harry8

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by harry8 3y ago
I'm pretty new at iphone, like 3 weeks. settings->battery claims that it uses about 10% of my battery in 10 hours, or about as much as less than 20 minutes of firefox use. I previously had an ulefone armor 9 which had vastly better
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by harry8 3y ago
Phone runs a wireguard vpn client, uses pihole to perform dns lookups [1]. I haven't noticed anything being slower with the vpn on vs off and using whatever the mobile phone company provides for dns. Pihole deals with that page well. W
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by harry8 3y ago
> We are riding the early waves of a 25-year run of a greatly expanding economy... 1997.
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by harry8 3y ago
For whatever that might be worth...[1] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10143675/
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by harry8 3y ago
amusing since no genre is "real"
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by harry8 3y ago
If you've been paying attention to the industry you'd know driving customers to bit torrent is suicidal.
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by harry8 3y ago
Dell pushed out a bios update, relayed on by ubuntu, that bricked mine because after the update I closed the lid and put it in my bag because I bought a laptop. Situation: I was beside a child's ICU bed. The bios update made using the
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by harry8 3y ago
Presently loathing an iphone rather than hating an android so i guess I’m out of luck. HA Owntone integration works very well as does shairport-sync & its mqtt interface. Owntone also does Spotify. Thanks for your thoughts btw.
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by harry8 3y ago
got a write-up of it someplace? The music quiet when phone call thing is particularly attractive. I think I have most of the pieces of it here. HomeAssistant, Owntone, airplay (shairport-sync) speakers, a phone running the HA client.
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by harry8 3y ago
>- "Everything 'smart' must fall-back to normal 'dumb' operation ...immediately, every single time the occupant wants it to do that. Regardless of the state of any other component.
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by harry8 3y ago
What you say is completely true in my experience. Comically so. However when using a computer application and noticing unexpected and erroneous behaviour, what proportion is the time can the bug be traced back to hardware vs software? I’m g
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by harry8 3y ago
>FTC gets whatever it has asked for. And goes straight to appeal. What can the FTC even ask for? Jail terms for execs the way it happens to poor people who can't pay fines? Somehow I doubt the "very, very, very bad thing"
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by harry8 3y ago
no link. But in that "big list of possible sanctions" is there anything that would inconvenience google as much as a $200 fine inconveninences someone on minimum wage? Is there anything at all that isn't just a trivial busine
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by harry8 3y ago
>It would seem the burden of proof Or maybe we could reserve judgement about all possibilities that cannot be ruled out until more evidence comes in?
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by harry8 3y ago
> I don't want Netflix to prompt me, "Want to watch the next episode for 4 cents?" Neither does netflix. Vast amounts of under-used subscriptions paid at a full rate would suddenly get a huge discount. At the other end the
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by harry8 3y ago
The internet took off in aus due to social networks. The popular ones were all the cc field of email. Many had work addresses first before deciding they wanted that at home. Hotmail worked ok too. There were a lot of weaknesses to that unst
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by harry8 3y ago
Intelligence is both directions. It only correlates with un-intelligence. Eg the poor individual has a brain injury or does not.
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by harry8 3y ago
False. Low IQ correlates with lack of intelligence. Average and above means nothing. --IQ skeptic
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by harry8 3y ago
Well below average IQ scores usually indicate serious and profound cognitive impairment (but for an individual you still have to check). All other IQ scores indicate nothing at all.
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by harry8 3y ago
IQ is only useful for scores well below average to indicate the subject of the test has a serious issue. Any score approaching average or any amount above is not at all useful to indicate anything beyond the subjects' skills at taking
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by harry8 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Everywhere Placenames were all originally in Australia, adapted for the north american market.
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by harry8 3y ago
Flipping anti-employee fantasy that people get to leave on time and just work their hours. Never, ever seen it.
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by harry8 3y ago
what proportion of excel use does this? 0.000000001% or not as much as that in your view?
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by harry8 3y ago
it's the web. links die. There's enough there to find the papers if you care. Which you clearly don't. >Excel keeps all the bugs for backwards compatibility They /fixed/ rand(). Announcements. Fanfare. The fixed
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by harry8 3y ago
Seems more extensively applied. e.g. If cleaning the bathroom is worthwhile then it is worth doing it badly. As opposed not at all. I'm sure someone loves cleaning bathrooms but that isn't the point. Counterpoint to the the inner
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by harry8 3y ago
I think I understand op, there was an 'and' missing that seems obvious? Was it edited? Yours I do not understand. > This would be a case where half-assing it did not. Did not what? Did that woosh over my head?
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by harry8 3y ago
> "if it's worth doing then it's worth doing properly" Big life lesson for me was "if it's worth doing then it's worth doing poorly" Even if it's more worthwhile doing it a little better (and
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by harry8 3y ago
My fav was when ms announced they'd paid an academic to fix =rand(), ignoring all the others. Let's see it. Fill the visible part of a sheet with it, conditional format the cells, red for negative etc. hit f9 to recalc and see a b
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by harry8 3y ago
N900 ran linux and it mattered
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by harry8 3y ago
Other than the known calculation bugs in excel that MS refused to fix for at least a decade and probably still 20 years later. http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~bdm25/gnumeric.pdf http://www.phusewiki.org/do

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