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by simfree 4y ago
The lightphone 2 has some notable issues IMO. Missing key LTE bands like B71, VoLTE never happened with T-Mobile (the device is not identifiable by T-Mobile) both of which result in coverage gaps and poor calling and texting performance.
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by simfree 4y ago
Since when? Seattle and Portland seem dead set on continuing to shovel ever more cash at police officers that respond to fewer and fewer calls per officer per day. Adding more money to the bonfire is a politician favorite, and it certainly
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by simfree 4y ago
Ah, so the same as a software developer at a mid-size government agency?
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by simfree 5y ago
They also have never had to pay out dividends unlike PG&E, or been forced to optimize for what will deliver the most value to their shareholders. https://www.pgecorp.com/investors/shareholders/dividend_hist...
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by simfree 5y ago
The provider space seems quite volatile, where investors risk being wiped out (ala Griddy's investors), severely reduced in value (eg: PG&E), PG&E: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4441976-formerly-bankrupt
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by simfree 5y ago
The maintenance burden you suggest for wind turbines is exaggerated. Compared to a gas car there are way fewer moving parts in common wind turbines, and some designs with no moving parts are being tested: https://www.windpowereng
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by simfree 5y ago
Don't run frankenDebian and your life will be much easier. My friend that bought a Framework as well had no trouble putting Debian 11 on it, you just need to add the non-free repo to /etc/apt/sources.list, install the no
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by simfree 5y ago
Once the battery and car is up to temp the range loss isn't very bad. I had the opportunity to spend a few weeks driving EVs in western Canada over the past winter, and even a crummy Fiat still has about 100km range when its -11c (aka
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by simfree 5y ago
Didn't realize Mark decided to do this after leaving HP Enterprise, but crazy that it took 4 years to get published by Amazon. For an open source evangelist, this is an odd way to engage the community. Really makes the FSF's princ
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by simfree 5y ago
Piles of money inflate the cost of labor and distort the economy, as your using that pile of money to reallocate part of the existing labor pool.
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by simfree 5y ago
What carriers are willing to show Caller Verified when receiving a B level attestation? From my testing Verizon and T-Mobile require A level attestations.
552.
by simfree 5y ago
Seems like a name conflict with the search engine Qwant.com
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by simfree 5y ago
Trouter (Microsoft Teams routing software for video calls and voice calls) crashes and fails to parse SDPs every day, even from Teams clients. I swear it is the least reliable session border controller we interact with, every 2 weeks a new
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by simfree 5y ago
If your poor and in certain US states, Medicaid is pretty comprehensive. Medication including PrEP, Metformin (for diabetics), sleeping meds and such are free, and you won't pay a single dollar for going to the emergency room or going
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by simfree 5y ago
Apple and Microsoft charge for upgrades on computers, but not for security updates. Cross-subsidization is obscuring the true cost of a good and not permitting consumer choice, many people don't want UI revamps and feature rewrites bun
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by simfree 5y ago
Same experience here with fiber and telecom services. They quote crazy prices for services I already have from their competitors at the lower published rates. These potential vendors have zero or near zero additional cost to activate servic
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by simfree 5y ago
It seems that the author never heard of AirMessage Signald, Whatsapp Business API, Beeper or any of the malware infested clients for end to end encrypted chat apps. Bridging is already happening today, the best we can do is ensure it happen
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by simfree 5y ago
Recycling ie expensive and inefficient. Reducing what we use and reusing what we have is the most environmentally friendly option. Plastics, leather, cloth, rubber printed circuit boards and such require significant labor to separate from e
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by simfree 5y ago
It is terrible for the environment, hence why I choose to not participate in such schemes.
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by simfree 5y ago
A mechanic I know in Vancouver BC moved inland with his husband 4 years ago since he felt they could never buy a home with Vancouver BC wages. From what I have seen outside of the tech industry the wage scale is very similar to Portland Ore
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by simfree 5y ago
The mindset of a person that leases a car :D In certain situations (eg: the California Fiat 500e leases, where you paid nearly nothing due to tax credits over 3 years) the math can work, but outside of financial engineering from beneficial
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by simfree 5y ago
A large chunk of semi-precious metals with thousands of parts, significant assembly labor and noteworthy cost that often takes years of the median income to pay for should be near disposable when significant issues crop up? Good luck with t
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by simfree 5y ago
Probably not, Amazon's goal is to pay under the actual cost of delivery by offloading deliveries to these 3rd party companies.
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by simfree 5y ago
Jitsi can connect with most SIP servers, there are even videos on YouTube of people doing this. The ecosystem is moving, but Signal is falling behind as said ecosystem moves. Way more resources are flowing into making Matrix good than are f
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by simfree 5y ago
Hey Edwin, I appreciate your help in the past getting our business unblacklisted from Stripe in the past. Stripe seems to be trying to move up the value chain, but problems like this tax calculation issue and the fear of Stripe deciding to
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by simfree 5y ago
The flu vaccine (and other vaccines) only stimulate an IgG reaction (the immune cells that protect most of your body excluding your upper respiratory tract). Getting the flu or any other disease your vaccinated against in your upper respira
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by simfree 5y ago
There certainly was quite a bit of community support for the protests on Capitol Hill and the liberation of Cal Anderson Park and the surrounding area from being flooded with tear gas for weeks on end. Most of the people who were in my scou
568.
by simfree 5y ago
This makes sense from what I experienced trying to order the Wyze door sensors back when they were released. My billing address in Seattle was used as a shipping address, rather than the shipping address I listed in the order that was refle
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by simfree 5y ago
110v does nearly halve your peak power draw... But the transformers have a bit of added complexity and in homes and businesses you need thicker wire to move the same amount of power.
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by simfree 5y ago
Rolling blackouts occured during the Groundhog Day Blizzard in 2011 as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis#Back... Competent regulators can see the past and prepare for things that happened a

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