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by techrat 5y ago
A disease that affects peoples' breathing and you don't think air pollution has anything to do with how severely the outbreak has affected people?
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by techrat 5y ago
> makes their own hardware for it All of their hardware is off the shelf parts, including the case, the motherboard and the drives. I built my own FreeNAS setup using the same components that FreeNAS was selling bundled together at the t
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by techrat 5y ago
You're getting dangerously close to the whole "social credit" style of cost burden. Slippery slope, bud. Now what? Your healthcare costs should go up because you like your eggs fried and with salt instead of hard boiled?
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by techrat 5y ago
It appears only now because you never thought to use it before. People who want a dark mode will actively make it happen, whether or not the OS allows for it as a toggle. > Besides, light mode is much more readable in the sun light Kind
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by techrat 5y ago
The year was given. Suppose it was found as early as 2014 on a device that had since been retired. That's one way to ballpark its creation year.
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by techrat 5y ago
> ...What? Are cops frequently scanning people’s entire phones as a first move now? Some people I know who were arrested during the series of Portland protests last year, whether or not they were even active participants... (you may have
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by techrat 5y ago
CDC says it's outright banned. https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/DDT_FactSheet.html > The United States banned the use of DDT in 1972, but some countries still use the chemical. DDT has also been used in the pa
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by techrat 5y ago
Corporations vs the people who actually made the decision.
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by techrat 5y ago
The 'common cold' is any one of hundreds of different viruses... with many different types of viruses within those hundred+ that are commonly spread. Covid is a specific class of virus (coronavirus) of which there are relatively f
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by techrat 5y ago
Considering DDT was banned in 1972... any suits who were alive during its production and would be behind the decision to dump all of this stuff out into the sea, assuming a median age of 40, would be 89 years old today. TLDR: Those responsi
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by techrat 5y ago
The big problem with Spotify is that they're primarily controlled by the labels with their licensing agreements. All of the majors also own portions of shares within the service. People also don't realise that I heart Radio is Cle
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by techrat 5y ago
If you're to use a hyperbolic example, at least use a plausible one. Equating posting anything online to child murder as an acceptable act undoes any sort of point you could be legitimately making.
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by techrat 5y ago
Still looks better than some distro pages, to be honest....
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by techrat 5y ago
"Youtube" itself is not a source of information. It is a site where people post videos. Journalists post videos on Youtube through BBC, Economist, Washington Post, Nightline/PBS, etc... Does their posting content on Youtube m
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by techrat 5y ago
Not everything ends up turning into a Michael Bay movie when being resolved.
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by techrat 5y ago
Thunderbolt mode over USB C is basically a direct PCIe connection along with DP.
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by techrat 5y ago
> People wear helmets on bicycles, but no one wears a helmet just walking around. When you start off with a false equivalence...
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by techrat 5y ago
Deregulation in this case wouldn't lead to "allowing people to build more houses" but "allowing people to build more * unsafe* houses." Regulations are written in blood.
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by techrat 5y ago
When you throw numbers out like this, you best provide your source in the comment.
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by techrat 5y ago
Because deregulation did wonders for telecoms, energy companies in texas, boeing, subprime mortages, etc...
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by techrat 5y ago
Generally, the 2.4Ghz problem affects everyone and everything. 11 channels, only 3 usable without overlap, that's before you consider other peoples' routers AND other unlicensed equipment on the same spectrum that isn't eve
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by techrat 5y ago
We're currently running into the same problem now with 6E as we had with 5Ghz. All of those dinky cheap shit little IoT devices DON'T USE IT. They're all on 2.4Ghz. 5Ghz promised more spectrum and more usability and mostly ga
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by techrat 5y ago
Every time I try to do the Japanese fold... this is how it ends up: https://i.imgur.com/FBYu2Ry.gif
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by techrat 5y ago
Honey, * everything* gets converted somewhere, somehow. That's what all those components inside our computers do. MicroSD gets converted from SDIO. USB flash drives get converted from their proprietary NAND/Microcontroller config
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by techrat 5y ago
It's in color. It just appears more black and white when in direct sunlight.
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by techrat 5y ago
It uses a USB3 to USB3 bridge. Still faster than MicroSD.
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by techrat 5y ago
Who said the M2 had to be connected to PCIe lanes? https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MHYWJCP | About this item | M.2 SATA SSD Compatibility | The SSD Case accepts any size of M.2 SATA SSD with B-Key or B+M Ke
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by techrat 5y ago
Then that means Raspberry Pi's own OS images are not using the hardware decoders for in Browser streaming.
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by techrat 5y ago
I'm struggling to see the point of getting a CM4 and adding this MirkoPC board to it over just getting a Model B and a case that supports adding an M.2 flash card. As far as Pi as a desktop goes? Sluggish is being generous. Even with 8
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by techrat 5y ago
Iterative designs for multiple generations with minimal IPC improvements across multiple sockets is "phenomenal work"? With all of the processor flaw mitigations, we saw the Lake series effectively lose all of their gains, however

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