TheHappyOddish

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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Well, sort of. The old Nokia and similar phones were marketed as 'waterproof', but actually IP64/IP65 - e.g no immersion. They would be more correctly identified as 'water resistant'. IP67/IP68 (the common &#x2
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
For those not in (I presume) the US, "Southwest" appears to be the name of an airline. I was disappointed to find out this wasn't a puzzle to solve when only travelling in a specific direction, but still an interesting read.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Do you dispute his claim, or do you simply find it distressing? It appears to be an accurate one, so I'm curious to hear a contrary take here.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
That's very cool and well beyond my skillset! However I think the generalisation is still fair. The experience of most Matrix clients and concepts is not great for those who do not have an IT background, or users who find technology di
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Signal is a great choice for non tech people, it looks and works like what they already know. Matrix is definitely better, but we're quite a few steps away from the required UX for grandma.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Why would they? - Google change their approach on messaging every year or two - Google's RCS implementation has them hosting rather than the carrier (against spec) - Google's RCS only just added E2EE for their group messages (or i
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
> SMS Interception: Attackers can intercept SMS messages by exploiting vulnerabilities in mobile carrier networks. This can allow them to read the contents of SMS messages, including sensitive information such as two-factor authenticatio
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
That's fair. I think we're arguing semantics here. Expanding my "you just don't like it" would be "you have immovable philosophical issues with one, ergo you won't pick it regardless of its accuracy".
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
> I think your post downplays the severity of the issue. Your link suggests in Victoria the median rent has increased by 14%, which is a phenomenal amount. I'm unsure how showing the percentage increase would be a downplay? I was pr
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
> And while we’re at it, can you please disclose if you are part of or benefit from the real estate industry? No, not beyond the normal ways most people benefit (super, investments, etc). I don't work with or contract for the real e
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
I have it set up in my RSS reader and highly recommend it. Lots of dupes with the frontpage, but excellent stuff that would often be missed.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
I actually agree on all points, but still think Meta has the social capital needed to do this. Price point for VR is for sure a factor for VR uptake and would make a decision more difficult for a privacy concious parent. However critical ma
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
It's one of many factors around inflation that are not good for Australian households. Unfortunately nobody seems interested in real wage growth to compensate.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
That's broadly untrue and fairly easy to verify. 1. Breaking leases usually incurs those costs + the remainder of the contact with some edge cases (e.g VIC[1]) 2. Again VIC, rents increased on average by 5-15%, depending on th demand o
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
It's also fairly trivial to disable an LED physically.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
> It is absolutely incredible to me that Facebook thinks it still has the social capital to pull a product like this off. I'm surprised you think they don't. Average people don't know who Meta are and that they own WhatsAp
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Those are accurate details, but if you zoom out they're still contextually very similar - a swathe of text on a subject written by someone (or something) you have no veritable trust in but is usually fairly accurate. You should indepen
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Build it in Android then? I don't understand this 'I want what they have but I want them to change it for meeee' mindset. Everyone complaining appears to be a power user/hacker. Do it yourself then.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
It's amusing your comment is critical of other comments when you clearly didn't read the article!
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Or... They recommended a device to their family, friends - those who need support from them - that is closed intentionally? For many people this will be a support nightmare, and opens new avenues to problems (little cousin installing spywar
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
You're aware that not every country is your country, right? In some places WhatsApps is culturally relevant and is used by government, business, etc.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
I find it confusing. I've never walked into a bakery that only sells chocolate cake, bought the cake and moaned about it not being vanilla. That would be insane. No educated tech people are buying into Apples ecosystem without awarenes
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Why? They're different operating systems with different backgrounds.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Still around 15000km, I'd imagine.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
I ran desktop Linux (Manjaro) for years in an enterprise job with certified hardware, as a Linux sysadmin. I regularly had issues and spent 5-10% of my time troubleshooting the OS or a janky application. Conversely, macOS is broadly 'p
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
It's not that different to Wikipdia. Trust, but verify. It's usually correct, but regardless it's a useful starting point for a topic.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Via the remote over RF.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
You could also set up a seperate NSFW lens based on what style of results you want.
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
Glad everyone's excited about this (the voice capability), but did everyone miss tortise-tts and bark? These have been around 6+ months and are incredibly simply to hook up to OpenAI's APIs or a local LLM. What am I missing here?
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by TheHappyOddish 3y ago
"The profession of acting" may go the way of the professions of milling, sewing, smithing etc - technology makes them redundant outside of the third world and edge cases. I find it very strange writers and actors think they'r

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