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by simfree 1y ago
If your not paying, then it really does not matter. 10Gbps equipment is pretty spendy
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by simfree 1y ago
The new Intel NUCs are only like a hundred something dollars for an N150 CPU and come with 16 gigs of RAM and a SSD. Why pay so much more to fight an uphill battle? Unless you desperately need the hot garbage that is Xcode there isn't
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by simfree 1y ago
Wait times for healthcare are insane in the states, getting gall stones broken up with ultrasound (lithotripsy) is something that is booking 9 months out in the Pacific Northwest. Need a CPAP? The mandatory sleep studys slots for 6 months f
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by simfree 1y ago
Main brand is even cheaper when you have a business account. It's only people with few lines that get railed on postpaid wireless.
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by simfree 1y ago
Question, do you have a version for Android? I see it's not in the Play Store yet, and the APK download link does not work (ditto for MacOS and Windows download links).
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by simfree 1y ago
A decrease in search quality has damaged trust with the userbase, making crummy, unreliable data sources like LLMs seem much more viable.
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by simfree 1y ago
The whole system that supports TSMC will break down in the event of a war. You can see this with SMIC and their inability to get modern lithography systems from the only leading edge vendor ASML. Sure, you can create your own vendors to rep
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by simfree 1y ago
Signal's desktop app is slower to load and has less features than Element Desktop, despite both using the same stack of Electron and Sqlite.
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by simfree 1y ago
I think the concept of a user having an existing Gmail account if they aren't in the Google ecosystem is a bit of hubris. There are many people I run across who bypassed the whole Gmail and Google Workspace ecosystems and have rolled a
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by simfree 1y ago
Flaky, unreliable, not web standards compliant, hosted services suck to deal with. Who needs to add a CORS header to allow Sentry.io or Cloudflare's metrics to work on this 2014 era SaaS that the developer has wandered away from?
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by simfree 1y ago
You certainly can put a GFCI outlet adjacent a toilet, sink or in any other wet space. Please don't spread electrical code myths.
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by simfree 1y ago
You should already have a circuit breaker at the panel. A GFCI outlet is needed if your breaker is not GFCI already, but this receptacle is something that isn't terribly expensive.
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by simfree 2y ago
Another one bites the dust. MMS and email use the same protocol with minor differences under the hood. Since the FCC abdicated their regulatory power over texting during the first Trump administration under Ajit Pai, T-Mobile, AT&T &amp
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by simfree 2y ago
Zelle works well enough for doing small (eg: only a few thousand dollars or less) instant transfers for free, and ACH works well enough for large transfers. Our banking ecosystem is extremely fragmented with thousands of small banks and cre
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by simfree 2y ago
Mesh networks like https://guifi.net have been reliably delivering internet longer than you have been a member of HN. There are many mesh networks with Autonomous Systems Numbers, peering at internet exchanges, etc. You don&#x27
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by simfree 2y ago
Corporate socialism is what you are describing. It makes little sense outside of the Fortune 500, but they can throw good money after bad projects like replatforming onto internal tech, creating massive technical debt in the procof ss and a
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by simfree 2y ago
Microsoft force upgraded most clients to Copilot included licenses. Nothing says Microsoft won't further change their arbitrary pricing and bundling structure.
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by simfree 2y ago
Outsource mailservers to competent vendors like MXRoute at near zero cost. Stop focusing on the components that are pennies per user to outsource.
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by simfree 2y ago
MXRoute plus Nextcloud is a viable groupware alternative, generally at a much lower cost per user. One of the bonus features being your email is much less likely to disappear within Outlook.com's mailservers. Not sure what is going sid
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by simfree 2y ago
Purelymail's About page lists one person, and the product is in beta. MXRoute has years of track record, more than 1 employee, and has good tools like IMAPSync to enable easy duplication of your emails for backup or migration to a diff
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by simfree 2y ago
We aren't other state insurance systems, though. Instead, we have a divided and fractured jigsaw and heavy lobbying to keep it that way.
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by simfree 2y ago
Does dialup work on these Mac Minis?
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by simfree 2y ago
The parts are nowhere near as inexpensive as a popular ThinkPad model, and the quality issues (rare UEFI updates compared to the competition, poor speakers that rattle, weak hinges, etc) are notable. I had to buy a friends Framework 13 to
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by simfree 2y ago
FOSS washing software is similarly frustrating. When I see a license on a project I expect that project will provide the code under that license and function fully at runtime, not play games of "Speak to a sales rep to flip that bit o
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by simfree 2y ago
What crap did Ting pull on you? Their aggressive data throttling always rubbed me the wrong way, along with the Extreme data pricing, considering it was on Sprint's terrible network.
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by simfree 2y ago
So it adds no value over the long, randomly generated passwords from a password manager besides making a new standard and giving Microsoft a reason to push a new dark pattern on users to force higher uptake rates of this new, bespoke standa
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by simfree 2y ago
Intel N100 and N95 MiniPCs are cheap as chips, the last one I bought was $60 and had 8GB of RAM and 256GB of NVMe SSD, plus it included the power adapter and two ethernet ports.
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by simfree 2y ago
Broken link
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by simfree 2y ago
The finer grained performance per watt vs silicon cost set in the context of use case is just lost in HN hardware conversations like this that ignore total cost of ownership, vendor politics and such. Everyone is buying the tool that does t
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by simfree 2y ago
If there are only a handful of operators in a given industry and they use the same billing format, why not? Create a known good OCR to calculation mechanism, then generate reports based off it. If it is inaccurate, its probably a small amou

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