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HeadTrak AWP

“Can’t click heads? Don’t worry about it, because this AWP follows its namesake by finding clickable heads for you. Just aim down the sights and let the HeadTrak tech do the rest.”

Available in limited edition Season 7 Pass Lv.50, Lv.75, and Lv.100 Crates.

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After ruining copyright law and borrowing from public domain works, Disney finally loses a property to public domain. An incredible start to the new year!

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There was an issue with the BIOS limiting the power available to the processor during benchmarks. It has supposedly been fixed since.

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

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This made me laugh way harder than it should have.

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You’re welcome to use whatever init system you want, but Systemd solves a lot of the bullshit problems and limitations that come from init.d init scripts. Systemd also has a lot of its own bullshit and bloat, but it does an excellent job at actually being an init system and service manager if you know how to properly use it.

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A friendly reminder: SxOS is a mostly ripped off version of the FOSS CFW, Atmosphere.

I don’t care that they sold hardware for a profit, but they can go fuck themselves for TIVOing open source software and pretending it was all their own original work.

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Here, I’ll start:

Are you tired of browsing the internet like a plebian? Are you scared of the big bad man in the middle but don’t know enough about HTTPS and certificates to realize that he can’t do anything unless you install this totally-legitimate root certificate? DO YOU WANT YOUR BANK HACKED?!

You are? Well, great! Get SecurityTheatreVPN today for only $69.69 annually! We don’t protect you from malicious ads serving up zero-day heap overflow exploits or Google embedding tracking into your browser, but at least Comcast won’t need to know the kind of kinky shit you’re in to.

SecurityTheaterVPN—We’re the TSA of the internet, so you know you’re in trusted hands.

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It’s more like finding a working car in the middle of an oversized dump. Trash everywhere as far as the eye can see, but at least I can turn on the air conditioning now.

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No, it’s destruction. Just ask my toilet.

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The McFuckAround is nice up until the child support garnishments start showing up. After that, you’re stuck living with the Wendy’s Regrettinator.

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Gentoo, probably. Don’t want your operating system being bloated down by having to be compatible with other people’s devices /s

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It’s easier to accept the grim reality we live in when you can make fun of it.

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Unlocked means it’s not tied to a carrier (mobile phone provider).

Not too sure about the rest of the world, but North America has a huge problem with carrier-locked devices. You buy a phone from YourCellProvider, and you’re stuck using the phone only with YourCellProvider.

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You’ve had that for 6 years? Holy damn, I’m envious. It’s OEM or get fucked over here.

I am pouring one out to this little champ. Stripping HDCP and letting me... archive streaming services from 2016-2023 RIP (lemmy.world)

What killed it, well after reviewing some PS4 gameplay I noticed that it was having audio issues, like it would allow some sounds but not all. It was almost as if it was receiving a 5.1 audio output but was missing the centre channel. Even though the PS4 was set to stereo....

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It absolutely is, but that’s not relevant for this post.

Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs. (sh.itjust.works)

Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.

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If he meant exactly what you said, I agree. But, there is an alternate interpretation of what the guy was saying:

You tend to get different kinds of customers with different price ranges. The ones who can afford to spend money generally don’t give a crap about what you’re billing them for, and they just want the work done properly.

The ones who aim to get a “good deal” tend to be less hands-off and more critical about the work done/supplies used and billed for. Frugal customers take extra time and sanity to field questions/suggestions, and sometimes, it’s just not worth dealing with.

If raising his fee filters out the latter category, it’s hard to blame him. I wouldn’t want to deal with penny-pinchers either, and simply being more expensive than the competition is an effective deterrent.

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It’s more so outdated parroting than deliberate misinformation. A lot of the times I see people trying to back this one up, it’s with Hawkins et al.'s Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of conventional and electric vehicles paper. A 2012 study that analyzes emissions based on manufacturing and energy production capabilities of the time doesn’t hold up well over a decade later.

You would think that would be obvious, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Depending on how close the fence was to the property line, that sign might be litter. Just sayin’

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I dont care what … cops might do when they exist to enforce a system of law designed to ignore the crimes of the wealthy while punishing the poor for the societal conditions the rich have created.

This sounds like a systemic problem, not a cop problem. Don’t get me wrong, but you’re complaining about the wrong people if that’s all your argument is based on. Law enforcement is just one part of the shit sundae that’s the judicial system. They have the most power to immediately end someone’s life, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s the legislators that both give them that power and their directives to follow.

The US has a 25% of the world’s prison population while only being 5% of the global population. ACAB, ACAB and ACAB.

That’s a consequence of a private, for-profit prison system that uses incarcerated individuals as legal slave labor. The cops drag you off the street, but it’s the lawmakers who created the policies that give them an excuse to do that, and the prosecutors and judges who choose to exercise leniency or lack thereof. A lot of cops are bastards, but you know who’s a bigger bunch of corrupt bastards? The fucks in office taking legally-not-bribes bribes from lobbyists representing the prison-industrial complex.

Being shot, in my opinion, is a leniency compared to going through the judicial system. The moment you’re convicted for anything that isn’t a white-collar crime, your life is as good as over. You’re not getting loans or job offers because of your criminal history, and if you’re lucky enough to find a job, your employer knows they can damn-well underpay you because you have nowhere else to go. Unless you have someone willing to bail you out of the situation you’ve been put in or were already rich before getting thrown in prison, you’re probably not getting back on your feet. And when your best source of guaranteed food and shelter is to get thrown in prison again, it’s no fucking wonder why recidivism is so high.

The war on drugs was an abject failure and channel for institutionalized racism, and politicians are getting their pockets lined for neglecting to fix it or even actively making it worse. They are the people who should be held accountable for ruining the lives of millions. Blaming the cops first just distracts from the actual problem.

Want to stop getting hit in the face with a rake whenever you step on your lawn? Get rid of the asshole putting the rakes there first, then get rid of the rakes already on your lawn.

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It’s fair to judge someone for willfully enlisting if they were aware of their contribution to this system and wanted to further ingrain it, but dissuading those who want to do it for the right reasons will only skew the demographic towards those that don’t.

An optimistic kid deciding to be a cop when he grows up so he can help people shouldn’t be judged the same as an army reject enlisting because he got kicked out of the military for abusing his authority.

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