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by tpmoney 2y ago
It matters because the original claims I was responding to was that Apples iPhone battery designs are accelerating their path to e-waste relative to a world where these cheaper easily replaced batteries were available and that the (or at le
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Or if you're a bakery, you won't keep two or three cake cooking spots just on case someone comes in witb an extraordinary order, you won't make enough on that to cover the lost opportunity. I think it's always worth
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Yes, the price is relevant compared to the price of a new phone. And for what it's worth, the $120 price point only applies to the pro models, so your entry price is $900. But that aside, again I ask who are these people that are forgo
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by tpmoney 2y ago
What I find interesting in reading this is that it's not particularly surprising in content. And I don't mean that I expected some hugely toxic culture from a youtube company and found it. I mean that the whole document is largely
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by tpmoney 2y ago
They do, but usually you'll find it worded something like "Deliver high value, seamless and synerginized entertainment that frontalizes our strengths and inspires diverse modalities of consumer satisfaction"
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Modern culture is very big on self deprecation and not having respect for the tiny details. If you don't hold yourself to standards, you can avoid people dragging you when you fail to live up to them. Better to say "I'm not a
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I get the feeling, but at the same time, this feels like normal culture gaps. I don't get "sponge bob square pants" but there are people out that that insist it was if not a pinnacle of animation entertainment, then a hugely
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>is obvious until you realize it means, for example, allowing idle time on incredibly expensive machines to favor responsiveness, which just seems wasteful. Weird how things that seem to make sense in one context seem to make no sense in
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Being completely fair to the article writer, it looks like this is all part of coverage for a trade show. Do folks at trade shows usually get multiple hours to personally spend with devices they write about such that we could have expected
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I read that as less about "building on someone else's platform" (though that's still a risk they're taking) and more a youtube / media content producer version of "perfect software doesn't pay the bil
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Because I'd also bet the vast majority of Pinephones sold have been sold as secondary phones to hobbyists and tinkers. And I suspect a good chunk of those have gone into drawer or are otherwise collecting dust unused after the initial
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> are you saying that there should be no difference in behavior between a $30 expense and a $120 expense? I'm saying the number of people who: 1) Would buy a used iPhone 2) Would buy said iPhone so late in its depreciation cyc
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I'd wager out of all the phones in each category sold more Pinephones as a percentage of total sold have become e-waste faster than any model iPhone. Maybe the first couple generation iPhones might have had a faster turn around just on
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by tpmoney 2y ago
You don't have to rent the tools from Apple. Apple will happily sell you just the battery and rent or sell as many or as few of the tools as you like. If you want to use the tools the professionals are going to use, you have that optio
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Sure, at a certain point in every product's lifespan there's a certain point where it doesn't make sense for certain buyers of used products to pay higher prices for replacement parts if lower prices were available. But the c
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Ok, so who the heck is willing to re-use someone else's phone and would do so if they could replace it with a $30 part from Amazon, but because they need to take it to Apple or some other retailer and pay up to $120 to have it replaced
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Not everyone lives near an Apple Store Sure but how many people: 1) don't live near an Apple Store 2) don't live near any AASP (like Best Buy) 3) don't live near any one of the many 3rd party repair shops that do
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>But they want to sell entire $1000+ phone upgrades, not replacement batteries. A comment like this is on every iPhone story and once again I have to ask, who the heck is willing to keep their phone if they can buy a $30 replacement batt
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>Years ago, a project idea I was really interested for a while was to try to write a shell in Rust that works more like PowerShell. So this whole conversation and a different one about python and it's behavior around `exit` vs `exit
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I'm kind of with the OP that it would be nice if linux shells started expanding a bit. I think the addition of the `/dev/tcp` virtual networking files was an improvement, even if it now means my shell has to talk TCP and UDP
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Because I didn't see the edited version when I was writing my original reply and its too late, I want to call out another problem that you graciously overlooked that we can call #2 since it touches neatly on your #1 and #3 items and #2
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>Years ago, a project idea I was really interested for a while was to try to write a shell in Rust that works more like PowerShell. >Where I got stuck was the fundamentals: PowerShell heavily leans on the managed virtual machine and t
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Sure, I'm not arguing that having a set of well defined outputs and passing objects around wouldn't be better. You're talking to someone that often laments that SmallTalk was not more popular. But you'd need to get the e
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>Python problematically decides that returns diminish after the first --- “first” according to developers, that is --- possibility in all cases Eh, that feels pretty arbitrary to me. `quit()` and `exit()` both work, and looking at other
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by tpmoney 2y ago
argparse, because argparse is built in. I'm usually writing shell scripts to automate some process for myself and my co-workers. The last thing I want is for them to have to be fiddling with installing external requirements if I can av
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by tpmoney 2y ago
For fun, I took a crack at your example and came up with this craziness (with the caveat it's late and I didn't spend much time on it), which is made a bit more awkward because grep doesn't do capturing groups: netstat -a
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>Try running a 6 month old Python project that you haven't touched and see if it still runs. My experience has been 6 month of python works fine. In fact, python is my go to these days for anything longer than a 5 line shell script
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by tpmoney 2y ago
On the one hand, being generous in your inputs is always appreciated. On the other hand, the fact that both exit and quit will terminate ruby means the answer to "how do I quit ruby" now has two answers (technically 4 because `qui
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I want to second the recommendation for Mango Jelly Solutions videos. I've tried FreeCAD on and off for years and those videos are the first ones that finally helped me wrap my head around some things and be able to use it for a real p
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Last year's model. Doesn't matter, your argument was that the new features of the current year model are "added simply to make it more expensive." If that's true, the fact that its "last year's model&

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