Polylactic_acid

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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The same argument was made against banning single use plastic bags in supermarkets in Australia. People said that everyone would just continue to buy them and nothing will change. Turns out that most people did not keep buying them but inst
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Its not really difficult though. When I went in to the store they showed me a row of 4 phones and told me the 11 was the most sensible option as well as the benefits you get from the pro. Picking a colour and storage option wasn't real
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Get yourself a single braided lightning to usb a cable and it will last you long after lightning ports are gone.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The value for money you get with each device keeps going up. The update support lifetime keeps going up to the point where devices are getting 6+ years of updates while the SoC gets further ahead of the snapdragon range every year. I have b
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I just switched to an iphone recently and the brick would have been a non issue for me. I already have a bunch of USB C bricks from my android phones going back to the Nexus 5X
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
In a sufficiently complex product/company there is absolutely no way to work where costs went. Yes the SE without a doubt just become worse value but we have no way of knowing where the money went. Likely it didn't just vanish in
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I'm going to guess that 15% missing on the wired is the brick itself. I'm not sure how 5% more losses can make my phone heat up quite hot and also charge very slow. Are you sure it isn't 15% lost at the brick powering the wir
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Also the fact that the described situation may occur once, but then forever after you will have both usb c and a bricks so you will be set for whatever future devices you get rather than being given a brick every single time while most go u
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Not to mention it extends the life of the device. If a device is only just good enough for now, what will it be like in 4 years time. I currently use a 6 year old ipad air 2 and it feels very snappy and does everything I use it for well. Ap
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Or Europe.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
The researchers only need a group that acts in the same way as the test subjects. Plenty of people will still catch covid while being careful.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I use it on my government funded news stations video player because it requires turning on DRM.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
In my experience realistically even if you can unlock the bootloader, the hardware is still so proprietary that you have no hope of ever installing an alternative OS it because by the time you reverse engineer it all the phone is already 10
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
A little while ago we had a state wide power outage and after a few hours even the cell towers were gone (there may have been some reserve for emergency calls on other networks). I can't remember if it was this incident or another one
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
There was a video of an Olympic cyclist powering a toaster with a bike. He wan't able to keep it up enough to toast one piece properly. I was super in to cycling a while ago and I was only able to average 200w over an hour but thats no
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
My workplace was static until this year when we all without notice started working from home.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
There was once a time while windows RT still existed and microsoft had a requirement that it must not be possible to disable secure boot. There is also the T2 chip on macbooks which currently does this.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Only if you root. General purpose computers can run alternative OSs.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
And they turn it on after updates or ignore the setting or nag you every day to turn it back on. Every time I boot back in to windows I get a full screen message about tying my account to an online one.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Just use a usb hub. I have all my accessories on the hub and then when I finish work I move the hub usb to my desktop so my kb/mouse/mic are all switched over.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
What is fragile? We have had specialized roles for the entire history of society and it hasn't caused anything to crumble. I suppose you could say many things have failed due to no one seeing the big picture among all the tiny details
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
This comment feels like something written by GPT-3. What are you actually trying to say here?
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
There is a difference between watching 6 second meme videos and full length content.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Safari is very much like IE. The best part is they don't even allow you to install an alternative to iOS so you end up with people on older ipads who are unable to install an up to date rendering engine.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
DNT was an entirely pointless idea. Given the easy choice, no one wants to be tracked when not being tracked is an option so browsers rightfully started making it the default since its what everyone wants. But no tracker is going to think,
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
I don't think it matters, roughly half of browsers have it on and half have it off. The most important thing is to not change it from its default since thats the real marker trackers can use.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
How old are the phones? Everything up til the X can be hacked now to bypass that I was told. If the company has no use for them you could probably make a huge profit unlocking all of them.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
This is the worst. So many people seem to forget their apple ID password but remember their screen unlock password. I saw a case recently where someone had an attacker get access to their apple account as well as everything else. I was able
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Every device up to the iphone X has been cracked btw so the factory reset protection can be bypassed.
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by Polylactic_acid 6y ago
This is a pretty good point. I spoke to a developer from facebook once and they said essentially that there is nothing super secretive happening behind the curtains. Yes they may be evil and doing all this bad stuff, but we pretty much know

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