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I'd imagine for many developers, the probability of something like Google's Hosted Libraries ( https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries ) going down or being hacked is far, far lower than the probability o
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As stated in the article, by getting a passport from any EU nation, you are free to travel to/live in/work in any EU country.
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>Can I ask you to consider buying your ebooks from a better vendor? Kobo is a good choice; they state whether or not a given book is DRM-free or not Amazon also does state when a book is DRM-free, but you might have missed it as it'
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People without a credit card are still subsidising those with reward cards, as the high interchange fees are spread out across all of a store's transactions.
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The Smart Meters were designed with this concept from the beginning. https://www.smartdcc.co.uk/our-smart-network/network-product... As noted in the article and by other comments, a short wave radio network is used in
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>the increase in the number of people who is LGBTQ+ which again it's their choice Choice?
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That's actually how the meters currently work. The article explains it a little better, but there's the meter equipment and there's communication equipment. The communication modules currently installed might only support 2G
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I think having it linked to home broadband would be unpopular from both an energy supplier point of view and from the public. The energy suppliers wouldn't want the support burden of having to troubleshoot people's Wi-Fi, which mi
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I don't entirely understand the concept - in Ohio (or is it the whole of the USA?), they can suspend your driving licence because you have unrelated debts?
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>I have always wondered why we don't structure payments of some form to balance out the local costs of infrastructure etc. NIMBY is rational with the economics as they are; but would you really be as opposed to a local power plant i
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Seems more like they are unwilling to update VLC on Android, as they don't want to use the Play App Signing feature.
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Nobody needs a games console, but a smartphone is increasingly an essential part of daily life - for things like accessing government services, transport, payments, identity, commerce etc. If you are a company or other organisation that dep
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It doesn't really change the point of the article. There are ways to make fibre broadband available, even in rural communities. Fibre is always going to beat Starlink.
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>I don't understand this media campaign against shrinkflation It clearly rubs people up the wrong way. There's a perception that these huge companies are trying to trick consumers by hiding these reductions in size/quantit
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See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603074
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I've recently got an 8Gbps symmetric FTTP connection at home, and have run Cat 6 to nearly every room. The biggest problem is that there aren't a lot of (consumer accessible) ethernet switches capable of doing 10Gbps with copper e
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Is this just a no-information AI article, or is there actually some news about the 5090?
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Most of the travel eSIM services resell a SIM from a carrier in country A that has a favourable roaming agreement with a carrier in country B (where you want to use the service). I just signed up for the Firsty app from the UK, and the eSIM
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By international standards, Google Fi is expensive. By US standards, Google Fi is cheap.
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Yes, they seem to use "Europe" to refer to the EU.
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You can download Windows 10 or Windows 11 from Microsoft for free without needing to input any licence keys. If you install it without inputting a product key, it'll be more or less fully functional. There is no time limit to this. ht
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I did it last week, but it was a bit hard to navigate through the automated phone system as it's so geared up to Windows 10/11.
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I know what you're referring to - I think other posters are confusing this with other initiatives Microsoft has like the VMs for web dev or preview releases. In Windows XP, if the system wasn't activated after the initial grace pe
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>I feel like I'm in a weird alt-universe. >I've heard frequent complaints about spotify pushing podcasts but I've never once had spotify show me a podcast above the fold that I haven't myself followed. That you hav
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In the UK it really varies based on the area the supermarket is in. There are two large Sainsbury's supermarkets near me - one is right next to a university and suffers from students taking the trolleys back to their student accommodat
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While I do agree that the current government's policy was designed to suppress votes (Rees Mogg basically admitted it), the different treatment of Oyster cards makes sense. The over 60 card requires that your eligibility is verified be
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Due to the input device most people will use (controller), apps that work best on Xbox are those used to consume content like photos or videos. You might be viewing something and want to print it, but that's clearly not desirable enoug
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If the two options are "this app can't run on your Xbox" or "this app runs on your Xbox, but the printing functions don't work and some of the messages are a little weird", which option do you think users would
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A fresh incognito window on any other search engine isn't going to be linked to an account. That is for me one of the downsides of Kagi.
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The vast majority of the restaurants on Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Just Eat etc. in the UK did not (and still do not) offer delivery themselves. I would say that in the UK it was really only pizza places that offered delivery. Now with these app

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