kalleboo

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by kalleboo 1mo ago
The ones in Japan go outdoors. Most homes in Japan for decades have been designed for Tankless Gas Water Heaters stuck on the side of the building so there is no room indoors for a water tank. The condenser unit for this literally just look
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by kalleboo 1mo ago
The Australian electronics YouTuber Dave Jones (EEVBlog) had a heat pump water heater installed in his house, and while on the outside it was branded "Reclaim Energy", it had a Made in Japan sticker and was internally a Mitsubishi
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by kalleboo 1mo ago
I live in Japan and last year when we moved from an apartment to a house we installed a Mitsubishi EcoCute heat pump water heater which already has these features and is also a CO2 heat pump. We have one of the "all-denka" electri
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by kalleboo 1mo ago
And the robots are just a few years away. I thought that spatial reasoning was going to be a lot harder for AI, but Astra is showing that progress on that front is also moving very rapidly.
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by kalleboo 1mo ago
GM wants to sell subscriptions and ads. E.g. they want you to pay for their OnStar subscription to use the Spotify app in their navigation system. They can't do that if you're just looking at CarPlay/Android Auto.
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by kalleboo 1mo ago
I'm only forced to use Windows occasionally but the things that always annoy me when I do are the lack of: Column View, QuickLook, spring-loaded folders, hierarchical view, calculate folder sizes in list view. The worst is how folders
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by kalleboo 1mo ago
They're probably reacting to this https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/11721950124572... https://erasmus.ai/?p=875
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by kalleboo 1mo ago
It looks like Claude did it, probably based on other ones that already exist in the source
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by kalleboo 1mo ago
Other sites require you to make piracy a lifestyle, catching invites and seed ratios and shit. TPB lets me just get that one movie that isn't on any streaming service twice a year.
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by kalleboo 1mo ago
If China suddenly stopped exporting to the US overnight, you can bet you would.
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by kalleboo 1mo ago
Yep. And not your grandpa's AT command set - it's been extended to support HTTP. https://computer.rip/2026-04-26-voice-modems.html > Modem vendors continue to build on AT. If you look at LTE modems made for IoT
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
Location: Japan (Kagoshima/Kyushu, Permanent Residency) Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Swift/Objective-C/SwiftUI/UIKit, TypeScript/React/React Native/next.js, Linux&#x2
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
In the past 5 or so years, there's also been the rise of the ones where the button uses the piezoelectric effect to generate the power for the radio so that the button doesn't even need any batteries. Just extremely basic and chea
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
What else are you going to use? Apple Maps? They're going to do the same thing. OpenStreetMaps? They don't have navigation. Waze? Got bought up by Google.
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
I migrated from TrueNAS CORE to SCALE, and found that Linux had better performance. I don't see why you'd use FreeBSD if you don't have a very specific reason (hobby, jails, etc)
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
I got my wife a new MacBook Air, and figured there's no point in paying for MS Office, iWork is fine for the household stuff she needs it for. She loved Pages, being able to put images anywhere without stuff moving around behind her ba
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
They're now working on walk-through gates using UWB https://atadistance.net/2026/05/13/uwb-mobile-suica-isnt-jus...
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
I remember the stored-value transit cards in Sweden in the 90's/00's. They were just magstripe cards with the value on it and a basic checksum value. It was not hard to figure out how to rewrite the card with a higher value,
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
> Some implementations even go as far as to allow any FeliCa-compatible card or device to be linked to a profile This is also put in use in many karaoke joints to save a list of your favorite songs/song history.
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
Credit card payments have an "offline" mode for the same reason - before ubiquitous broadband, a shop may have to dial-up to the bank to verify a card, which is slow. Debit cards that run on the credit networks can have that enabl
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
Express Mode originally launched as Express Transit with only support for Suica, Beijing and Shanghai cards. It was then renamed to Express Mode when support for the other modes was added.
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
Rare exceptions exist (the other is chargers out in the middle of nowhere, or during construction that impacts the grid connection), if they all used gas generators that cost for a fast charge would be 4x what it is, it's obvious it&#x
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
Easily solved with various time-of-use pricing schemes. Have people put their cars on a timer to charge in the middle of the night, or during the day in countries with solar. I already have this for my hot water heating - the water heater o
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
My local banks know how to international transfers but I have to go into a bank office and fill out a paper form. Receiving international transfers they call and ask if I wish to accept it, if I can't answer the phone right then the tr
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
EVs use less energy than ICE cars, they are more efficient.
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
Totally agree that lawmakers need to crack down on locked-down hardware. The DMA crap that the EU passed even seems to go in the wrong direction, allowing Apple to audit the financials of anyone who makes an iOS app. I was mostly just react
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
My MacBook Pro M1 is 5 years old now and the SSD wear level is at 4%. SSD wear is not a problem for normal users. Meanwhile Apple's standard OS support period is 7 years, that's a much more imminent limit. Not saying that I suppor
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
Any money given to Starlink now for subsidies is burnt up in the atmosphere in 5 years. Any money given to fiber rollout is still paying dividends in 40 years.
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
Other bots. The sequel to "don't build the torment nexus" is "don't make dead internet theory a reality"
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by kalleboo 2mo ago
> Creative Nomad Jukebox used the same HDD as the iPod The Creative Nomad Jukebox used a normal laptop 2.5" drive. The iPod used a new 1.8" drive from Toshiba that Apple bought up the whole initial run of. That's why the

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