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New comment by papermachete in "Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab for Risky Coronavirus Research"

papermachete — Mon, 04 May 2020 10:20:00 +0000

Can I watch some CCTV footage? See the background and qualifications and assignments of every worker there? Get a spreadsheet of the budgeting?

New comment by papermachete in "Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab for Risky Coronavirus Research"

papermachete — Mon, 04 May 2020 10:18:07 +0000

You mean the taxpayer? The people who make labs and research financially possible?

New comment by papermachete in "Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab for Risky Coronavirus Research"

papermachete — Mon, 04 May 2020 10:16:48 +0000

Sure, right after they keep all operations transparent and data public.

New comment by papermachete in "We need more video games that are social platforms first, games second"

papermachete — Sun, 03 May 2020 22:34:06 +0000

Those fail. Battlelog failed, Autolog failed, Second life is a disaster, VR Chats are great for memes. So no, the market has decided we don't need more but better such games.

New comment by papermachete in "Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot? (2017)"

papermachete — Sun, 03 May 2020 08:37:04 +0000

Libreboot is blob-free.

New comment by papermachete in "Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot? (2017)"

papermachete — Sun, 03 May 2020 08:31:48 +0000

System76 sells coreboot and ME-disabled computers at quite a mark-up. Yay free market.

New comment by papermachete in "The cost of a 1TB SSD drive just dropped below $98"

papermachete — Sat, 02 May 2020 22:22:53 +0000

You are not realistically going to be bottlenecked at 500MB/s unless you load few large files.

New comment by papermachete in "SUVs parked on cargo ships reveal scope of U.S. auto market glut"

papermachete — Fri, 01 May 2020 21:14:32 +0000

You can also try ChrisFix for when fit hits the shan or general maintenance. It's really simple...

New comment by papermachete in "I don’t want to be patronized and much less by a software vendor"

papermachete — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:41:57 +0000

If you keep getting downvoted, why don't you get a clue?

New comment by papermachete in "Pop OS 20.04 LTS"

papermachete — Fri, 01 May 2020 06:42:37 +0000

It's also irrelevant it was a AMD-shilled CPU.

New comment by papermachete in "Please get your parents off Facebook"

papermachete — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:31:55 +0000

Sure it's their fault, Facebook moderation is lax at best and discriminatory at worst.

New comment by papermachete in "CO2 emissions set to fall nearly 8% this year, the largest drop in history"

papermachete — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:46:38 +0000

People want to live their lives and let politicians handle global warming, as it should be.

New comment by papermachete in "Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years"

papermachete — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:18:38 +0000

Fdroid, ubuntu store, Discover, etc are all graphical interfaces to these. There is no reason to have one authority over packages.

New comment by papermachete in "Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years"

papermachete — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:13:33 +0000

That's why you have package managers to work with thousands of repos for you.

New comment by papermachete in "German government to bail Lufthansa out of bankruptcy with nearly $10B state aid"

papermachete — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:59:25 +0000

Thanks for your taxes.

New comment by papermachete in "Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021"

papermachete — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:31:17 +0000

For the same price as a macbook, you can get a more powerful Dell that will run bloated apps faster than macbook runs "lean". Then again you can also slightly tweak Linux for any low latency scenario that is needed.

New comment by papermachete in "Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021"

papermachete — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:18:34 +0000

Or run virtual machines like Android users do.

New comment by papermachete in "Employees refuse to return to work as long as they’re getting extra $600/week."

papermachete — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:26:50 +0000

They cannot as the President put immigration on halt.

New comment by papermachete in "Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked"

papermachete — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:23:52 +0000

There was (is?) also remote code execution on counter-strike 1.6 servers valve didn't act upon for 10+ years.

New comment by papermachete in "Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we thought"

papermachete — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:56:57 +0000

That's currency, not money. USD is not money in the theoretical sense.