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by drewg123 3y ago
Except containing hydrogen requires bulky tanks. I was curious, and googled.. It turns out the only hydrogen car I'm aware of that's on sale in the US (Toyota Mirai) weighs several hundred pounds more than the most popular EV in
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by drewg123 3y ago
I don't think that is the problem, just something that kicks in after the problem has happened and wifi has disappeared. Eg, on my macbook, I was loosing wifi every hour before I tweaked the settings on the router.
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by drewg123 3y ago
Quic throws away roughly 40 years of performance optimizations that operating systems and network card vendors have done for TCP. For example (based on the server side) - sendfile() cannot be done with QUIC, since the QUIC stack runs in us
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by drewg123 3y ago
I have seen issues with apple (Mac and iPhone) devices loosing connectivity on wpa2 after each rekey. Symptom is the device drops offline for several seconds, sometimes connecting another network if one is available. This wreaks havoc wit
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by drewg123 3y ago
None of those are worth a few gigabytes of memory and disk space to me.
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by drewg123 3y ago
I guess I'm just biased because I like to run an OS on my desktop (freebsd) that doesn't support Electron. I've carried that over to my macbook... I've just gotten into the habit of "gmail is leftmost, slack is ne
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by drewg123 3y ago
I totally agree with the author's points, however, I can't understand why people run "apps" for things like WhatsApp (and Slack) when they run just fine in a browser tab.
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by drewg123 3y ago
Maybe this has already been answered in a downstream thread, but I think it deserves its own thread... For applications delivered via a 3rd party store, how is Apple going to (a) identify them, and (b) count their installs so that it can c
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by drewg123 3y ago
I used to uninstall food delivery apps when not using them, but found that just killing their ability to notify me was equally effective without the hassle of re-signing in every time I needed to use them.
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by drewg123 3y ago
How much information do app devs get when customers disable app notifications from their app entirely? Some apps (especially food delivery.. doordash, i'm looking at you) have such spammy notifications, I tend to disable notification
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by drewg123 3y ago
we'd be able to run the latest mainline kernel on our devices GPL or no GPL, we're talking about a TV here. I seriously doubt that they have a bootloader that's willing to run unsigned code. So maybe you'd be able to
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by drewg123 3y ago
Glad to hear FreeBSD worked. Sorry you wiped your drive though!!
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by drewg123 3y ago
FreeBSD can read and manipulate EFI variables in general. It would be interesting to see what happens when you try efivar or efibootmgr in FreeBSD. Grab the memstick image from here: https://download.freebsd.org/releases&#x
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by drewg123 3y ago
UEFI allows you to programmatically change the boot device from inside the OS. This is important for failed or degraded SSDs, as they can fail in weird ways (read only, all reads hang, etc) such that trying to boot from them can hang the s
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by drewg123 3y ago
Like the parent, I'm annoyed at just Wifi 6, when 6E is out and 7 is around the corner. However, the feature of 6e (and 7) that I need is the new, larger 6Ghz band for stable performance in a crowded urban environment with hundreds of
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by drewg123 3y ago
Hertz, and most rental car companies were caught flat footed by the pandemic, holding lots of cars and not doing a lot of business. However, the industry seems to have recovered to levels higher than pre-pandemic, which is surprising to me
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by drewg123 3y ago
When it was down for me, I wound up at a cloudflare landing page. I checked, and sure enough, they seem to be behind cloudflare now: news.ycombinator.com is an alias for news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. Is that a new thing?
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by drewg123 3y ago
I don't know anything about power dishwashers, but I despise the long cycle times of modern clothes washers. I recently stayed in an AirBnB with a new washer & dryer, and the washer had a "speed mode" that provided a 30m
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by drewg123 3y ago
I've live in western NY, OH, NC, VA, FL and the Bay Area. The only place where I've found that a messy parking lot doesn't correspond to a bad neighborhood is in the Bay Area. I'm specifically thinking of the Safeways
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by drewg123 3y ago
A coin deposit is a signal that either the carts are being stolen, or that they are not being returned to the cart corral. Both are signs of a bad neighborhood in my area of the country.
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by drewg123 3y ago
Parking lots full of unreturned shopping carts are a sign of a bad neighborhood in my area of the country. The need to require a quarter deposit implies a lack of trust, and an "FU" to the customer. I return the "FU" by
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by drewg123 3y ago
Do they still require a quarter deposit on shopping carts? One opened in the US city where I lived ~15-20 years ago, and they required a coin deposit to use a shopping cart. I don't cary change (not even back then), and requiring a de
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by drewg123 3y ago
My fiance had a similar experience with actual liquid damage. I've forgotten the details, but she spilled a tiny bit of a drink into her M1 MBP keyboard, taking out most of the lower half of the keyboard. Apple wanted roughly the cos
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by drewg123 3y ago
Yes, I use the Apple MD826 / MD826ZMA Lightning to HDMI Adaptor & their XREAL Air Adapter. Is that what's not hdcp compliant?
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by drewg123 3y ago
I bought a pair of the xreal air glasses about 6 months ago, with the intention of using them to code. However, the pixel density is so low that text looks seriously janky, and I don't use them for code. My backup use was to hook them
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by drewg123 3y ago
I had the opposite problem. My RFID reading board went bad, and it would claim every filter was past due and would not dispense water or ice.
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by drewg123 3y ago
That's a great excuse, but the motivation is for GE to be able to sell high margin filters due to DRM lock-in. Their filters with RFID tags cost 2x to 3x what compatible filters cost on the open markget.
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by drewg123 3y ago
This happened to me, and I stopped ordering from the restaurant because of it. I went from hot pizza arriving in 15 minutes to cold pizza arriving in 40+ minutes, if at all. After a few times, I realized the delivery person was now a rando
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by drewg123 3y ago
Very much unlike my hostile GE fridge, which will refuse to dispense ice and water after a grace period expires when the water filter is too old.
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by drewg123 3y ago
This has to be the best comment from a moderator that I've ever seen. This is why I love HN.

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