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by kogepathic 3y ago
> it would be nice if Android phones had a comprehensive whole-phone backup feature, though There is, or I should say, was a way to do this: adb backup Unfortunately, for "security" reasons, nearly every app developer (Goog
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> Windows runs great on ARM. I got one the Windows Dev Kit 2023 (it's an 8 core ARM PC with 32 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD). Which you cannot even buy anymore, because they discontinued it after 9 months (10/2022-07/2023) [1]
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by kogepathic 3y ago
Looks like they're using LoRa for communications from the sensors. FCC ID: https://fccid.io/2AYCHPODB000-07-206
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> The biggest customer threw a gigantic hysterical fit and practically demanded to return the old root password which they knew. We just shrugged and complied. It's not like it will be ours network which can be breached. If they wa
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> life after those 10 years Yes, Chromebooks run coreboot and almost every model has a community coreboot build with a SeaBIOS/EDK (UEFI) payload available. [1] When you flash that, you lose the ability to boot ChromeOS, but you c
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> It's not "they", it's winter. Somehow the residents of Oulu find a way to cycle in winter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU > If you don't move, you're frozen. Good thing
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> You could write an unlocked signed bootloader on the board, that is valid and boots and that can boot into anything. True, but almost no one does this (Google/Chromebooks being an exception). It would be a hugely positive step i
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> Mandate that all devices should be unlocked and allow installing alternate operating systems, with the requisite documentation to build such operating systems published. I develop for embedded devices and I don't see this workin
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by kogepathic 3y ago
> Nothing says "we're a trustworthy partner who won't damage your brand," like major changes made seemingly at random. This has been Twitter's Modus operandi from well before Musk acquired them. They announced
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by kogepathic 4y ago
> A company like Meraki or WebEx that’s making a lot of money and is larger or more complicated to integrate (because they have lots of their own systems and infrastructure) may get left alone, particularly if the former owners are aggr
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by kogepathic 4y ago
> I also found that money is a fickle motivator. You say this, but money is also part of respect. Many employers do not index raises to inflation, so you're literally working for less each year you stay with that employer. Yes, yo
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by kogepathic 4y ago
> Also you're required to sign in for updates so they can track you. No software patches without monitoring. This hasn't been my experience. macOS still incessantly bothers you about OS updates even if you decline signing int
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by kogepathic 4y ago
> Do they mention on that page that SD card support has been removed this year According to GSMArena, the Zenfone 8 did not have an SD slot either. [1] Which is too bad, if Asus offered expandable storage on the Zenfone it would be the
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by kogepathic 4y ago
> This is absolutely astonishing. It's quite astonishing by any reasonable standard, but this is Rogers we're talking about, so pretty much par for the course.
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by kogepathic 4y ago
The Ryzen 7 5700U is Zen2 based: https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Zen/AMD-Ryzen%207%20Mobile%20... Not that great a deal when Zen3 based notebooks (5400/5600/5800U) have been out for over a year already. I
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by kogepathic 4y ago
> Babbel is the least hated of this kind of app among my linguist friends. As someone who has used Duolingo for multiple languages (German, French, Swedish) for about a decade (2012-2020) I am here to say that Babbel is vastly superior
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by kogepathic 4y ago
Air France (A220) within Europe, 60W USB-C port
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by kogepathic 4y ago
> we know batteries are not charged from low carbon sources today Have you got any grid-scale "green hydrogen" projects with a higher energy efficiency than existing grid-scale renewable energy projects (solar, wind)? Because
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by kogepathic 4y ago
> "one hydrogen cartridge is assumed to generate enough electricity to operate a typical household microwave for approximately 3-4 hours." So, let's oversimplify and say that a typical household microwave consumes 1200W
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by kogepathic 4y ago
> 1 house - tax breaks Why should society be subsidizing home ownership more than they already do? The real estate market already discriminates against people who cannot afford a deposit (an increasing proportion of people, since house
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by kogepathic 5y ago
> Are you broadly suggesting there should be rules for what type of articles can be written on the internet (presumably that align with your values)? Yes, the EFF should not be promoting FUD. As I have stated several times in my comments
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by kogepathic 5y ago
> I interpreted it as the author and car owner had fear uncertainty and doubt, about what the tracker was for. Something between two private individuals, which was resolved through the subsequent investigation. No need to write an articl
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by kogepathic 5y ago
> FUD is fear uncertainty and doubt, they did the exact opposite. Dispelled the FUD with an investigation. And then published it. Please point out the original FUD the EFF is refuting in this article. Their title is sensationalist, a mor
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by kogepathic 5y ago
> But to then say they should have refrained from publishing the article is exaggerated. The article as-written provides almost no useful information apart from an anecdote about one person finding a GPS tracking device in their car and
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by kogepathic 5y ago
This article title is FUD and the EFF is doing themselves a disservice in publishing this. The GPS tracking device had absolutely no connection to the individual being an EFF supporter, and was in fact entirely benign (if unknown to the veh
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by kogepathic 5y ago
> Can you measure it for those of us, who are interested in finding exact numbers? You can use script - https://github.com/savchenko/powerdrain Do you have a script that doesn't rely on systemd? I run a distr
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by kogepathic 5y ago
> I believe X13 Gen 2 has soldered WiFi, not M.2. According to the hardware maintenance manual: "Wireless LAN card (for selected AMD models)" [1] I can confirm from the internal photos I have of my X13 AMD Gen 2 (I swapped th
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by kogepathic 5y ago
> Strange, I've seen reports on the Lenovo support forums that Gen 2 laptops are also susceptible to the battery drain in S3. Was it always like this? Or was it fixed with some firmware update? I am not sure. The first thing I did
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by kogepathic 5y ago
> My X13 AMD, for example, has a powerful 32-core AMD APU, 32GiB of RAM, and a superfast 1TiB NVMe SSD. The X13 does not have a 32-core APU. The highest spec available is the 4750U with 8C/16T. > By the way, the latest MacBook
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by kogepathic 5y ago
> I’d suspect most Americans (across the political spectrum) would see these train robberies and think “these people should go to jail”, rather than moralizing about why it’s not their fault. Jail isn't some magical free solution

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