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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> most times I'd rather just walk than catch a bus Which honestly is probably the best outcome any way, at least from an environmental and personal health perspective.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Dish/Boost Boost is an MVNO. Look at the T-Mobile map and you are effectively looking at Boost’s map. It’s the same reason Cricket (AT&T), GoogleFi (T-Mobile/US Cellular), Metro/Mint (T-Mobile), Republic (T-Mobile),
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
It’s definitely not accurate. I can show screenshots of over a dozen places with no service at all on AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon where this map claims coverage (and it’s supposedly filtered to be areas that have useable data, not just “
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Yep! That’s one of the areas I spot checked as I experienced zero coverage there too.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
I’m so tired of maps that are grossly inaccurate like this. Since Christmas last year I’ve been traveling across the US working remotely from my RV. I’m very meticulous about checking over a dozen sources and still have been bitten by campg
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
I’m far from being a skilled locksmith, but every friend that’s offered to have me try their lock so far, I’ve had opened in under 60 seconds with nothing more than a tension bar and a rake.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Please elaborate how complaining about the software being incomplete Did they sell you a device promising a vibrant app ecosystem? Did they tell you it was a general purpose web connected computer? No, they sell it as an electronic not
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
My reMarkable 2, using it for it’s designed purpose of note taking, lasts for weeks (month+?) on a charge depending on how much I write each day, but it averages 3-5 or more pages consistently 5-6 days a week and the battery life is long en
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Thanks for continuing to shift goal posts and prove my point. I think you need to accept the product wasn’t designed for your needs. If you don’t like that, don’t buy it (or return it if you did).
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Technical answer: Star = U+2B50 which is less than U+FFFF Sunglasses = U+1F576 which is greater than U+FFFF The details you might be missing is that some emoji existed in Unicode before color graphic "emoji" was actually a thing.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Imagine being able write your own scripts to run on your remarkable tablet You have actual root access to a reMarkable device by SSHing into it, so not sure your point here? Were you thinking it was a device locked down like an Apple p
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> It all comes down to what your everyday requirements and tolerances allow for Agree completely. For me, Apple's USB-C only ports isn't an issue as everything I use plugs in via one or two TB3 cables (depending on personal vs
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> What if you take your USB-C-only laptop to a remote office to do a presentation, but your six foot USB-C to HDMI cable isn't long enough to reach the port because the projector is mounted in the ceiling and has a standard HDMI cab
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Instead of it being "excuses for limiting features because of poor software" it's "withholding root access" now? So we are shifting goal posts?
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Unless you pirate them, most books are encumbered with DRM. Depends on the publisher/genre. Tech books (from O'Reilly/PragProg/Apress/Manning anyway) for example are most often not encumbered with DRM.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Show me a general purpose computing device, like you are seem to be insisting every device should be, that has a month or more of battery life despite moderate to heavy usage, yet weighs as little and is as thin as the reMarkable. Products
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
So gmail search box allows you to find an email based on email header data? ;) Sure, gmail search works "ok" when you are searching based on a word in the email or the sender/recipient email. Things more advanced than that it
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Doesn't exactly fit your request, but maybe consider reading the book Suns of God too: https://www.amazon.com/Suns-God-Krishna-Buddha-Unveiled/dp/1...
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
1Blocker has an "on-device" VPN that allows you to block tracking inside of apps. I find it insanely interesting how some apps are extremely slow because they block the UI waiting for a tracking request to time out (Experian credi
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> If there is anything better out there I am all ears. Mutt, Pine, grep, awk, etc. I don't understand why throwing a GUI interface on top automatically seems to make email search absolutely awful, this includes Gmail. I so often nee
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Not even ported to it. To my knowledge, Word on Windows still depends on Win32, which Xbox doesn’t have. iOS and MacOS both use the mach kernel, on similar processors (at least in the current gen hw). Would you not say it’s validly “po
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Can you run word on an Xbox? You could if Microsoft ported it to it. The only reason Word runs on ~handheld computers~ phones is because Microsoft ported it to it.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Office Space is great but the cubicles date it firmly in the 90s. I had a cubicle almost identical to the ones in Office Space all the way up to 2011. If I ever had to return to an office, I’d much prefer that over any office desk I’ve
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Would you be willing to state what city this is and your profession? I think it would go a long way towards showing how real this problem is to skeptics.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
I ran Linux as my daily driver OS from 1995 to 2004. I learned a lot along the way, but I was always fixing something, vs you know, actually working. I ran FreeBSD as my daily driver in 2005 and part of 2006. To me, it was more thought out,
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> A use case like backup communication on an iPhone wouldn’t necessitate use of the iridium network at 100% duty cycle. The OP article explicitly says voice calls, which require a virtually 100% duty cycle. I entirely agree in an emergen
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> this article from 2014 says that all satellite providers support it That link actually says only 2 of 4 supported 911/112 in 2014. It explicitly states: > You will need to obtain the full international access code, country co
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> In any case iridium devices usually output max 2w. Not according to Iridium’s data sheets I just read and provided values in my post > Same as 4G Nope, back in AMPS days power could be up to 2W, but 4G UEs are almost always limited
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Look at the antenna on those (or any other satellite phone). When the antenna is extended (required for continuous transmission like with even a poor audio quality call), it’s HUGE compared to anything possible in an iPhone form factor.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Here's the antenna inside. Looks like a small helical antenna. Thanks for proving my point and saving me the hassle of looking up the antenna inside. There is no way that would fit inside an iPhone, even with Apple’s creativity in

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