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by Zak 1y ago
I tried to daily a phone with MicroG for a while and had lots of trouble with location accuracy and speed. I tried out several third-party NLPs but never got acceptable results.
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by Zak 1y ago
I think the answer here is to put the high CRI, neutral white lights on the car. Street lights should be warm or amber and don't necessarily need CRI. (Low-pressure sodium has negative CRI). We could make a lot of improvements by ret
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by Zak 1y ago
It's possible to make an LED with a spectrum that is not very spiky, which a fan of incandescent light will likely enjoy. There is a cost to efficiency, which makes LED fixtures and screw-in bulbs with those traits specialty items. A c
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by Zak 1y ago
There are 1800K white LEDs as well as phosphor-converted amber made to approximate the look of the classic amber low-pressure sodium. 1800K white can render colors surprisingly well depending on the phosphor mix. I recently put one with cla
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by Zak 1y ago
It's possible to use Android as bundled with a Pixel device without a Google account, but it's a hassle because you can't use Play Store. You can use Aurora Store as an anonymous client, F-Droid for open source apps, APKs fro
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by Zak 1y ago
I didn't intend a comparison between Gmail and Hangouts, just to say a whole lot of people already had the required account. You definitely had a rougher experience with it than I did, but my main point is Google launched it, didn&#x27
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by Zak 1y ago
I'm just thinking of my own friends and family, who are mostly not tech nerds and none of whom live in the Bay area. Gmail launched with so much more storage than any other free email service everyone thought it was an April Fools joke
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by Zak 1y ago
Thanks for the insider perspective. I used Hangouts for a while and had a bunch of contacts on it when it was Android's default SMS app. Many of them were not particularly technical, including one of my parents whom I don't recall
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by Zak 1y ago
I can predict the country you live in with reasonable reliability from this comment alone. This would not be true most places outside of the USA and maybe Canada. In a few countries/regions it might be a different third-party messaging
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by Zak 1y ago
Now Brian Acton has a huge pile of money to help fund Signal, so I don't think he has to feel too terrible about selling out. > Somewhat relatedly Apple really missed an opportunity with iMessage. Had they timed it right they could
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by Zak 1y ago
It seems a little presumptuous to declare what other people should and should not be anxious about. I'd advise therapy to anyone who has so much phone anxiety they would hesitate to call emergency services in an emergency or who misses
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by Zak 1y ago
I'm not who you asked, but social anxiety seems like a good reason to have this preference. I also dislike ordering food by phone for practical reasons. Call quality might be bad, person's accent might be hard for me to understand
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by Zak 1y ago
I much prefer ordering with a website to ordering on the phone, especially when ordering for several people. Many of the restaurants where I live now have their own websites.
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by Zak 1y ago
Reports of laptop batteries exploding while operating or charging weren't infrequent 15-20 years ago. Mechanical abuse isn't the only way to get a Li-ion fire. Failing to properly balance cells in series is electrical abuse with t
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by Zak 1y ago
In most cases they may have no recourse. A bunch of these made-for-Amazon brands are just a middleman in China selling white label products from an unspecified manufacturer. Oberdorf v. Amazon means that Amazon can be sued in Pennsylvania,
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by Zak 1y ago
GrapheneOS is the security-first Android distribution. It tends to drop support for older devices not long after official driver updates stop, because it's harder to ensure top-notch security in that case. The Pixel 5A is in "exte
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by Zak 1y ago
Are abortion bans actually enforced? Yes, absolutely. Have period tracker apps been used as a source of evidence in such prosecutions? Not that I know of.
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by Zak 1y ago
This seems like the sort of question that's very likely to produce a hallucinated answer. Interestingly, I asked Perplexity the same thing and it said that clothianidin is not commonly recommended for carpet beetles, and suggested othe
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by Zak 1y ago
Few people do; "don't use root as your primary login" has been standard advice for decades. Do you ever use sudo or equivalent?
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by Zak 1y ago
A related thing that used to annoy me is that vanilla Android wouldn't connect to ad-hoc WiFi networks. Third-party ROMs usually would, so it wasn't due to a hard problem. The bug report had a two-digit number and Google steadfa
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by Zak 1y ago
Do you believe the same thing about desktop PCs?
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by Zak 1y ago
The fact that MV3 retained webRequest while removing webRequestBlocking should tell you everything you need to know about their motivations.
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by Zak 1y ago
That change is not for the benefit of the end user; it's for app developers with an adversarial relationship to their users who want to trust the client not to do anything unprofitable. (And probably game anti-cheat)
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by Zak 1y ago
When a design decision has potential motivations that are based in security or anticompetitive behavior, my first guess as to Google's primary motivation is not security.
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by Zak 1y ago
Every time the technical sophistication required to install apps from anywhere but Google's store (I don't love the term "sideloading" since it kind of denormalizes the act) is increased, the chances anyone will put in t
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by Zak 1y ago
Google works pretty hard (e.g. with SafetyNet/Play Integrity) to ensure those are only viable alternatives for people with a very high level of technical sophistication and tolerance for hassle.
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by Zak 1y ago
This varies a bit by touch keyboard. The standard iPhone keyboard is particularly bad at this while the AOSP and Google keyboards on Android aren't so bad. Joplin, the notes app I've been using lately does have a markup bar with t
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by Zak 1y ago
I like my Markdown notes editor, but I agree it's not the right choice for Apple notes because exposing the underlying machinery in everyday use is not Apple's style.
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by Zak 1y ago
There's some significant information asymmetry involved such that it's a lot of effort to know how repairable a new product is. The consumer may not even be the one to perform the repair; there are a lot of independent repair shop
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by Zak 1y ago
It seems to me a much better way would be to require porn sites to check for an HTTP header that says the user is underage, and to require major consumer OS vendors to implement it. There are minimal privacy implications; it could also be a

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