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by jrmg 1y ago
That’s not what the manufacturers of modern glass fiber insulation would have you believe. Plenty of people cutting and handling it with no PPE at all in their promotional literature. https://www.owenscorning.com/en-us/
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by jrmg 1y ago
There’s a lot of irony in asserting that the ones who are considering and acting upon the consequences of their small choices are the ones exhibiting ‘sheep mentlity’.
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Computers of that vintage drew way more power at idle than modern systems.
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by jrmg 1y ago
That’s sort of why this is on my mind. I’ve just replaced an old Cubieboard (RPi1 alternative - about 2W) running Pi-hole and an old temperamental gigabit router (~10W) with a 2014 Mac mini (plus second Gigabit adapter) - which uses about
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by jrmg 1y ago
I think it’s a fair question when I’m literally commenting on a statement about sustainability and reuse of old computers. And on a larger scale, you could use your dismissal against almost everything. Every part of society (and businesses
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by jrmg 1y ago
NetBSD is a powerful force for sustainability. Foundation's commitment to running on a vast array of hardware—new and old—helps reduce e-waste. Old laptops and single-board computers that would otherwise be in a landfill are given new
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by jrmg 1y ago
Another conflict: in Debian Trixie (current stable release), when you run `systemctl status …` you’re given the rather scary warnings: State: degraded … Tainted: unmerged-bin This is because Debian has a separate /usr&
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by jrmg 1y ago
And for a few years now (since ‘real’ emacs was removed, I think) ‘mg’, which is a terminal-based eMacs-alike.
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by jrmg 1y ago
It says that’s ‘supplementary’ information that ‘can’ be provided. Is it actually done?
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by jrmg 1y ago
Personal pet level is that it’s so hard to get information on the noise level of appliances. We’ve recently moved, and our new house’s crawl space has a Santa Fe dehumidifier in it that seems SO LOUD at night. I don’t think it’s broken - it
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by jrmg 1y ago
While I don’t disagree with your point on lineup and quality (and they’ve cancelled a new car model to work on humanoid robotics‽), I think you’re underestimating the Elon effect. Basically everyone I am close with is in the demographic Tes
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by jrmg 1y ago
Yeah, I’d like to see F150 Lightnings compared with F150s. Model Y vs F150 is such a weird comparison to choose. Don’t forget to also deduct tax incentives from the original retail price. It’s not surprising that the used market would requi
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by jrmg 1y ago
They are guidelines , not rules, but the site guidelines here advise submitters to use the original title for linked articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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BBC Wales returned live to 1985(tvbeurope.com)
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by jrmg 1y ago
There’s an “Accounts...” entry in the main “Mail” menu. You can also click the “+” button at the bottom of the list of accounts in the “Accounts” panel in Mail's settings window.
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by jrmg 1y ago
Wait, what? Surely people have had ‘homelabs’ for longer than VMs and container have been mainstream?
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by jrmg 1y ago
Ubuntu Server setup running on a NUC that's been serving me well In my book, that’s a homelab, it's just a small one (an efficient one?...)
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by jrmg 1y ago
Gold is at a record high for a reason. Generally, ‘this asset is at a record high’ is not a reason to get into it.
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by jrmg 1y ago
I know this is a ‘joke’, but it sparked in me actual questions that I am sure some folks here will know the answers to: What are the security guarantees with writing in COBOL? Like, does COBOL allow out-of-bounds memory access? How does it
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by jrmg 1y ago
I kinda think that most commenters here haven’t read the article, and are not appreciating the scale of the problem here. An iPhone 1 wouldn’t have met their needs either. Old keypad Nokias had already been deemed unsuitable because they co
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by jrmg 1y ago
iOS 26 can sort-of do what you suggest in your second paragraph. The device answers the call, asks who is calling and the purpose of the call, then (if the caller doesn’t hang up) presents the answers textually in the call-answering UI to a
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by jrmg 1y ago
I don’t get the complaints either, FWIW. That weird grid of icons (I could never find anything in) with the goofy search that put spotlights on the icons, then the separate full-window ‘panels’ of inconsistent controls would (also?..) be la
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by jrmg 1y ago
FWIW, those seem to be a current ‘trend’. I’m getting them with personalization switched off.
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by jrmg 1y ago
Agreed - I think it’s lack of resources. Congress would need to act to fix this.
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I agree the current administration is way worse than the previous one in almost every respect, but to argue that the previous one would’ve enforced this particular thing is obviously untrue. The situation’s been like this for a few years no
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It's a travesty that there are apparently no laws against their behavior. In the USA I’m pretty sure advertising scams - even the more ‘benign’ ones like claiming a product does something it doesn’t do or lying about its efficiency -
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by jrmg 1y ago
I like Isso: https://isso-comments.de/
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by jrmg 1y ago
For me, almost every YouTube ad is a scam. Medical supplements or plans that make claims that clearly aren’t real, financial scams (crypto or get-rich-quick schemes), or product scams (this new device that ‘they’ don’t want you to know abou
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by jrmg 1y ago
I’m willing to bet the reaction here would be different (not from everyone, but in aggregate) if the headline was “Sourceforge just erased years of free software history” or “Google Scholar just erased years of scientific history” because t
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by jrmg 1y ago
An Amerisleep.com survey of more than 1,200 Americans revealed that 37 percent used vacation days in the past year just to rest. I’d like to see the wording of this survey. If it’s something like ‘did you use vacation time to rest?’, it s

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