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by kalleboo 9mo ago
The better bet was MO (Magneto-Optical) which used the same underlying technology but has a disk standard that wasn't proprietary to Sony. MO was big in Japan (bigger than Zip disk) but never seemed to get much traction in the west. Ne
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
Here in Japan as well delivery companies are all moving to EVs, which is great in the neighborhoods where they idle their trucks in the summer when hopping out to make a delivery. Yamato using Mitsubishi Fuso eCanter trucks[0] and Japan Pos
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
We have an Ethernet run that's not in use right now. I had a Cisco ATA from earlier experiments so I picked up 2 old phones with proper bell ringers and now the kids can call up from the living room to my office when it's time for
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
In the 70's house I bought, some of the coax and power was literally cast into the concrete.
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
Depends a lot on your house construction. I have a fancy Ubiquiti U7 Pro (on one floor, and a nanoHD on the other) but performance is crap all over my house because all the walls are reinforced concrete. In the hallway under the AP I get 1.
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
Once it started becoming common to start attaching screenshots of text to Tweets (many years ago now), I wondered why they didn't think to allow add "text attachments" similar to how images and videos are attachments. You put
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
macOS Safari also has fun tab bugs. If you have a window with only one tab in it, and drag that tab to another window to merge them, the window disappears and they merge... right? Nope, if you look in your Windows menu, you now have a phant
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
I ended up switching from FreeBSD to Linux twice (TrueNAS CORE -> TrueNAS SCALE, opnSense -> OpenWrt) due to poor network performance on FreeBSD. Could just never get 10 Gbps throughput on FreeBSD, whereas Linux on the same hardware w
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
The right time to fix that mistake wasn't in metric, it was while creating our numbering system.
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
The real hacky workaround that we have adopted is just centralizing the whole internet in like 5 giant companies and making everyone else into passive consumers who can't even make a voice call to each other without giving some form of
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
An example of this is Matter, the new industry standard for IoT devices. It uses IPv6 addressing, so if you want your IoT devices bridged onto your LAN, your LAN needs to support IPv6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
I would have thought that a 5G connection would have IPv6 and wouldn't need CGNAT to Google properties
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
> HDDs typically have a BER (Bit Error Rate) of 1 in 1015, meaning some incorrect data can be expected around every 100 TiB read. That used to be a lot, but now that is only 3 or 4 full drive reads on modern large-scale drives I rememb
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
Today a friend of mine literally got an ad for a prostitute on Instagram. They've just completely given up about even pretending to care.
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
I would bet the majority of Threads users are Instagram users who ended up clicking through on the clickbait teasers Meta places inside of Instagram. Approx nobody looks at themselves as "A member of the Threads community" they ju
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
I really wish Musk had sold off the Japanese portion of Twitter to Yahoo/SoftBank for a huge cash injection, would have really been nice to have it segregated. I left when my 100% japanese hobby-tuned feed turned into force-injected Mu
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
I still log into Facebook monthly to see updates from my parents/relatives, who still use it somewhat regularly. I can't remember the last time I saw a post from anyone I know personally under the age of 60, aside from the one guy
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
The Wii was still in the SD era and only had analog outputs, it never got HDMI. (I guess it could have done CEC over SCART in the EU, but this channel was in JP where they used D-tanshi)
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
I was thinking it could be a radio band issue? I had a fun situation when I had friends visiting me in Japan for a road trip. One friend's US-model Android phone didn't support the specific low bands used for sparse coverage in ru
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
We have a solar electric plan - the price per kWh is much higher during the duck curve in return for cheap rates during sunshine hours. The rates are something like 1x during night, 0.5x during sunshine, 4x during the morning and afternoon
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
The lights in the sensor bar are infrared lights. If you blink them at the right rate, they can simulate an IR remote control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_no_Tomo_Channel#TV_remote_c...
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
> Does Apple spend R&D on iPhone screens like they do Apple Silicon yes > What's that got to do with what we're talking about regarding iPhone's core IP The iPhone's core IP is iOS. Collaboration on display
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
FWIW the average age of first-time mothers in San Francisco is 33.6. It seems that still speaks against my theory. Maybe it's more that previous generations of women were less likely to have full-time employment at all?
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
My guess would be that in developed countries, people are having kids older and older, so the grandparents are accordingly also older and more tired. That combined with multi-generational households being all but gone so now you're pic
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
Density has it's own costs, finding real estate and backhaul for towers in a city is much harder than picking up some farmland for cheap and slapping up microwave backhaul. What Japan did was make it extremely easy to start an MVNO - t
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
Then why are they switching from Sony to Samsung for custom camera sensors for the next iPhone? Why do they keep using Samsung for their customized screens despite LG and Chinese competitors being competitive?
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
It's a shame the age-scaled tobacco ban (I think it was proposed in the UK) never went though. You just start raising the legal age for tobacco by one year, every year. Eventually, nobody alive will still be a smoker and you can ban it
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
In Japan you have consumer (with voice) plans for Unlimited 32kbps $1.60/mo (I guess this makes more sense for IoT?) Unlimited 300kbps $4/mo Unlimited 1.5Mbps $6/mo https://mineo.jp/price/#mysoku
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
They were deals that were made back in the WAP days where spending $1 a few times a day to check your business email made some semblance of sense, that then got neglected.
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by kalleboo 10mo ago
When I was a kid I thought it was insane that my dad watered down orange juice as he thought it was too sweet. Now that I'm nearing his age at the time, I water down my cola (with plain carbonated water) since I find it too sweet. So I

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