Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 8y ago
> What I can walk in 10 minutes now costs $11. That's... ridiculous. Walk, then. It is only 10 minutes, it makes you move which - assuming you don't have to breathe too thick an atmosphere - is generally a good thing and it mea
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
OMG!!! Ponies!!!, revisited: https://www.cnet.com/news/good-one-slashdot/
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
...which is such an odd thing to do on a forum frequented by people who pride themselves on their breadth of knowledge and openness to new ideas.
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
> Daily news isn't for in-depth research. That's what books, documentaries, and other slow media is for. The daily news is for reporting the news of the day. ...but what about weekly and monthly news? That was the publishing fr
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
> Smartphone battery life is so shit, on every model, that I always plug my phone in. Buy a better phone next time. I'm currently using a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 which lasts about 5-6 days on a single charge (10-15 hours of screen-on ti
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
While this is true, it is often also the case that the people writing about certain areas are not necessarily experts in those areas. I have personal experience with this phenomenon as I used to write for and edit a number of IT-related mag
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Amaze File Manager does quite well, is free software [1] and can be installed from both F-Droid as well as the Play Store. [1] https://github.com/TeamAmaze/AmazeFileManager
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Mainly surplus Swedish army packs with external frames, I have both the smaller ~25l as well as the bigger ~35l aircrew versions. They're made of heavy canvas, have a strong external but integrated (the top of the frame is held in a le
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
From what I gather the thing is based on WASI which in early beta and for which many parts don't exist or don't work, networking and file access being a few of those [1]: Note that everything here is a prototype, and while a lot
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
/me wonders whether the copyright extends to very precise drawings of the Eiffel Tower at night. Some drawings are close to photo-realistic and will look exactly like a photo when presented at the lower resolution used on the web. If s
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Sure you can have nice things , they're there - just use them to create the 'next big thing' and the nice things will hitch a ride on its fame. Trying to push others to use those nice things does not work as long as th
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
This can only end when customers - from individuals to corporations - finally get fed up with the identity politics employed by these 'diversity' advocates and start shunning companies which profess adherence to this mantra. If th
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
That is what makes it disconcerting to see the same clan-like attitude arise in this discussion. It is one thing to 'defend your team' when talking about mobile user interfaces, freedom of choice of where to get your applications
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
All this complaining about the latency and slowness of terminal applications seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon. Strangely enough I have yet to experience this slowness, even though the newest piece of 'user-facing' hardwa
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Wrist watches are marvels of compact engineering. Wrist watches are also repairable. These ear buds are, well, ear buds with integrated batteries. Batteries are known to wear out, this goes double for the smaller versions which are used in
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
It is interesting and a bit disconcerting to see how a question like this one for some quickly turns into the the same type of partisan quibble as an Android-vs-Apple or Emacs-vs-vi or Linux-vs-Windows question would. If there were wa
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Before the term 'alt-right' was even coined there were AFA/Antifa plus a myriad of other leftist 'revolutionary' groups calling for the destruction of whatever happened to be in their way, islamists of every plumage
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
At this price you're paying for recognisability and affluence signalling. Apple will be able to launch a 'limited series' of 'black airpods with gilded touch rings' - with the colour being the only differentiator fr
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
It is too bad that so many people are so quick to put an -ism label on anyone and anything which they do not agree with, without giving a moments thought to whether that label is really applicable and whether such overuse of the terms mig
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
s/so/not/ I suppose?
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
The political situation in the USA being what it is I honestly have difficulty deciding which politician to assign to which 'biography' in your list, although your nick clearly hints at which order you intended to describe them. I
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Better rephrase that to indicate that they have no more control over you or the device than the non-replaceable firmware allows, this is definitely not the same as "no control". Non-replaceable firmware can ping home, it can be us
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
I did not RTFA yet so I do not know whether what you write here is based on fact or otherwise. What I do notice is that you end your entry with a bunch of labels - reactionary , racist and incel - which tend to be used by people who
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
> The pilots utterly knew the aircraft wasn't stalling just by feel. While the MCAS 'knew' it was based on a messed up sensor. ...except when the pilots get it wrong like they did on AF447 which crashed into the Atlantic O
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Yes, that is what I meant. It puts my mind back to the best take-out Chinese (food, not person) I ever had. While the take-out itself might have been a run-off-the-mill nasi goreng [1] it was the setting which made it memorable. I was on
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
It doesn't describe general food preferences like 'hamburger' or 'croque monsieur' [1], at least that is not my intention. What it is meant to describe is, in the context of the first of the above examples, ruing th
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
It sounds like you lost a neutral or even positive while gaining a negative here: lost is the ability to drink a common beverage without feeling bad about being uncultured, gained is a dependency on commercial brands - Aeropress and Chemex
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
You can add another word or symbol on an OLED screen though, which is what I'd assume a widget like this would use.
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
As long as the actual port remains identical the widget could be made up to date with a software upgrade.
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by Yetanfou 8y ago
Slashdot was more like a cross between something like lobste.rs (in its focus on 'nerds') and reddit (in its wide range of discussion subjects) than it resembled HN. It was a far more easygoing and 'fun' place in wha

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