xethos

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by xethos 3y ago
> A teacher should never leave the classroom unattended with students inside. I struggle to even imagine your school. My Canadian teachers routinely left to photocopy work, and that's just the one that stuck out when thinking of exa
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> When Steam machines fizzled out Valve just quietly brushed it off and continued investing in the general concept. I remember being really disappointed when they did - I assumed gaming on Linux would be following the same path, because
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> I'm not sure having more app stores is going to change anything for me I'd assume this is exactly the kind of thing that would change how many apps you can get. I avoid the Google Play Store like the plague, because nearly
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Is it possible social isolation due to the global pandemic affected these stats in the last two years?
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> Problem is I cannot get money from the class action settlement since the original infotainment system is already out and I fixed it myself. You only fixed it because it was a problem though. Not a/your lawyer though, so good luc
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> Are there decent alternatives on Android? Either your destination is available on OSMAnd, or it will be after you add it. This is also why I don't understand why people complain about their streets being wrong. Google won't g
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Not OP, but I don't think the point is 3G vs 4G. I think (and hold the same ideal myself) that requirements should be kept as low as feasible. HTML gMail is there, it works, it's unlikely its maintenance would break the bank for G
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> or large urban areas Please tell me your plan is not to have the cars speed up where all the pedestrians are
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This kind of sellout is why we have OpenOffice vs LibreOffice, or Nextcloud instead of Owncloud. If the project stops respecting users, the users can and will leave. And they'll be no worse off, because they can pretty well start off r
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Now you've just alienated two groups: environmentalists that realize cars are bad for the environment, and car people that are interested in driving their own unique vehicles. The former you were never going to get, but the latter coul
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This only works if the "competition" is willing to sell to you (like Apple or Samsung won't) or is roughly on-par with Qualcomm's performance and power consumption (which MediaTek absolutely is not). Otherwise your billi
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by xethos 3y ago
These appear to be exclusively the modem, whereas OP was talking about the System-on-Chip with an integrated modem packaged by Qualcomm.
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Because Amercains bitch about "We can't build anything anymore" otherwise? Because a ready and well-practiced, upskilled workforce is important to a country, in everything to thr economy to wartime preparedness? Because Ameri
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The trillion dollar behemoth famous for having few models can afford to stock parts for seven years. Can Motorola, or the smartphone or laptop arm of Lenovo (industries with famously low margins) justify staying in the space and competing w
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Depends how few people you interact with on a day-to-day basis
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> I would argue they always were. I would posit we can't even get healthcare without bias for people that aren't straight white men. There are subtle differences in body composition between men and women, doubly so for larger (
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It wasn't (initially) the broken-ness of IE6. It was "We build the page the Microsoft way or it doesn't work for 90% of web users".
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> When I want to browse privately I'll do it a different way. And that's great for you . But a reasonable society at least attempts to look out for the slowest of us. Sometimes that means social assistance, here it means defau
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by xethos 3y ago
Yes and yes: I use syncthing, and I just want it to make the changes in the background. My best case scenario is never opening the Syncthing app again, because it's quietly doing it's thing in the background, sometimes on data. Ot
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> Instead the routing algorithm should improve Where's the feedback to the routing algorithm? I thought graphhopper / OSM was sent to users without feedback.
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by xethos 3y ago
Do you think it would be drastically different if the NDP ceased to be, or would actual-NDP voters likely bite the bullet and vote Liberal should their party drop out? More directly: FPTP is a problem, but the Conservatives wouldn't ha
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by xethos 3y ago
KeyOne, not Bold, but: To this day I use (and prefer) my KeyOne to anything else - though I do occasionally try to switch to the Pinephone Pro. It's just... better. Better battery life, better typing (including blind or without looking
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One of the founders / Co-CEOs wanted to do just this. He was over-ruled, and sometimes I wonder which one is more bitter about (effectively) losing their company - Jim (IIRC), who played Cassandra and was ignored, or Mike, who didn&#x2
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Or have a near-identical room to train on, and relatively thin walls in between, say, apartment units, to allow the signal through. This won't account for differences in furniture, but I'd imagine, over time, one could filter out
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Are you sure about that double negative?
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Arguably this is because gas taxes are too low, instead of the EV annual tax being too high.
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by xethos 3y ago
> partly due to CAFE standards Posted above; CAFE plays a larger role than you might assume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azI3nqrHEXM
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> Microsoft acts like their OS is free Because it effectively is. Between the discounted OEM pre-installed copy (effectively free to the casual user), the people happy enough with "Please activate Windows" in the corner and mos
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> which only works half the time anyway In case it can be as useful for you, or anyone else, as it has been for me: https://www.fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/frm-eng/MMCN-9E...
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> Does anyone keep a phone for close to 8 years? Ask and ye shall receive: I'm actually a little over 6 years into my BlackBerry KeyOne (though I will concede that I am an outlier). > if you could replace the battery, the physica

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