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thro388··on Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
Being banned from Mozilla is actually sort of endorsement for me :)

I was worried this project is just repacked Thunderbird, with malware. This makes it more legit.

Also some people do not like politics in Mozilla Corp. Firefox is supposed to be privacy focused, yet it uses Google for search, CEO salaries, scraping promising tech etc...

I use Brave browser, created by a guy who was also banned from Mozilla, it works great.

thro388··on In 2019 RX470 were $70, RX580 $100
Older kernels may not work with newest AMD cards. Some old Debian stable, CentOS and so on. RX 480 is sure bet!
thro388··on YouTube May Force You to Watch 10 (Or More) Unskippable Ads in a Row
I just download content locally. If I see interesting channel, I grab it all, and watch latter on my phone. Easy with termux, ytbdl and 1TB sd card :)
thro388··on In 2019 RX470 were $70, RX580 $100
RX470 and RX480 are quite nice cards for Linux workstation. Support for 5 displays, and most importantly great opensource drivers. I am buying couple...
thro388··on Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice
I think OP meant problems with setting up payment method, dealing with credit card etc.. Most of the world population can not even pay with usual visa card.
thro388··on Ask HN: How do you switch between programming languages?
I program in Java, C++, Go, PHP and Ruby. For me Intellij Idea (and related products) is a lifesaver. Without it, I would lost most energy on slightly different ways to compile, test, deploy... With Idea most things are uniform, and programming language is just slightly different flavour.
thro388··on Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors
》It's got nothing to do with that correlation

Are you serious?

It got everything to do with it! If degree does not give high salary, there is no reason to invest into university education!

Nobody wants to stay poor, just to support American universities!

American education makes a sense for professions with certification like medical doctor, otherwise it is just a scam!

thro388··on Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors
Is there actually a correlation between university education, intelligence and high income?

Or is it just a scam on young people?

Last time I checked most lessons were freely available on internet, without paying $200000 gate keeping fee!

thro388··on Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors
Good! They will not get 40 years into unpaidable loans! If university education is such a goldmine, any bank will loan them, it must be like 20% per annum profit!!!
thro388··on Taxing Mechanical Engineers and Subsidizing Drama Majors
I never understood why children should be able to give a consent to such loans. There is a young and naive person, that can not legally drink, but somehow is able to understand complicated legal contracts!

Make student loans part of personal bankruptcy, and see what happens!

thro388··on Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run
Fair enough, I mixed up with Latvia, sorry
thro388··on Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run
Good for him he got Lithuanian citizenship. Many "Russians" born in Lithuania never got that privilege!

Edit: not true, see comments bellow

thro388··on Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast
You could propably return it as defective. At least in EU there is a regulation about maximal standby power usage.
thro388··on Gen Z never learned to read cursive
About 10% of Americans are functionaly iliterate, like they have troubles to understand and form long sentences in writting. Learning second method seems wasteful in that case.

And yes, I know only one way to add, multiply and so on. Also I can only program in one way (in very specific language and heavy IDE support).

thro388··on Attractive female students get better grades
Attractive people are more likely to be intelligent. Obesity and other "unattractive" traits have negative impact on cognitive functions and IQ. And being smart is attractive trait on its own!
thro388··on Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition
It depends on lens and perception.

Sweden in past and US today are gynocentric societies. They take "women have always been the primary victims of war" quite literally. No enterprise can be good, if it leaves widows and orphans behind.

thro388··on Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
You could rape someone with a dildo, it is basically a gun and should be banned as such!
thro388··on Some WFH employees now live in another country
Skilled people will always be hard to find.

But why not hire some "manager of diversity" or "HR cook" in Jamaica?

thro388··on Tell HN: Sudden Chile daylight savings time rules change causes chaos
Even better, let's lock everyone at their homes with 3 hour notice at 2 AM...
thro388··on Unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis
Make food and energy expensive, forbid agriculture, release genetically designed disseases...
thro388··on Unequal consumption lies at the heart of the climate crisis
If we reduce global population to 100M, most of those problems would be solved.
thro388··on Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
》as more renewable energy comes online.

Maybe better name is "unstable" energy. Some types of renewables are stable (water dams, geothermal).

thro388··on Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
iOS update bricked devices before. Sometimes Apple removes features and reduces performance. Avoiding software update is totally valid strategy!
thro388··on Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
This is so true. Try to bank in Switzerland, it is so 1980ties...
thro388··on Ask HN: Should I be panicking about jobs in Europe?
Maybe it is just Germans own stupidity. 3 nuclear power plants are going to be shutdown this January!
thro388··on How the SQLite virtual machine works
There were other embedded databases; Firebird, Foxpro etc..
thro388··on The death of the PCIe expansion card
First batch of AM5 mobos are high-added value, makers want to make most money on selling buzzwords. Normal consumer grade mobos (with many PCIe slots) will propably follow latter.
thro388··on Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial Covid-19 illness
Cardio problems are officially listed as possible side effects for Moderna, Pfizer etc... I really do not understand why we even have this discussion!
thro388··on Don't ignore the janitor
Perceived power imbalance? Many workers are in country on semi legal basis, ex prison... any false accusation could literally destroy their life.
thro388··on Long-term cardiac pathology in individuals with mild initial Covid-19 illness
Several vaccines were pulled from market for causing heart problems.
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