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by xnyan 2y ago
> One connector broke and was impossible to replace. This is not a solution that would help the wheelchair user, but if you have a set of inexpensive ($10 bought in the US, less from china) 3" digital calipers, you could likely meas
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by xnyan 2y ago
Not a clue, but according to AT&T in the article below "It is already present in all Apple and Android smartphones. An AT&T spokesperson told Fierce via email, "There is no need to deploy anything new for smartphones.&quot
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by xnyan 2y ago
According to AT&T, yes they can get your GPS location. In this article they claim they only do so when the user is making a 911 call, to which I say “yeah right”. https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/10/2306577
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by xnyan 2y ago
If you have the equipment, it's the most consistent and least risky option. Purpose designed CNC mills are not even that expensive in terms of shop equipment, maybe 3-4k.
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by xnyan 2y ago
>Why not upgrade it to an amount of storage you couldn’t otherwise get He's running a repair shop, so used market. >But. Uh. For all that work The difference between 128GB and 512GB on the used iPhone 15 market is $200+. he'
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by xnyan 2y ago
He's applying flux (appears to be a kind of rosin) by vaporizing it. Oxidation contaminates or prevents solder from joining, soldering flux (often rosin) is an acid that removes oxidation.
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by xnyan 2y ago
First, sanctions on Iran have zero to do with its authoritarian government - the US has no problem selling to authoritarian governments - but rather the geopolitical conflict stemming from a slew of lovely US actions such as overthrowing th
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by xnyan 3y ago
As others have said, Pi now supports USB boot. An inexpensive USB to sata adaptor and a 128GB SSD (~$15) is the most inexpensive option to get started and performs very well.
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by xnyan 3y ago
> Given the type of government service they’re going to get—one run by New Yorkers, not Swedes or Japanese—are they wrong? You won’t hear me argue the NY state legislature is not deficient and/or corrupt. pushing back against monopo
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by xnyan 3y ago
While I believe lobbing as practiced is actual corruption, it’s totally legal in the US. Legality aside, there are a not insignificant number of people who truly believe that private industry is invariably better than government at providin
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by xnyan 3y ago
That number is meaningless without also considering US GDP (even if you write trillion in caps). The US averages about 14% government spending as a fraction of GDP, placing it at ~90/140. For the size of the US economy, spending should
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by xnyan 3y ago
> Why is it a surprise that employees who are essentially unfirable. A government needs employees right? One way to attract and retain employees is to offer competitive wages, another is to offer a relatively low workload and high job st
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by xnyan 3y ago
I don't know of any published numbers about specific user count (would be very interested to see them), but in terms of deployments it's gone from more than half on prem in 2018 to ~16% in 2023. Of that 16%, I wonder how many user
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by xnyan 3y ago
Apparently the newer ones are significantly improved. https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/baofeng-spectral-p...
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by xnyan 3y ago
there are countries where it’s not a serious crime to counterfeit postage? I think the penalty is double (up to 10 years) in the United Kingdom for example.
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by xnyan 3y ago
> Generally (but not always) an IP filter would be applied irrespective of protocol I've never seen this (all protocols by default) in any environment I've personally worked with, but perhaps I've had a unique experience.
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by xnyan 3y ago
Actually I think you might still be right. Ping uses ICMP, which is almost never blocked in my experience. I learned that because early in my career I too assumed a successful ping = TCP and UDP also work.
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by xnyan 3y ago
ICMP (the protocol ping uses) is a totally separate protocol from TCP and UDP. Blocking ICMP can break of lot of things and offers no real benefits outside of a handful of specific edge cases. BTW your assumption "a successful ICMP pin
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by xnyan 3y ago
> Apple is achieving per-eminance in the cross-device consumer OS market in the latop+tablet+smartphone Only in the US and global high-end market. This is an extremely profitable market to be leading and I'm not trying to minimize A
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by xnyan 3y ago
>Progressives are more concerned about git branch names than ensuring children actually learn something in school. Source on this?
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by xnyan 3y ago
> Not sure why you are bringing politics up. This has nothing to do with it. Politics is the struggle to gain, retain, and use power. The use of plastics creates a huge amount of wealth and power for many, by definition anything that cou
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by xnyan 3y ago
HDMI(®) is a trademark as well as a proprietary protocol. The only way to legally use the HDMI label is with approval of the forum.
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by xnyan 3y ago
Virtually all PS4 games. There are currently 6* PS4 only titles, none of which are especially noteworthy. * https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/support/games/ps5-backward...
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by xnyan 3y ago
> I just run my editor in each VM In addition to lag and a poor visual experience as others have mentioned, there's the issue of two (or more) operating systems with two separate shells/UIs. When using VMs or a VDI/remote
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by xnyan 3y ago
>A big reason people go to libraries like the British Library is for collections of rare books an manuscripts I love rare books and have donated to my library specifically to restore rare books in need. The vast majority of patrons would
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by xnyan 3y ago
Wow, libraries general! We can call it libgen for short.
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by xnyan 3y ago
For what it’s worth, I downvoted because I think what you wrote is not correct. Apple is not engaged in some large-man vendetta against small phones. They make more money off selling large phones because that’s what most people want and th
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by xnyan 3y ago
The official Microsoft version is Run, and it's not bad. One of it's biggest limitations is it's not customizable, so no plugins or community like Alfred. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/po
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by xnyan 3y ago
The catch is realtors will not bring people to your house if you don't pay the commission, MLS listed or otherwise.
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by xnyan 3y ago
>WSL2 is not really a VM though, in the traditional sense, as it has full hardware access It is exactly a VM, and the WSL2 guest does not have full hardware access. The hypervisor can paravirtualize compatible GPUs, but for other hardwar

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