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by wolrah 3y ago
> There were five revisions in the first 36 months of the Xbox 360's life: Zephyr was pretty much just a Xenon board with HDMI hardware added, and Opus was a Falcon with HDMI hardware removed, so I count Falcon/Opus as the firs
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by wolrah 3y ago
> They did? They had a very generous policy where you were covered for three years after purchase, in which time they would repair or replace the hardware free of charge. If you RRoD'd in the later span of that, you would almost def
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Given the RROD, I don't think its worth putting time into Xbox360. Unless there has been some development on the 360 hardware, I doubt people will be using theirs for too long. You're 15 years behind on this one. While the or
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by wolrah 3y ago
> We really need an EV-like fast charger standard for electronics. We already have it, the fastest charging phones charge their batteries faster than the fastest charging EVs. Battery charge and discharge rate generally scales linearly w
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by wolrah 3y ago
You are mostly right for passenger vehicles, but in the specific context of commercial trucks most of those disadvantages are substantially reduced or eliminated. > - Your vehicle design will be less efficient and more expensive than one
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by wolrah 3y ago
If the author or anyone else with the ability to update Wikipedia's code itself is reading this, I have a suggestion for some low-hanging fruit that wastes a lot more than 300ms for all sorts of users, not just those on low-end mobile
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by wolrah 3y ago
> There is a third flavour where the municipality owns a PON service, and operates it as a for-profit service, exploiting the citizens as a monopoly at profit margins way higher than it would be feasible if run as a private company. Woul
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by wolrah 3y ago
> (as opposed to crowding out competition) How many places are you aware of in the US that have legitimate broadband competition? As in two or more independent providers offering gigabit or greater service with comparable real world per
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by wolrah 3y ago
It's no longer true that APKs are signed by the developer, but it is still true that it is signed in such a way that a third party APK mirror site could not tamper with the file without being detectable. Google could have tampered with
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by wolrah 3y ago
You're thinking about the federal government. This is about local governments developing last mile networks for the benefit of their residents.
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by wolrah 3y ago
> All of the ones I've seen have allowed you to just turn that stuff off, but even if you can't, you can approximate it by setting router rules that just forward everything to your real router. The BGW320 gateway that AT&T
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Can't you buy your own cable modem and use that? Unfortunately no, Armstrong did not support bringing your own modem. It could technically be done prior to DOCSIS 2.0 but it was never officially allowed. In the US providers are n
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by wolrah 3y ago
Unfortunately while 192.168.100.1 as a diagnostic web interface was reliable for many years, more recently a lot of cable companies have been locking down even these read-only interfaces preventing users from accessing useful data about sig
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by wolrah 3y ago
I read the headline as "Ken Griffey's..." and was a lot more interested.
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by wolrah 3y ago
If you're looking at it a few times a year even if you don't know what you're looking at after a few times any substantial changes should be notable. On top of that I'd imagine most people who do their own oil changes a
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by wolrah 3y ago
> But the unix way feels better to me, so I change windows. I'm with you as well. Sometimes you don't have a choice when dual-booting, MS-DOS only wants to work in local time while on the opposite end of the spectrum MacOS onl
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by wolrah 3y ago
All machines of meaningful complexity need maintenance if you expect them to last, including EVs, and a fluid change that happens twice a year for most vehicles isn't exactly a huge inconvenience. IMO getting under your vehicle twice a
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Doesn't this also mean that a deepfake presented as evidence of crime makes you guilty until proven innocent? It means the same thing that's always been true remains true. If a prosecutor (or one side in a civil case) presen
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by wolrah 3y ago
As an early adopter of the Vive (didn't preorder but bought within the first few weeks) who also has a Quest 2, the "good-enough" part of your previous post is definitely open to interpretation. I will say I agree with using
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by wolrah 3y ago
For anyone interested in why VirtualLink didn't go anywhere, one of the limiting factors was that USB 3 and above is entirely separate from USB 2 and below. Normal USB-C DP Alt Mode delivers either four lanes of DP and USB 2 or two lan
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by wolrah 3y ago
E-fuses are commonly used to prevent downgrade attacks, where a system that only boots signed content can be tricked in to booting older versions with known vulnerabilities that can then be chained in to a full exploit. Many of us first enc
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by wolrah 3y ago
> And when h.264 hardware encoding is not available ? It's still orders of magnitude better than X over network, in my personal experience. I used to watch videos over RDP served from a 300MHz Pentium II with a graphics card from ba
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by wolrah 3y ago
The official firmware limits the device to only being able to transmit on frequencies officially supported by the CC1101 chip that handles this range. It's technically capable of transmitting across a wider range but the manufacturer
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by wolrah 4y ago
While you are correct, if the knob was only used for a single task, most car stereos I've used in the digital era give multiple roles to any knob(s) they may have. In the common configuration with one knob on each side the default mod
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by wolrah 4y ago
Yes, but they don't really "wear out" to get that way, just some debris ends up blocking either the sensor itself or some amount of the openings in the wheel. It's a random event rather than an inherent result of age or
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by wolrah 4y ago
> So much for the 2025 end date I kept hearing. Only applies to the versions few people have. All the Microsoft articles linked show the October 2025 date. I have no idea where the article is getting those dates from.
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I can't recall seeing a single car that used a potentiometer for the volume control, and I've had cars from the early 90's all the way to today. They've all used encoders. That's because the switch happened ear
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I guess that's what we get when a rotary encoder is much much less expensive than a 4-6 gang potentiometer. Also a rotary encoder doesn't age in the same way as a potentiometer. A potentiometer can wear out the area being us
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by wolrah 4y ago
> So the secret is to first stream a safe video that will purposely trigger a false positive, and then switch to a pirate stream later on. Or just make it look at a glance like a safe stream: https://www.polygon.com/2017&
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by wolrah 4y ago
> To me the screen is the least interesting part of CarPlay, I was fine with my phone screen when I was using bluetooth. It is more important to me that it's a wired digital protocol that matches the car's built-in controls. Fo

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