deerdelighted

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Frankly in my opinion, bios should only be updatable from the bios itself. No matter which os we talk about, it can always get in the way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I don't think it's very feature-rich, but I do use Open Tracks. For tracking my running it works just fine.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Wait so according to the article, someone prayed to him while in hospital and got healed? Is that all it takes to become a Saint? I wonder: if I ever get into a hospital I should pray to say Genghis Khan just to troll the Church.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Being able to protest the government you don't like is also how democracy works. Unless you do any disturbance you're perfectly allowed to express your opinion even if in the minority.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I get from this that whoever made this meme doesn't like foss, but I don't get what is it trying to say. That foss is just a way for big tech to have software for free and that it's production is chaotic?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

As an introvert with pretty bad social anxiety, I have to say I'm glad I am not extraverted.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So if I understand it correctly, with this scheme the traffic between my computer and the DNS server is encrypted and so my internet provider won't know which websites I'm visiting?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can't the hacker though spoof some fake websites and trick you into giving your information? If they control the WiFi they control the DNS don't they?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (8 children)

So when does a farm go from personal to private property? Is it the moment you rent it or employ other people on it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know the fees are determined by the market, the only thing that decreases is the reward for finding a block. I believe the reasoning about it is to have a limited amount of bitcoins in circulation. If there was no cap on supply then the value of Bitcoin would crumble as essentially in the long term the miners could "print" or "mine" infinitely many of it.

Miners are still though incentivized to keep the security of the network as long as there is demand for transaction. Everytime you put out a transaction on the blockchain you pay a small fee to the miners. The higher the fee the shorter you will have to wait for the bitcoins to be transferred as more miners will be incentivized to put your transaction on the blockchain while mining.

So the reasoning about the whole system is: make at first Bitcoin scarce to encourage mining and as more and more people own the cryptocurrency the more mining will shift from creating Bitcoins out of nowhere to getting money from the transaction fees. At least that's how I understand it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To me stuffed animal sounds like a dead trophy or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think I'd be willing to risk messing with a laptop's firmware just to get a different logo, but I'm happy it worked for you. Congratulations.

 

As much as I'd love to completely get rid of Google/Apple apps, it's not always possible. My main concern is that I am sometimes required to use two factor authentication apps such as my banking app for example.

I expect these are only available on android/apple store, so my question is, is it somehow possible to emulate android on let's say pinephone (or any other Linux phone) and get these two factor authentication apps still work?

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