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throaway46546··on Crystal Installs OpenBSD on the PinePhone
It makes a great router.
throaway46546··on Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons
I have heard you can just bribe a cop to sign it off and you don't have to have it removed at all.
throaway46546··on Switzerland’s astonishingly polite armed conflict of 1847 (2019)
Well if you know you are going to get free drinks why not?
throaway46546··on Discovering Paxlovid
I had covid in April of 2020 and I still can't do any strenuous exercise without getting out of breath. Shit sucks.
throaway46546··on Venmo, PayPal and Zelle must report $600 in transactions to IRS
Isn't that very illegal?
throaway46546··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
It can really only get better. I almost want to hope it will, but I'm tired of getting burned.
throaway46546··on Zoroastrians make a comeback in northern Iraq
Matrilineal descent does make a lot of sense. It is a lot simpler to determine maternity vs paternity.
throaway46546··on You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of being offline
Ironically GOG has an even more generous refund policy.

>You may request a refund for a product up to 30 days after purchase, even if it was downloaded, launched, and played.

throaway46546··on Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?
The better trackers are invite only. If you are found to be selling invites your entire invite tree will be banned. You have to be recruited or personally know a member to get in.

Take for example PTP. It is one of the best movie trackers. It recently exceeded 250,000 unique titles available in many different formats. Netflix in contrast only has 15,000 unique titles and their library is shrinking not growing.

throaway46546··on Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?
There are private trackers.
throaway46546··on Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
I wish I had friends like that.
throaway46546··on Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
The only downside is VPN provider endpoints are blocked by many services.
throaway46546··on A few things I’ve learned about livestreaming
Same the second one just looks dark.
throaway46546··on Tech CEO pleads to wire fraud in IP address scheme
Dumpster fires exist (and are a valuable source of heating).
throaway46546··on My First Impressions of Web3
In a discussion about people not wanting to run their own servers the fact that your first instinct was to use GCP is telling.
throaway46546··on Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants
Amtrak sucks so bad.
throaway46546··on Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
GGn
throaway46546··on New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
So it would take care of over 1/3 of your energy needs with most of the rest coming from (I assume) hydroelectric generation. Doesn't sound that bad to me.
throaway46546··on New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
>How often do you scramble eggs on your cast iron skillet?

Every time I make scrambled eggs. It isn't difficult. I don't even see what you are getting at with this question.

throaway46546··on Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for rich foreigners resumes
>Hopefully, USCIS/ICE will use their brains in situations like this.

lol

throaway46546··on A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website
https://archive.ph/XcX7e
throaway46546··on Alexa owners not using it after only two weeks
I absolutely despise talking to automated phone trees too. Luckily most of them seem to support DTMF fallback (I assume for accessibility reasons).
throaway46546··on Facebook says it was wrong to ban Canadian MP’s Christmas message
https://archive.ph/uLVGw
throaway46546··on Internet Movie Firearms Database
What the DOJ doesn't know can't hurt it.
throaway46546··on Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers
I built a small x86 box and installed OPNsense and all my router woes have gone away.
throaway46546··on Faking a Positive Covid Test
I think it is just a proof of concept. If you don't have covid you would have to infect yourself to fake a negative test. Faking a positive test proves that it is possible to fake a negative.
throaway46546··on Against 3x Speed
The first two are probably possible if legally dubious.
throaway46546··on Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (2013)
Link to the animation?
throaway46546··on Maryland hasn't updated Covid case data for 15 days due to a security incident
I feel sorry for their admins. First they get hacked and then they get DDoS'd.
throaway46546··on Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
Using Win2k as your daily driver seems like an exceptionally poor decision.
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