jascii

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by jascii 5y ago
3gb, works fast and snappy with sxmo. And yes, I have been able to receive and send sms since I got it. What did you want to bet for?
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by jascii 5y ago
How is buying a Samsung with its planned obsolescence not creating electronic waste? Most Pine products are supported by the mainstream kernel so will likely get software updates for their physical life.
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by jascii 5y ago
It is here, I am typing this on one right now... The hardware is fine, it runs ssh and a browser, what else would I need in a laptop?
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by jascii 5y ago
It is here, I'm typing this on one right now. There are global supply chain issues, that doesn't make it vaporware or anything. It was under $200 when the article was written. Again, supply chain issues.
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by jascii 5y ago
I have a Tour Easy with a Tongshen TZSD2 mid drive with the open source firmware. Total cost of the conversion was about $1200 USD. Even when the electric assist was still limited to about 20mph, my commuting time went down my about 30% due
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by jascii 5y ago
The Muppets don't have a big stick to wield in the form of advising their member states to withhold aid, commerce, etc...
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by jascii 5y ago
It's been my experience that by large people tend to do what you expect them to do. Sadly that is not always what you want them to do... While I'm aware that most of our motivators are not rational, I am not going to poison my
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by jascii 5y ago
While anecdotal, this article seems to confirm my suspicion that motivation for crime is seldomly rational. It seems more often to be driven by some form of mental or emotional trauma. Makes you wonder if treatment rather than punishment wo
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by jascii 5y ago
You realize that banking is a highly regulated industry and that their customers are insured for these events?
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by jascii 5y ago
Note to self: Report my bike stolen, just in case I'd ever want to rob some banks in the future...
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by jascii 5y ago
I just quickly want to thank you for your use of the "they" pronoun, while I generally identify as "he/him" it is nice not to have that assumed!
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by jascii 5y ago
"Passenger cars and light trucks (vans, pickups, and sport utility vehicles) accounted for 46.1% and 39.1%, respectively, of the 4875 deaths, with the remainder split among motorcycles, buses, and heavy trucks." https:/&#x2
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by jascii 5y ago
"Safe riding is still more dangerous than being in a car" To the operator. If we count the lethal damage caused to others, that number doesn't look so good...
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by jascii 5y ago
That's what throw-away shell companies are for...
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by jascii 5y ago
In areas with separated bike lanes traffic mixing usually happens in slower speed areas. This greatly reduces the chance that a small vehicle like a bicycle gets lost in the saccades.
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by jascii 5y ago
For all practical purposes bicycles and motorcycles are invisible to drivers. FortNine has an amusing video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x94PGgYKHQ0 My personal experience, after years as a courier on both upright
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by jascii 5y ago
The other day I found myself working on what I'm supposed to be working on, as a distraction from my distraction...
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by jascii 5y ago
I don't think I'd let a profit making project go for under $5k, but have fun shopping and I hope you find what you're looking for!
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by jascii 5y ago
"Trafficking, Abuse, Laundering". Why would someone "launder" money from legal sources? It seems that most of these fenomena thrive particularly well in illegality.
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by jascii 5y ago
Is there more human trafficking, or is the human trafficking more visible under the liberal laws?
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by jascii 5y ago
"Same can be said for (Common) Lisp, which still live its half-life in form of Clojure, but is far away from the mainstream." He says, on site written in Lisp, siting a language that proves the invalidity of his own statement. For
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by jascii 5y ago
So, it looks like re-processing other then for weapon production only gets done on a very small, experimental scale because it is simply not economical, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing ). This still
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by jascii 5y ago
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/why-cant-nuclear-w...
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by jascii 5y ago
Any specific sources of up-to-date information you recommend?
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by jascii 5y ago
"requiring much less copper, concrete, and ground space for the same amount of available energy" Does this include long-term storage of the waste products?
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by jascii 5y ago
The amount of birds killed by wind turbines is non-zero but negligible (Negative per W/Hr if we count oil spills) Solar fields do disrupt habitats, but less so then other commercial uses of the same land. Dams have a species eradicatin
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by jascii 5y ago
In all fairness, My personal PinePhone running SXMO is a lot snappier and performant then my Android work phone with all its bloatware...
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by jascii 5y ago
And indeed: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1401957368510906369
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by jascii 5y ago
Looks like Amjad doubled down on this: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1401957368510906369
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by jascii 5y ago
I'm still hoping the CEO will come out of the woods with something like: "I'm sorry, I had a shitty day and acted like an ass." But that might be more grown-up than is realistic...

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