Andrew

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I mean yeah, they understand what breaks, but without crunching the numbers they won't know much of anything useful about failure rates. Anecdotal data is still anecdotal even at larger volumes until you properly analyst it.

This doesn't work though because they're not analysts. The brands they see broken the most are simply the top selling or top used brands by volume. I think the most repaired washing machine is Speed Queen or something - a commercial brand that based on a nieve read of the number is constantly breaking... except those things run constantly at laundromats, so are actually super reliable!

Same! When the Steam Deck was first released I also needed a new mini PC but couldn't justify buying both because I'm only an occasional gamer. Sooo I made the Deck do double duty. It has been my desktop PC for a few years now, was also a Jellyfin sever for a while, and still has a dual boot for SteamOS to keep my gaming separate and clean. It just sits on a dock next to my monitor most of the time.

I just installed this via Docker Compose and it looks good! Very similar to PDF24 but open source and more polished.

Only a couple comments - first, bentopdf/bentopdf-simple is definitely the image you want since the other has marketing for companies.
And then a tiny nitpick, but why isn't "Full Width Mode" the default? It comes disabled which displays PDFs in narrow little boxes where you can't see the full page width at a readable size.
Anyway, thank you! Very useful and super easy to setup.

on règle · c/onehundredninetysix · 2 pts · 220d

😂 yes if your R's are soft or you have trouble with the Spanish R... "COFFEE WITH TWO SHITS PLEASE!"

on règle · c/onehundredninetysix · 2 pts · 220d

Exactly what I'm discovering learning Spanish, coming from English. The vocabulary is much smaller in Spanish (fewer headwords), which is great at first... Until you realize that there's so much subtle meaning buried in the structure instead of the vocabulary. Like "Una simple pregunta" = a simple question", but "Una pregunta simple" could mean more like "A straightforward question". Same three words. Or the word "carga" could be used related to a battery charge, truck load, fee, burden, etc 😵‍💫

I think this story is an example of why most people SHOULDN'T use the feature, or at least should avoid situations where you'd need it. I brought a burner phone for my last US trip because I realized even having my GrapheneOS phone with me could be problematic.

It may be for beginners, but this is not written by or for normal people! The "Why Build Your Own Sovereign Cloud" intro literally starts explaining how modems work and twisted pair wires...
Its very much written for somebody who wants to nerd out and fixate on the technical underpinnings of everything, not your average friend who wants to replace Google Photos.

I would argue that your "enhanced" sentence is even MORE typical of AI. The first sounds like the style of a standard news article with a little corporate-speak, while the second is straight up head-of-marketing internal memo style.
Regardless, I agree that AI-detection can't really be automated or codified. But I don't think it matters. Bad writing is bad writing.

@Alexstarfire it simply requests random_unique_ID.jpg... The app doesn't even have to respond - it just takes note of the unique ID. Or in Meta's case the website just sent a ping and got back a simple HTTP status 200 message. That was enough to confirm you had Facebook installed.
There's absolutely nothing stopping the app from serving up actual data, like a credit score from your banking app for example.