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ringe··on Full AMD Linux Laptop (Radeon 7600M XT GPU, Ryzen CPU): Tuxedo Sirius 16 Review
Looks lovely
ringe··on Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
Too bad.
ringe··on Ask HN: How should I use my $2000 training budget before end of year?
I'll give you a one-on-one experience based 20 hours class in Software Engineering, Management and Business. It's a bargain at $2000 if you sign up before year-end 2021. :)
ringe··on Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
Ah,I replace the siding of the house, after adding more insulation. Besides being busy with physical work as a distraction, I try to focus on what my wife and my kids want me to do.

So maybe go help someone renovate a house?

ringe··on Well-known web sites that port-scan their visitors
This link sent me straight to a malicious ad page pretending to be Telenor
ringe··on Why are diapers so expensive?
"Diapers are sold at much lower prices in Norway than in the rest of Europe. The large price difference has led to smuggling of diapers, mainly to Eastern-European countries. The diaper smuggler gain both from the price difference and by evading taxes on the trade"

https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/57685

ringe··on Munich confirms switch to Windows 10
Imagine if Munich had put the same amount into improving the upstream software instead.

Politicians never fail to disappoint, feels like.

That said, I often can't replace Windows due to legacy applications.

Regarding MS Office, some people buy iPhone. These people also seem to need their Microsoft Office.

ringe··on Microsoft Blocks Windows 7/8 Updates on AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake Systems
Ah, the delight of renting place to live.

Landlord: You cannot take a shower unless you upgrade your bathroom. The pipes now monitor the equipment in use to stop you.

ringe··on Can sleep deprivation cure depression?
No.
ringe··on Norway to become first country to switch off FM radio
This is all about lobbying politicians. Very hard to understand why they want to set aside separate bandwidth for different sorts of media, when Internet access would provide all we needed.

We have digital radio, digital television broadcast, separate emergency frequencies and so goes the list.

What about gathering around standard that work and are already in place? What about making cell phone and Internet connectivity more robust?

But no. Let's throw billions in taxes down the drain. For instance: The emergency network fails when there's a storm. Then we're back to RHF!

From the inhabitant perspective, this is all a power party. A few people with high positions get to make big decisions and pat each other's back. I'm sure the CEOs of the businesses getting the contracts are good at patting backs too.

Good thing we already pay so much taxes we don't even notice the difference.

Except for the bumpy roads and understaffed elderly homes.

ringe··on Should GitHub Implement a Downvote/Flag System?
Any developer with some decent skill will look at time of last commit and/or number of unanswered issues.

No. We don't need a more prominent way to express negative feelings about a repo.

ringe··on Ignite UI is now open source
This is Freemium advertisement
ringe··on Show HN: Free Survey Creator
Here's my first thought: Pretty and simple. Second: Who is this?

Sorry, but I don't like signing up to random single page apps without background knowledge about it. Why should I post my email to even more potential spam sources voluntarily?

I do realize everyone has to start somewhere, though.

ringe··on Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO
How come the only way you can be open-minded is to have all your opinions narrowly placed in the current politically correct mindset?
ringe··on My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
The real problem here IMO is that the focus is on the investors and making a product that will attracted such.

There's something fundamentally wrong with the approach when the major focus is on something else than earning money.

I know, I've been there too.

loop "Build something you can sell. Find a customer. Send a bill. Get money."

ringe··on Twice as Many Mobile News Readers Prefer Browsers to Apps
A case for FirefoxOS
ringe··on Nokia sells Qt to Digia
Trolltech made that legal covenant a long time ago, while Nokia and Digia are bound to it by the purchase of the business.
ringe··on ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
This is awesome.
ringe··on They don't care
You might not care about a user's message because he only sees his pet feature, but you only see your pet project. The customer isn't always right, but what they teach you at college about stupid customers not knowing what's good for them isn't true either. Interesting stuff will happen when you find the balance between their and your "don't care" points.