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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Yeah, but you’re missing the specialization angle. NVIDIA and Intel as companies are specialized in the design (and in the latter case, manufacturing) of chips. Board OEMs are specialized in making a consumer-ready product, maintaining worl
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
NVIDIA doesn’t make a lot of finished cards for the same reason Intel doesn’t make a lot of motherboards, presumably.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Yeah, my experience with AI and Japanese is quite the opposite. I used to use the Drops app for learning vocabulary, until they added genAI explanations, because the explanations were just wrong half the time! I had to uninstall the app!
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
HPC = High-Performance Computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_computing
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
That usage of emoji predates LLMs.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Are you behind a CGNAT?
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
What if that’s all we’re doing, though?
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
That’s speculation. In the article, you can see that it’s meant as a pseudo-alarm system. It’s plausible that someone at Comcast thought this is a value-add. (Netgear already offered this as a feature on their routers, it’s not a novel conc
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
RF-blocking paint exists.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
> if you use either of the main payment processor networks (VISA or MasterCard) then your purchase history is being tracked and sold to third parties. [citation needed]
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Google tries to maintain a large user base as well. The problem Google has is that they’re dependent on phone OEMs to release OS updates, but OEMs mostly don’t make money off software. They ‘solved’ this by pushing a lot of security and OS
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
You don’t have to do that with non-Apple headphones either. The bigger problem with Bluetooth headphones is that the batteries are non-replaceable, so consumers are incentivized to throw them out every few years (just like smartphones).
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/08/18/spammy-ads-are-inva...
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Go to Settings > Apps and disable said bloatware apps. If not visible in the list, turn on ‘Show system apps’.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44421441
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
On Android: 1. your profile icon (bottom right) > hamburger menu (top right) > Notifications > Posts, stories, and comments > turn off ‘Posts suggested for you’ and ‘Notes’ 2. on the same screen, set ‘First posts and stories’ to
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Not sure about the situation in Germany, but in the Netherlands, if you have your fixed + mobile connection with the same ISP and there’s an outage on the fixed connection, you can ask for free mobile data until the outage is fixed. Perhaps
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Theoretically, it should be possible to design and 3D print such an enclosure, akin to existing video game console mods like the ‘Switch Pro’. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nintendo-Switch-Pro-kit-transf...
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Under the new EU Ecodesign regulation, smartphone manufacturers must provide software updates for at least 5 years after the date of last sale, not 1-2 years. (Applies to newly released devices, not to devices which were already on the mark
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Yeah, but the location of your next pizza party probably isn’t a state secret either.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
You can if you have Premium. If you start manually skipping forward, the UI gives you a ‘Jump ahead’ button that skips straight to the end of the segment (based on crowd-sourced data, it seems).
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
You could simply be in a coffee shop or library.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
It seems that the swappable modules would also make it easy for someone to install e.g. a keylogger, though.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
A lot of their software is better in many ways than e.g. Samsung’s software. However, you do run into artificial limitations (e.g. no sideloading).
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
I use a Samsung phone and it has Samsung’s phone and SMS apps.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Instead of needing ADB, you can also go into Settings > Apps, turn on ‘show system apps’, and disable the ones you don’t want from there.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
> Can not download or update paid apps.
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
I remember reading a comment that it was really a VoLTE (Voice over LTE) problem. VoLTE in general seemed to be quite complicated, what with both phones and carriers needing the correct configuration. IIRC they were working on more standard
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Whether they’re open source doesn’t matter (for this question). They control (their instance of) the server. As you say, I do remember them issuing some threats about it, so it would be interesting to know if they’ve changed their stance on
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by Tijdreiziger 1y ago
Isn’t that against Signal’s terms of service? Won’t they ban you?

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