Gigachad

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by Gigachad 2mo ago
2.4ghz is pretty bad but the 5 and 6ghz bands don’t really travel far. I’m in a dense area and 5ghz works great while 6 has basically no detectable traffic.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
You can still make use of more. Local video streaming from your PC to tv, file transfers between nearby devices etc. Modern wifi is fast enough that using cables is often not required.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
You can do it on iOS officially. Android never had an official backup process, it was always through root apps. Backups could just be a casualty of killing rooted Android.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
Takes away the choice to not have the choice to buy replacement parts?
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
Doesn't give them a pass, but if you look at the alternatives, most of them won't even have a repair location at all. When I wanted to get my Pixel phone fixed I couldn't even contact google because their support contact requ
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
You aren't wrong, but ultimately to survive as a business like this that relies on search rankings, you have to play the game. Google rewards spamming the web with bullshit, and the businesses which do it capture all the sales.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
Thankfully my preference for not destroying the environment and abusing buyers is shared by the majority in my country which is why stricter consumer laws are catching up to these tech companies.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
Because it's destroying the planet creating mountains of ewaste. And because as a consumer, I don't want to spend a week doing research on every product to make sure they aren't abusing my rights in some confusing way that on
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
Apple gets all the heat for consumer rights issue, and rightfully they do need to do better, but every time I look, they are one of the best companies for repair and consumer rights. The rest of the industry is straight up atrocious. Apple
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
Age verification isn’t moral rot even if you disagree with it. The rot is the obvious corruption and legal system that only applies to average people which billionaires constantly violate.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
My coworkers do not review the slop code they put up. Review is the easiest thing to shortcut since reviewing and finding nothing looks the same as not reviewing at all.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
From my understanding, apps need location permissions if they want to scan for available bluetooth devices rather than having the user pair in the bluetooth settings app. The reason being that advertisers set up bluetooth beacons all over t
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
They contain a feels good filter to make you think something is happening. But to actually filter the pollution you'd need a activated carbon filter for the n02 and a hepa filter for the smoke. Which none of them contain and would clog
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
Because you need app support. Not even Microsoft could pull that off.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
I’ve never once been in a property that had an exhaust fan sufficient. I’ve had the exhaust on full blast and the spike on the air quality sensor on another floor of the house is rapid and massive. I suspect a sufficient ventilation would r
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
NO2 is a very hazardous air pollutant which doesn’t get a ton of attention. The main sources are combustion engines and gas stoves. Asthma looks to be mostly caused by gas stoves. I’ve got a sensor that can detect no2 and it noticeably spik
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
You usually don’t _need_ it but there are a couple things you can’t do without it. Pairing a mouse/kb to their usb receiver for example is not possible without it.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
If it matters is subjective. But personally I stop reading when I notice it’s AI text because there is never anything in it worth reading. It’s just a prompt expanded in to paragraphs of filler text. This kind of tool doesn’t need a whole A
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
I don't think Apple cares about apps replacing the follow button with an icon. It's a weird use of the api, but it's not abusing the user or a security/privacy risk.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
I don't think people asking for github alternatives are expecting unlimited actions for $5/month. It would be acceptable if they charged credits on top or let you host the runner on your own machine.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
All of the git hosting providers offer repo hosting for literally free. $10/month is easily enough to host a repo.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
It becomes worth it with scale. A VPS costs more than $5 but you can host a very large number of repos, a dormant repo takes no resources but disk space to host, its only activity that consumes resources, which is less than $5-$10 worth
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
Having this problem a lot at work currently. Every single jira ticket is a novel worth of useless text you have to skip over to find the human written parts. Occasionally important details get lost in the noise because they are sandwiched b
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
I know it's AI because the laziest coworker you know just posted 400 paragraphs of text on a minor topic.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
You can't keep up with the slop. And before you finish a first pass read on the wall of diff, another AI sloperator on the team has hit approve and the PR is merged.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
Even the AI degrades as the codebase gets shittier
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
All that does is reinforce the existing biases. If you post a lot of things other HN users agree with, you get the ability to silence things HN users don't like.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
> Reticulum does not use source addresses. No packets transmitted include information about the address, place, machine or person they originated from. Sure, but if it’s anything like MeshCore, a few observer nodes will be able to see wh
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
I think the author is just mad people will be able to detect and filter out their AI slop writing in the future.
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by Gigachad 2mo ago
Flags on HN are user submitted. they are just as emotional as reddit downvotes. If something reveals an uncomfortable truth it gets flagged.

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