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by kotaKat 1mo ago
> Wearables pose a challenge to repairability, mainly because of their size and direct contact with the body. But there too, creativity has already been put into practice. This includes a wireless earbud battery that can be removed by ha
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
It's the SomethingAwful model: go to the store and find the cheapest Android phone from some prepaid company for :tenbux: then use it to set up your Google account during out-of-box-setup while on the store's free public WiFi (sin
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
Didn't Epic get some kind of magic injunction saying that Google had to allow open access to the entire Play Store catalogue or something?
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
If I adopt a coordinate, does that make me a Space Lord or Space Baron?
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
I'm in the firmware bug camp too. Over/under on "the remote management server went down and a bug on all the freezers decided to put them back into some form of local control where its first action was to do a defrost cycle t
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
I have been using USB-C dongles like this for a hot minute now paired with a nice retractable travel cable. I have a couple of these, an HDMI male one, a DisplayPort male one - I can plug basically into any hotel TV or monitor in my travels
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
https://www.amazon.com/Hagibis-Ethernet-Portable-Thunderbolt... Carry a couple USB-C to RJ-45 dongles ;)
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by kotaKat 1mo ago
you have to go into the actual [dead] comment itself (eg, click on the datestamp) for the vouch button to appear on that post, just like flagging comments several layers deep
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The Aviation Herald was sued(avherald.com)
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Right - but if you buy one with a Windows license, there's a term and condition of general purchase that says if you don't agree to that license, you have to return the whole machine. If you don't get the option of "
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Unless you bought HP (who ignores customers) or Dell (who has an explicit term of purchase saying you bought it with the license and must return it on license rejection). And eons more unlikely if you're in the US.
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Walk into Lowes and buy some steel pipe and a nail. Congrats, you built a zipgun. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-63198715 There's now much more of a debate that's to be more sophisticated
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
I'd be worried about any domain in US territory because it doesn't have to be Trump killing domains. https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-... Ken Paxton caused Verisign to nerf a
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Is this so Aptera can pass the buck when it flops again (“it’s Launch’s fault, we swear”)? This really doesn’t answer any questions. $44 million (and worthless paper stock warrants) is also immensely low for new vehicle tooling as a whole.
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Quite a few people (and countries) subscribe to the “it isn’t a war crime the first time” model.
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
It seems like the companies building it all put it into place then go "Ah, crap, now we have to deal with the part of the product lifecycle where it's actually being used" then suddenly cut rope and run after installing in hu
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
So there's some context as well with Argentina beef. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ra... Argentina's been paying Huawei for 5G gear and services with beef direct to China, w
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
It's not quite PE (yet); doctors are getting annoyed themselves at how healthcare is playing out. Picture things like electronically messaging your doctor now has convoluted billing behind each conversation now based on the level of ef
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
The point was for ignorant Americans (whom I believe Mark once called "dumb fucks") to just see "states win big Billions number from Facebook" and shut up and "trust it" at that point once they saw a headline t
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
> If you think about it, m1n1 is almost like our own firmware for Apple Silicon. If you really think about it, it's kinda amusing how far we came from https://wiibrew.org/wiki/MINI being used to bootstrap homeb
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
no, I assume they're asking if this is tangically a related post towards the recent effort of yt-dlp 403s; the 403s are happening on specific format IDs because youtube is now starting to block and control access to different format ID
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Canadian duty is insane on some items. When I was a pimply-faced youth at the Duty Free, the going rate we used to tell people was "a dollar an ounce". I saw some spirits that were quoted at $40-80+ a bottle, depending on a bunch
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
And if you really wanted... buy washable toilet paper towels. https://www.marleysmonsters.com/collections/toilet-unpaper-a... As someone on the border, the tariffs do screw over individual folks on both sides of it.
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
I'm waiting for a tribe to try the Restasis patent gag again in the current administration. Being First Nations myself I have a lot to say about this (extremely negative) but I'll bite my tongue in the audience. https:/&#x
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
You know what, I'll throw my hat into the ring on Shitter censorship: Once enough 'big' accounts block you for any arbitrary reason they like, your account is heavily downweighted enough to send your replies, posts, and every
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
That's the magic of A/B testing. You get to send an entire "B" group into paranoia and upset about the change they didn't want/like while everyone in "A" gets to gaslight B that B isn't experienc
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
You can read the Stelo out into XDrip with some settings adjustments, last I checked, so it is just some “light” software tweaks between sensors. https://navid200.github.io/xDrip/docs/Dexcom/G7.html
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Not really. It's Gurman, once again throwing darts at the wall to see what sticks like a desperate roach begging for subscribers to his bullshit newsletter of guesses and predictions he'll flip in a month the opposite direction fo
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
I assume you've somehow gotten access to stable housing though via that bank account (possibly a home loan, or something else), or accessed a large line of credit before 'modern' credit scoring came into play (FICO scores and
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by kotaKat 2mo ago
Nobody trusted TCS, but that didn't stop them from getting large gobs of UK IT contracts. (coming soon to a Porsche near you...)

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