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BurgerBaron

@ BurgerBaron @quokk.au

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How do you do, fellow kids? You gettin' indoctrinated on the world wide web? Radical!

Come on down to your local Burger Baron restaurant, rated the #1 pizza in Onoway, BC! First established in Edmonton, Alberta...is one claim amongst many!

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

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  • SMB mount via fstab, hadn't heard of AutoFS. That's usually how it goes, I learn about something better after going through the pain of doing it an inferior way.

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

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  • Yeah, it's usually quality of life misses. An example: if I mount a network drive (mine auto-mounts upon login) and then that NAS goes down for whatever reason, if I open Dolphin it'll hang trying to connect to the offline network drive and never timeout. I can restart my NAS and then as soon as it's online again, my file manager will open 😅.

    I'd have to manually unmount in terminal if that NAS became non-functional. Windows just times out and marks it as offline so File Explorer still works.

  • What's the most interesting fringe group you've learned about?

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  • Zapatistas mentioned, nice. They're really interesting to read about, including how Mexico stopped trying to kill them.

  • Are Linux phones ready?

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  • IMO no, but I also think there will be a growth spurt in developers interested in getting something done in the near future.

  • I used Linux on a phone for 30 days, here's why I'm sticking with it, and why you likely won't!

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  • Something something... art requires limitations.

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  • Would a secondary console made by a major player with severe limitations sell well? I kinda think so. Let's say N64 cartridge size maximum as an example for any given game. 512 Megabit? 64MB.

  • Mark Carney Says Trump ‘Won The Argument’ On NATO Spending

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  • SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere

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  • The increased frequency of rocket launches also hurts ozone from what I read in the studies done on satellite burn ups.

  • Not once in my entire life have I ever "accidentally" unsubscribed from an email list.

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  • I think they're all like that, provincial too. Aggressive af. I made an email alias dedicated to political fundraisers and had them auto sort into a folder that auto deletes emails after anything reaches 1 month old because I knew NDP would spam me to death doing anything for them lol. Even if you ubsub from main, you'll still be on every individual member's separate email list and more.

  • TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it

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  • Meta does the same thing, probably a lot of shitty actors do.

  • Canada has lost over 60% of its flying insects since the 1970s, leaving tree swallows smaller and less successful at breeding, scientists found

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  • This combined with local drought for quite a few years now followed by more rain in a month than we typically got in a year caused an insect population explosion, locally. I've not seen so many insects in quite awhile.

    It's still like a tenth of what I remember as a kid in the 90's :(

    Haven't witnessed a locust swarm since like 2002.

    ...remembering the disgusting camper van grill cleaning job at every gas station 🤮 baked on insect guts and gibs.

  • China is building 75 solar parks in Cuba, and the island’s power crisis is becoming an infrastructure experiment

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  • I agree.

  • When did we reach a point piracy has better service than paying?

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  • It's still a pretty big exception since I play a lot of games every year and increasingly less AAA (actually, looking at my legit libraries and Faugus Launcher/pirate folder, it's been roughly 85% indie the past few years. Jesus. That's both perfectly fine with me and sad about the state of gaming corps), but my overall consumption rate hasn't slowed.

  • When did we reach a point piracy has better service than paying?

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  • idk about everyone else but that was the year 2001 when my family got cable internet. I've never paid for anything streaming, I'm against subscriptions more strongly than most people admittedly, so I actively avoid them and it changes my hardware buying habits too if there's paywalled things like online play for example. Consoles are dead to me now. 360, PS4, then the Switch. Now they get none of my money, I bought used and piracy modded them.

    idk about better service. I was never convinced by that idea. I was still going to video and game rental stores until they shut down to my dismay, I don't really get why everyone decided streaming was better, the quality and selection sure fucking wasn't good and now it's all fractured cross a bazillion competitor streaming services with exclusive content. Still would go to a rental shop today. I kinda do, my local library. But they have less selection/carrying capacity than my favourite gigantic Video Headquarters shop did. RIP. I despise shitty streaming bitrates even when I'm pirating I opt for an optical disc rip over a rip from a streaming site whenever possible. With Stremio and a debrid service I can stream 4K HDR bluray rips for $5 a month. Pfffff.

    Music I buy vinyl and Bandcamp is convenient. I buy more than I pirate. Was the reverse when I was younger.

    Games I often buy from GOG first if they have what I'm looking for, then Steam but I buy from 3rd party key shops...the legit ones like Green Man Gaming and such. For awhile barely pirated new. Then CAD dropped and prices eben in USD went way up with bullshit addons and season passes. Now I pirate more again especially if it's not multiplayer. I don't pirate anything indie (not just games) tho, personal rule.

  • China is building 75 solar parks in Cuba, and the island’s power crisis is becoming an infrastructure experiment

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  • Oh I thought you were gonna tankie like "therefore china good!"

  • China is building 75 solar parks in Cuba, and the island’s power crisis is becoming an infrastructure experiment

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  • So...

  • foil

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  • Oh everyone decided to be an asshole about a fun cultural question, sorry you're all so fucking fragile. I'll retract my question about "ya'll" being in quotes because that's apparently taboo to ask and I should just know because I'm english and there's no cultural differences at all between different english speaking countries. What a fool I am and you're all very smart, bigly. I'll refrain from asking about harmless curiosities in the future since apparently that's a free ticket to be a snide douche canoe.

  • :D rule

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  • :D

  • China is building 75 solar parks in Cuba, and the island’s power crisis is becoming an infrastructure experiment

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  • China has been indebting a lot of Africa building stuff all over the place longer than Trump has been around, doesn't get talked about very much. I only knew because I watch a few full time travel vloggers.

  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
    BurgerBaron @quokk.au

    We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here.