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by nfriedly 4y ago
Yes, the only real difference between an air conditioner and a heat pump is that air conditioning only works one way, whereas a heat pump has some valves and solenoids and whatnot that allow it to switch directions. It's kind of bonke
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by nfriedly 4y ago
In the US, heat pumps are not unheard of, but they are fairly rare. (Not counting air conditioning, which no one here thinks of as a "heat pump" even tough it essentially is.) Trying to get a HVAC company to install a heat pump ca
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by nfriedly 4y ago
I've been in this category for 10+ years now. It's not that I'm against offices - I actually rented a private one for a few years after my daughter was born. I biked in most days, it was great. And I'm happy to visit my
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by nfriedly 4y ago
It's not even limited to high-end devices these days. The moto g100 launched at $400 (I got mine for $270), and it supports "Ready For", which is Motorola's version of Samsung Dex. Plug it into any standard USB-C hub, co
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by nfriedly 4y ago
FullStory | Staff Product Security Engineer | Remote (USA & Canada) or Atlanta, GA | https://www.fullstory.com/ FullStory provides privacy-preserving analytics and session replay for mobile and web. (Or, as the marking
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by nfriedly 4y ago
> probably because picking up people in parking lots isn't that common in San Francisco. You could probably shorten that to "probably because parking lots aren't that common in San Francisco."
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by nfriedly 4y ago
I haven't done this recently, and it was in a laptop CPU, but in the past I was able to get a combination of lower power/temps and better performance by undervolting an Intel CPU. Presumably something similar can be done with curr
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by nfriedly 4y ago
I'm not exactly a public figure, but I freelanced for a while, so I tried to "get my name out there" to drum up business. So, I've accepted that my information is mostly available if you're looking for me. There&#x2
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Aah, it's just a bug with their mobile layout. If I open it on a desktop then the images show up.
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Yeah, I wondered about the missing images also. Edit: the images appear in a desktop browser, they're just hidden on mobile.
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by nfriedly 4y ago
This reminds me of something I would have read in 2600.
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by nfriedly 4y ago
That's definitely part of the issue, but compare the SD8G1 to the SD8G1+: these two chips are literally the exact same design, but the SD8G1 is manufactured by Samsung while the SD8G1+ is manufactured by TSMC. The TSMC variant ends up
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Perhaps the parent should have said "lead to" rather than "forced", but the point still stands that Qualcomm went to Samsung's foundries, which provided lower quality results. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was a hot turd.
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by nfriedly 4y ago
+1 for Buildroot! I haven't done much with Yocto, but I had very good experiences with Buildroot, particularly with getting helpful answers to noob questions I posted on stack overflow. One was answered by Thomas Petazzoni who, I think
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Iceraven supports Violentmonkey - https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser (Iceraven is a fork of Firefox for Android with way more extensions enabled and several other annoyances fixed.) I just installed i
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by nfriedly 4y ago
It's too late to add comments to the original thread, but I put together a variation that incorporates all of the suggestions from the comments, plus a couple of tweaks of my own (run on all HN pages, add an avatar to your username in
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by nfriedly 4y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/1620123... (It's linked to from Iceravens readme: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser )
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by nfriedly 4y ago
I'm not sure if I still qualify as young, but yeah, I have no love of cars. I prefer bicycling and trains. (Or just walking for sufficiently short trips.) Cars are a necessary evil in my life for the moment, but I hope for a future wh
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by nfriedly 4y ago
This is a good thing, but it feels like Mozilla is putting a Band-Aid over the huge gaping wound they cut in Firefox for Android when they disabled nearly all the extensions.
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Iceraven still has a list of allowed extensions, but they added several hundred extensions to the default list rather than Mozilla's dozen or so. (It also supports custom lists like Fennec and FF Nightly.)
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Plus one for Iceraven - https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser And an additional shout out for FF Updater, which can keep Iceraven up to date - https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Yeah, same, except on my home file server (unraid) rather than my desktop. I use https://hub.docker.com/r/ich777/thunderbird , which exposes the UI as a website with a javascript version of vnc. I log into it every
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by nfriedly 4y ago
I was happy to see the callout of the GPD win series - these days there are a lot of options for handheld gaming PCs, but for a long time, GPD was the only game in town. I don't have a Steam Deck yet, but I've probably done more g
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by nfriedly 4y ago
I really like the German system where employees get representation (usually union reps) on the board of the company - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany - I think it helps bring a lot more balance
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Genius Propeller Will Change Transport Forever(youtube.com)
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by nfriedly 4y ago
I had a pixel previously. In general I liked it, especially the software, but I frequently missed the headphone jack and microSD slot. Also, while mine initially had an unlockable bootloader, I sent it in for a repair of a broken USB-C port
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Man, HTC made some of my favorite phones. I wish they were still doing it. Some of Motorola's mid-range phones are actually pretty good these days - the moto g100 has performance roughly on par with a flagship from a couple of years ag
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by nfriedly 4y ago
I went from a "flagship" Pixel to a midrange Motorola (the moto g100), and I'm very happy with it. I got a nice performance upgrade, a microSD slot, a headphones jack, battery for days, and an unlockable bootloader - all for
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Along those lines, https://www.sustaphones.com/ is another nice site to find phones with support LineageOS and other custom Android versions.
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by nfriedly 4y ago
Yeah, I almost wish there weren't workarounds, because then I feel like there'd be more pressure on Mozilla to reverse course and re-enable addons in the normal release.

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