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by brewdad 2y ago
Oh man, you want to see what a difference lane markings make? Take a drive on a rainy night to Grants Pass Oregon from Crescent City CA on hwy 199. In CA the lanes light up like a Christmas tree. The moment you cross into OR the lane lines
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by brewdad 2y ago
Personally, I like to keep looking for the thing long after I've found it simply to prove the adage wrong. My keys weren't in the last place I looked because I checked three more places after I had them in my hand.
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by brewdad 2y ago
If that's your threat model, don't carry ANY phone. Probably best not to carry any modern electronic device at all.
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by brewdad 2y ago
This is how my wife got her most recent job. The hire was all but signed off on but HR required the posting be made company wide. They didn't have a requirement for how long the posting had to be open. She coordinated with the hiring m
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by brewdad 2y ago
I’ve given Transit App a few tries on various visits to New York. I always end up back at Citymapper. For me, it works so much better.
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by brewdad 2y ago
This assumes you aren’t riding a packed train with people standing wall to wall in front of seated passengers. Being a shorter than average person also can make this a challenge.
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by brewdad 2y ago
I typically activate airplane mode twice and have it fail. Remember the automation, go deactivate the automation and then airplane mode works. On actual airplanes, I’m more likely to simply power off my phone.
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by brewdad 2y ago
Yes in absence of an employment contract that says otherwise. One of the primary objectives of any US union is to establish guidelines for dismissal of employee members that override at-will.
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by brewdad 2y ago
You should start a business selling those locked down phones to parents because 99% of them have never heard of Lineage OS. Half who have heard of it wouldn't know how to begin installing it and locking it down.
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by brewdad 2y ago
Almost all of that can be done offline. Pen and paper still exist. Example 1 is more difficult without a phone of your own, I was able to use a pay phone back in the day. Everything else you listed can be accomplished offline, on a computer
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by brewdad 2y ago
I'm Mid-GenX. I didn't have a cordless landline phone until after college. I got my first dumb phone when I was 25 or 26. Now get off my lawn. :)
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by brewdad 2y ago
Google exists
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by brewdad 2y ago
I'm glad to see high schools pushing back on this. My college student had classes their first two years that required a smartphone in order to participate in class. Failure to procure an Android or Apple device that could run the app t
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by brewdad 2y ago
Go buy 40 acres in the desert and live your dream.
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by brewdad 2y ago
OP's rate of usage equates to using 2.4 gallons in about 23 hours. Assuming you are only using yours during the few hours a day the sunroom is occupied, several days sounds about right.
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by brewdad 2y ago
I used to buy $200 Android phones. I never had one last more than 18 months. I'm talking dead, not just annoyingly slow. I now have a 3.5 year old iPhone that I expect to get at least another 1.5 years out of. $200/yr compared to
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by brewdad 2y ago
I had one of those deals for 3 phones. I was paying $272 a month all in. Once I paid off the phones, I switched to an MVNO on the same carrier. I get the same level of service for $105 per month. My "free" phones cost me $168 x 24
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by brewdad 2y ago
There are towns in rural Italy where you can buy a house for €1 if you promise the fix it up and live there. Still there are few takers. It’s a tough problem to solve.
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by brewdad 2y ago
I have a solid fiber service from a private company but my town is also building out a municipal fiber network. I’m bummed because the latest expansion zone stopped about 100 yards from my house and they won’t be doing the rest of my street
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by brewdad 2y ago
Most people should have at least two choices. Their cable company and their phone company. These choices may be comparable in price and service level or wildly divergent depending on your specific location however.
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by brewdad 2y ago
Why can’t they? You technically have a choice to go elsewhere to do your laundry or to eat. It’s shitty and probably a long term negative but it isn’t anywhere close to illegal.
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by brewdad 2y ago
Fines of a few percent of the revenues generated aren’t enough of a deterrent.
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by brewdad 2y ago
Nor is he required to give an explanation. The prosecutor must prove that possession of the items leads to proof of guilt.
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by brewdad 2y ago
Maybe that’s a clue that we should almost never be using the death penalty.
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by brewdad 2y ago
Didn't the Supreme Court basically say recently that the FCC and similar Executive Branch groups can't enforce such rules? They must come from the Legislature to have any hope of surviving review.
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by brewdad 2y ago
I bought a bunch of zigbee light switches years ago. A couple of them have failed and I replaced them with dumb switches. For my use case I found I was rarely using them as anything other than dumb switches anyway.
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by brewdad 2y ago
That language needs to be in bold print on the consumer package not hidden in a shrinkwrap license inside the box or worse, online somewhere. Treat it like we do with food allergen labels. A standard location and plain language.
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by brewdad 2y ago
And it got the most basic detail, the score of the game, wrong. Even at the cost of only a few cents it's worthless.
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by brewdad 2y ago
I gather you are outside the US, so my solution likely doesn't apply. For those in the US, check your local library's digital offerings. Mine offers 3 day access to the NYTimes web site for free. There is a bit of a friction as I
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by brewdad 2y ago
The it’s good, actually, to steal others IP. If you get caught later, the lawyers will fix it bit also probably wasn’t his finest message.

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