xethos

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by xethos 5d ago
Either the panels are purchased piecemeal, in which case some have to be replaced every year as your rolling stock fail, or they're replaced in large batches - which would be incredibly predictable, suggesting China would not fill one
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by xethos 6d ago
Stating a truth is not adding to the conversation though. A little sad, sure, but grandparent's comment is barely even a building block to kick off a wider conversation, let alone thoughtful or additive on its own. Maybe it doesn&#x2
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by xethos 6d ago
Not to say you're wrong, but BYD could still be price dumping in several markets, while being quietly propped up by the Chinese government. I'm not convinced that's the case, but it's still possible. The kind of corporat
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by xethos 7d ago
It's not the same, it does not run BBOS10, and de-Googled LineageOS will have to do for now (for me). But at least we can get updated internals for the Q20 (and soon the Passport). It'll be the closest we can get to carrying a Bla
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by xethos 7d ago
> Anyway let’s talk about the 30,000+ people Iran has murdered If America wants to play World Police they need to be squeaky clean. Nobody likes a dirty cop. That is the point that's being made, that is the standard America is falli
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by xethos 8d ago
> starting as a learning project to teach engineers that a Browser can be made from scratch by a relatively small team. I even remember the author claiming he did it to occupy himself I'm not even disagreeing with your position (mos
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by xethos 9d ago
> Gosh if Kamala was elected, there'd still be a war in Iran, but we'd pretend it's different. Obama bombed Syria and no one cared. Are we really going to pretend the 51st state rhetoric would be the same with any Democrat
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by xethos 9d ago
A tangent, but a big thank you (to you, and all other developers) for supporting older API levels from someone with devices ranging from Android 8.1 (BlackBerry Key2LE, at minSdk 27) to Android 16 (BlackBerry "Q25", at minSdk 36.1
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by xethos 9d ago
I'm not sure what you would call it, but the Whiskey War sure reads like a running gag between two friends to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
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by xethos 10d ago
"Everyone else enjoying this got screwed, but how much did the one guy get paid do we think?" Having the money to pour into an LLM to find this tautologically means it won't have been a life-chaning amount of money, and does
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by xethos 10d ago
Not much of America's traffic infrastructure works well . Every month, combined with poorly trained motorists, it contributes to another 9/11's worth of fatalities. The infrastructure you think works, kills enough people for
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by xethos 11d ago
Meta argued in court that yes, they did upload when torrenting > Meta’s reasoning is straightforward. Anyone who uses BitTorrent to transfer files automatically uploads content to other people, as it is inherent to the protocol. In other
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by xethos 11d ago
> until they are outlawed. I don't actually ever expect this to happen in North America. Have you seen what motorists get away with? Everything from minor issues (mis-aligned headlights, dead brake lights) to major safety issues (
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by xethos 11d ago
> What you’re describing is a sunroof Pedantic, but more likely to be a moonroof. A sunroof is opaque, while a moonroof is the clear or mild-to-moderately tinted glass panel we've all grown used to.
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by xethos 12d ago
Precisely - Carney can't tariff Albertan oil without stoking seperatist rhetoric, which Smith is using as a political tool instead of stating outright Alberta will always be part of a Canada, and shutting down the [real or manufactured
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by xethos 12d ago
The trade war was claimed to be in part kicked off by a trade deficit - meaning Alberta is simultaneously a major cause of the trade war (by moving so much of their oil south for things refinement, and contributing to the trade imbalance)
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by xethos 13d ago
I get your point, and adore my Fiero, but most software updates to cellphones are required because they're networked. Cars don't have to be, nor (IMO) should be internet-connected. So if the CPU in the infotainment system was suff
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by xethos 13d ago
I haven't seen it spelled out, either here or in TFA: Is uBlock Origin, and thus Firefox, required? Or is uBlock Origin Lite, and therefore a Chromium-based browser, sufficient? Which one blocked the homebrew attack you mentioned? Beca
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by xethos 14d ago
"Everything" would include the microphone, both in the remote and the TV. They're claiming to split off the audio, with one path going to the speakers (and there to your ears), and the other path being hashed (and from there
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by xethos 17d ago
12 years, not 15, but there are currently BlackBerry Classic shipping with modern internals. I love mine, though I've flashed LineageOS for Android 16 https://zinwa.com/
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by xethos 18d ago
> But those consequences will have been arrived at honestly The problem with that is that Republican voters will not be the first, and certainly not the only, people to experience those consequences. Nor will they be the ones to suffer t
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by xethos 21d ago
I mean, flipping back and forth between Mollweide and Equal-Earth (what they went with), I see only minor differences, with distortion seemingly favouring Equal-Earth. What's the rationale for having such a strong preference, especiall
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by xethos 23d ago
Most tech companies didn't end up in a public relations fight with the FBI to defend the rights of a domestic terrorist. To do so was the right thing, as it meant standing up for everyone ; giving up on the rights of the unpopular mea
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by xethos 1mo ago
Outside America, profit does not push every other motivation to the bottom of the pool to drown Though for the more terminally American founders here: reception filling in intake forms and charging one-time admission and diagnostic fees f
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by xethos 1mo ago
Yes, you've made the right call trusting Apple with this, the company with famously-good backwards-compatibility and long-lived support for third-party software /s
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by xethos 2mo ago
I'd expect it to be cross-pollination from Instagram being tied to Threads
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by xethos 2mo ago
The courts, eventually-probably. What this does to the business environment and future endeavours regarding clean energy, however, is an exercise left to the reader
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by xethos 2mo ago
In this context? Being able to put your foot down and say fuck Google, I will no longer put up with the anti-user direction of their platform, and switch to something outside the duopoly
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by xethos 2mo ago
This actually depends on who has better SEO. Some scam numbers place higher than the help pages for actual businesses. Receiving physical bills and calling the number on the back of your credit or debit card are good suggestions. Or, as ano
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by xethos 2mo ago
I agree, but I'd also challenge you to find a cellphone that a normal person carries that doesn't just concatonate multiple messages and turn them into MMS. My Pinephone and Librem 5 did that, but that reinforces my point: this is

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