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You gotta decide if you want a fixed blade or adjustable, adjustable will cost more and have a higher learning curve but can give a closer shave.
I like Merkur, but I'm sure there are other good brands. I started with a cheap fixed and then replaced it with an adjustable a few years later.

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Microsoft has always been more than happy to make the market smaller by buying the competition and discontinuing their products shortly after. For some reason people didn't think Xbox would do the same?

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
in 1998, Bill Gates stated: "One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people's browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities. Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destory [sic] Windows."

Not just Gates, but all higher ups at Microsoft think this way. It's kind of naive to think Xbox would be different IMHO.

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Ok, but for real is it any good?
I bought some cheap stuff for my hiking first aid kit and it doesn't stick worth a damn.

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making its...

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The average American is 38.x years old. There are a lot of children, but the olds still run this country. China is around 37, Germany is around 39.
I don't think that 25% of America listens to AM broadcasts on a regular basis, but I do think at least 1/4 of the population thinks it should still exist.

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I had MRSA once, it's so easy to spread and there is zero doubt in my mind that it could be weaponized. Criminal investigations are necessary after TWO whistleblowers are offed. I'm not holding my breath though. Boeing is too entrenched in the MIP to be investigated in any real sense of the word.

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Absolutely disgusting. The perpetrators should be in solitary confinement for abusing some of the most vulnerable members of society.

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I am also an IT nerd that hikes as much as I can, when the weather permits. Too many of my local trails have decent reception so I have to just forget my phone exists for a while.

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    They are so much larger than I expected, I thought it was a funny looking deer but it's way bigger than the biggest deers.

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    This is why I don't love snaps, proprietary backend. I think snaps actually work great for the most part, and flatpaks don't support cli apps, only GUI.

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    This is news to me! I'm honestly just paroting others with the no CLI support, I never did the homework. Shame on me I guess!

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    I think we should just resurrect Plan 9 instead.

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    I mean, you're right but I still want to see a modernized plan 9, I just think it would be neat.

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    Latest release was 9 years ago, not exactly what I'm looking for. 9front is probably closer to what I want than inferno.

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    I don't think that's correct, but I don't know enough about the history of tiddy physics in games.
    Pretty sure SNK was on the ground floor with Fatal Fury 2.

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    That's a cool video, but my point still stands.
    Fatal Fury 2 was released in 1992.
    And Dead or Alive was also released before half life.

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    At first I was not ok with this. Now I kinda want it on my tombstone.

    jodanlime ,
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    That's my wifi SSID

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    Marriage material TBH

    Open source e reader ( lemmy.ml )

    I recently got a Sony prs 600 e reader from 2009. The battery is at the end of its life (It lasts about 3 days with heavy reading, and a couple weeks without reading). No backlight, no Wi-Fi, just an SD card that I can load epub files and small PDFs. The screen is slow and the contrast isn't the best. The "touch screen" is the...

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    I have one of these in a box somewhere, maybe I should dig it out and see if the battery is still good.

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    I actually did this in my early 20s.
    Girlfriend at the time got super drunk super fast so I had to stay sober to drive us home.

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    They didn't have a sign posted, so I figured I was safe.

    jodanlime ,
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    Yeah, this was before Uber existed and the town I lived in at the time had very sketchy and unreliable taxis, non-existent public transit.

    jodanlime ,
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    Laptop screws are usually JIS instead of Philips.
    Get a JIS screwdriver and you won't have that issue in the future.

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    Hoist.

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    My buddy at work was looking for the smallest smart phone he could get, I helped him find the Jelly Star. He has been using it for a few months, and he loves it. Fits in his 5th pocket on most jeans and it's a real head turner, everyone is confused and thinks it's a dumb phone

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    US

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    All of them, as far as I can see. We do not live in a city, so maybe the 5G will come here eventually but the majority of my state is still covered by LTE. 3G is dead of course, but he gets as good of cellular coverage as I do?

