mkozlows

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by mkozlows 3y ago
They're a small company, so at launch they meter them out through pre-orders. If you order now, you have to wait for later "waves." Once they're out for a while, though, they're just normal "pick one up and buy
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by mkozlows 3y ago
The Nexus 7 is from 2012 or 2013, depending on which one you have.
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by mkozlows 3y ago
The Pixel Slate is supported until 2026: https://support.google.com/pixelslate/answer/9413910?hl=en
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by mkozlows 3y ago
There are no tablets that meet your requirements. Apple's iPads are 264 dpi, and have been since the very first Retina tablet.
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by mkozlows 3y ago
I think it is absolutely true that people who don't want to be early adopters shouldn't be. At the same time: I had no regrets about being a DVD early adopter, because (hot take incoming) DVDs were in fact better than VHS tapes, a
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by mkozlows 3y ago
A thing to think about is: Do we in fact need top-down government mandates to do this? People with gas cars have range anxiety, too, and you need to be strategic about placement of gas stations to ensure that they don't get stuck in a
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by mkozlows 3y ago
In 1997, I bought a DVD player, and didn't have a VCR. You couldn't rent DVDs at Blockbuster, or indeed anywhere. Most movies weren't available on DVD, so you could watch only the few that had made it to the format (and had t
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by mkozlows 4y ago
This isn't a fixed rate "total bill," it's the fixed charge base amount onto which they then layer the variable usage-related costs.
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by mkozlows 4y ago
There are incentives in the IRA, but (except for ground-source, which is a straight up 30% uncapped tax rebate), they're limited by income and capped to certain dollar amounts.
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by mkozlows 4y ago
I disagree with this characterization, in two ways: 1. This is a Linux-friendly laptop for the most part, but it's still built with Windows as the primary OS (and the only one you can get preinstalled). When you're building things
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by mkozlows 4y ago
TLDR: C# is our real language. F# is a thing that gets supported to the extent that unpaid volunteers do the work. VB is in back-compat legacy support mode.
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by mkozlows 4y ago
As far as economic advantage goes, keep in mind that carbon emission famously is an unpriced externality. Everyone's given up on trying to put carbon pricing into place to make the economics "naturally" work out, but in a wor
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by mkozlows 4y ago
You have very, very cheap gas. Suspiciously cheap. Are you sure you're factoring everything in? NIPSCO's rate pages show much higher rates: https://www.nipsco.com/bills-and-payments/billing-programs/c...
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by mkozlows 4y ago
Whether electric companies have that kind of pricing isn't a pure economics question, it's a question of what regulators will alow, and I'm pretty skeptical that regulators would allow that. But "how does the grid handle
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by mkozlows 4y ago
It's not that ironic. Electrification isn't a "welp, we're done now, yay" thing, it's one of two parallel paths that works together for decarbonization. 1. Electrify all the things 2. Clean up the electrical su
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by mkozlows 4y ago
It was actually released at a normal price (I think I paid $20 for it), but yeah, didn't realize it was a limited release that's now going for big money. (The limited release thing is annoying, but... it's a niche market, and
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by mkozlows 4y ago
That movie is available.
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by mkozlows 4y ago
The point is that most people _aren't using their legacy DVD players_. They're streaming. If you want to watch a movie in 2022, the extremely normal thing you do is stream it. If you're watching on DVD, you're weird (pro
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by mkozlows 4y ago
This article is old, and the headline misleading. It's talking about Q1 2021 sales, which in practice means it's talking about 2020 movies, which means that these are weird, pandemic-fucked numbers that don't really mean anyt
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by mkozlows 4y ago
My experience is completely different. Yes, there's the brightness key/light sensor thing. (I'm okay with that, because I hate ambient light sensors anyway -- the constant fluctuating brightness drives me nuts -- but it'
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by mkozlows 4y ago
9 years, and I'm exaggerating a bit for effect; it's actually five of them. (HP 11 G2 in 2013, bought because it was tiny and worked well. Replaced with a Toshiba something, because it had a better screen and was faster. Replaced
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by mkozlows 4y ago
I agree that there are tons of great use cases for Chromebooks (I've owned like eight of them, including the Chromebook Pixel, and love them), but I also think that once you start getting into Android or Linux-heavy use cases, native d
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by mkozlows 4y ago
Are there any learnings from the touchpad work that will come back to the regular laptop?
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by mkozlows 4y ago
I'm getting similar with out of the box Fedora, just following the install guide on their site.
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by mkozlows 4y ago
It's true that some hardware is not Linux compatible, but if you get stuff that is (like the Framework 12th gen I'm typing this on), it does in fact just work out of the box. Wifi, sound, GPU, fingerprint reader, suspend, the work
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by mkozlows 4y ago
There was no internet to waste time on, and many of us didn't have cable TV.
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by mkozlows 4y ago
You didn't mention MFA. You didn't mention SSO. You didn't mention self-serve reset flows. Your approach doesn't work well with mobile apps. These are not rare, exotic things in 2022.
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by mkozlows 4y ago
That's always been true, and not just for unicorns. Big companies let people go in bad times, too; and small companies just fold.
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by mkozlows 4y ago
It's true, and the open source koreader software is great.
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by mkozlows 4y ago
I think the problem is that the people who are prone to do this are also prone to fiddle and over-complicate things. For the last 18 months, I've been using a wild-overkill mirrorless camera through an HDMI->USB adapter dongle thing

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