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811.
by mdip 10y ago
This was a hugely frustrating thing for me recently. I picked up a used Pioneer AVR on eBay a few years ago and had no issues with it until I decided to plug my wife's older plasma television in because my main TV decided to take up an
812.
by mdip 10y ago
I guess I could have provided context in that comment. :o) Here's the story I was referring to: https://globalvoices.org/2016/06/16/in-defense-of-free-softw... And the HN thread: https://news.
813.
by mdip 10y ago
I've always liked the build quality of the ThinkPad series though it's been a few years since I've put my hands on one. That said, it looks like they need to spend similar attention on the software. On the flip side, though
814.
by mdip 10y ago
This is the worst problem on Amazon and it plagues many of the products I buy frequently. Particularly in the rather open world of 3D printers, it's difficult to discern the brand name from the clones (E3D v6 Extruder?). But it&#x2
815.
by mdip 10y ago
I read this article, puzzled, thinking ... Amazon provides the list price? How haven't I noticed? I had to do an image search to remind me of an example of that. Of course, once I saw the page, I understood what they were referring
816.
by mdip 10y ago
Apologies - that second bullet point was supposed to be: [1] The deflection was because his solution was to sell the company to Global Crossing -- at the time, a dot-com darling publicly traded on NASDAQ that lost heaping amounts of money.
817.
by mdip 10y ago
I remember running a BBS and being surprised at the 20 or so users I had from Germany. When I caught one of them online I asked how they could afford the bill and was told he had hacked a PBX and was connected, somehow, through that. I ha
818.
by mdip 10y ago
You are correct ... I misspelled it, right-clicked it and let spell checker replace it without looking at the result. Oops!
819.
by mdip 10y ago
I should have specified the fonts I was referring to were monospace fonts, specifically, which out of the 12 I've got installed on my machine I've got only one is the "truncated 'd'" style, unfortunately. If yo
820.
by mdip 10y ago
Gotta say, wasn't that interested when I clicked the link thinking "yet another programming font". I must have 30 or so installed and yet still end up using Consolas (mostly because it's the default in my IDE and I&#x27
821.
by mdip 10y ago
Interesting - Part of me wonders about what their accuracy rate was with that kind of system. 1,000 different 3-digit numbers is still a lot to remember. It's possible, but it would seem to add a pretty big barrier for a lot of peopl
822.
by mdip 10y ago
In almost a decade of shopping there this has never happened to me and I'm one of those bastards that reads the receipt as I'm boxing the groceries before I leave. I joked with a cashier about this, once ... she said, deadpan, &qu
823.
by mdip 10y ago
It's so rare here I can't think of another time I've seen it. I've always wondered why: comfortable people tend to be less grumpy and the typical cashier job involves "not leaving a very small space for a long peri
824.
by mdip 10y ago
I started shopping at Aldi because I have four children and our grocery bill was becoming unwieldy unless I spent a lot of time preparing for the visit. The local grocery stores play a game where they mark down a bunch of things "with
825.
by mdip 10y ago
Up until a few weeks ago Aldi in the United States only accepted cash, EBT or Debit. Your strategy, especially at Aldi, is the way to go. I read an article about a decade ago that was challenging grocery store "express lane" spee
826.
by mdip 10y ago
I've been an Aldi fan for more than a decade, buying almost all of my family's groceries there (four kids, it's cheap and doesn't require figuring out what is really on sale this week vs. what is really over-priced t
827.
by mdip 10y ago
Well, I'd argue (and I think I mentioned it in the comment) that you generally don't buy a motorcycle to save on gas. You do so to enjoy the road. :o)
828.
by mdip 10y ago
Oh yes, very much so. Depending on the company, you want to be in their car. I noticed the Ford plant on Mound has a large sign "Ford Only Lot". My dad does business with all of them (and a few of the foreign plants down south,
829.
by mdip 10y ago
I should have clarified, I am reliably getting over 100MPG, but the motorcycle lists, I think, 50 or 60 MPG (still not bad). I generally use the bike only to ride up north and back and shortly after buying it I bumped the info button and n
830.
by mdip 10y ago
I was wondering a bit about this, myself. Also, the costs on some of the more extreme ends of the luxury markets are higher for pretty much everything. My parents own an Audi convertible sports toy. They had to have the clutch[0] replace
831.
by mdip 10y ago
I was personally surprised by this as well. In fact, it's the single biggest reason I didn't purchase a hybrid vehicle outside of the initial cost being much higher at the time. My thinking was, yes electric cars are quite a b
832.
by mdip 10y ago
I've heard a lot of complaining about Honda lately which bugs me. I actually purchased a Honda motorcycle[0] because of tens of industry reviews lauding the quality and reliability and avoided a Harley at least in part because of th
833.
by mdip 10y ago
American Cars I live in Michigan and my father owns a business that supplies to the automotive industry, so he's always bought from the Big Three[0]. Though I was really young, in the 80s, buying a Toyota or another foreign vehicle
834.
by mdip 10y ago
I found it interesting that the Chrysler Sebring was listed as the most expensive car to maintain. The first car I purchased for myself was a 1995 Chrysler LeBaron Convertible. I was 17 years old and had saved up money from a business my
835.
by mdip 10y ago
Patent trolling issues aside (they're valid, but discussed and I'm just another one of the "software patents suck guys"), I'm surprised that Google doesn't provide protection for developers using the Play Store
836.
by mdip 10y ago
Completely agree! I resisted replacing a laptop for more than 2 years because all of the options available were 16:9 and I had an nice, high-resolution 4:3 display. That was years ago. In my basement office, I have both of my displays set
837.
by mdip 10y ago
Agreed. I think the other part of it is organizational blindness, as well. They reacted to OCS in the same manner that Microsoft reacted to the iPhone. They were the established player with a mature platform and here came along a service
838.
by mdip 10y ago
Yes, that was it. When I talked to one of the guys about the service, it was filled with a lot of "well, it doesn't do that, yet"'s. But they all seemed to think that this product would replace all other existing colla
839.
by mdip 10y ago
I don't know that it works any differently than the others in the handling of calls. I'm not aware that they're doing VoLTE (I suspect not because my phone behaves like my Verizon phone did -- dropping LTE data when I'm
840.
by mdip 10y ago
This is fantastic. The statements they're making about multiple networks providing superior coverage have rung true for me, personally. I've been a Project Fi user in Michigan since shortly after they announced its availability

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