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2 Kings 2:23-24: A story about what happens when you make fun of bald dudes

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Anyone who tells you that gaming on Linux isn't somewhat experimental is lying. I think it's getting there, though.

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Yeah, OP definitely played hard mode lol

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I wouldn't have even gone to college if I didn't have access to a privately subsidized university. That said, $40k of debt for four years of education doesn't actually seem so bad, considering living expenses. Being able to live on $10k a year (or less) is impressive.

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You're describing the median, not the average.

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Jacobin is a strongly biased source and unlikely to be trustworthy or accurate in it's "reporting".

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I haven't used Google Search in years (DuckDuckGo ftw). I do use Copilot from time to time, and it's alright.

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This kind of "checking that I'm still orthodox" post makes my skin crawl. Who is "we"?

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Technically every JSON file is a single line, with line break characters here and there

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Of course, anyone who has been watching Hamas for the last decade knows that they routinely lie about civilian casualties while simultaneously using them as meat shields.

Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians ( www.nytimes.com )

The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....

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Everyday Palestinians = Hamas' meat shields.

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They're also victims of Hamas' war crimes, because using civilians as shields and conducting military operations from civilian locations are also war crimes. If Hamas can even be accused of such, being a terror organization rather than a legitimate government.

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Social good more than for economic reasons, since we know definitively that more education isn't required to do work that currently is high-paying.

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For some reason, referring to a computer or VM that runs Linux as a "Linux box" triggers me.

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It's not just Highway 1, too. There are many towns on the coast with roads that are right over the eroding coastal cliffs. Time to not live along those roads anymore.

FTC Non-compete rule published in Federal Register ( www.govinfo.gov )

This goes into effect September 4, 2024. Employers with existing non-compete agreements must post the notice on page 163 (38504). After that date you may accept a job offer from anybody, including a direct competitor, and not worry about violating any non-compete agreement.

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Now there is one fewer reason to work in California if you're in the tech industry.

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Where were these taken?

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Wow, I had no idea stellers jays lived outside California. Great photos!

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It's disappointing that the effects of discrimination against childless men are downplayed in the article, which focuses on discrimination against mothers.

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Your work hasn't upgraded to Windows 11 yet, I see.

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My jaw dropped when I heard this self-identified business owner say that suppressing wages is a bad thing.

We need more business owners like him.

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I don't know any men who would choose a career-focused woman over a family-focused one. I don't think this is as much ESH as you make it out to be.

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Check your facts: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1248540/us-ussr-life-expectancy-at-birth-cold-war/

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China does have a higher life expectancy than the US, but still a lower one than most other capitalist nations. You are wrong about Cuba, it still has a lower life expectancy.

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IPv6 is great, but NAT is quite functional and is prolonging the demise of IPv4.

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We should definitely be switching to the specification in RFC 6214. IPoACv6 is the latest standard.

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ZeroTier is pretty easy to set up, but at the point where you're worrying about "barriers to sharing" you should probably using a cloud service anyway.

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Plenty of people like NAT.

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Linux has entered the chat

I'm seeing more microblog posts ( kbin.social )

Is anyone else? One of the reasons I was interested in /kbin over other options was this feature, but I don't remember seeing them on subscribed or all. Is this new? I'm kind of intimidated by it but ultimately know I want to interact. I'm seeing some cool stuff! It's all on magazines I have subscribed to.

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It's been a feature at least since the Reddit protest last year, which is when I started using kbin.

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This is so obvious. I don't understand why I don't see it being reported on more often.

What distro should I use on my potato?

I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I’m a writer and it’s a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it’s got Windows and it’s unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it’s...

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Puppy Linux was my first ever Linux distro. Great memories.

BaldProphet ,
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Sort by "hot" or "top" and you'll probably never see the spam posts. People always downvote them.

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Most of the communities with significant spam problems have no moderators other than ernest. It's up to him to recruit more people to help moderate those.

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You don't?

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Not starving is considered splurging now, got it.

BaldProphet ,
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My last job they really didn't like us doing nothing during down time, they really wanted us to be sweeping the floor or some other busy-work. There was a lot of work to be done like that, so it got boring, fast.

Now I have a job with tons of downtime and my boss is explicitly fine with us reading books, playing video games, watching Netflix, etc. as long as we are responsive when customers come in. It's a great gig (although low-paying), especially for a college student.

Now if I get bored it's my own fault.

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And yet, half of my website is hosted on Azure Storage. That little unsolicited remark about Microsoft's valuation at the bottom is clearly the result of smoking too much copium by the biased author.

BaldProphet ,
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Can confirm that Windows Server is taught in school IT programs, and can confirm that Windows Server is still being used for both Active Directory and on-premises virtualization (Hyper-V). I interned at a large international organization with networks on 6 continents and it was moving its server infrastructure back to its own datacenters because of rising costs of cloud hosting. It used Hyper-V on Windows Server to host every thing.

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From what I've seen unpaid internships aren't nearly as common as they used to be, but are still concentrated in certain white-collar fields such as law and finance.

I don't think I saw a single unpaid internship when I was searching for my senior internship in college.

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Salaried workers have no specific hours. Their employers own them.

EDIT: Meaning to say that they aren't paid for hours worked, so there is nothing to lose and everything to gain from a money perspective for employers to get them to work long hours and call whenever.

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"Ops" means "Operations" and is far from technobabble. Ops could be everything from maintenance and security personnel to IT workers who keep business-critical systems running.

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It depends on your agreement with your employer. Unless your employment contract specifically states hours for you to work during, there is no limit on when your boss can expect you to reply to your emails.

Of course, hourly non-salaried workers get paid by the hour, even though some hourly workers can still be expected to work ridiculous hours by their employers.

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Literally the purpose of the Second Amendment. Stay strapped or get clapped.

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Just changed my voter registration. Farewell GOP, you were great for a while but now you have lost your way. I'm pleased to now be a registered Democrat.

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@tygerprints I'm living proof that not all "Mormons" support Trump.

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My favorite bird!

gotta get a new printer

Greentings As youve seen from the the title, i want to get a new printer as a present for my parents. Sadly they are still windows peasants and my mom somehow thinks that the HP printer on her desk has been a good financial investment, even though it has costed us more than 300 bucks in ink over the past 2 years....

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Ink is also supposedly more environmentally friendly than toner.

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Toner is tiny plastic particles, but ink can be made of various biodegradable dies and ink cartridges can be more easily refilled. Toner tends to be more economical than ink, but for the same reason that it is less environmentally friendly: Plastic particles don't dry up or biodegrade. Additionally, toner cartridges print more pages before needing to be replaced.

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