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by cptskippy 1y ago
> It's interesting to me that you'd go the hassle of hosting your own SharePoint on prem, but leave it internet facing. Once upon a time Microsoft marketed it as, and a lot of Orgs adopted SharePoint as their Intranet. With Sh
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"It works in California" means that it is potentially viable elsewhere. As others have pointed out: California is not the sunniest, not the simplest roads, most consistent weather, or the most favorable regulatory environment. If
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> It's just unusable in what we have now. I really hate all of the defense of nuclear based on hypotheticals that realistically will never become reality by conveniently ignoring externalities like capitalism. Our regulatory and gov
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by cptskippy 1y ago
> Unfortunately, California is a terrible benchmark. California is representative of more than 25% of the United States in terms of solar intensity. People really need to get away from the idea that if a solution doesn't work for 10
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by cptskippy 1y ago
I guess you're not too familiar with the region. There are numerous depressed towns with little or no access to transit or services that have many properties selling for very low prices.
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by cptskippy 1y ago
We looked into purchasing a house on the Amalfi Coast about 10 years ago. To get anything done you need permits and in order to get permits you need to bribe everyone involved. The permits are time bound and expire so you have to be ready
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by cptskippy 1y ago
> Only thing holding off my EV purchase is that I want proper V2G support. I always find this argument strange and it just feels like an excuse people use to sound informed while also dumping on EVs. Do you have frequent enough power out
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by cptskippy 1y ago
My last 2 phones were Motorola and my most recent is a Pixel. Meh... The Motos came with very little bloatware that was easy enough to uninstall or disable. There are just as many new Google Apps that just weren't available on Moto p
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by cptskippy 1y ago
Microsoft's goal was to make sure the browser didn't obviate Windows. Google's goal is to push ads and you can see that with everything their doing. Manifest v3 castrates adblockers and their attempts to remove 3rd party coo
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Isn't Chromium a fork of Webkit which is a fork of KHTML?
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> Meanwhile the user experience of Linux has dramatically increased. Put on a good skin and most people wouldn't notice the difference. As someone who spends time using MacOS, Windows, and Linux ... even if you managed to make them
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by cptskippy 1y ago
> Urchin Urchin was acquired by Google and was ultimately sunset in favor of Google Analytics. It supported local and hybrid analytics models, the later arguably evolved into Google Analytics.
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I remember once a month the the ABBL(Atlanta Bulletin Board List) would come out and my father would download and print it at work because we didn't have a printer. He'd come home with a reem of green striped tractor feed paper a
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by cptskippy 1y ago
It didn't work on Firefox mobile either... Why are all these browser companies breaking the web!
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In my opinion 2.4GHz is rapidly becoming a non-starter. Companies like Eero, TP-Link, and Spectrum are using 40Mhz wide swaths of 2.4GHz for their Mesh backhauls. Sitting in my home office in a single family detached home, I can see 24 di
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by cptskippy 1y ago
The saving grace here is that ESPs have radios and require certification which is expensive. As a result it is common for vendors to use pre-certified modules that are provided on a modular PCB with castellated half-holes. These are relat
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by cptskippy 1y ago
People seem fixated on measuring CO2 specifically and often purchase expensive sensors ($$+) or devices ($$$) to measure CO2 levels. There are inexpensive sensors ($) that detect a variety of VOCs but cannot distinguish between them and CO2
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by cptskippy 2y ago
They won't even have to be open. ISPs like Comcast have been offering the ability to connect to Comcast hotspots that are just running on consumer's routers. How long before they offer that as a service to 3rd parties like Bosch
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by cptskippy 2y ago
> Oracle needs to lean on its good reputation It's what now?
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by cptskippy 2y ago
> To collaborate on a shared presentation, people you share with need any of the following: > > A Mac with macOS 14.0 or later and Keynote 14.3 or later > > An iPhone with iOS 17.0 or later and Keynote 14.3 or later &gt
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by cptskippy 2y ago
I hope this means they're going to continue to invest in the GPU line. Competition is good.
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Perhaps not unified in the CPU package but soldered to the motherboard and not upgradable.
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Because people are accustom to unified memory in laptops and also complain about the low amounts of ram and inability to upgrade. This solves those problems but apparently uncovers a new one.
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Lite uses Manifest v3 and this is limited in what it can do, and how quickly it can adapt. It's like saying a swimmer can still compete with a boat anchor tied around their neck in a new pool that's 12 ft deep. As soon as this con
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by cptskippy 2y ago
Their revenue streams are now secure.
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by cptskippy 2y ago
They sell ads, uBlock is an Ad Blocker. Does it need anymore explanation? They will give you all manner of justification for their actions but when it comes down to it, uBlock interferes with their ability to monetize you and they want it
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by cptskippy 2y ago
Afaik, Trusty OS is closed source.
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> Qualcomm RTOS can do what exactly? The RTOS could be used to leak your location, the fact that you're using a VPN, any nonVPN traffic, and call traffic. FWIW, I was mistaken and Google uses Samsung radios rather than Qualcomm. Gr
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by cptskippy 2y ago
Doesn't GrapheneOS only support Google Phones? Do we know everything that's running on a Pixel? At a minimum there's an unknown Qualcomm RTOS running the baseband.
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This practice is pretty common in auto insurance. The company you wrote your policy with is usually broker and your ID car will list the actual Insurance Company. If you go through an independent agent you'll encounter 3 layers of ab

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