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by greyhair 4y ago
From the text of the article: "Every Android phone opens from the back." I have replaced screens an a couple different models of Motorola phones, and the screens popped off the front. Just looking at my Pixel 5a, the screen clearl
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by greyhair 4y ago
Plasma did have an issue with 'burn in' on static images. If you did a lot of gaming on them, you could see it. Same with banners on news programming. If you watch a lot of movies, it isn't an issue. Plus, the TVs came with a
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by greyhair 4y ago
Still running my Panasonic 50" Plasma from that era. So heavy. And yes they are power hogs, but in reality, ours really isn't on that often. Three, maybe four hours a week, on average. But oh, the picture quality back then, compar
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by greyhair 4y ago
If all my neighbors dive into Amazon 'sidewalk' at 900Mhz, and trash my DECT handsets and my ZWave IoT, I am going to be really pissed.
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by greyhair 4y ago
The analogy for me has always been Snap-On hand tools vs Craftsman. If you are making a living twisting wrenches eight hours a day, six days a week, the wrench you use really does matter.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Adobe is to software as Nestle is to water.
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by greyhair 4y ago
I like the stuff that Frame is doing, but I don't like the way that jack sticks out. I would be happier plugging a dongle into a USB-C port, when I needed it, than having that 'nub' hanging out all the time.
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by greyhair 4y ago
I noted elsewhere, I fought this battle once. People outside the development team kept saying "it needs more buffers", but they were not looking at the network analyzer, and they weren't looking at the internal states. As buf
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by greyhair 4y ago
I had to fight this battle in 1998 with a DSL SoHo modem/NAT router (single box) with a 10Mb/S Ethernet jack routing through an ADSL modem with a maximum speed of 8Mb/S Down and 1Mb/S Up. The 'Up' path was kill
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by greyhair 4y ago
Web link is flagged by Avast has containing a malware payload.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Perfection is the enemy of good enough. I don't know how old you are, but someday, you are going to be approaching seventy years old, and look back on the long arch of your life and realize how much effort you put into things that didn
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by greyhair 4y ago
When my wife and I bought were looking for a home in 1993, our #1 requirement was that it was a walkable urban environment with a minimum of restaurants, bars, and parks, and preferably, other entertainment as well. We narrowed it down to f
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by greyhair 4y ago
In the mid 1970s, in my welding class, the school was located down the street from a small manufacturer that formed various metal alloys. They would provide the school with bins of scrap from their manufacturing free of charge. Those were o
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by greyhair 4y ago
Those keyboards don't have the same environmental requirements. Automotive environmental is hard. Temperature extremes, high and low, plus humidity extremes. There are also reliability expectations. If I need defrost because the windsh
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by greyhair 4y ago
My brother works in automotive engineering, it isn't 60+ driving this trend. It is the design team, which skews young, and the marketing team, which also skews young. Tesla does not skew 60+ anywhere in the company, and they introduced
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by greyhair 4y ago
Touch screens suck. My twenty year old son and I were just discussing this a couple days ago. He has been working part time as a valet to make some extra money, so he gets to drive a lot of different cars, just to park them, but has to inte
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by greyhair 4y ago
This is how microbial life ends in a petri dish. Either by consuming all the nutrients, or so polluting the dish with their metabolic waste that they can no longer survive.
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by greyhair 4y ago
See Ciba-Geigy New Jersey
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by greyhair 4y ago
I think that most of the horror stories I hear on new appliances are control board failures, more than physical hardware failures. I have a washer and dryer from 1993 that are still going strong, but over the years I have had to replace bel
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by greyhair 4y ago
At the time I deleted my Facebook account, I had a total of twenty friends. And all of them were people from where I moved away from, or people that moved away from me. Family, and local friends, I did not friend on Facebook, because I was
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by greyhair 4y ago
I lived very briefly in Manhattan near Lincoln Center. There was a bar about three blocks from the apartment that was very pleasant, and it was 90% always the same people from the neighborhood. We all knew each other. It was weird being in
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by greyhair 4y ago
Instagram has spiraled down a hole with the introduction of reels. I was an early adopter of Instagram, and where it has headed, sucks. I deleted my Facebook account pre-COVID, and I don't miss it at all. And my Instagram account is ne
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by greyhair 4y ago
Mostly he is opposed to anything that could possibly impact his financial position in any way. Multi-family housing in the town where he lives will likely depress his property value a little bit. The wealthy towns surrounding my blue collar
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by greyhair 4y ago
Your GPA may be what gets your foot in the door, but your knowledge and your ability will determine the long arc of your career.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Me also, still rolling code for custom embedded hardware at 65. Started in the mid 1980s, in embedded, running proprietary RTOS, then later, commercial RTOS (pSOS, vxWorks, ThreadX, QNX), then NetBSD, and now Linux. The amount of Python cod
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by greyhair 4y ago
I have had the great joy of working with younger peers over the last two decades. Still working, but at a small company, and the youngest coworker is in their 50s. I miss having recent college grads around. We did have an intern prior to CO
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by greyhair 4y ago
Something I learned from my father when I was really young. When you don't know something, say "I don't know" first, then "We can probably figure it out". Always, always, lead with "I don't know"
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by greyhair 4y ago
I am still doing this and I am 65. Started in this industry at the tender age of 27, this being my third career choice. I have taken a minor step back after turning 62, for a few simple reasons: A) I am not 'building my career' at
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by greyhair 4y ago
Long time Instagram user. Deleted my Facebook account years ago. The recent changes to Instagram totally suck. I hardly see any of my friends pictures anymore. Maybe one, or two, then a constant shit-stream of 'reels'. I am done.
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by greyhair 4y ago
The same problem has destroyed instagram. I closed my Facebook account years ago, pre COVID, but still enjoyed instagram. In the last six months, a steady rot has crept into instagram. I hardly see any of my friend's photos anymore. Ju

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