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Trainguyrom

@ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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  • Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

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  • I respect your stubbornness in that regard, but understand that in such a situation you're putting yourself in a position of significant friction, possibly costing yourself income, promotions etc.

    I learned very quickly by playing the game by the unofficial rules and expectations things are way easier and my quality of life is much improved. Stubbornness won't change the system, but it will certainly annoy people and slow down your access to life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. If that's a trade off you're willing to make so be it, but personally I'd rather enjoy my life than die on hills that very few people so much as glance at.

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  • Depends on where you are really. Small towns everything is cash or a phonecall to a person from any phone (it's really like stepping back in time about 15 years) but in larger cities you might find yourself required to use an app to unlock your apartment or office door or buy a train ticket or pay for a parking space, or buy a bus ticket or hail a taxi. In work I've needed a phone for 2FA in my last 3 jobs (granted in IT that's probably for the best) and in college they distribute resources on the school website via big in-person QR codes.

    While every single one of those things almost always has a non-smartphone option, it increases friction significantly, and then you're the annoying person who is slowing everything down by not doing something the way everyone else does, however in a workplace they'll often simply provide you with a phone because that's easier than going to the trouble of ensuring every edgecase is covered and ensuring fair compensation for requiring you to have a phone.

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  • Ehhhh I'm not convinced that the method of dumping everything in a pile and using search is such a bad thing for average users. For admins on servers it's absolutely critical to know what is in what directory, but for average users does it actually matter at all?

    Honestly I'm bad enough about being consistent with my data organization I genuinely wonder if I should join them in just searching through the pile of documents rather than organizing in neat folders...

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  • If you don’t want any to be tracked legally, write/call/tweet/visit your representatives.

    And donate to the EFF if you have the means because they can and have and will likely continue to lobby on average internet users behalf!

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  • The IMEI can't be changed. That's the serial number of the cellular modem

    Edit: reviewing the link you shared in another comment that looks plausible. Just be warned good luck on any kind of warranty or insurance claims if you change IMEIs. I used to work for a cell phone manufacturer and we used the IMEI to both identify roughly when the device was purchased to make determining warranty status dead simple, and to identify devices as they went through the repair process.

    Additionally carriers will often blacklist IMEIs for activation (usually on devices which were financed but never paid off) so that's another potential opportunity for trouble

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  • The craziest thing is new archeological discoveries keep pushing modern humans further and further back into pre-history. Almost makes me wonder if we'll come full circle and go "yeah humans did in fact coexist with dinosaurs, and here's proof at least one rode one" /hj

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  • You think you have had an entire life, but in reality your brain was just formed moments ago. And it may possibly stop existing in a few more moments, this moment being the only one the brain has actually experienced.

    A moment in which I sit on the toilet and read philosophy on my fondleslab and perhaps make this comment. Really a wild thought

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  • I could never get the hang of thursdays

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  • Actually the universe was created on Jan 1st 1970. That's why computers sometimes have errors with pre-1970 dates, it's the universal simulation glitching due to the high clock rate of computers compared to the universe's. Anyone who claims to have been born before 1970/01/01 is a simulation that's lying to you, and anyone born after is real, hence why now that its more player characters than NPCs things are going off the rails politically and socially!

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  • What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?

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  • I love seeing old workshops where all of the machines are powered off of a single source of rotational energy. Just so whimsical and kinetic when everything is moving

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  • I might finally have reached the point where I no longer see the Wii as a piece of futuristic tech

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  • I've witnessed the lights getting turned on for a landing when driving past my local airport before. That's neat to know it might be pilot controlled!

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  • The choochoos got really big at the end of the steam era. UP 4014 happens to be about as long as that bridge which crosses a 4 lane road

  • Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces

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  • Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

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  • So if white hat is ethical hackers, black hat is unethical, and red hat is Linux, then obviously brown hat is shitty!

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  • Among many other duties I manage the safety and claims database for an outsourced industrial cleaning company and let me tell you, some of the plants my company works struggle to make it a week without an accident, meanwhile some will go years without an accident. We also have one plant which had its last accident during the Bush Administration. Its absolutely wild how much safety can vary from one industrial facility to another

  • Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today

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  • Yeah I hadn't realized how much laptops from that era sucked compared to now. Granted, that was around the time manufacturers actually started actually trying to make laptops better, but really only current laptops feel similar to desktops and even then because they're just designed to "race to sleep" any kind of workload that actually pushes them for more than 15 seconds at all it falls over so quickly compared to a moderate desktop.

    Desktops with 4th gen and newer chips however have so much life left in them, so it's an absolute crime that Microsoft's sending them to the metalchipper

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  • I was very confused by your comment so I took a poke around Intel ark. I see what you mean now, most mobile processors for 4th and 6th gen (probably the most common generations for used PCs that are incompatible with 11) have 2c/4t on the U series processors, but looks like any HQ processor gets a full 4 cores and if it's an i7 it gets hyper threading, putting them closer to parity with their desktop counterparts