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> Which in turn means, in their mind, every part of the system needs to be firing at 100% all the time Not just that, you have to be always doing less for more gains. Real work is bad work. Shrinkflation good. I don't know what it i
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6mo ago
It allows manufacturers to clear old stocks of cables by rebranding them as latest products. USB 1+2/3/4 are basically unrelated standards under the same USB umbrella. USB4 especially is just Thunderbolt/PCIe x4 with features
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6mo ago
Dragging the camera to where it shall be. I'm no photographer, but do anyone not have that Sidewinder seekerhead in the brain that gives you the blaring tone when a great composition is in front of you(including 3D off-boresight warnin
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6mo ago
I don't know anything about these AI tools, but it seems to me like, the yield rates of all these AI media generators are exactly in the range of that of lootbox games. Kids "pull" it like slot machines for set prompt, keepin
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6mo ago
There's just no way they could have done something like, a split dual purple-gray-gold tri-tone double shot keycaps on lubed gasketed Cherry ultra low profile tactile in black nickel cold hammer forged milled blasted steel chassis with
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6mo ago
Yeah, it should be made illegal to hold like, more than x columns of PII per entity or bank branch or something. It's just not smart to allow big database of everyone to be made and to expect you stay the one to abuse than to be nails
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6mo ago
People who says this never even consider Nissan Leaf. "Because the charging..." or whatever. So consumers DO want all-touchscreen disposable cars like Tesla - it's similar to how disposable phones had replaced phones with rem
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6mo ago
Class of Middle Eastern tabletop usually-tobacco smoking devices with water based filtering 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah
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6mo ago
> Has the availability of deepfake porn generation reduced the demand for deepfake porn featuring real people? yes > When deepfake generators are capable of creating convincing imagery of flawless ideal fake humans, why do you suppose
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6mo ago
Google Plus? I wouldn't be sure if that was a strategic blunder or if they were seeing something us in the public didn't. I remember it was more popular among not-so-tech savvy male of parental to retirement ages, which are still
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6mo ago
All psychological experiments that loosely relates to Web became default legal when A/B tests became normalized after Google started it. It is not something that may be covered by blanket waivers. It's something that require parti
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6mo ago
And in handstanding walk because you're better at hands than legs. All their advantages are in domains to be obsoleted by technologies required for such things. Be it the Dyson shell thing or Lunar or Mars colonies, there's no way
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6mo ago
No. JP activity was always second to US, only the biggest "out there". Same is true for all Twitter-like social media, such as Mastodon and Bluesky. Even VRChat doesn't have a majority Japanese userbase. Japan actually becomi
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6mo ago
Most of phone repair parts available to consumers are factory leaks. They are scraps and/or stolen stocks. They only exist because law enforcement in China is still, sort of strategically left, lacking. They are destined to go away as
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6mo ago
Put the cap on it. Or get a phone with inbuilt flappy caps. True rugged phones all have them.
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There are reasons for burger shacks to NOT have chargers, for EVs and phones alike: restaurants make money by maximizing customer throughput. Excuses for customers to extend stays is damaging to them. There are other types of businesses, su
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It's just a consumer phone sold through KDDI retail channels. Not a B2B thing. And it exists because enough consumers in Japan buy one. The original claims in this tree is that waterproof phones with removable backs are somehow impossi
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6mo ago
> Nikita Bier @nikitabier > > If you’re seeing a bunch of Japanese posts, here are some fun facts: > Japan has more daily active users and more time spent on X than any other country in the world. > Over two th
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6mo ago
idk but feels like this might be a new literal kind of acquihire, to bulk purchase workers in cash
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> My Canon waterproof camera came with a tube of silicon I had to dab on the battery compartment gasket And those devices are MORE water resistant than most phones. The grease is to improve ingress protection beyond what's possible
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Completely untrue and debunked ad nauseum. Rugged phones with removable batteries has vastly superior IP ratings. Glues go bad faster than O-rings used in removable batteries do. I've had water intrusion with an iPhone, and it drove a
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That brings back memories! Yes, many devices before iPhone had normalized internal batteries indeed had aftermarket extended batteries. They would come with matching bulged back covers to fit the significantly oversized battery.
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Next-word prediction features always existed for flip phones...
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6mo ago
Anno Hideaki and his followers are just not capable of actually doing stories with much depth. It's all just shallow dopamine-maxxed mecha-tronic fetish paired with brutalist architecture and rushed out barely meeting deadlines. But po
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6mo ago
Ports develop rust if exposed to elements. This applies to USB-C ports too. That's why all seriously rugged phones has flaps for every ports with all-plastic enclosures over metal frames(not all waterproof equipment are seawater rated;
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Most digital cameras above mid ranges are made of painted Magnesium alloy material for both weight and durability. Only cosmetic parts are made of Aluminum and plastics. They don't talk much about those because all the remaining compan
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6mo ago
Japan only, but KDDI/Kyocera never stopped IP rated phones with removable battery. TORQUE G07(2026) is IP65/68/69 rated with a coin key locked removable back cover. It also officially support submersion in seawater as well as
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I've seen rumors that Apple started waterproofing phones after Chinese criminal groups started farming parts on AppleCare by dumping the mainboard into buckets of Shenzhen seawater to deny electronic serial number readout. Your logic b
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All phones with 4G/5G worldwide should have it. They managed to make the broadcast push SMS thing used for the alerts a mandatory requirement for phones. The broadcast warning from Japanese equivalent of NOAA don't get issued to a
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It's just that it smells absolutely horrible, and so you should be using the tiniest amount possible unless you know what you're doing. The fish sauce is just a cultural equivalent of soy sauce in some of SEA countries, they use i
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