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by bradfa 4y ago
Well, sure that'd be nice, but it would add quite a lot of cost. High current carrying connectors are not free. You can buy a nice AMD Ryzen motherboard for like $80 retail (Newegg shows $59 is where new unopened ones start). Normal
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by bradfa 4y ago
Going to only 12V power to the motherboard doesn't actually make them much more complicated, or any more complicated really. Like half of a modern motherboard design today is just power supplies anyways, as all CPUs will do voltage sc
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by bradfa 4y ago
A large format laser printer is horribly expensive. And most of them are only black and white. It's quite hard to make what the industry calls "large format" in a toner-based printer machine. Just getting a belt that wide,
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by bradfa 4y ago
Yeah, paper thickness, color, paper type, and any coatings on the paper. All these things should matter for a proper setting of the fuser temperature the printer uses. If your printer is advanced enough, it should run the fuser at the pro
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by bradfa 4y ago
Looking at a single quarter is not a great way to compare large companies. Even looking at just a single year is not a great way, but for comparison, in 2021 Tesla had revenue of $54 billion and net income of $5.5 billion. In 2021 Ford ha
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by bradfa 4y ago
I didn't even know this was a thing, selling off the servicing of loans. Our first home's mortgage was with HSBC and HSBC did everything, up until we sold that house. Our second (now current) home mortgage was with a local credi
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by bradfa 4y ago
The John Deere tractors that get the right to repair people riled up are the big expensive computer controlled ones. It's an extremely niche market but definitely an important one as farming is extremely important to the global econom
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by bradfa 4y ago
My daughter uses my wife's old iPhone 4 as her "phone" (it's not allowed to connect to our wifi nor does it have a SIM card or active mobile phone plan). The battery isn't super robust but it still works well enoug
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by bradfa 4y ago
You can still very easily buy a PC which has an "open" architecture in the sense that you can plug various CPUs, PCIe cards, memory, disks, etc into it. It's in a very similar form factor to the old "open" PCs, it
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by bradfa 4y ago
But this program is rather clearly not aimed at repair shops but seems much more for the retail DIY crowd. For other things which are DIY, like automotive repair, core charges are a normal everyday thing. I don't normally stock vario
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by bradfa 4y ago
Automotive has a very strong track record of 3rd party parts being available shortly after genuine parts become hard to obtain or not-affordable. As long as there's enough of a given vehicle on the road to justify the cost, surely a 3
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by bradfa 4y ago
I don't understand how Apple starting to do exactly what the "right to repair" people appear to be asking for is in bad faith or in any way trying to prevent it. Can you clarify? I understood right to repair to be that peopl
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by bradfa 4y ago
The prices seem very reasonable for genuine parts. Some parts have a "core charge" like automotive parts, to ensure you send back the bad ones so they can be remanufactured. The $49 rental of the tool kit gets you the use of some
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by bradfa 4y ago
They have to start somewhere. This is somewhere. Sure, they could do better, but if this turns into just a thing that they do for all new phones they release then it'll be great. Hopefully they will keep having availability of parts
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by bradfa 4y ago
The only hard part is probably finding someone who can "print" onto microfilm these days. Might be worth talking to your local librarian, they probably know who still does it and how much it costs. Film is incredibly durable, wil
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by bradfa 5y ago
If you really are financially independent (congrats!), I'd suggest trying to do things you WANT to do or are curious about. Go back to school to learn something new or different that's interesting, try working different kinds of
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by bradfa 5y ago
I work remotely. I rent an office. It's only about 3.5 miles from my house, so my commute via car or bike is rather short. I don't have a space at my house where I can do my job effectively at home. Renovating my house to make
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by bradfa 5y ago
That's interesting! I fear the privacy crowd wouldn't be huge fans of this idea, so doing it just on municipal vehicles might be easier as a first step. But definitely, collecting data from things which are already driving aroun
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by bradfa 5y ago
This is neat! For your "SkyRoads" idea, as an alternative to satellite imagery (which I imagine is quite expensive for high resolution), have you considered partnering with the municipalities who are your customers to outfit thei
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by bradfa 5y ago
Thanks for the video link, that's quite cool! I presume for high volume operations there'd be a screw feeder system rather than a tray of screws so that it only has to reloaded every few thousand screws.
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by bradfa 5y ago
I think the tradeoff would be it simply looks stellar and has probably great cooling for the given noise it makes. Apple seems to put a premium on their designs in these areas, and their customers seem to agree. For things like audio prod
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by bradfa 5y ago
I don't think I mentioned anything about user-accessibility or servicing, I was just thinking from an assembly point of view. In my experience, which has never been at the scale or complexity of iPhone manufacturing volumes, anything w
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by bradfa 5y ago
Effectively no one, unless you're an engineer who has part of their job be UL compliance or until you as a consumer have to talk to an insurance company about why your house burned down.
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by bradfa 5y ago
That's good to hear! Maybe Anker has improved in this area since the last time I bought one of their products.
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by bradfa 5y ago
I feel bad for Apple's "design for manufacturing" engineering team. That looks like a horrible design to have to assemble reliably in mass quantities. So many tiny screws holding so many tiny PCBs connected with so many tin
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by bradfa 5y ago
The cables often have lacked strain relief, so I agree with you there. But I've had great experiences with Apple chargers. I've definitely not had great experiences with various 3rd party chargers.
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by bradfa 5y ago
How many of your Anker chargers carry a UL or other safety approval mark on them? All of Apple's do. Having a UL mark is not an indication that a product is 100% safe to use, but it at least shows that the manufacturer cares enough abo
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by bradfa 5y ago
Anecdotally, people I know who aren't tech people and who have expensive phones almost always have cheap chargers and off-brand charging cables. The general public seem to perceive that the phone is the valuable thing, a charger or ca
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by bradfa 5y ago
I used to be a Namecheap customer, I have been using Google Domains for a few years now. Namecheap isn't that much cheaper, maybe a dollar or two per year in my quick look just now. I've found Google Domains really easy to use f
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by bradfa 5y ago
Please don't mess around with treating yourself with high levels of oxygen without first consulting a medical professional. Humans aren't meant to have 100% oxygen in their lungs and even what might seem like short durations to y

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