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by plater 5y ago
Having to charge for 40 minutes during a 6 hour trip is a non-issue in my opinion. During a 6 hour trip one has to eat at least one lunch/dinner which should account for 40 minutes. And likely an additional stop at a rest room or leg s
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by plater 5y ago
He means that you need Apple hardware to start a Facetime call.
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by plater 5y ago
Regarding the cost. I still think it's a good option to use a cloud storage service or similar. But I just tried to say that it's way better to select something like pCloud's forever option, one time cost upfront, instead of
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by plater 5y ago
No, it's nothing electrical. It's all mechanical. It's the surface which is slightly striped or bubbly or whatever and when sliding the hand or finger lightly over it, it generates a vibrating feeling. It might be less now af
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by plater 5y ago
For the very thinnest of laptops it's probably difficult without soldering the chips on board, but many users would prefer a slightly thicker laptop where you can replace the RAM, SSD etc. I have never had a laptop where the thickness
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by plater 5y ago
But for people who do fly, flying represents 50% or more of their footprint.
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by plater 5y ago
What many people forget with these x$/month is that you will have to pay this for the rest of your life. That's why I have chosen an option where you pay a higher fee once (about 3 years cost) and then it does not cost anything go
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by plater 5y ago
"And thus not flood people who dislike a thing with ads promoting the thing." But isn't that what these ads are about. They want to show the people who dislike a thing with ads promoting the thing so that hopefully one day th
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by plater 5y ago
Not sure what a cold basement has to do with it? You suck in air from outside, extract the energy, and blow out colder air. The warm water is stored in an isolated tank (sure if the basement is cold it might cool off slightly quicker, but y
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by plater 5y ago
For me it's lack of sleep triggering migraines. If I go a few of days without enough sleep (going to bed late, being kept awake by kids, jetlag etc) then I often get a migraine. Maybe there might some extra factor doing the real trigg
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by plater 5y ago
Yes, because it's based on a PC. A quite standard and open specification where you can buy motherboards, CPU, RAM, disk, IO peripherals etc from many different manufacturers and build and install what software you want. However, on a M
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by plater 5y ago
Wrestling?
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by plater 5y ago
That's maybe fine, but right now there are only two options, Apple with iOS or Google with Android. They can control pricing, the can control what is there and not, they get all the user stats, they decide what the apps can do and not
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by plater 5y ago
"S3 costs include battle tested, multi-DC replication." Sometimes we pay a bit too much for this multi-replication, battle tested stuff. It's not like the probability of loosing data is THAT huge. For the 4x extra cost you co
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by plater 5y ago
That might be true to some extent, but each of those new projects consist of one or more people at the top controlling the functionality for the rest of the users.
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by plater 5y ago
The articles says so.
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by plater 5y ago
To continue as a company they have to invest just like any other company. As Apple is so big, of course the investments they make are big. But not necessarily bigger than what any other company invests in percent of revenue or profit. This
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by plater 5y ago
In Switzerland the cost of living is also >50% higher than other western European countries. Housing is even 100% higher. Service employees in Switzerland come mainly from Germany, France, Portugal, Brazil etc.
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by plater 6y ago
You are probably right about the cut the publisher took, but the margins are still higher for Apple as they have very low costs of marketing, distribution etc. In fact I think Apple charges way more if you consider the margins. The other pr
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by plater 6y ago
A semiconductor factory is very expensive to build and run in terms of the actual building (vibration resistant, advanced ventilation with purified air etc) and the equipment inside (some of the most expensive machines you can buy). It&#x27
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by plater 6y ago
All energy generation is bad for the environment, just more or less bad. Solar cells and wind power might be "renewable", but it requires a lot of metals and material to build (and also energy), they disturb natural habitat etc. T
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by plater 6y ago
But it spies on you. And transmits data about you to Google. And has pre-installed apps you cannot fully uninstall. And it changes your privacy settings without you knowing when new features are added.
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by plater 6y ago
The problem with cookie popups is that it trains people to just click Yes and OK without thinking and reading. At the end we get blind to them and we click and accept things which are much more important, download viruses, click bad links o
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by plater 6y ago
A lot of people use Google so it would of course make a huge difference if Google would stop collecting profiles.
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by plater 6y ago
In addition, solar panels can be put on top of existing infrastructure like houses so it takes no additional land.
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by plater 6y ago
What is the problem? This is great for Saudi Arabia and great for the world. Saudi Arabia has a lot of sun and they have a lot of cash. If they invest it in producing electricity using solar they can still be an exporter of energy. Secondly
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by plater 6y ago
kDrive from Infomaniak is pretty good. It also has iOS and Android apps for automatic upload from your phone. It's a privacy focused company and have been around a long time. They also offer file sharing with passwords and backup solut
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by plater 6y ago
That's exactly why I built EasyOrg. It has a simple to use editor and an Agenda viewer. You can add, edit and delete org mode todos via a GUI or using the editor. For note taking you use the editor. No difficult Eamcs keybindings and b