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by ridgered4 3y ago
> The phone's accelerometers will still run in aeroplane mode which can infer a surprising amount about your location. I've heard of most of these but this one is new. How does this work? Are the accelerometers used to basicall
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by ridgered4 3y ago
Really? Where do they deliver all the ads to in that case?
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by ridgered4 3y ago
> It will reach its end of servicing in May 2024 (Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro for Workstations editions) and in May 2025 (Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions). So much for the 2025 end date I kept hearing. Only appli
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by ridgered4 3y ago
I sometimes wonder if the dumber 5G conspiracies were seeded as part of a psyops campaign to paint anyone negative of 5G as a fringe lunatic.
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by ridgered4 3y ago
Touchscreens were always just a horrible interface. Their only advantages were portability and recently cheapness. That made them the best choice for mobile devices but due to fad chasing and cost cutting they have been bolted onto every de
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by ridgered4 3y ago
SMS requires a phone number which is an excellent user tracking signal. I don't know why ad companies like Google and Microsoft would want to give that up.
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by ridgered4 3y ago
I wish more progress was made on this feature. Vmware has had paravirtualized 3D acceleration in guests for over a decade even on their free player product and it is the one real feature I really miss. I'd even just settle for a way to
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by ridgered4 3y ago
I'm also curious on how this could work and actually be more cost effective. I just can't see the robot being a reliable method and the cost savings being there. It almost sounds like some one's pet project. The only really i
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by ridgered4 3y ago
Does anything prevent copying the token's private key to another token right now?
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by ridgered4 3y ago
2.5" hard disks actually use way less power than the 3.5" drives, but if you spin down the bigger drives they get down to about 1watt. My server at home I actually use a 2.5" drive for the torrent scratch disk since I don&#x2
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by ridgered4 3y ago
Based on those trainings I also have to take yearly, the US has a weird carve out for "facilitation payments" that are basically just bribes to cut through red tape and delays that probably exist just to extract bribes in the firs
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by ridgered4 3y ago
That's how I read this. Facebook already had a failed facebook phone venture everyone seems to have forgotten about. Zuckerberg is trying to get to the new world first this time. Except even if VR takes off it would only be a niche com
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by ridgered4 3y ago
Cannot comment on that location but I've noticed a few sellers on ebay seem too just take older 4GB ram chromebook and install linux on them before selling them for $50-75. If you're not as lazy as I am you can do the installation
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by ridgered4 4y ago
Anyone ever think about what a nightmare driverless cars will be if they actually work? Right now our crumbling infrastructure is loaded with traffic. Imagine if the max amount of driving a human can endure is removed entirely as a final co
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by ridgered4 4y ago
Maybe they have felony convictions, dubious immigration status or personality problems that make traditional legal employment difficult or impossible for them. Or maybe it just pays well.
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by ridgered4 4y ago
We have webex and Teams at work. Neither one of them are great but unless I'm missing something Teams lacked a precheck feature where I can test my Mic before actually joining the meeting which is easily the main reason I despise it. T
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by ridgered4 4y ago
Interesting idea, I have the same problem with cold hands. I currently wear finger-less wool gloves but it isn't a perfect solution either.
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by ridgered4 4y ago
It seems like the mistake there would be implementing the mute in the software instead of a proper hardware shutoff.
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by ridgered4 4y ago
Weird, I have used the steam controller a lot and bizarrely my kids even picked them up. I find the right track pad on the steam deck smaller than I'd like and I wish they hadn't relocated the buttons. But I really wanted a d-pad
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by ridgered4 4y ago
With eye tracking they will be able to determine your interest level to allow additional targeted advertising of things that you eye lingers on. If you saw an alcohol ad and lingered on it because you're a recovering alcoholic they&#x2
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by ridgered4 4y ago
Forced auto updates and a closed store mean I won't even try to like snaps. Those are the top two reasons I moved off Windows.
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by ridgered4 4y ago
I've noticed several products recently that used an old product entry where the bulk of the older reviews were written in Spanish or German. Once translated you find they are gushing about a comic book they loved rather than the comput
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by ridgered4 4y ago
Can you download and save the .apk file of the older app perhaps? This obviously would require you to know ahead of time what you were going to potentially use the device for in the future, which is ridiculous.
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by ridgered4 4y ago
> I like drag-to-side-to-go-halfscreen for window management Couldn't you do this in Windows 7 with WinKey+Left or WinKey+Right? I guess I am kind of keyboard oriented in my usage though, I mostly get frustrated with the edge of scr
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by ridgered4 4y ago
> Windows Vista was good by SP1 but required 2GB of RAM. WinSxS disk usage was only fixed on Win7, though. Was it? I remember they added a tool that claimed it would clean it up but in practice it didn't seem to do much. I thought W
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by ridgered4 4y ago
That doesn't sound like something that powerful US corporations are that worried about so I'm surprised we talked about it at all.
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by ridgered4 4y ago
Do you still need to use your real name and address with the virtual cards? Hearing the stories about collections it seems to me like the only logical move is to avoid these services all together.
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by ridgered4 4y ago
Some of these services I'm interested in enough I'd be willing to pay for a few months to try them. But magazine subscriptions and comcast have trained me to avoid these kinds of relationships like the plague. They aren't usu
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by ridgered4 4y ago
Can you just change your billing address to an arbitrary location like that? CC payments require matching address at least, or zip code. I guess if you weren't receiving any mail from the entity it might not matter in practice but it s
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by ridgered4 4y ago
I'm not sure if this is even possible on my car. Is there a hardware module I can remove?

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