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by dan1234 6y ago
iOS/macOS users can set their own default search engine. Google just know that most people won't change what's set by default.
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by dan1234 6y ago
Google pay Mozilla too[0], and they're about as open as you can get. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370020/mozilla-google-f...
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by dan1234 6y ago
Unlimited deals are fairly standard in the UK (though the signal in my area is far too slow to consider it). https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/compare/sim_only_deals/
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by dan1234 6y ago
Actually, his estate threatened to sue Google over the Nexus name. I’m not sure it came to anything. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/07/google-ne...
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by dan1234 6y ago
Why would Mercedes offer Red Bull (their main competitor) engines?
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by dan1234 6y ago
Reading that thread, my guess would be that a bug at IFTTT has caused it to hit the rate limit for each reddit account that it was associated with. A Reddit process has seen this activity spike and banned the accounts, thinking they're
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by dan1234 6y ago
Presumably the Android box is cheap enough to simply swap out with competing tech, should it become annoying, so you don't need to dump the whole TV.
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by dan1234 6y ago
So long as the correct background checks are carried out on the drivers, I’m all for it.
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by dan1234 6y ago
A quick trip to the Openreach Fibre checker yields: “We don’t have plans to upgrade your area yet. But we’re working with Government and industry to change that.” Along with the usual “Register your interest” form (which I’ve filled out, bu
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by dan1234 6y ago
On my street, my house is one of 4 connected directly to the exchange instead of a cabinet, which means I can't get fibre (only FTTC is available here). BT/Openreach/Whoever aren't interested in changing this, but luckil
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by dan1234 6y ago
Experts Exchange has a hyphen because the words can read differently when run together.
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by dan1234 6y ago
> But we had only converted a few paying customers (it was in the low 10s of paying customers), and most of those sales were VERY hands on. I was having to explain DNS to small business owners who all they know is their GoDaddy stopped w
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by dan1234 6y ago
I’d use Apple Music if only there was an easy way to get my play stats. I’ve been using lastfm for over a decade, using it to build recommendations and track my changing tastes. Arcade and News aren’t really reasons to buy for me. I’d proba
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by dan1234 6y ago
Arcade comes with 1 month free trial, so just give it a try and see if it works for you.
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by dan1234 6y ago
From some angles it reminds me of the Sinclair C5, which probably isn’t what the designers were going for! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
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by dan1234 6y ago
Definitely also includes Apple’s apps, I’ve just tested copying in Safari and pasting into Notes.
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by dan1234 6y ago
FTA: Why is the attack called "Raccoon"? Raccoon is not an acronym. Raccoons are just cute animals, and it is well past time that an attack will be named after them :) Just in case anyone was trying to workout the meaning.
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by dan1234 6y ago
You’re already using blue/green for deployments, so why not: * replace the currently inactive server with a smaller instance * swap to the new instance and test the load * replace the second server For such a small app I’d drop the blu
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Apple’s Upcoming tax and price changes for apps and in-app purchases(developer.apple.com)
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by dan1234 6y ago
That’s a possible solution if you’re in the US, and trust the regulators, but what of the rest of the world?
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by dan1234 6y ago
For laptops, you could also just stick some paper squares on the keycaps.
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by dan1234 6y ago
You can upgrade the RAM in the 27” yourself. There’s a door on the back, which gives acces to 4 SODIMM slots.
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by dan1234 6y ago
It uses Gorilla Glass 3 https://store.google.com/product/pixel_4a_specs
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by dan1234 6y ago
The speeds are pretty mediocre, as this is a SATA drive. Intel has a much quicker (and much more expensive) NVMe equivalent. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-stor...
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by dan1234 6y ago
I’d second Monevator, but also add the UKPersonalFinance subreddit as a great source of UK specific info (they have a great flowchart[0]). [0] https://flowchart.ukpersonal.finance/
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by dan1234 6y ago
Looks like this was some sort of proxy card, which is just associated with the actual card, so it shouldn’t need to be physically changed if the parent card is compromised.
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by dan1234 6y ago
The only thing I regularly use Siri for is timers, where it’s genuinely quicker to say “15 minute timer” than it is to open the app.
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by dan1234 6y ago
I'm sure everyone in the UK has at least one Argos pen and Ikea pencil somewhere!
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by dan1234 6y ago
>Safari/iOS users will be required to pay for a ad-supported website That's fine, just give me a convenient way to pay (and cancel) and subscription and I'll decide if the content justifies the price. If I'm not willi
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by dan1234 6y ago
At 60:1 contention ratio (which used to be BT’s standard for home ADSL), you’d be able to squeeze 1,200 Gb plans per satellite.

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