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by gandalfian 3y ago
It used to irritate me that my old dumb mobile must have known exactly the correct time in order to operate on the cell phone network. Yet it kept it secret from me. I had to manually set the clock by guesstimate
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by gandalfian 3y ago
"Firefox was amazing by the time Chrome was released" Yes but it also frequently ground to a halt trying to multitask tabs. Chrome didn't so we all switched to chrome.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Yes Daviey, those of use using a telephone in the traditional way are a diminishing number. Hence passively becoming eccentric... Not as much as the person riding a penny farthing but slowly heading that way. To the other questions in the U
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Unless you eccentrically expect to use your telephone line to make telephone calls. In which case you are rather tied to their router to power their propietary VoIP landline service.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Or they could just sell official replacement screens for $50. The price of an entire budget smartphone. Thefts of iPhones would plummet. The phones would be worth more to consumers. A small drop in sales perhaps due to more repairs.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
I think their main computer being a Mac without a CD-ROM drive may be contributing elements as well. Interesting juxtaposition that they are struggling to take the files off a cd but confident they can produce a web database. But seems they
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by gandalfian 3y ago
I wonder more about heating than cooling. Luddite paranoia perhaps but hot air rises up into space and away. Cold air sinks, where does it go? Outside air is a big heat sink but if entire urban areasn start pumping out MW of cold air in th
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by gandalfian 3y ago
You would think stormy weather would spin him like a tumble drier. Hard to see if it's weatherproof or just an open cage.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
>Italy started to import electricity at a premium, mostly from its French neighbor Of course the French taxpayers now face decades of vast nuclear decommissioning costs. Italy doesn't. Rather as a country with lots of sun and many s
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Though if they are frozen then they are probably hot chips? I don't think anyone buys frozen crisps. I could be wrong.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
"No. I'm going to say you can't always avoid getting into water." True but accidentally ending up in water is rare. Deliberately putting yourself in water because you can swim is common. I'd still rather swim person
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Generally said to be people who can swim who get into trouble and drown. People who can't stay out of the water. So if you can't swim you are missing out on fun but are probably safer in practice.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
"GripTape provides 14-19 year olds with support to drive your learning, the funding to pursue your interest, and a Champion to encourage you along the way." You can apply for $500 and a mentor. Doesn't say how many applicatio
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by gandalfian 3y ago
The Mayflower pilgrims departed for the New world from the ladies toilet of the Admiral pub, Plymouth. Geography changes over time with no sense of romance.
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Will this mean future Netflix only works for people with a permanent home broadband service with a fixed ip address to identify as their home? I mean if you use mobile internet for your broadband, hidden behind cgnat and school or public wi
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by gandalfian 3y ago
Severance, I turned the playback speed faster by 20% or something and it actually became much more pleasant to watch with wierdly no adverse effect?
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by gandalfian 4y ago
That is remarkably modern. But doesn't it mean you have to dial long distance to a french number to phone your child?
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by gandalfian 4y ago
a closed-loop refrigerant system that uses water lines to the indoor coil/air handler Sounds like an air to water monoblock heat pump. Common in Europe. But you can only get the water up to about 50C efficiently. Not as good as refri
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by gandalfian 4y ago
Printers suck the print quality hasn't really improved since 1999. In 1999 I was using a £150 canon colour inket with 360x360 resolution. Lasted ten years with fake ink at £20 a year. Now I am using a £150 canon megatank with 1200x48
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by gandalfian 4y ago
Ahem, typo? Site says it was created in 1998. Which coincidentally was 25 years ago...
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by gandalfian 4y ago
I once used the example key shown in a software manuals how to register section. It worked. I was rather chuffed at the time.
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by gandalfian 4y ago
Though I'm on android 9? Five year old phone and while I'm not a power user nothing seems to care? Apple apps are much more picky of versions.
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by gandalfian 4y ago
Shame no compass or gyroscope, both of which I value. I hope the idea catches on though the toolkit looks suspiciously like ever other mobiles. Lift screen with sucker while prying with pick. Then unscrew battery and admittedly wrestle with
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by gandalfian 4y ago
and every single British prime minister since Thatcher went to boarding school Hmm, it doesn't invalidate your overall point but I would guess John Major, Gordon Brown, Teresa May and Liz Truss were probably not at boarding school.
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by gandalfian 4y ago
I read of a study on piano learning. Kids from a wide variety of backgrounds take the same piano lessons so its a good leveller. The result was there was a direct correlation between hours practiced and progress. Nobody really lagged behind
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by gandalfian 4y ago
See also the day gravity was reduced producing a floating feeling on earth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovian%E2%80%93Plutonian_gra... .
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by gandalfian 4y ago
If it has his correct details is it actually a fake ID?
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by gandalfian 4y ago
Still better than the filters that just invisibly destroy spam without ever telling you. (I'm looking at you namecheap and numerous others. And my aunt's isp that vaporised any incoming email containing the word chicken and had no
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by gandalfian 4y ago
How's your Finnish? https://cooperandhunter.com/split/files/docs/support_2019020... magazine review from 2019 I think. Says at -20F you still get around 3x COP energy ratio. On the other hand the air to
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by gandalfian 4y ago
More likely Quorn style fungus fermented/grown in dark vats connected to nuclear reactors for power. Might be tricky to ramp up in time but eventually could actually lower the cost of food, if more boring food. Flavoured fungus burgers

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