LarryDarrell

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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
The 80s were a weird decade. GM didn't want to give up vacuum lines, Ford had electronic fuel injection and little else, and Chrysler had those K-Cars that broke a lot, but they were at least cheap to fix. Toyotas, Hondas and Volvos of
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
This is a great question and I actually go back and forth on it myself. I do tend to be harsher to consumers, because that's who I'm around. My friends who work directly at the auto makers or their suppliers like to blame "MB
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
I have a friend who has been a Automotive Engineer for 20 years and we have this conversation all the time. If I were to distill all our conversations down to one take away it would be this: There was a paradigm shift sometime shortly after
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
I understand. There are many consumers like you. We are simply speaking different languages because we value different things based on what we want from a vehicle. My perspective is one from someone that does their own car maintenance/
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
The 2022 Chevy Silverado I rented died at 488 miles on the odometer. The roadside assistance mechanic said the transmission "lost data connection to the engine". Later, a tow truck had to drag it onto it's flatbed as the rear
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
Or just have two Desktop Environments. One for the hoi polloi where the designers can go wild and the bean counters can push MSN "news", and one for Enterprise/Professionals that is more or less "Classic".
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
I do roughly the same thing, but I use Syncthing. I always had trouble keeping my phone connected reliably enough to run a long running script, and Syncthing works well. I have a 1TB sdcard in my phone that has a mirror of my 600GB+ library
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
We get to design the UI ourselves, but we use MahApps[1] to make WPF look Metro-ish (which sort of pushes you into a certain direction). Our product is for engineers and scientists who tend to be very opinionated. We do our best, but we end
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
One of my theories is that organizationally and culturally they are still mourning the loss of the Windows Phone.
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
But I don't touch Windows, I use a mouse & keyboard and a 38 inch/3840x1600 monitor. Why is MS designing Windows based on how some kid is using his thumbs on an iPhone/iPad? I'm half-joking. I know what you mean, but
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
I would love to see a similar paper by the Windows 11 design team. The 95 group seemed to be very responsive to how users were using or failing to use the OS. I've been on Win11 for a few months, and I'm confused who these changes
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
This is all kind of theoretical. Low income people rent from landlords that will not install EV charging infrastructure unless the Federal Government pays for it. So the correct answer is c) buy a 2005 Honda Civic.
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
Higher electricity prices at night will hit the poor who will be driving older EVs with degraded batteries. They'll have to charge all night so that they can make your McMuffin at 7am. They will also have to drive from further away bec
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
I have a evaporative cooler and it works well until the temps hit 100F (which has been a more frequent occurrence in the last few years). My neighborhood seems to be slowly converting to mini-splits. I think there's still a lot of low
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
I use it with uBlock on a $250 "budget" Android phone and it's as fast as Chrome. The last time I remember Firefox being slow on Android was when I was running it on a ZTE phone running FirefoxOS. The only bugs I find belong
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
I order a lot of new-old-stock auto parts from eBay. Best of both worlds while it lasts.
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
You both can be right with Christmas! (Red & Green)
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
... and the first class passengers simply exit and fly off in their jetpacks.
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
It's not a bus, it's a train. Best case you can slow it down for a few people to jump off. Carter told people to wear a sweater and the American people flipped out and elected a ghoulish union-busting zombie. Twice. There will be
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
I'm reminded of the 7th Day Adventists.
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
The thing is, I don't want Android smushed into a less useful, more fustrating to use, form factor. I want a dumbphone that calls, texts, and has a wifi hotpspot. No battery draining screen, no app store, no navigation... if I need any
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
The best-case ordinary person is going to store them in "<user name>/My Documents/Security Keys/keys.txt". The average-case person is going to ignore the generated keys because they are deluged with nonsense e
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by LarryDarrell 4y ago
It seems his complaints boil down to: 1) You don't have the choice of multiple Desktop Environments (When was the last time this was not true? Litestep?) 2) Windows applications and utilities tend to be GUI based. (I thought that was t
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
I currently make a living in the MS ecosystem, so I'm stuck with Windows for a while. And I truly do love some of the applications I run and I take for granted the hardware support. While it's sad, it's not unexpected. It&#x2
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
See also Tom Lehrer's Christmas Carol (1959): Christmas time is here, by golly. Disapproval would be folly. Deck the halls with hunks of holly. Fill the cup and don't say when. Kill the turkeys, ducks, and chickens, Mix the punch,
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
...but you are a review site... The data quality is your MVP.
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
And yet ExpressVPN is rated 5th on your site. A reputable review site would have ExpressVPN and NordVPN rated 0.0, or even not rated at all and shoved into a separate section, "VPNs to Avoid."
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
I thought the general consensus was that the only VPN worth a damn was Mullvad? I'm not interested in a review aggregator. Individual reviews are the problem in the first place. What I want is someone to have a set of criteria and then
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
I've been using MahApps.Metro[1] and MaterialDesignXAML[2]. Those two libraries have made me feel like sticking with WPF until I retire in 5 to 10 years. I'm constantly getting feedback from clients that the applications look so m
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