HelixEndeavor

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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
I haven't read it myself, but I've been watching the YT channel Not Just Bikes and he has a whole series about Strong Towns concepts. The horrifying moment I realize I've always felt isolated in my suburban neighborhood becau
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
And what are those pad contacts in? A charging case. Which needs to be charged via physical cable.
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
> They seem to have less points of failure to me - they're fully encapsulated (usually glued shut) This just means they're harder to repair? That's not a reduced point of failure in really any sense. Wired headphones are s
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
The phone is already wildly overpriced as is for its specs. By default your market is already restricted to niche enthusiasts. Sacrifices like this make zero sense once you're already at this stage. "The most fair-trade and repair
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
So a headphone jack is an ingress point, but the charging jack isn't?
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
Sounds like you've been getting cheap headphones. Bluetooth headphones are inherently less reliable due to far more points of failure. You say you can "probably" get replacement batteries but we've already seen that it&#
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
The primary reason speeding is such an issue in America is because we build our roads for high speeds and then put arbitrary signs limiting that speed. Roads should be designed for the speed you want drivers to go at.
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
So the people shouldn't be allowed to choose to take that risk for themselves? Fuck free choice, we should coerce them into making the right one?
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
"overwhelming expert consensus" the only consensus about the experimental mRNA gene therapy is among the mainstream news media.
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
In America, President Joe Biden is attempting to use OSHA to enforce vaccines upon all businesses in the nation, so that those who either cannot or refuse to take the vaccine will be fired. This is highly unconstitutional on many levels, an
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
Are you comparing my distrust of crypto to the Salem witch trials? Right... Anyways, the golden rules of investing is to not invest your money into something you don't understand.
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You understood what I meant though. If the point was understood, then the language used has served its purpose.
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I have a great solution for not having to worry about your data being leaked from these apps: don't install them. Fuck COVID passports.
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"convince" yeah, that's the word...
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Yeah, banning people from participating in basic society unless they take the medical procedure you want them to is totally not coercion in any way...
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
Comparing being unvaccinated to drunk driving is absurd.
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Trust me, there is no additional help needed to make large swaths of the population distrustful of the government implementing a digital "papers, please" system in order to participate in human society. And honestly, I think I wou
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
The phrasing is poor but the idea they're getting at is that it's so feature rich and well designed it feels as if it was produced by a team of hired engineers instead of people working for free in spare time and for donations.
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
Right, capture cards you had to seek out in the pre and early internet days and pay hefty sums for, not to mention have the drive space for the captured footage in decent quality. Meanwhile OBS is free and supports the common compression co
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
Would it? "Your circumstances have us believe you're not the best fit for the company" is a scandal? Should Amazon be required to hire anyone who walks in the door?
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Indiana Jones discovering the location of the Ark.
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Are there any modern tech magazines that capture anything similar to the wonder of these, instead of feeling like a collections of advertisements and ego pieces on Elon Musk?
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
Unfortunately, in many cases, the digital release of an album sounds better than the CD, due to a longstanding trend in the CD industry of brickwalling and compressing the dynamic range to the point it becomes auditory sludge.
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
Sucks that people here are downvoting you for speaking the truth. Seems the HN userbase has its own ingrained biases.
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If you don't propose an alternative then people will see you as just an irritating contrarian.
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In recent years slippery slopes have proven more and more to be real...
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by HelixEndeavor 5y ago
I won't pretend I'm a computer genius or anything, but I feel like I understand tech at least more than the average Joe - at least, I'm the designated IT guy for computer problems faced by anyone I know. The fact that, despit
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100%. Didn't politicians make a ton of privileged stock bets when they knew COVID was coming here?
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"Luxury" is definitely the way to describe it. I've had people recommend me Linux phones again and again in tech circles. Not only are they absurdly out of my price range (I paid $150 for my current phone, used), they are inc
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Fortunately it seems their rabid community of fans are dedicated and clever enough to provide custom ROMs once the company ditches their older devices. Still not a great substitute for actual software support. In today's market, I genu

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