Paianni

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by Paianni 4y ago
> I know where mine came from. I doubt it, the sources of materials and stages of manufacturing for most advanced electronics are spread all over the world. I know my motherboard was made in Taiwan, my processor from Malaysia/German
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by Paianni 4y ago
There's plenty of lithium around, but mining it is not clean.
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by Paianni 4y ago
A lot of it would have to be localised.
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by Paianni 4y ago
Are they low-voltage lamps? (usually have a GU5.3 base). If they are powered by old transformers intended for halogen lamps it might be worth changing the transformers to ones meant for LEDs. Incidentally if there are dimmer switches in the
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by Paianni 4y ago
AMD has the edge on performance per watt though.
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by Paianni 4y ago
The 1AZ-FSE was their first GDI engine, it was fitted to the T220 Avensis back in the early noughts. Incidentally, the implementation you describe is the 'D-4S' system, Toyota D-4 engines are purely direct injection with the same
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by Paianni 4y ago
Gaming and enthusiast machines are only a fraction of AMD's market, most consumers and clients didn't care about the features AMD's marketing department lied about.
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by Paianni 4y ago
If domestic relationships aren't good quality then social skills may be impaired regardless.
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by Paianni 4y ago
She seems to agree with JKR that trans rights are separate from women's rights.
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by Paianni 4y ago
Would that have been in the early 90s when it was a polytechnic?
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by Paianni 4y ago
Wow, talk about living in the 90s...
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by Paianni 4y ago
TY closed down their own disc manufacturing in 2015. Nowadays the CMC Pro line (with 'Powered by TY Technology' branding) is the closest you're going to get.
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by Paianni 4y ago
Those are affected. https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/technical-guidanc...
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by Paianni 4y ago
So everyone should reject all proprietary software outright (at least for internet-connected devices) and become fluent in programming languages to determine good from evil?
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by Paianni 4y ago
Is it not a wee bit short-sighted to label everything car-centric undertaken in the 50s and 60s 'dumb' when the planners and engineers of the day were learning just as they are today?
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by Paianni 4y ago
According to Figure 6 from the study linked below, the trend in cycling levels in the Netherlands was essentially flat from the mid-80s to the mid-2000s. I recall (but cannot find) a source with statistics that suggest a minor increase sinc
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by Paianni 4y ago
Maybe you mastered it better than me but I always found Cinelerra-CV a bit clunky, especially if I was dealing with oddball formats (HDV) that I didn't understand. Maybe I would get the hang of it now but I've kinda moved on.
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by Paianni 5y ago
"Well you can't trademark, patent, or copyright fonts." In the US. They can be protected in the UK, Germany and France.
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by Paianni 5y ago
It was removed before 6.0.
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by Paianni 5y ago
I switched all but two active machines (I have five) from Debian to OpenBSD from 2017 to 2019. If you can live with everything OpenBSD+ports can't offer in comparison, then switch, you won't regret it. If you don't have the r
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by Paianni 5y ago
We've lost Polygram, BMG and EMI in the last 30 years, that's three out of the six major labels that were current in the 90s. The remainder are slowly becoming dinosaurs.
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by Paianni 5y ago
No, OS support for H.264 happened because the industry wanted more efficient codecs, and it didn't have much competition at the time. H.265 and AV1 are both competing to replace H.264 and so far neither have a clear lead.
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by Paianni 5y ago
The world isn't that simple.
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by Paianni 5y ago
Screen size?
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by Paianni 5y ago
Old hardware is often repairable/refurbish-able though.
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by Paianni 5y ago
These sorts of articles don't help me as much as they might, because my motivation to work isn't really 'doing what I love', it's more 'making the changes I want to see'.
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by Paianni 5y ago
I 'retired' a T510 in 2017 that's slightly deficient by modern standards, Google Maps in particular is not much fun to use on it. I think their durability is overrated; a clip broke on the bundled battery and it wouldn't
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by Paianni 5y ago
I don't think there are 10 billion desktop users.
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by Paianni 5y ago
Doesn't Google allow devices to be de-authorised from an account via a web client? https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity
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by Paianni 5y ago
He's just regurgitating the theme of his 2001 book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist', nothing new here.

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