's a major contradiction.

  • Trying to learn Linux, coming from windows

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  • WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps

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  • Meta wants to scan all your messages

  • Trying to learn Linux, coming from windows

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  • There's a free, 30 day program for learning Linux that may help, The Linux Upskill Challenge.

    I like that it walks you through doing stuff, step by step, starting with foundations and building on it.

  • Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy

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  • Depends on how old.

    By the late 20-teens, stuff got a lot more power friendly. I have a 2017 Dell desktop that idles at 18w with an 8TB drive inside. Marginally more than my NAS.

    Though I'm not disagreeing, you definitely need to check that first. It's why I retired my really old desktop that was my prior server - it idled at 100w+. Ouch.