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by simfree 2y ago
What would be considered ruined Leaf EV batteries that have significant range loss (20% to 50% degradation, for a car that went around 60 miles with a full battery) are being used to cover peak load right now in California and have been use
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by simfree 2y ago
Oh, you get to choose between AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, and you can jump between the three networks at whim with US Mobile. Travelling to a remote area? Jump to AT&T. Similarly, want mmWave coverage at a stadium? Jump to T-Mobile.
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by simfree 2y ago
Take a look at US Mobile's plans, their Customer Sevucd is responsive and you will pay significantly less for two unlimited lines and their roaming won't randomly brick on ya like Fi has been doing to their customer. Deathstar is
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by simfree 2y ago
Yo, what is going on with Fi support? They keep hanging up on customers: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/comments/1dw77i3/replaceme...
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by simfree 2y ago
Being dependent on Google as a partner especially on a platform they are actively disinvesting from is a very risky idea. There is no domestic roaming, no network diversity, and their agreement with T-Mobile is worse than most of the other
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by simfree 2y ago
That T-Mobile is out here slapping spam mitigation blocks on phone numbers who received SHAFT content from numbers on T-Mobile's network is pretty ridiculous, but silently blocking and providing no appeal or escalation path is just how
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by simfree 2y ago
Your call logs, texts and data usage pattern, DNS queries and such are hard to protect from the underlying carrier on a wireless network. Using an MVNO that is a separate entity from the underlying network (ideally with multi-network access
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by simfree 2y ago
Spam mitigation and management is a huge bugaboo in wireless networks today. The big three wireless carriers in the USA today formed a cartel called The Campaign Registry that seeks out TINs/EINs and the SSNs of the owners of Sole Prop
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by simfree 2y ago
This data is valuable primarily for spam mitigation and perhaps customer profiling. Expect every SMS and MMS sent or received to be part of a spam mitigation and profiling program where it's stored indefinitely. Apple not encrypting RC
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by simfree 2y ago
I still remember the day that AT&T came out and discounted all Fire phones to 99 cents on a zero-term contract for postpaid customers. The phone had only been out for a few weeks at the point, the sales and return numbers must have been
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by simfree 2y ago
Shipping a 1366 by potato screen phone with an outdated version of Android, and an app store that was missing most apps. AT&T could only push that pile of crap so far, they really did have their sales teams push it hard though. Very har
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by simfree 2y ago
Amazon can never keep people long enough to actually ship a video game. No one involved trusts Amazon to actually employ them 2 years from now, thus Amazonians have an extremely short-term mindset. It's not like they can't look ac
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by simfree 2y ago
Especially when you exit talent on constant hamster wheel that they run. It really is a great way to light money on fire though!
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by simfree 2y ago
Water transport of goods is still a thriving business. Crops from farmers in the Columbia River Basin (Oregon, Washington, Idaho) get loaded as far inland as Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Dealing with BNSF and Union Pacific Railways is much mo
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by simfree 2y ago
Either your living somewhere that is very hot for a good chunk of the year and has a rapidly increasing cost of living, or your stuck in the rustbelt. Most of these cities aren't renown for their access to mountains or large state and
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by simfree 2y ago
The DIY edition is much more reasonable, starting at $799 for a Framework 13 AMD. Buying RAM elsewbere for half the cost and bringing your SSD from your prior system can allow you stay below $1000.
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by simfree 2y ago
A good credit union will bring loans to the board of trustees and often approve them when no Bank will. For most individuals, building a relationship with a local credit union is an asset in and of itself.
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by simfree 2y ago
What do you think of the wave of companies trying to cash in on inexpensive labor from countries in Africa? My experience working as a vendor to a company that hired Zimworks out of Zimbabwe was rather underwhelming. Pastoral care was all t
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by simfree 2y ago
The guards aren't properly mounted (or perhaps lack sufficient rigidity & mounting points) if they are rattling and rubbing. It's worth it to invest in good guards to keep the mud off your bike!
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by simfree 2y ago
The only RCS clients that are in use support axlotol ratchet encryption. Apple could literally take the MIT licensed implementation that Matrix wrote and got audited and slap that into their RCS implementation if they cared to support this
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by simfree 2y ago
TL;DR: Our medical billing practices in the USA are fraud. Medical practices bill an insanely high amount with zero upfront disclosure while demanding every bit of personal information (employers past and present, educational history, SSN,
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by simfree 2y ago
Functional municipal governments handle garbage collection, building recreation centers with pools, cleaning up green spaces when people dump tires, mowing overgrown sidewalks and controlling vermin. I've personally had my city pick up
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by simfree 2y ago
Telegram does not support group message encryption, and encryption is off by default for direct messages. At no point has Telegram been a leader in End to End encryption. If you like the thought of the United Arab Emirates having access to
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by simfree 2y ago
MMS is part of standard cellphone plans and supports group messaging. Most people can't tell when they are sending a SMS or MMS, it just works. That your carrier had such abusive SMS & MMS rates that it pushed people to Over The To
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by simfree 2y ago
Or you could just run Debian and not have to make an online account at all. Opting out is possible, and the barriers to doing so have dropped massively as hardware vendors have brought full support to Linux and software vendors like Steam h
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by simfree 2y ago
Being told not to physically intervene in a dangerous situation and then being fired when you disobey company policy is unsurprising. Filling out a form to request another team review an account is entirely different. No one is physically i
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by simfree 2y ago
Google knowingly made their search results shittier and shittier for years in pursuit of improved KPIs, to the point that alternative search engines are better, and so are LLMs that occasionally hallucinate or outright crash.
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by simfree 2y ago
Come to Seattle, meet the white collar employees they burn through at an alarming rate. The way Amazon operates is a meat grinder, even for most of their white collar workforce the churn is significantly higher than other tech companies in
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by simfree 2y ago
You have steadfastly spread the good word in spite of undue negativity directed towards the Matrix ecosystem. Thank you for your hard work on making Matrix better for everyone and explaining why in depth! You make the world a better place!
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by simfree 2y ago
This is pretty rich coming from the founder of Telegram, which doesn't have any End to End encryption by default, nor are group chats encrypted in any way. Client devices have many routes of compromise available, it's very possibl

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