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by gandalfian 11d ago
Also syndicated without a paywall at arstechnica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/offensively-cheap-so...
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by gandalfian 1mo ago
An official iphone screen for self repair costs more than my entire android phone. That's why people still steal them even locked and unusable. My miele washing machine will last twenty years, possibly indefinitely but every seven year
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by gandalfian 2mo ago
Writing this on a 2010 pc bought cheap in 2012. Upgraded ram, ssd added, windows 7 to windows 10 with extended updates. Yes it's time to replace but they do last.
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by gandalfian 2mo ago
To get paid for export you will nearly always need an MCS number to show it was installed by accredited professionals. Doing it yourself, or by your local electrician or plug in solar is not something they accept. It's a bit of a racke
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by gandalfian 2mo ago
In Uk, If an old (rare) mechanical meter the meter will go backwards, the ideal. If a dumb digital meter the meter will simply pause counting up. If a smartmeter again the import reading will pause but a separate export reading will count u
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by gandalfian 7mo ago
Modern wireless mice from logitech and microsoft last for a year or two on a pair of aa batteries. There is no point making them rechargeable any more. You can always use rechargeable aa nihms if you really want to, but personally I just ha
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by gandalfian 11mo ago
Equator, poorest countries with 12 hours of sun 365 days a year. If batteries really fall in price it may rapidly have the cheapest, cleanest energy on the planet. The future of energy intensive industries may be Africa, which would be nice
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by gandalfian 11mo ago
Weirdly themselves. Makes my head hurt but the central bank, the social security fund and some other bits of US government basically own most of the national debt. Then it's the Japanese, British, Chinese and Warren Buffet. But less th
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by gandalfian 11mo ago
Of course that was back when a trillion dollars was worth something.
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by gandalfian 1y ago
People leave out that when the wholesale electricity prices are above the Government guaranteed price the Government makes a profit on selling the wind electricity. So in this example when the grid is full to the brim with wind energy but t
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by gandalfian 1y ago
"The “pop” won’t be a single day like a stock market crash. It’ll be a gradual cooling as unrealistic promises fail, capital tightens, and only profitable or genuinely innovative players remain." (This comment was written by ChatG
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Bitcoin ATMs reprise a painful history in finance(ft.com)
3 points by gandalfian 1y ago|1 comments
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by gandalfian 1y ago
https://archive.ph/e0bZK In low income neighborhoods they make it easy to turn money into bitcoin but with high transaction costs and hard to turn the bitcoin back into cash. It is not a perspective that had occurred to me
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by gandalfian 1y ago
https://kmr.annas-archive.org/blog/an-update-from-the-team.h... ?
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by gandalfian 1y ago
Data is working on Vodafone mvno. Can't call Out or text, Can't make calls On o2 or EE either. Edit EE working. Edit all mobiles now seem to be working OK.
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by gandalfian 1y ago
Worse for television I have a PVR so I fast forward through the TV adverts... YouTube is about the only place left I sit through video adverts.
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by gandalfian 1y ago
Mobiles are made by Asian companies to Asian tastes. They like big screens so that's what we get. The two exceptions are apple iPhones and Google pixel. The two American companies making phones for American tastes. Shame as the old 4.5
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by gandalfian 1y ago
And long before that Warren Buffet talking about only backing companies who have built a competitive moat.
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by gandalfian 1y ago
Survivorship bias perhaps but kudos to a car lasting 34 years in a marine environment. That is impressive.
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by gandalfian 1y ago
Mothers mac mini 2014? Slow as a dog, 30 second pauses, became unusable. Extremely tricky to reach the 5400rpm hard disc. Found a third party adaptor could bodge an nvme under the easily removable base flap. Suddenly transformed it to a fas
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by gandalfian 1y ago
I think they are all lucky it doesn't say "android and ios only" like many gadgets these days. Desktops are dying, I feel old...
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by gandalfian 1y ago
If you are young and give the silence a decent go it's OK to fall back on a book after a bit, or if you are too young to read yet, quietly working on some lego under your seat will not bother anyone. Adults are a little trickier but co
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by gandalfian 1y ago
What people tend to leave out is the government guarantees the price wind turbines receive for electricity at say 7p a kwh. So they lose money if the wholesale price goes less that that. But they make money when the price goes above that pr
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by gandalfian 1y ago
Is every memecoin just a scam? Experts on whether Andrew Tate and Trump are fleecing their followers. After I was turned into a memecoin, I looked into the hype behind the crypto that only a tiny percentage of people profit from. Matt Shea
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Is every memecoin just a scam?(theguardian.com)
18 points by gandalfian 1y ago|7 comments
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by gandalfian 1y ago
Denmark, 6 million wealthy people, 4% economic growth, 1.5% inflation, 2.9% unemployment, national debt of 25% of GDP and budget in surplus. How did it all go so right?
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by gandalfian 1y ago
And yet sometimes I wonder. In the Uk you need most of your energy in the cold dark winter. So if you require enough non solar renewables to get you through the winter with net zero and those renewables are still available in the summer tim
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by gandalfian 2y ago
Ah but consider if the rich own 87% and the poor 13% and pension funds 40% and foreigners 17% then there is 157% to go around! Or maybe it's 87% of the rich directly own equities? Or maybe this is a wind up for clicks and gibberish. (I
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by gandalfian 2y ago
Honestly I wouldn't rush to see the Mary Rose unless you are extremely interested. It's a little anticlimactic as a viewing experience.
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by gandalfian 2y ago
Perhaps, thought blu ray is looking a little laserdisc like. Never quite got the mass adoption to stay around and now fading away. It's now hard to buy a cdrom drive without dvd support. But ones without blue ray remains common. Notmto

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