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by abawany 4y ago
This "UnCarrier" should be forced to "UnExist". Their leaks are numerous and the pathetic amounts they pay in damages do nothing to adequately compensate for the risk and inconvenience they impose on their hapless custom
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by abawany 4y ago
Recently Googlefi also reported that as a result of a likely T-Mobile related breach, they also lost data including sim numbers: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/comments/10pjtie/google_fi... .
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by abawany 4y ago
Ally forced me recently to get rid of the Google Voice (GV) number and email for two-factor and use a 'real' mobile number. It is pretty awful how they offer no other two-factor mechanism except a non-GV mobile number.
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New Study Suggests Possible Link Between Sugar Substitute and Heart Issues(nytimes.com)
5 points by abawany 4y ago|0 comments
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by abawany 4y ago
The non-manipulated output alone is worth it. When I was on twitter, almost every tweet seemed designed to suck on my emotional energy for purposes unclear (engagement?) but on Mastodon, things are just fun and I see things I would never ha
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Social Media Is Dying(ez.substack.com)
4 points by abawany 4y ago|0 comments
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Wozniak takes aim at ‘dishonest’ Elon Musk for misleading Tesla buyers(finance.yahoo.com)
11 points by abawany 4y ago|3 comments
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by abawany 4y ago
I imagine the saying 'be the change you want to see in the world' pervades the c-suite pretty thoroughly. Thus, if 'the current macroeconomic environment is tough' is not true now, with all these layoffs it'll likel
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The Rot Economy(ez.substack.com)
6 points by abawany 4y ago|0 comments
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by abawany 4y ago
Agree. They will forever remain in mind associated with exploding washing machines [1]. Their fridges are a laughingstock. They used to build decent relatively-open mobile devices that lasted a while but that also seems no longer true. [1]:
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Zitron: Tech's Elite Hates Labor(ez.substack.com)
5 points by abawany 4y ago|0 comments
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by abawany 4y ago
I had a Pioneer car stereo with HD Radio available and I listened to it a lot, especially since a lot of the channels on there seemed to be free of ads. Once that stopped, the car stereo got updated to a AndroidAuto/AppleCarplay-capabl
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Tesla ‘spontaneously’ bursts into flames on California highway(latimes.com)
11 points by abawany 4y ago|2 comments
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by abawany 4y ago
I have a feeling the HBR articles in question are submarine outputs from owners of commercial properties that are frantically trying to get back to the days of fat rent checks from companies, office 'planners' that make a living f
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by abawany 4y ago
They are not perfect though - roaming tends to not be available and they can get deprioritized more than the post-paid plans, sometimes painfully so; I was once outside an Ikea trying to notify them to bring out my order and the deprioritiz
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by abawany 4y ago
Most prepaid vendors afaik seem to offer a tax-included price - two examples are Visible and Mint.
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Prosecutors: Convicted Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk(msn.com)
31 points by abawany 4y ago|6 comments
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My undersized heat pump in an Arctic blast(energyvanguard.com)
4 points by abawany 4y ago|0 comments
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by abawany 4y ago
I run Turbo Boost Pro Switcher to help with the heat and disable it when I actually need the performance. It was crazy to hear the fan on this laptop-shaped room heater just go on and on while I was just working on code.
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by abawany 4y ago
Sometimes it means asking for tests that the doctor ignores or is reluctant to order. I go to a university-run clinic and often deal with trainee doctors with my regular GP present and I have had to get into arguments with them on whether I
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by abawany 4y ago
I recommend looking at the list of devices recommended by one of LineageOS ( https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ ), /e/ ( https://doc.e.foundation/devices ), or PostmarketOS (assuming the applica
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MacBook Pro with touchscreen display could launch as soon as 2025(imore.com)
1 points by abawany 4y ago|2 comments
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by abawany 4y ago
Work had a stash of 2015 vintage mbps so I made do with that. Poor battery, magsafe, and slow as molasses - I was 'real' productive while waiting for the darn new laptop to be repaired and discussing the eta with various apple &#x
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by abawany 4y ago
I've come to the conclusion that such come-hithers in these times are to get easy fodder for the next 'layoff' to save the existing team members.
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by abawany 4y ago
My work-issued 2019 also had this failure and it took Apple 5 weeks to send my laptop back.
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Mini Cheetah Clone Teardown(build-its-inprogress.blogspot.com)
2 points by abawany 4y ago|0 comments
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Qatar turns its cash into foreign policy power(dw.com)
10 points by abawany 4y ago|1 comments
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by abawany 4y ago
He is on Mastodon and Substack and certainly bringing his timely and usual joy to the former.
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by abawany 4y ago
"And on the 49th day, this Lord of thine commands that thee shall have a LinkedIn account with all annoying notifications turned on, and thee shall click on all these notifications and appreciate them for wasting the remaining moments
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by abawany 4y ago
esp. since the driver's license number is almost a proxy for the SSN when it comes to credit reporting.

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