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    I have found that different USB adapters will vary wildly in their max volume and sound quality. I bought a Google branded one from a local retail store and it kind of sucks. I ordered a higher end one and it gets louder and sounds better at high volume.

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    https://www.alphandelta.com/products/type-c-adapter-mk-2?variant=40137235235010

    That's the good one I have. I'm sure there are other options but it has held up well and sounds good!

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    Jojo La Chocolate

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    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/swap#Swap_file

    I call them swap files but either is correct.

    A swap partition is a part of your storage disk that is formatted for swap use. It could also be it's own disk for high performance systems, but mostly for HPC.

    A swap file is basically an empty disk image file that you mount as swap, the OS will use it just like a swap partition.

    I prefer swap files because I find them easier to manage. I can easily delete, move, or enlarge the swap file whereas the partition will take a bit more work and is a bit riskier to change. Changing partition layouts can get very messy.

    I always recommend a swap file be created when setting up a new Linux machine, even if you have loads of RAM. Some applications will use swap space to help performance, but I also like the fact that if I do something really dumb and fill up the root partition I can delete my swap file to free up space immediately, fix the full disk problem, and then recreate the swap file.

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    I've never noticed an appreciable performance hit, but I also don't generally swap much. Most of the time on a desktop/workstation I'm surprised to see a gig or 2 in swap. Nvme drives are pretty fast.
    If you are actually using swap space on a regular basis it might be worth it to upgrade RAM or use a dedicated drive for swap if necessary.
    I remember btrfs having swap file issues but the details are fuzzy, these days I use zfs on my nas and ext4 everywhere else.

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    As far as inkjets go, she didn't do terrible. If you need color and don't want something huge, this is a reasonable decision.
    But stacking it a top of the dead carcass of it's cousin is probably some sort of robot hate crime.
    You better hope they aren't telling the Seiko/Epson AI about it.

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    If there aren't any crustaceans involved I'm not interested.

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    This is also how I read the meme.
    Codes are fine, tokens are fine.
    Your proprietary spyware app is NOT fine (Microsoft) and I hope you get fucked.

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    I also need to know the answers to these questions

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    As you should. The obviously don't have any loyalty to their customers, don't give them any back.

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    I’m pretty sure there’s some old mainframe that doesn’t support more than 8, maybe older AS400 or something like that. Could be the reason.

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    It does look kinda sketchy for a full 3.0+ data cable.
    Could be one of those stupid charging only cables.

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    Paywall. :(

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    Lead

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    I bought one for hiking and it's now my go to utensil. Don't use it on nice plates or bowls though because the titanium will scratch the hell out of just about everything.
    https://www.snowpeak.com/collections/utensils/products/titanium-spork

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    I'm probably going to get the longer version for backpacking so I can keep the short one in my kitchen.

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    I'll second this, stupid good battery life but a fairly simple watch.
    Doesn't do apps but it does health tracking and notifications and it's pretty good at looking like a watch instead of a toy.

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    Those are my favorite blades

    Scribus Gets Huge Update (but the toolbar buttons are still too small to see!) ( www.omgubuntu.co.uk )

    I want to like Scribus, but every time I hear about it getting updated, I download it, open it, only to find these tiny toolbar icons that have no apparent way of being made bigger. This is always what prevents me from trying it out! Seems like kind of a basic design no-brainer. Grrr. Does anyone else have this problem? I'm on...

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    Scribus has been around for a while, their UI looks like older versions of Microsoft Office. If you hover over the icon it will tell you what it does.

    Maybe I'm older than you but scribus feels like comfort food, it isn't loud and flashy and lets me focus on my work. I really don't like the gigantic touch friendly buttons on desktop apps personally, so I hope they don't go that way.

    I cannot see any settings to change the toolbar size but I'm not a scribus wizard either.

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    I really liked my focus. And when I went to buy a new one they tried to sell me a hideous SUV. I'm not bringing any kids to soccer, I don't want your gas guzzler. I bought a Subaru because they still make cars. Tall vehicles suck ass to drive and I wish more people realized it.

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