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by kotaKat 1y ago
Nothing wrong with Carvana if you use due diligence. Bought an ‘18 Fusion Hybrid in mid-2019 that I was able to trace back to Avis’s rental fleet before it went unsold by Avis to CVNA into their sales pool. (Figured at the time that the ‘hy
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Yeah, it’s just the normal Blue Certified process. It’s an interesting look to dig the checklists up for various CPO programs from various OEMs to see what they demand. https://www.ford.com/cmslibs/content/dam&#x2F
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Can Microsoft stop goddamn raping me with this? I've said no how many times? Can I just call Redmond PD and start filing charges against the PMs that forced this on me?
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by kotaKat 1y ago
I remember when Verizon got deliberately hobbled phones on top of that. Some of the Windows Mobile phones came with up to half the RAM if you dared buy it on Verizon, and they locked the GPS out to use VZ Navigator instead of being able to
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Sure, which version of Wayland will they get stuck with?
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by kotaKat 1y ago
An “exposure” in this instance to rabies would be physical contact - a bite, scratch, or from its saliva on an open wound for instance.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Fun fact: Speed Queen also uses IrDA as a communications method on many commercial washing machines for programming and diagnostics. They used to use a PalmPilot (and a WinMo) app. Nowadays it can be done with a PC with a weird NFC-based in
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Long, long ago there were some jailbreak hacks to pull this off. It was some funky mess with swapping modem firmware and pulling in the iOS dialer, if I recall. Closest thing you can get now is that they finally brought the dialer app to th
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Palantir is looking to buy the American Red Cross, for... other reasons.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
better suggestion: Don't Post Passive-Aggressive AI Slop Responses To Passive-Aggressive Webpages. Saved you the ten bucks you spent on the domain registration.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
This "secure gateway" shit is already tiring. Started with FCA/Stellantis in 2018+, thanks to the Jeep "hack" through the infotainment system. They slapped a "secure gateway" on the CANbus you had to authe
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Can I stop having everything "suggested" at me? I know what I'm doing with my computer, thanks. I don't need "suggestions" and "recommendations" shoved down my throat because tech literacy has slipped
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by kotaKat 1y ago
The worst part is if someone doesn’t put 2+2 together and starts blaming their ISP for poor load issues because their Youtube “keeps buffering” because of this continue cat-and-mouse game messing with the player client. I do not enjoy havin
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by kotaKat 1y ago
I don’t have any personal links but know that there is a constant cat-and-mouse game of cracking Widevine devices for their L1 keyboxes and using them on high-value content (as mentioned). That’s why a lot of low end Android devices often h
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by kotaKat 1y ago
If you can’t play Fortnite on it it sounds like a great time to line up a lawsuit against Epic Games for refusing to allow you to play Fortnite on the Steam box.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Or the fugly Beats Pill... things. https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/18/beats-pill-vear-returns...
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by kotaKat 1y ago
This is becoming a new thing because of the proliferation of “cheap” J2354 passthrough tools to work with diagnostic interfaces across manufacturers. The same interface that’s used for diagnostics is the same one that’s used to program keys
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by kotaKat 1y ago
If you think that's bad, just think about what's in those finger-holes in bowling balls, between rounds of beer, bowling, and greasy bar food :)
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Can the government just slap a pair of silver bracelets on those hands, instead?
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by kotaKat 1y ago
SSL added and removed here! :)
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by kotaKat 1y ago
I'm so glad there's other American drone manufacturers that cater to the consumer market, like Skydi-oh right, they stopped making consumer drones after the successes in forcing DJI out of the market.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Must be nice, I’m in the class that gets $0 back a month. $600 would definitely help. But hey, I forgot HN is overindexed on overinflated big tech salaries while field tech workers get shafted on the low side.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Don't forget the greatest stumble with the Bombardier CSeries. I feel like if Boeing shut their mouth and bit their tongue at a little casual dumping they wouldn't have ended up with Airbus taking over the CS100 and adding yet ano
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Nah, but I’m sure young people could sell their blood to Peter to get rich quick.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
Good. Reward cards just open a disparate rift between classes.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
> They also take an absurd cut of developer income and saddle devs with costs that they don't always want. Fun fact: Nintendo's revenue split on WiiWare was 60/40, and required minimum downloads to even get your revenue ou
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by kotaKat 1y ago
I still get a chuckle that eBay has to have the "we fucked up :(" link on their footer, though now notice that eBay has an infinite scrolling listings view now on their homepage, so you now can't even stay at the "Deferr
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by kotaKat 1y ago
> a few external systems, mostly by reading and writing text files to specific locations The joys of large business transactions handled by .txt files (or equivalent) over FTP (or equivalent). It almost feels… like digital fax, in a way.
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by kotaKat 1y ago
When Lowes made the shift off their in-house TUI point-of-sale to a GUI I heard a lot of fallout from the hardcore TUI users losing their keyboard menuing. Stores and people would build their own “cheat sheets” to fly around the system an
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by kotaKat 1y ago
But how do you fight back not against municipalities - but corporations deploying these? Sure, you might get your small town to remove them throughout their own land, but Lowes and Home Depot will still set up their own Flock cameras on t

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