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root@ganoonotunix # shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/words | figlet -f mini

   |_  _  _  _ o _  _
   |_)(_)(_)(_||(/__>
             _|
root@ganoonotunix # cat os

       .= .-_-. =.
      ((_/)o o(\_))
       `-'(. .)`-' 
        /| \_/ |\  
       ( | GNU | ) 
       /"\_____/"\ 
       \__)   (__/
root@ganoonotunix # boxes -d parchment < propaganda

     ___________________________________________________________________________
    /\                                                                          \
    \_| “This community that we have, that we're building, that does so much,   |
      | has to grow. We can't compete with Apple, we can't compete with Google, |
      | directly, in the field of resources. What we can eventually do is head  |
      | count and heart count. We can compete on the ground of ideology because |
      | ours is better.”                                                        |
      |      — Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower, speaking at LibrePlanet 2016. |
      |   ______________________________________________________________________|_
       \_/________________________________________________________________________/
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Comment · 4 years ago
Much as Nitter / LibRedirect are essential for Twitter
Comment · 4 years ago
No sales contact, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_buildin... does enumerate nominal costs 3 orders of magnitude higher.
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The DoE didn’t free that tech to the public, the US government’s using licensing to actively prevent American companies from competing with the Chinese one they allowed a sublicense to be granted to (from your link):

> Forever Energy, a Bellevue, Wash., based company, is one of several U.S. companies that have been trying to get a license from the Department of Energy to make the batteries. Joanne Skievaski, Forever Energy's chief financial officer, has been trying to get hold of a license for more than a year and called the department's decision to allow foreign manufacturing "mind boggling."

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My Pinephone has all those features except the dual SIM card tray, and the battery’s capacity is rated 2,800mAh / typical 3,000mAh. The fact that it can burn through that in as little as an hour if held just right (with max brightness, volume, and load on the GPU, CPU, RAM, and separate modem CPU with the default nonfree, inefficient firmware; and not using the separately sold keyboard case with 6,000 more mAh) is a great incentive to limit its addictive effects.
Comment · 4 years ago

  xcape -e "Control_R=Insert"
Comment · 4 years ago
Dan Grossman isn’t dang.
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https://archive.ph/zcTJs/image

You can make one from any webpage by prepending archive.ph to the URL.

Comment · 4 years ago
> Running it on the desktop is far inferior, because a great advantage of QBO is the ability for several people, distributed worldwide, to work on the same account at the same time.

Is there any reason the desktop version couldn’t do that if Intuit wanted it to? (I imagine they just artificially limit it to encourage customers to ditch indefinite license purchases in favor of monthly SaaSS subscriptions, ie. it has little to do with technical advantages of the web and much to do with the profit advantages of software that stays on Intuit’s servers.)

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