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by xethos 1y ago
Presuming it is industry-standard (not my industry, so I'm not about to concede the point), that doesn't make it less draconian.
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by xethos 1y ago
Even more damning, diesel is objectively, inarguably more expensive to run, costing more than four times as much as [Vancouver's] battery-electric busses in fuel/electricity. Even looking purely at the financials, diesel is fucked
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by xethos 1y ago
If you work for the government, shouldn't it?
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by xethos 1y ago
That's a great headline. Eye-catching and engaging, with guanteed opnions for the reader to be sucked in by. It gets less great when we recall that every month, roughly the same number of Americans die due to automobile accidents as di
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by xethos 1y ago
> definition of "adult" Were someone to attempt to pinpoint the exact moment you begin talking past each other, this is where I'd say to look. Legally, you're right; legally, we kind of need a hard line to for all kin
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by xethos 1y ago
Aegis authenticator backups can be imported into Gnome Authenticator. I'm using it, I know it works, but I don't recall the format GA requires
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by xethos 1y ago
This would be fair if Google hadn't altered the deal only after creating the circular "People only upload to YouTube" / "All the viewers are on YouTube" YouTube would not be effectively the only game in town
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by xethos 1y ago
It's "rare" in that Apple, BlackBerry / RIM, and (seemingly, though I never used it) Windows Mobile all supported it. It was only ever Google that didn't The fact they now make up half the market is what makes it ra
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by xethos 1y ago
The deal with Youtube was always presented as "You watch a couple ads, we show you a couple videos" Google has dramatically altered that deal, and now shows much longer, less-likely-to-be-skippable ads, with much higher frequency.
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by xethos 1y ago
> None of the cutting edge nodes are, or will be, produced in the US by TSMC. They are all produced in Asia, and the fabs in US will be X years behind. I don't doubt you, and I think you'll be right for some time. I also think
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by xethos 1y ago
Beyond "Statistics and anecdotes are different", there's probably some heavy selection bias presented in "Spaniards that had the wealth to emmigrate"
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by xethos 1y ago
No, but it hardly seems irrelevant when root comment links a Canadian Broadcast Corporation story about Canadian Mom'n'Pop stores
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by xethos 1y ago
> a policy targetting China has collateral damage. It is still a policy from someone threatening economic annexation of Canada. He's dropped the rhetoric, but I doubt he's given up on the concept. "Targeting China" is
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by xethos 1y ago
You don't. People are already impersonating law enforcement, because law enforcement is trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want all the authority and control, while trying to be indistinguishable from random vigilantes with
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by xethos 1y ago
Note that this improves reliability for suspending the modem, not power draw while the modem is awake. The Pinephone (and Pro's) modem stil runs circles around the L5's modem for power draw and data reliability, and I say that hav
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by xethos 1y ago
I used a Pinephone Pro as a daily carry. It wasn't actually the lack of apps that killed it for me. Fractal, the Gnome Matrix client, was great. Phone calls were functional, Mobile Thunderbird (thanks to PmOS packagers), Mobile Firefox
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by xethos 1y ago
Then why were there so many more distos, matrix channels, and general discussion for the Pinephone, while the Librem 5 is scarecly mentioned?
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by xethos 1y ago
I can hit 40-60 WPM on a BlackBerry keyboard, but a chicklet keyboard is too much for honest-to-god software developers? The small screen is equally ludicrous. The desktops of a few decades ago had lower resolution on physically smaller dis
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by xethos 1y ago
> I would like to see some other company take a real swing at this product space but with a less strict approach around the hardcore open-everything ideals That... kind of was what happened. Purism released the Librem 5, and people were
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by xethos 1y ago
If we accept that the right to privacy is real, that not being followed, watched, and monitored every hour of my life, is something democratic societies should strive for: Why do criminals have more rights than I do?
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by xethos 1y ago
> As a free-market worshipper I have some concerns about this But it's the government (via the TSA) that gates not only customers, but also the employees (as they must at least be able to pass through the TSA, though admittedly the
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by xethos 1y ago
> Apple, Nvidia, and Google all have significant chip manufacturing operations No, they all (as well as AMD) all have significant chip designing operations. Not one of them can actually fabricate their own chips. Every single one of th
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by xethos 1y ago
> that could just lead to more dangerous forms of transportation like e-bikes or scooters. Yeah, removing mass and decreasing velocity, while increasing sightlines and the controller's stake in avoiding accidents, is much more dan
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by xethos 1y ago
For sure. When it's Bush, Obama, Reagan or Kennedy, America is the leader of the Free World and what every other nation should strive to be. When it's Trump the government doesn't accurately reflect the will of the people. &#
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by xethos 1y ago
Google actually ripped VoIP support out of the native dialer several years ago https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-killing-native-sip...
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by xethos 1y ago
Careful what you wish for, Ford has played with the idea at least once before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
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by xethos 1y ago
Must have been a good while ago, as we're currently at $0.29 CAD for blank CDs and... nothing else. Nothing on uSD cards, nothing for floppies, hard drives and SSDs are levy-free,and blank Blu-Ray discs have no extra charge I'd ac
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by xethos 1y ago
The writers and editors understand that privacy is central to their lifestyle and work - few sources will allow exclusively on-the-record interviews. The accountants that pay the writers and editors believe that, to make the math work of &q
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by xethos 1y ago
Equivocating child sexual abuse with the dude drawing consentual fan-fic or furry porn feels disingenuous at best, and more like bad faith though. Because you're not wrong, the mainstream is fairly narrow, but to say the credit card
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by xethos 1y ago
This isn't an "I believe..." / "Do you believe..." kind of issue though. This is "Will the American State and Federal government impose an increasingly stringent moral compass on the wider internet, over t

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