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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Saying gas has relatively little emissions reminds me of the joke german car manufacturers are making about their latest combustion cars using relatively little fuel ('hocheffizienzverbrenner'). It's marginal gains. https:&#
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
> a terrible price -- at least twice the cost I'd double my electricity bill if that means saving somewhere between 3 and 9 million lives per year[1], better health for myself and the people around me, and that's completely ign
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
I wonder the same. Maybe it's made by people who feel like they wouldn't easily find another job and need the job for healthcare or financial reasons (living paycheck to paycheck)? And it's ordered by managers in similar situ
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Not that I disagree but Google's tracking motivation in making the browser seems irrelevant to why it lets competitors do this fingerprinting
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
What I'm against is the mandatory registration to get a key signed by a party we don't elect, who controls all (soft-mandatory^1) devices that aren't controlled by the other party we didn't elect, and both are controlled
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Wait, you lost me somewhere. The MS store didn't support the old way of doing things, people had to rewrite their software; yet iOS was... new as well? People had to start from scratch and so that worked?
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Installing apks has required going into settings for years now. 'Scary' steps aren't new > Go back to emacs then I guess way to have a conversation
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
> Google will not accept prepaid cards for verification. Precisely? Maybe to spell it out once more, that it's about the other restrictions and not the 25$. Identity requirements is one of those others. > identity requirements
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Pardon?
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Hence my phone selection spreadsheet having a column for unlockability, making sure I don't forget to check it. I'm so used to root, I'd full-on buy the phone just assuming it's a thing when some vendors indeed block you
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Sure, and don't get to go on public transport (or pay surcharges for paper tickets, depending on if your country still has that option), don't get to participate when everyone else can add music from their phone at a party, don&#x
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
I realize this is a different discussion, but shouldn't it be? The way that it has been since home computers were a thing, as far as I know at least? I don't think we'd stand where we stand today if Commodore and other hardwa
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Wouldn't they have fined Apple long ago, if what Google is doing here (a small step less bad than what Apple does) were illegal?
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
How could they, when Apple has been doing this for years? Same anti-anticompetition rules would have to be applied to them and then the indoctrinated fans (like up to ~30% of the population depending on where you live) will overthrow law an
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
It's not about paying Google. People can buy gift cards with cash and do that; that's not the problem, especially not for commercial use. It's everything else that they're imposing or could impose on a whim and whose dev
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Had to read that sentence twice. You really think that there's more people getting scammed via "please tap the build number seven times and then go to extra settings and enable untrusted installs and then go to this website that I
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
No need to play this scenario in your head, here it is in the real world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT Few interested hardware vendors, discontinued after 4 years. "mixed reviews at launch, while criti
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
> all the side-loaded apps I care about are fungible; I could get them or similar quality equivalents from GPS You're missing out then!
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Both, very much both, and I would assume that the 'actually being able to use the device in whatever way I want' feeds back into the 'this should be a thing we can do with purchased-to-own hardware' feeling
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
I didn't know of this, that special ref mechanism sounds really cool! Thanks for the protip
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
In case the authors are here, the first sentence contains the bytes e2 80 94 which would be UTF-8 for an em dash, but it has been reinterpreted as 3 bytes using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252#Code_page_layou
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Low cost? The link mentions no price, only a "notify me" button as far as I can see. Does it show a(n estimated) price point for you somewhere?
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Thanks for that, now I know I don't care about the contents before clicking. Misleading titles (something about smartphones and metals?) is why people open comments before reading the article
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
But how do it know?
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Strange, it works here in Firefox on Linux using the internal GPU (I don't use primusrun for the browser). Normally I'm the first to notice a particularly heavy website or bad FPS in even pretty old games! Wonder how they managed
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Do you mean the "highlight more words as you scroll down the text" effect?
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Try making a webpage using an LLM when you don't explicitly tell it to optimize for page weight. Not that developers get to spend much time optimizing, but they can actually think and make reasonable choices of how to build it and will
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
That's... actually a lot worse than I'd have expected. When running a new protocol that <=3.x didn't support, sure, but then the test suite couldn't compare so this must be for old protocols that they just made slower
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
Don't know why downvoted, this is correct. Thanks for pointing it out sooner than I got around to
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by lucb1e 6mo ago
> under Elon's rule that's precisely what I assumed Genuinely thanks for doing the effort of looking for sources and correcting someone you thought was wrong, but the allegation of me singlehandedly (just the thought! :D) tryin

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