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by posguy 9y ago
WhatsApp mainly displaced SMS and MMS, some users of other chat protocols slowly migrated, but by and large WhatsApp mainly ate cellular carrier's lunch. Hence why most carriers offer unlimited calling and texting, discouraging use is
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by posguy 9y ago
You can use anything you'd run on a normal distro, and per the other commenter Anbox allows you to run normal android apps. I'd encourage you to avoid knocking KDE Plasma, last time I installed it on a x86 tablet it wasn't ha
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by posguy 9y ago
Its the internet of vulnerable things! Most of which will never see an update to resolve the security vulns that crop up with time, let alone receive proper software stack maintenance for more than a brief period of time.
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by posguy 9y ago
Even in areas with heavy fiber penetration like Seattle, where Centurylink has 70+% of the city covered with Fiber, Comcast is still capping users to 1TB and Centurylink feels little competition. Hell, they're trying to kill off their
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by posguy 9y ago
Pretty much, Cable Modem Hacking is extremely uncommon and even an owned modem is out of your control. Look at all the Intel PUMA cable modems with bufferbloat issues where the cable ISP refuses to update said modem to fix the software bug
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by posguy 9y ago
If you can't afford to pay someone to do something, you either do it yourself or it doesn't happen. This isn't particularly new, and if you look at most people's lives, they just aren't paying for every new thing as
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by posguy 9y ago
This is caused by every VC demanding that their stable of startups all shoot for the moon and become multi-billion dollar companies. If moonshots weren't such a high priority, and instead startups focused on building a successful busin
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by posguy 9y ago
At what point did OP focus on boot speed? Systemd has a bundle of other useful properties, like simple unit files and handling the entire boot process. If you do want to talk boot speed, compare a sysv install versus a systemd install on an
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by posguy 9y ago
Why not let the recyclers handle this? Apple building their own bespoke, unsupported solution isn't apt to end well. The recyclers already handling this hardware are happy to pull this hardware apart and reuse it. From what I've h
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by posguy 9y ago
The throwaway culture that has come about with cellphones is both costly and really damaging to the environment. Poor software support, terrible "recycling" practices by carriers and OEMs, and purposeful defects to limit product l
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by posguy 9y ago
Even non-flagships are fine. I've had an LG Stylo now for 2 years which I bought used a few months after it came out for $100. Signal, Firefox, Pandora, etc all run fine on it, it doesn't have connectivity problems like any of my
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by posguy 9y ago
Yeah, a datacenter hires a few Networking/Sysops people, but not so much programmers, as that is one of those things that isn't quite so location sensitive.
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by posguy 9y ago
Man, as a kid in the early 2000s I used to play a version of this at school. Not quite as good, similar to Linerider, forget the name though.
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by posguy 9y ago
Sure, but then it won't auto-update, requires the user to make more than a minimal effort to install, etc.
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by posguy 9y ago
Raiding people's homes over Facebook posts while claiming to protect free speech is downright wrong, just another instance of censorship and authoritarianism. This is just like the WTO protests here in Seattle, suppressing the citizenr
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by posguy 9y ago
Ooo, so shiny, must collect! On a more serious note, perhaps borrowing AMD's strategy of bundling a few games would make for a more effective clearance strategy, instead of rebranding and reducing prices so much.
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by posguy 9y ago
ACH needs to die. Its a very old system, and you have no clue if a transfer ever actually goes through. Only ACH rejects ever get sent back, and there isn't a definitive window in which you'll get that reject.
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by posguy 9y ago
I dunno, as a new college student I wasn't terribly impressed with Coursera's offerings as compared to the (half-hearted) online classes I've taken from my local community college. Despite many of the professors not knowing h
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by posguy 9y ago
Sometimes conversation may occur that otherwise would have been avoided thanks to cellphones, other times you get calming silence instead. Its a definite risk, but the whole equation is ignored usually.
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by posguy 9y ago
The occasional check of your phone is very different than staring at your glowing rectangle through the entire dinner, ignoring those you are with entirely.
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by posguy 9y ago
Huh? VPS and dedicated hosts usually charge below a penny per gigabyte over your traffic limit, and if you open a support ticket they will usually work with you towards something in the sub-$4 per TB range.
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by posguy 9y ago
Its not a quote, but a well known, long running cabinet special for 42u (aka a dedicated full rack) and 15 amps of power: https://he.net/special.pdf Other datacenters can go cheaper if you need less rackspace and power, ban
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by posguy 9y ago
They already sell the Aquos Crystal phones on Sprint, which are really nice phones for the price point. When I borrowed my buddy's on Sprint, I was able to pull over 100mbps down when we were out boating on Lake Washington. AT&T co
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by posguy 9y ago
Having sold hundreds of iPhone 5s's when I was selling B2B, I have to say I was fairly unimpressed. Not great battery life over time, if an employee left with iCloud enabled it was a whole affair with Apple to get them to reset the dev
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Carriers already do this FYI, but it only gets you so far. Robocallers pay higher rates due to this, but they seem glad to pay.
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How does the phone model even play into this? Odd of you to mention it.
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by posguy 9y ago
You think emailing or chatting your common utility will get your change order processed in a reasonable timeframe? I've got bad news for you, knowing a few people who work at local utilities, those emails you send in get to sit for mon
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by posguy 9y ago
Not to mention the potential health side-effects of the loose ground rubber fields, which could perhaps be causing cancer among many goalies: http://www.menshealth.com/health/artificial-turf-cancer-risk
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by posguy 9y ago
Which corridors are you referring to? What neighborhood? You've piqued my interest, as someone who knows way too much about light rail & commuter rail in this city.
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Not really, Tesla is very much like Apple in the sense that they expect their employees to be 100% compliant and not "overshare", with overbearing corporate security that'll handle you if you step out of line one iota. I don&

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