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by orev 2y ago
As an outsider very interested in Palm devices, this was always my impression/suspicion. Thanks for confirming what I’ve long thought was going on.
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by orev 2y ago
Because when you have a new device there might be boot messages that disappear faster than you can switch to the input after it detects a signal. So you want to be switched to that input before turning it on.
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by orev 2y ago
Dropping access to disconnected inputs is extremely annoying. When connecting something new, you often want to change the TV to the input before powering on the device.
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by orev 2y ago
Switching inputs is by far the thing that causes the most anxiety for a regular person (based on observational evidence). I really believe that it makes or breaks whole lines of service. IMO, streaming won in part because once people (i.e.
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by orev 2y ago
He also said that restaurant vegetables taste good because they cook them with sugar.
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by orev 2y ago
If phone cameras hadn’t changed over the past 10 years, most people would still be happy with the quality of photos taken. Most photos are never printed out or viewed on any device other than their phone. They may be poorly lit, composed ba
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by orev 2y ago
Phone cameras have come a long way, no doubt, but DSLRs really do look amazing. Phones are winning because “the best camera is the one that’s with you”. Since people have the phone camera in their pocket all the time, they usually don’t bot
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by orev 2y ago
> 38% of people said that better cameras are a main motivation for buying a new phone This strikes me as just a reflection of the ad campaigns. Apple promotes “better cameras” for every new iPhone, almost exclusively in their ads, so it’
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by orev 2y ago
OTA TV is even more important with streaming and cord cutting because it’s the only way to get access to information about live events such as weather emergencies.
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by orev 2y ago
Another option not mentioned is that the thing they’re talking about might have been in their subconscious because of an ad they’d recently seen but didn’t notice. The topic/concept/product eventually bubbles up to consciousness,
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by orev 2y ago
Whatever problem that is, it’s not Net Neutrality. NN is about ISPs being able to do things like sell different service levels, like package A includes access to Facebook and Google only, package B includes package A plus Instagram and Netf
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by orev 2y ago
The idea that Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. have made Net Neutrality irrelevant is ridiculous, and is a result of a directed campaign by ISPs to distract attention from them and onto these other companies. With NN in place, there’s nothing
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by orev 2y ago
There are many USB capture dongles with chips that ignore DRM, easily available for cheap at popular online stores. Nobody has to go as far as jailbreaking screens.
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by orev 2y ago
Windows definitely has its problems, but hundreds of millions of people use it daily without these kinds of issues. You’re doing something very, very wrong if that’s truthfully your daily experience.
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by orev 2y ago
Wouldn’t “invisible” back office people in product strategy and sourcing be able to identify more products that appeal to a diverse set of customers? If you think DEI is only about having multiple colors of people in marketing stock photos
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by orev 2y ago
Good for the planet, bad for the economy.
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by orev 2y ago
I would guess that it fingerprints the scanning software (e.g. metasploit), then feeds a payload back to it that has a known exploit in the scanning script.
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by orev 2y ago
It appears it can be configured to actively return attacks: > Portspoof can be used as an 'Exploitation Framework Frontend', that turns your system into responsive and aggressive machine. In practice this usually means exploiti
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by orev 2y ago
You’re right. I meant survivorship bias, where the survivors are the events that are bad enough for them to be visible to the public. Other events that are addressed by a continuity plan are “killed” and therefore aren’t visible.
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by orev 2y ago
I guarantee you that they have numerous continuity plans that probably get activated often, and because they have them, you don’t see any issues. It’s only when something happens far outside of those plans that it becomes visible. It’s conf
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by orev 2y ago
They’re using rechargeable NiMh, not alkalines. I would have used the older Eneloops or current Fujitsus, but maybe rechargeable Duracells have better quality than their alkalines.
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by orev 2y ago
No, this is a completely different scenario. There’s a huge difference between the companies who provide the pipes having full control over everything (the way it was back then) and what we have today which is that some companies have becom
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by orev 2y ago
Remember when iOS apps couldn’t run in the background, and then Apple made an exception for voip apps? All of a sudden many apps, especially Facebook, started offering in-app voip calls. Coincidence? Of course they were using that as an exc
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by orev 2y ago
> Apple’s iCloud servers which have a history of being hacked. Bold claims need strong proof. Have a source for this? The only major hack I’m aware of was the Fappenning, which was widely accepted as an issue of password reuse across sit
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by orev 2y ago
It was definitely this. Skype was already on the decline, and then COVID hit and everyone had to work from home. Meetings apps took over (Zoom, Webex, eventually Teams (Microsoft antitrust violation)), and in that business battle most had f
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by orev 2y ago
This says it’s for Linux, and a search doesn’t find a Windows version. Are you using this on Windows?
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by orev 2y ago
OTA is more important now with so many people cancelling cable TV service. Use streaming for regular shows, and antenna for live stuff. Also very useful during local emergencies. Add an HD Homerun and you have an app-like experience along w
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by orev 2y ago
I would bet “similar length + 7 days” so you won’t know about the requirement until after you can’t return it.
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by orev 2y ago
If we know anything about Microsoft, they’ll get there. This is their second (recent) try at getting ARM off the ground (first was SQ1 which had a much lower adoption rate). Feedback about them has been mostly positive, but mostly from peop
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by orev 2y ago
Assuming “a meeting” is one hour (you should really provide a lot more detail if it isn’t when making a claim like that), then something was seriously wrong with that PC. My 3 year old Intel PC (Dell 7420) easily gets through 4 or 5 hours b

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