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by abawany 9y ago
I was able to find some RPi cameras on eBay for about $8 each, though they weren't NoIR. I also found RPi ZeroW for the official price of $10 (from pishop.us) and that combination worked well as an open remote cam for me.
812.
by abawany 9y ago
It still astounds me that many people I know are unable to decouple the source of the information from 'Google'. It usually goes like this: someone I know will state some odd claim about some natural treatment for something, I wil
813.
by abawany 9y ago
Agreed, same for eBay. The useless rubbish they push is just insane. I now look for OEM from reputable vendors or Anker if they make it for the device.
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by abawany 9y ago
Facebook made it deliberately difficult and obfuscated to report violations as well. Twitter by comparison makes it relatively frictionless. I don't use Facebook except to follow some news sources but I now follow them on Twitter and b
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by abawany 9y ago
Unfortunately the pre-installed cancer apps are pretty evil; the worst was the B&N Nook HD, which went online after every reboot and reinstalled any uninstalled apps. My first step for any new Android device is to root it to kill the ga
816.
by abawany 9y ago
Actually, I was looking for video content. The idea was to take this machine and stress its bits for a bit to see if it was stable.
817.
by abawany 9y ago
I should have considered it but I am not someone who streams live content so just a static playlist of music videos was all I was looking for.
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by abawany 9y ago
Can confirm. Was running a playlist on a Windows machine with Edge as a cheap substitute for burn-in/stability testing. No dice: it would stop after every song with a ad dialog that required clicking (for YT Red, or for Chrome). Horrib
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by abawany 9y ago
Not a question but a compliment for LineageOS: thank you for this project. It has brought to life and vastly improved over the stock ROM at least 4 devices that I use. Please keep up the great work.
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by abawany 9y ago
Here is one example that looks like it died in the house: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/gop-s-h-r-620-will-gut...
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by abawany 9y ago
Texas tried to make it mandatory in 2007, under Gov. Rick Perry no less. Unfortunately, a combination of anti-vaxxers and social conservatives sunk this initiative using a combination of innuendo and shaming. In 2011 [1], one observed the s
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by abawany 9y ago
I had a Nokia N810 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810 ). It was a incredibly good device for the time and left other smart devices of its era in the dust, IMO. The lack of telephony is why I stopped using it but
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by abawany 9y ago
Onyx, the (IMO) dominant maker of non-Kindle e-ink devices, did: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=273936 . It was received well initially but as I understand it, quality issues (e.g. IMEI duplication)
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by abawany 9y ago
I wish I had done that but getting HR involved seemed like the nuclear option to me, especially for something the person may not have known about. I had approached the team manager but he, in spite of frequent rants about the evils of polit
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by abawany 9y ago
I have visited Seattle a few times and I agree. I live in a transit desert and Seattle by comparison is 'streets paved with gold'. I tend not to rent cars during my visits now and just use the bus service as much as possible, with
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by abawany 9y ago
This is an exciting development. On reading more, my enthusiasm was a bit damped when I learnt that this model is running a forked version of Android (YunOs) - I am still going to check it out as the appeal of a barebones phone with some of
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by abawany 9y ago
It takes a bit of something-something in terms of communications, which I probably lack. I once asked a person (nicely, I thought) with BO, loud chewing, and unfettered burping to reconsider and he started screaming at me instead. Be carefu
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by abawany 9y ago
I believe the US version has 3G support [1]. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/29/16384526/n...
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by abawany 9y ago
I bought one too. It is a very nice device and the ability to import contacts from Android is very cool. If they ever got some tethering/hotspot ability, I would make a real effort to make it my daily driver.
830.
by abawany 9y ago
I was able to complete freezes online for all. Are you able to say why it posed an obstacle for you to freeze your file please?
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by abawany 9y ago
My experience with Instacart has been pretty great so I was shocked at the GP vitriol as well. In my case, Instacart has been a huge help - my brother, who is unable to drive for medical reasons, uses your service considerably to get his we
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by abawany 9y ago
IMO, we might have a replay of what was going on in the early 2000s when iconic sports cars (IMO) such as Supra etc. disappeared and were replaced by body-on-frame SUVs. Even if you want to do the right thing and buy a fuel efficient car, y
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by abawany 9y ago
Also, there have been rumblings of taking away California's power to legislate their own standards [1]. It is unfortunately clear to me that the penalty for people not voting the 'right' way will be high, whether it is in ter
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by abawany 9y ago
I despise open office plans but the Regus approach was workable. When you work within a team in a room, the tendency for random noise was minimal. The only problem was noise leakage from other offices.
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by abawany 9y ago
I have used Regus. Very economical, clean, and professional with small private offices. Given the price, for our needs it was perfect.
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by abawany 9y ago
I agree re. 'Non-nuclear powers haven't avoided war.' Vietnam, Cambodia, Syrian War (as you stated) IMO have been primarily proxy wars that resulted in a lot of killings while helping the powers avoid killings of their own pe
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The Mysterious Interior World of Exercise(nytimes.com)
1 points by abawany 9y ago|0 comments
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by abawany 9y ago
I have used GCE, AWS, Hetzner, and OVH. On the face of it, while the GCE interface seemed very strange (e.g. can't rename most resources after creation), I have come to the conclusion that it is the best of the cloud providers. The fle
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by abawany 9y ago
And Maps gets very annoying when I refuse to enable full location permissions for Google Play; the random prompts to enable it, hoping I would agree when not paying attention, are super sleazy. I uninstalled it last night after trialing a c
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Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by abawany 9y ago|0 comments

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