xethos

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by xethos 2y ago
Unironically, Google Play Services This isn't my simply having a go at Google, either. Google's assumption is that everyone is on a device released in the last 4 years - it's hard to argue with, and must be all but impossible
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by xethos 2y ago
Your phrasing implies you blame high tax rates, but I'd first attack this from the opposite end: the market for housing has not been leaving enough in your pocket, with capital (whether morgage lenders with interest rates, or, more lik
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by xethos 2y ago
I thought "Don't worry about it, because you won't get an answer. Also if you don't do it a specific way, things will break" was Apple's methodology. I miss the old Google way. The geeky engineers that said &qu
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by xethos 2y ago
> Then I learned that the maintenance cost [...] was on the order of $3 million/year. And you assume the previous system cost $0 annually for maintenance?
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by xethos 2y ago
None of this solves the simple visual of "I'm running out of cash in my wallet, better slow spending down" I could log in to my bank online and check, I could keep a mental tally of "I spent this here and that much there
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by xethos 2y ago
The lower mainland (just outside Vancouver) has the Millenium Line extension. It was, when planned and built, called a train to nowhere. It doesn't go to nowhere anymore :)
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by xethos 2y ago
> it's like <3% in the U.S. for example, not sure about Denmark Sure, but TFA and this discussion is about Denmark, where "...agriculture is the country’s biggest source of emissions". Further on in TFA, "The globa
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by xethos 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_brake_(aeronautics)
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by xethos 2y ago
I'm doubtful outsourcing + shipping will be more expensive than raising wages + shipping - because tooling and automotive/aerospace parts are used further away than the machine shop door, shipping is a cost regardless. Sure, shipp
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by xethos 2y ago
> [Costco] aren't making any money on it Perhaps not the point you were trying to make, but they almost certainly are. Per the cofounder and (in 2018), CEO, Craig Jelenik: > we [Costco] took it over and started manufacturing our
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by xethos 2y ago
Even on (outdated) Mobian stable (that is, Mo bile De bian ), my Pinephone Pro is fast and stable enough to be my daily carry. And has been for some time now.
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by xethos 2y ago
Tim Horton's has been sued for doing this exact thing [0]. They absolutely tracked when customers patronised other chains, like Burger King, which custtomers would have "consented" to. They may not have kept the data, but pul
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by xethos 2y ago
I found it in Fred Vogelstein's "Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution" [0]. Decent read, not amazing IMO, but with fun tidbits about the iPhone / Android launches [0] https://lib
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by xethos 2y ago
People will scoff and say "Yeah, but all kinds of companies have internal firewalls, big deal". But no, these were literal walls that would appear over a weekend and suddenly part of the campus was off-limits to those not on the i
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by xethos 2y ago
Parent stated you earn less per hour , not in total. Tax rate stays below 100%, but increases as you earn more
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by xethos 2y ago
> No, you can't run docker containers on your phone. Respectfully: The hell I can't! - Sent from my daily (and exclusive) carry, a Pinephone Pro
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by xethos 2y ago
You kind of have to pick an argument though. Are your parents tech-illiterate, or are they routinely doing CAD, simulation, and manufacturing work? Being tech-illiterate is where Linux shines. Point them to a browser, set up unattended-upgr
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by xethos 2y ago
Based on a very brief search: Samsung's fastest NVME drives [0] could maybe keep up with the slowest DDR2 [1]. DDR5 is several orders of magnitude faster than both [2]. Maybe in a decade you can hit 2008 speeds, but I wouldn't con
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by xethos 2y ago
> the level of attention of ordinary human driving is not enough. If that is the case, FSD Beta is accidents waiting to happen and should be removed from public roads. Respectfully, that's the point . People have been stating this
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by xethos 2y ago
Not OP, but I'm not going to pay money and spend more time and effort to still break the law for the eventual-same result. Ripping DVDs and Bluray disks requires breaking the encryption. The keys have leaked, it's relatively eas
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by xethos 2y ago
I have a BlackBerry KeyOne (and Key2, and Key2LE). That will be my last Android, as far as I'm concerned. Due to background services getting killed, I'd miss messages through every Matrix client I tried. If I tell my OS to run a p
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by xethos 2y ago
They're likely going to cite the OKCupid study, but leave out the part that the study applied to messages, not long-term partners. Polygamy may be on the rise, but not enough to account for the "multiple women per man" theory
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by xethos 2y ago
The lack of encryption between myself and a business is less offensive than replacing an open standard (plain old telephone systems, eMail) with a proprietary and closed one, backed by a single, private corporation
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by xethos 2y ago
That's kind of the crazy part though - how the hell does something you use and abuse every day, that you by definition leave out in the elements, not depreciate? Or at the very least, it is messed up that the depreciation is so minimal
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by xethos 2y ago
I mentioned to a coworker I'm not rich enough to use my credit card, or even debit card, for everything. People tend to spend more using credit vs cash (0,1). Anecdotally, I noticed the same thing when I was younger, and since switchin
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by xethos 2y ago
When everyone assumed it was the jump seat pilot that made the report to the FAA, of course the union would step in - at that point, the appearance is that one pilot outside of their (SWAPA) union is causing problems and taking things too f
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by xethos 2y ago
> only argument for investing in carbon capture today seems to be to allow the technology to mature > CDR currently removes about 3bn tonnes of CO2 from the air every year, of which almost 100% comes from land-based methods, *such as
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by xethos 2y ago
Not OP, but presumably Switzerland is "in the EU" the same way Hawai'i is in the ocean. It's objectively above sea level, and not literally in the ocean. But when you're surrounded by ocean to that extent, it can ha
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by xethos 3y ago
No, but the ratio of data I use to data available per billing period, coupled with excellent coverage, meant being on data vs wifi made no difference whatsoever. It served absolutely no purpose. Same with the battery icon. When you plug in
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by xethos 3y ago
I routinely hid the cellular, battery, and VPN indicators on my KeyOne. This isn't unique to Samsung, it's available via ADB. They might expose it, and allow non-geeks to use it, but that hardly makes it a Samsung feature to anyon

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