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iopq··on Fairphone 5 review: The most uncompromising repairable phone yet
Back in blackberry days a new phone would support stuff that wasn't even dreamed of on the previous device. Do people not remember the original iPhone didn't have an app store?

Back then things moved so fast

iopq··on Fairphone 5 review: The most uncompromising repairable phone yet
The counterargument is that you have to pay for AppleCare. I don't pay for anything for my phone

From another standpoint is that you're adding to a pile of e-waste

iopq··on How to Do a Full Rewrite
You need to rewrite it if it's not in Rust
iopq··on AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4
but how do I change the IPv6 address in AWS? I can just assign a new Static IP for IPv4
iopq··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
Ubuntu installed just fine for me. Broke on update, though
iopq··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
I don't need to wrangle with x11 because I use Wayland, and I don't need to wrangle with the audio stack because I use pipewire

What year is this post from?

iopq··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
I can't use Group Policy because when I upgraded from Windows 8, it upgraded to Home edition

it's Home edition because that's what came with the laptop's Windows 8, it was never an issue on Windows 8 because you could disable stuff on Windows 8 without using Group Policy

iopq··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
I couldn't disable the anti-virus in Windows 10 that kept checking my hard drive (yes, my laptop is so old it has a hard drive) and making it slow down

then I just downloaded a program that let me disable it, and I also disabled the firewall

but without the firewall service, I can't get updates (why is that service a pre-requisite for updates?), and I forgot how to re-enable it because I don't remember what program I used to disable it since it's some hack anyway

so now my Windows partition is not really usable, and I'm typing this on Linux where I can just change stuff without breaking everything

iopq··on AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4
I migrate my proxy's IPv4 address from time to time to avoid blocks

This is not so easy to do with a IPv6 address, AWS tends to want to keep it the same

iopq··on Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems
Flathub is only okay with NixOS because a lot of flatpaks escape their sandbox and call out to outside programs. Sometimes you need to compile a NixOS version since the paths are not the same as a generic Linux distro. I've asked the developers to take a look at it, and one of them closed the issue, and the other is going to try to make it work with steam run

Basically, nixpkgs is still the best way to run something on NixOS

iopq··on Java 21 makes me like Java again
Does it have a vested interest to make everything work cross-platform?
iopq··on Java 21 makes me like Java again
Checked exceptions are gross, they get in the way when you're prototyping, and you end up just ignoring them anyway (since you're prototyping)
iopq··on AMD’s Phoenix SoC
XDNA benchmarks when
iopq··on The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022)
I bought some Chinese medicine in China for the reason that pseudoephedrine is not available and it was actually too effective, dried my nose up so much I kept having nosebleeds. But of course, I prefer the actual effect of pseudoephedrine that doesn't have this side effect.
iopq··on I think I kind of hate lazy loading
CDN storage costs are actually very high, only large websites that basically run their own CDNs storage many different versions of the image to optimize for bandwidth.

The company I worked for did, but they didn't pay for a CDN, just loaded everything from one server

iopq··on “This Is a Disaster:” Game Developers Scramble to Deal with Unity’s New Fees
You're saying they weren't greedy in 2022? What changed?
iopq··on A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for pain. ChatGPT found the right diagnosis
She went to 17 doctors that misdiagnosed the cause, so my question is: how about the doctors that can't find the right cause of the pain? You seem to be giving them a free pass
iopq··on Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?
Okay, do you want to make 100% of profit or loss on your portfolio of $1,000,000?

or do you want to make 1% of $100,000,000 win or lose, you still get paid every year?

iopq··on The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
Every task? If I want to rename all of the .pdf files in the folder to .avi I would just do it in the command line

Or would you rather have me google a GUI that lets me "quickly rename" and download a few programs that have this capability? Or do a few hundred files by hand?

iopq··on Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks everywhere, no VR, and impressive indie games
I tried it once, it was some kind of skiing game. When I had a big jump I immediately felt nauseous because I expected to feel like my body is in free fall, but I didn't, so it felt weird
iopq··on X, the moonshot factory
I commented on Reddit's latest moves, downloaded their app just to use it for a while and give it a bad review. Deleted the app and haven't gone there in a while

Just because you comment on something doesn't mean you'll use it

iopq··on Local async executors and why they should be the default
AMD's new processors easily double FPS in modern games

I bought a 3600 in 2019, but a 7800x3D would blow it out of the water after just 4 years due to more cache, hitting 5Ghz, faster DDR5 RAM

https://youtu.be/B31PwSpClk8?t=800

shadow of the tomb raider, 152 FPS to 382 FPS

some games wouldn't double the FPS, but I'm really just looking to hit 280 FPS on my 280Hz monitor

iopq··on Local async executors and why they should be the default
They specifically referred to C# and its efficient implementation
iopq··on Numbers without which it's impossible to talk about weight loss
Then just don't go back to eating as much

> The reason checking the scale is useful is because they can clue you in on where a given caloric input is taking you, up or down.

you could just grab your stomach fat to get a more accurate progress measurement

iopq··on Numbers without which it's impossible to talk about weight loss
What about before? Were they lower than expected before they lost the weight?
iopq··on Numbers without which it's impossible to talk about weight loss
So they were still weighed 37 lbs less on average? That would explain the lower metabolism
iopq··on Numbers without which it's impossible to talk about weight loss
I'm not trying to lose weight I'm trying to lose fat

Heavy weight lifting is great at making your muscles get the nutrients instead of them being stored as fat.

If I gain 5 lbs of muscle and lose 5 lbs of fat over a year, I will be much healthier and look absolutely ripped. I know because I've done it

iopq··on Numbers without which it's impossible to talk about weight loss
You will have a lower 7 day rolling average on a low carb diet than on a high carb diet because of glycogen. A low carb diet will deplete it faster, so you will think it's working better, but in actuality the effect is temporary. You need to be cognizant of glycogen while dieting so you don't get fooled.

Otherwise you will think your diet stopped working after a while

iopq··on Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing
Better than giving away all your secrets, a crash is great in comparison
iopq··on Nobody cares about your blog
My blog has some of the latest English-language information about running a proxy that is resistant to state-level blocking
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