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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
There's a healthy used market for iPhones because they indeed do last long, and Apple provides many more years of software support than cheap Android manufacturers do. IMO when it comes to electronics with little to no moving parts it&
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
Thankfully EU is also working on legislation that mandates more years of software support. Hopefully days of only 2-3 years of support will be soon gone for good, it's just plain wrong.
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
Right now I find ChatGTP excellent for certain technical topics I'm familiar with, but can't recall the details. It saves me the time of looking for an example from stackoverflow/tutorial blogs/official documentation, an
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
I've been running Linux Mint for years on both laptops (Thinkpads) and desktop, it hasn't been any more trouble than MacOS or Windows. Things just work out of the box for the needs of a basic home-office user & programmer. I t
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
I agree. Here in Finland the public healthcare organization in capital region and surrounding areas chose Epic as supplier of their new system. It has been a disaster, massive complaints from doctors about how unproductive it is to use, and
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
It seems like modern wokeism was designed to make it easier for rich elites to exploit their privilege. Stuff like this makes it easier for lazy kids with rich and connected parents to get into best colleges/universities. All the talk
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
I still use a T520 from 2011 for hobby projects, picked it for 100 euros a while ago. Just gotta love the keyboard travel, I don't think anything available new today comes close. The 1080p screen is perfectly fine for programming, no c
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
I wonder how much of the fast increasing prevalence of gut-related diseases like IBS can be explained by the changes in gut microbes, and how much is just about lack of exercise and changes in diet. Whenever I go work at relative's far
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
Yep, autopilot is a good helper but a bad master. In the air there's a lot more space and fewer objects to avoid than on the roads, yet nobody has managed to build a perfect autopilot that could really replace pilots in every situation
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
I've been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for years, doing mostly programming, and honestly I've encountered way less issues than with Windows. Maybe it's because I'm using old hardware. I'm very satisfied with the experi
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
" Also the treadmill of computer progress means that keeping devices for multiple years has significant costs in performance compared to replacing it regularly." The interval of replacement due to performance is getting longer thr
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
It definitely has, mainly because I lack motivation for my work (very underpaid, boring tasks, temp contract). At the office there was more social pressure to do something other than reading the news, and I got some enjoyment from random di
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by kewrkewm53 4y ago
There should be more discussion about these forgotten forms of slave trade. People tend to think about just the transatlantic slavery when they hear the word, but reality the transatlantic slavers just scaled up and spread an existing way o
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Even the least promoted pilot shouldn't be this incompetent in an airline like Emirates. I could perhaps understand it from some small airline in developing country where the pilots got their licences through bribery.
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
The error we're talking about here is something that shouldn't happen even to a rookie straight out of flight school. Hell, even a kid flying flight simulator knows that something is wrong if you're still on the ground at 200
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Anything that helps avoiding a climate catastrophe short-term is a good idea since it buys us time to switch to truly sustainable sources.
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Sweden's lower rate can be explained by snus. Too bad that the rest of Europe bans sales of this product, which unlike cigarette smoke does not cause harm to anyone else but the user.
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Unfortunately for many people increasing the expense will simply leave them without any alternatives, which isn't a good thing either. Think of a low-paid European worker who commutes to work inthe countryside where public transport do
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Cars and private car ownership are not a problem. Cars using fossil fuels, and unnecessary private car traffic in large cities are. Electric vehicles solve the first problem, better public transport the second. For the vast majority of peop
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
At least here in Finland public transportation absolutely does not work in most of the countryside. Maybe you count us as Eastern Europe, but I can tell that the situation is no different in Sweden for example. The truth is that replacing p
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Yeah, history shows that revolutions which consist killing or expelling all the educated, well-off citizen typically end up having pretty bad results for everybody. Even if you successfully capture their wealth, the future will be poor when
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Pi is nice, but also used hardware would do the job. At least in Western countries old Core2 Duo business desktops are basically worthless by now, and such laptops don't exactly cost much either. Why not export more of those and get so
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
At least in European context, many migrants who cross the border illegally lack sufficient education to do well in modern labour market, and end up having a very low employment rate & high dependency on welfare. Even those who do find e
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Funnily enough Macbooks were way more repairable when Jobs was still alive. Apple seems to be getting only worse each passing year.
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Same thing here in Finland, in early months of the epidemics health officials said wearing masks has no benefit.
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
That's only assuming that being able to buy cheap stuff actually makes people happier. I don't think it does.
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Many people also want to live in large houses or apartments, which is extremely expensive anywhere with high population density.
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
This. The most climate-friendly way to handle forests is to actually cut parts of them down regularly (in a sustainable pace, leaving enough unaffected areas for wildlife), and use the wood for building houses and other elements which stay
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
Same here. Solving completely artificial problems is boring.
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by kewrkewm53 5y ago
There's just something inherently satisfying about farming, growing your own food and taking care of land. Obviously it's hard work and difficult if you actually need to make a decent living out of it, but as a hobby it has been m

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