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by yakkers 2mo ago
For the purpose of cooling, just setting the thermostat to its hottest setting would be in effect "off" just about all of the time. Depending on the design/temperature range of the thermostat, this isn't 100% though. If
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by yakkers 3mo ago
At the very least, I wish Digital Radio Mondiale won out over DAB. It’s designed to use the existing long, medium and short-wave bands and can even co-exist with an AM broadcast. I imagine digital radio would work quite well with the propag
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by yakkers 3mo ago
It’s still quite a lot of power for AM (amplitude modulation) broadcast on any band. If Radio 4 was on shortwave with 500kW transmitters, I probably would have been able to listen in on my radio at home in Australia, no UK-located KiwiSDR r
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by yakkers 3mo ago
There’s still a lot of utility stations in the LF/longwave band. Particularly time signals (WWVB in the US, ALS162 in France, DCF77 in Germany, JJY in Japan, etc.) and NDB beacons. At least in VK/Australia, there’s the 2200 meter
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by yakkers 3mo ago
HF propagates through skywave (most reliably from 5-30MHz), which is where the signal bounces off the ionosphere. In the MF (AM broadcast) band, you can observe this at night - in Australia I can pick up the 50kW Melbourne ABC station (publ
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by yakkers 3mo ago
Doesn't excuse CHU: two 3kW, one 5kW ERP. And by the virtue of shortwave propagation, it could be heard across the world. For the past month and a half (from when the news of its impending shutdown was revealed) I was regularly picking
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by yakkers 9mo ago
The $17,000 Apple Watch was a (rather silly) attempt to compete in the high end watch space. However, they also launched the base "Sport" model at US$349.
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by yakkers 9mo ago
Have to say, it’s quite wild to me that one of the design blunders of macOS Tahoe could be a pages long blog post. I’d actually forgotten about the menu icons in Tahoe (I tried Tahoe during the beta period and lasted less than a day) and
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by yakkers 11mo ago
Nix is sort of that third option, though I really wish there was a well-documented way to use it on macOS as purely a binary/source package manager. A lot of stuff I read online goes into setting up nix-darwin to manage desktop setting
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by yakkers 1y ago
If it's a mechanical one, there's a possibility that it's been repaired or replaced. The mechanism after all these years will likely wear out. At the same time, I know someone with a car whose odometer has been at 249,999km f
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by yakkers 1y ago
An aside on your last point: In the D gear, a lot of auto transmissions will be set up to allow for the wheels to spin somewhat independently of the engine (in any gear) when you aren't accelerating, which accounts a lot for how well a
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by yakkers 2y ago
A long time ago, Apple actually did more or less this for the coreutils in A/UX, which was their own UNIX for the 68k Macintoshes. This page has a screenshot of the GUI provided for ls: http://toastytech.com/guis/a
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by yakkers 3y ago
Medium format digital is a thing for those with deep pockets (e.g. Fujifilm GFX). Large format, on the other hand…
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by yakkers 3y ago
I’ll absolutely admit knowing very little about the nuances of payment networks in the US, particularly with contactless —- but my experience (in Australia) is that payment terminals that support contactless inherently support Apple/Go
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by yakkers 4y ago
It's been in macOS for quite some time. Mostly dormant now but at one point it was what powered the Web Sharing option in the Sharing prefpane. It was also used in OS X Server (both the OS X versions designed for Xserve and the later &
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by yakkers 4y ago
>It seamlessly detects when the peer is local so it doesn't route out to the internet and back One of my use cases for Tailscale was connectivity between my primary NAS and an off-site NAS I use for backups. Being able to bring my N
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by yakkers 4y ago
It's what happens when a country dismisses a proper national ID number/card -- the nearest available substitute gets used, sometimes regardless of how well the substitute works as an ID. The United States Social Security card&#x2F
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by yakkers 4y ago
Anecdata, but I think for pre-paid services Optus never stored that information, and only used it for the required identification. I had activated a pre-paid Optus service (in a store, using my drivers' licence as ID) but let it lapse
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by yakkers 4y ago
I've had mixed results depending on devices -- my Apple devices tend to hop between bands and APs quite excellently. On the other end, I've got a Nintendo Switch which stubbornly sticks to the first AP / band (I'm runnin
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by yakkers 5y ago
As far as consumer routers go, wouldn’t it be trivial to re-tool the usual port forwarding interface to simply accept connections to a specific address-port? That combined with a internal block-all-inbound rule would be quite hard for a use
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by yakkers 5y ago
For me, the point is not constant active monitoring but being able to see when some application runs away with my system resources. At a glance network monitoring is also very handy — I can check if an application is absolutely chewing thro
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by yakkers 5y ago
I've personally had very good experiences switching back from Homebrew to MacPorts. Wouldn't go back to Homebrew. I find it much faster now, which is quite funny to me because back when Homebrew was new (and a lot less opinionated
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by yakkers 5y ago
What exactly do you mean by “work with the USB-C format?”. USB-C defines the physical connector. Would a C-to-Lightning cable count? Because those do exist, and are now what you get in the box with newer iPhones.
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by yakkers 5y ago
At present, by requiring the use of Apple's IAP system for subscriptions, this is already taken care of. Given the Apple vs. Epic stuff going on, this may change soon -- In that case I'd also like to see rules against excessive re
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by yakkers 5y ago
I wouldn't bring in an entire library, but one big thing I find Apple Music has over Spotify is how well your traditional library and the Apple Music library converge. I make use of it a lot for albums and songs not available on Apple
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by yakkers 5y ago
The software experience is the one thing I wish Apple would improve upon faster. It's got quite good as of late, but there's still a lot of things that could be way better all around. I can certainly agree that Excel on iPad is an
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by yakkers 6y ago
I'd really like another "Snow" release right about now. I generally don't mind Big Sur's look, feel and function too much, but there's still quite a few bugs and the overall UI responsiveness and visual smoothn
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by yakkers 6y ago
A few months ago when ROS 7's first few public beta releases were out (and before then), I'd agree with you. However, MikroTik seem to be making slow but steady progress with new features. Stability is still an issue to an extent,
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by yakkers 6y ago
You can 'flick' the volume or brightness button on the Touch Bar to the left or right to turn down/up respectively. It even works holding down Shift+Option to enable more fine control of either.
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by yakkers 6y ago
Reminds me of the time I had a bit of fun with the modems I had lying around in my old tech drawers. Set up a small Debian system with a modem connected to the PSTN, got mgetty running to accept incoming calls. Finding a friend who still ha

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