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  1. Comment on Phenylephrine, a common decongestant in medicines is no better than a placebo when taken orally, says a US FDA advisory panel in ~health

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    Dextromethorphan HCl and Guafinesin are much more important in those medicines, afaik

    Dextromethorphan HCl and Guafinesin are much more important in those medicines, afaik

    11 votes

  2. Comment on Tim Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes (2009) in ~tech

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    Kind of amusing in the age where most people haven't even typed "http" in 10 years.

    Kind of amusing in the age where most people haven't even typed "http" in 10 years.

    5 votes

  3. Comment on WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts in ~tech

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    I honestly haven't touched a standalone compression/decompression utility in even longer than a decade unless it was because some specific app I wanted/needed came in that format.

    I honestly haven't touched a standalone compression/decompression utility in even longer than a decade unless it was because some specific app I wanted/needed came in that format.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on Canada demands Facebook lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing in ~tech

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    Centralizing is not the same as including

    Centralizing is not the same as including

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Canada demands Facebook lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing in ~tech

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    That's a pretty cold take when we're talking about people in a massive wildfire

    That's a pretty cold take when we're talking about people in a massive wildfire

    16 votes

  6. Comment on Xenia Canary, a Xbox 360 emulator, will beep annoyingly and blames user of piracy if the user uses an ISO file in ~games

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    Just to make sure, by context of them taking about making the user think there was a hardware issue, they were making the system (mobo) speaker beep?

    Just to make sure, by context of them taking about making the user think there was a hardware issue, they were making the system (mobo) speaker beep?

  7. Comment on Intellectual property attorney claims that more than 900 companies have trademarked X, Musk's company will face lawsuits in ~tech

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    I would recommend reading the article, as it does dig in to how that can happen. For example. A company may have a trademark that relates to using a visually similar logo in a similar context that...

    I would recommend reading the article, as it does dig in to how that can happen. For example. A company may have a trademark that relates to using a visually similar logo in a similar context that could be confusing to consumers.

    Nobody is going to get a law firm and a restaurant confused because they have a somewhat similar logo.

    14 votes

  8. Comment on Non-revolutionary anarchism in ~humanities

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    I'm struggling very hard to understand what it is to be an anarchist without being a revolutionary. I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I don't have any idea what that means.

    I'm struggling very hard to understand what it is to be an anarchist without being a revolutionary. I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I don't have any idea what that means.

    9 votes

  9. Comment on What's the easiest way to queue downloads to my PC? in ~comp

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    Overall it feels like Dropbox sync and SSH are pretty good options. It's interesting to me that in the age of most people using a phone as their main device, there's not a nice elegant solution....

    Overall it feels like Dropbox sync and SSH are pretty good options. It's interesting to me that in the age of most people using a phone as their main device, there's not a nice elegant solution.

    It reminds me of when the pandemic started, nobody had a good solution to watch things together remotely that was "average consumer" accessible. I remember being on a video call with my SO and we would count down "3-2-1" to start a movie or show together. It would drop out of sync pretty quickly and we would have to recalibrate multiple times during a movie. Same thing when someone would have to go to the bathroom.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on What's the easiest way to queue downloads to my PC? in ~comp

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    What's the file size limit for free Dropbox looking like these days?

    What's the file size limit for free Dropbox looking like these days?

    2 votes

  11. Comment on What's the easiest way to queue downloads to my PC? in ~comp

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    Actually I have to apologize. You did it right, I read it wrong.

    Actually I have to apologize. You did it right, I read it wrong.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on What's the easiest way to queue downloads to my PC? in ~comp

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    This is an incredibly insightful and thought-out comment. Thank you for that. Someone will definitely find that helpful. The question, however, was more along the lines of I want to download a...

    This is an incredibly insightful and thought-out comment. Thank you for that. Someone will definitely find that helpful. The question, however, was more along the lines of I want to download a large file directly to my computer just using my phone as the remote

    1 vote

  13. Comment on What's the easiest way to queue downloads to my PC? in ~comp

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    That still doesn't fulfill the ask of "downloading it directly to my computer" but I do appreciate the input

    That still doesn't fulfill the ask of "downloading it directly to my computer" but I do appreciate the input

    2 votes

  14. Comment on What's the easiest way to queue downloads to my PC? in ~comp

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    This sounds the closest to a clean way to do it. But it's still not ideal. I think I'll go the route of the ssh. Doesn't require the file to be on my phone, doesn't require it to be hosted...

    This sounds the closest to a clean way to do it. But it's still not ideal. I think I'll go the route of the ssh. Doesn't require the file to be on my phone, doesn't require it to be hosted somewhere else separate from the original download site.

    It's messy, but less messy. I don't have to remember to delete the files from my phone. Thank you.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on What's the easiest way to queue downloads to my PC? in ~comp

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    Doesn't that require the file to be burning up storage space on my phone that I have to get rid of later?

    Doesn't that require the file to be burning up storage space on my phone that I have to get rid of later?

    1 vote

  16. Comment on What's the easiest way to queue downloads to my PC? in ~comp

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    Based on what you've said the problem is that this wouldn't actually get the file onto my computer. I meant something that would actually end up in the file being on my computer without having to...

    Based on what you've said the problem is that this wouldn't actually get the file onto my computer. I meant something that would actually end up in the file being on my computer without having to pull up a bookmark and download it later.

    4 votes

  17. What's the easiest way to queue downloads to my PC?

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    I mean this in the sense of "I find a file on a website that I want to have download directly to my laptop without having to download to my phone and then transfer from my phone to my laptop?"...

    I mean this in the sense of "I find a file on a website that I want to have download directly to my laptop without having to download to my phone and then transfer from my phone to my laptop?"

    Something I can use in the case "ope that's an interesting file that I'll forget about before I'm at my laptop"

    14 votes

  18. Comment on DJ Cummerbund - My Hips Aren't Alright (2023) in ~music

  19. Comment on Favorite out of bounds experience? in ~games

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    John Romero playing myhouse.wad was pretty interesting

    John Romero playing myhouse.wad was pretty interesting

    4 votes

  20. Comment on Dog's hearing loss in ~life.pets

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    Especially for a sudden change like that, a vet is the only good option. Otherwise I would just keep him close by so you can keep him from getting hurt, and so he's more comfortable since it's...

    Especially for a sudden change like that, a vet is the only good option. Otherwise I would just keep him close by so you can keep him from getting hurt, and so he's more comfortable since it's definitely anxiety-induxing for him to have his world seem suddenly different.

    14 votes