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by neop1x 6y ago
This. Manufacturers often don't provide spare parts to the users directly. Sony was not even able to sell a genuine smartphone battery to me. Apple Independent Repair program is a joke as you must be a company and go through their gate
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by neop1x 6y ago
There is eBay and similar sites where you can list "For parts or noy working" items and get quite a good value out of it. If you keep it for X-years in your garage, after those years these models won't be actively used anymor
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by neop1x 6y ago
Soldering SSDs on the motherboard is a crime! Data storage modules should always be replaceable: 1. because they can fail easily (limited write counts), 2. because people need to wipe data before selling I have seen a "for parts"
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by neop1x 6y ago
For example HP Elitebooks ond Dell business class laptops have most parts replaceable and the keyboard is secured by screws. HP Pavilion gaming, ASUS ROG Strix and newer Macbooks have keyboards secured by melting topcase plastic pins or bol
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by neop1x 6y ago
True, except there are manufacturers like Apple or Sony which won't provide genuine spare parta to retail people (tried that). Then you have to buy parts from "for parts" eBay auctions or counterfait/bad quality batterie
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by neop1x 6y ago
CTRL+L works and I have been using it but I had to google it first to learn about it! It is not intuitive and bad experiemce. There could be a toolbar button for that or a permanently-visible address box or it could read clipboard and sugge
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by neop1x 6y ago
There are also multiple file pickers (Qt/GTK) and they don't share history or recent file list. Also in GTK picker if I select an existing file on Save by accident, I can't unselect it and I have to write filename again manua
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by neop1x 6y ago
My issue with Signal is inability to send SMS to short codes (premium/service codes). There is a very old issue [1] which was closed by an automated cleanup bot. Every other SMS app can send SMS to short codes, Signal cannot. [1] http
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by neop1x 6y ago
It's like with iPhones. There was someone who run Linux with a framebuffer on iPhone 3GS. It worked but was useless. Additional security added in newer iPhones made it impossible to do again. And users are happy, saying that their lock
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by neop1x 6y ago
2nm... then what - 1nm? 500pm after that?
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by neop1x 6y ago
Vše nejlepší v novém roce!
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by neop1x 6y ago
Bitcoin all-time-high, has someone missed the boat? Bitcoin is bad, that's why there are thousands of alternative crypto coins. For me, Bitcoin is a commodity, digital gold. It's fast and easy to move across country borders, it&#x
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by neop1x 6y ago
Can it? Is there a study confirming that sexual development can be altered that way? Maybe to some degree, I have no idea, but in the past people also thought homosexuality is "learned" which proved to be false.
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by neop1x 6y ago
I wrote a coule of small CLI tools in Ruby. I really liked how a single line could do a lot of work and those fancy syntax sugars. But I found it difficult to work with due to bad code completion suggestions in IDEs and overall poor documen
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by neop1x 6y ago
It is hard to read and impossible to send an SMS on iPad without activating iMessage. I don't understand why this hasn't been considered anti-competitive behavior already. It is completely normal to send and receive SMS messages o
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by neop1x 6y ago
Learning for others to let them see what kinds of problems can happen. To demonstrate they are competent and can diagnose and fix a problem quickly. Sometimes to explain why the downtime took that amount of time. For example Interactive Bro
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by neop1x 6y ago
Can they also remove fbclid and similar garbage from URLs? I am tired of deleting that manually every time I want to share something.
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by neop1x 6y ago
Hmm, can't there be some kind of malware hiding under the Keystone name?
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by neop1x 6y ago
Gone are the days where Twitter body limit was understood as the reason to post short tweets instead of long tales...
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by neop1x 6y ago
I am using black or dark where I can - android, terminal, code editors, desktop theme, etc. I wouldn't be able to stare at big white areas for the whole day. White is painful for my eyes.
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by neop1x 6y ago
As a private pilot I learned what to say in the radio in case of emergency but they haven't tought us to be Yeager-calm. They told us to fly the airplane as the top priority, keep calm, think about the options and if the situation allo
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by neop1x 6y ago
We need more auto-solver services. Pay a subscription and let developing country workers solve captchas for us. Extra expense on top of internet connectivity plan.
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by neop1x 6y ago
Yesterday I noticed CloudFlare uses it so maybe that is the reason for 15 percent of the internet.
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by neop1x 6y ago
I installed liquid cooling + big fans which often don't rotate fast (depending on the load).
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by neop1x 6y ago
Having your battery charged near 100% all days long with charger plugged in will soon degrade the battery and you may be surprised by your battery time. Also some people prefer buying gaming laptops for better performance. The problem often
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by neop1x 6y ago
AMD also uses less socket types than Intel and it will be possible to upgrade CPUs easily in the future. This upgradability is also something what laptops don't offer nowadays, requiring users to buy a whole new laptop every time.
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by neop1x 6y ago
Some web designers like to do gray background with just a bit darker text. Little contrast, hard to read. Even code editors often have "dark theme" with gray background an not-light-enough text color. Sometimes I am able to overri
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by neop1x 6y ago
While it is quite nice, maybe they did it to look better in the antitrust investigation. They are still forcing devs to use their in-app purchases within iOS apps, forbidding 3rd-party payment processors. And iPhone 12 is no longer repairab
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by neop1x 6y ago
Also note that with DNS01 challenge you can add multiple wildcard domains under one certificate. There is a limit of total domains in a certificate but I still find it interesting and helpful.
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by neop1x 6y ago
Correct me if I am wrong. RTL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register-transfer_level RTL is a way to model a digital circuit and some common HW design languages are VHDL, Verilog amd Intel's proprietary iHDL. Num

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