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by bluescrn 2y ago
> 4) don't have the mechanical and technical skills do do the replacement themselves by ordering the parts (and possibly renting tools) from Apple There's several YouTube videos explaining how ridiculous this process is (rentin
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by bluescrn 2y ago
I did swap an iPhone 8 battery not so long ago, really just to see how bad it was and whether I'd risk it on a newer device (which I didn't do in the end, after reading about 'non genuine battery' warnings on newer devic
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by bluescrn 2y ago
The point is that the battery is a consumable part. It should be easy to replace. Not everyone lives near an Apple Store, and phones are so essential to people that they're not likely to be prepared to mail their phone off for service.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Makes me angry to see Apple bragging about their green credentials when the products are destined to become e-waste faster than necessary due to inevitable battery degradation and intentionally difficult battery replacement. (Even worse whe
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by bluescrn 2y ago
We don't do nuclear because it's expensive, and that's why it stays expensive. No economies of scale, minimal opportunities to iteratively improve designs. Solar was expensive until we started building a lot of it (often due
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Well, it’s mostly being used to simulate 30+ year old chips, so doesn’t need to be the latest and greatest
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by bluescrn 2y ago
The Covid lockdown period coincided quite nicely with WoW Classic. But the experience of Classic WoW now is nothing like its early months (now 20 years ago!). It's a 'solved' game now, everything is known, documented, data mi
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Nobody's every been prepared to try microtransactions that are actually micro. I'd like a browser addon that warns of paywalled links before I click them, perhaps adds a padlock icon or dollar sign (maybe with required subscriptio
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by bluescrn 2y ago
> Some things need to be censored - that's how it's always been. No. There are very few things that 'need to be censored' by the government (or corporations with almost government-level power), and it's hard to t
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> His version of being a free speech absolutist is that people who agree with him should absolutely have the right to free speech. So he's merely an equal and opposite reaction to what the other tribe have been doing for ages? He di
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by bluescrn 2y ago
World population was 2.5bil in 1950. Cars would be far less of a problem if that was still the case.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
It's not as much the language itself as the build process and iteration time (although C++ enables nasty types of bugs that are mostly avoided in C# - memory leaks, heap corruption, etc) While I'm very new to UE but experienced wi
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by bluescrn 2y ago
The uses cases for Unity haven't changed. While development has stagnated, It's still the best tool for many small teams wanting to avoid the pain of Unreal's C++ or the downsides of Godot (less mature, non-standard scripting
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by bluescrn 2y ago
vs. endless commuting by car? Many people don't want to be in dense cities. Lack of open/green space, noise, crime, and the worst place to be during any sort of crisis.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Everyone's heard horror stories about Paypal, though. Doesn't seem like a platform that you want to become too reliant on.
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> We need to kill the phone duopoly We also need to save the world wide web. Most of these 'apps' have no need to exist.
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Patreon shouldn't need an 'app' to begin with. We have very capable web browsers on mobile these days.
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Not necessarily, as high population density generally means lots of police and lots of cameras (both security cameras and individuals with smartphones)
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by bluescrn 2y ago
It kind of feels like activists have been trying to erase the concept of vegetarianism/pescatarianism in recent years while pushing full-on veganism. That's probably not a good move if we want to achieve a pragmatic reduction in m
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by bluescrn 2y ago
That was probably mostly to do with Amigas generally being hooked up to a TV (often via RF or composite) rather than a dedicated monitor, so having much softer/slightly-blurred output. Although if you were comparing to EGA PCs of the e
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Instead, write-protect the firmware by default, and require the user to press a physical button on the back of the PC to write-enable it (for a limited duration/until the next reboot)
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by bluescrn 2y ago
It's all pretty silly. We're arguing over a gun emoji on social media, where all sorts of horrific videos are posted, including real people getting shot by real guns.
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I don't think competitive e-biking is a thing. And if you're commuting or riding recreationally, you probably don't care much about weight. And this looks like a competitor for the Bosch systems that power many e-bikes, needi
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Do you trust the quoted capacity figures, though? Or are they there to convince customers that everything's fine, the battery hasn't degraded, it's just software updates and usage patterns that have affected battery life? Got
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by bluescrn 2y ago
The true cost of replacing an iPhone battery isn't the quoted dollar amount. It's the cost of being without your phone for an indeterminate period of time if you have to ship it to Apple for the battery replacement due to not livi
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Because it's been made intentionally difficult, with significant risk of further damaging the product you're trying to repair. And there's no official supply of replacements. A battery change shouldn't require heat guns,
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The lower end of the spectrum is for phones, going through daily charge/discharge cycles. While they do a lot of things very well, desiging batteries, storage, and keyboards to be practically non-replaceable and denying any upgradeabil
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by bluescrn 2y ago
In spite of everything else, you've got to respect MS for their commitment to backward compatibility. I still frequently run Paint Shop Pro 7 (bought way back in 2000) on Windows 10. Meanwhile, iOS games I developed in the 2012-2014 pe
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Apple is almost a subscription service. You just pay in huge installments once every 2-5 years, by replacing the entire device when the battery degrades or performance is starting to feel underwhelming.
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Speed isn't everything, especially when more speed means more noise

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