BenjiWiebe

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by BenjiWiebe 4d ago
Some newer equipment has no service manual available. It's a subscription, with a DRM system so you have to use their app to browse the manual, and you can't print/save more than a couple pages per month.
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by BenjiWiebe 4d ago
And those get taken down when JD finds them.
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by BenjiWiebe 4d ago
How about; if it's already documented, make it available to the end user. The right to repair cases that bother me most is where the company goes out of their way to prevent end-user repair (cryptographic pairing of modules!?), or wher
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by BenjiWiebe 5d ago
One thing Fedora does now, is use zram. In my experience it works really well. I wonder why my computer is a bit sluggish, and find out I have several gigs in zram. If that was in swap on a disk, it would be really painful.
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by BenjiWiebe 6d ago
For that, call 911. It's a fire risk, and if the tree pushes the line down to the ground, it's an electrocution risk. At least in our county, the non-emergency number calls the same people as the emergency number. The emergency n
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by BenjiWiebe 7d ago
There's different types of mental illness. For example, don't you think a person with depression would be better at diagnosing depression in others, than someone who has never experienced it?
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by BenjiWiebe 9d ago
Human scale wait timers aren't a big issue for bots. More parallel requests. Or more websites being scraped in parallel, if the website doesn't allow multiple timers going at once. Whereas number crunching actually ties up some
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by BenjiWiebe 14d ago
Have to abbreviate it as FCN. Cyanide is ~320 times more toxic than ferrocyanide.
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by BenjiWiebe 14d ago
*ferrocyanide Less toxic than cyanide. Potassium ferrocyanide: 1.6g/kg LD50 Potassium cyanide: 5mg/kg So cyanide is approx 320 times more toxic.
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by BenjiWiebe 14d ago
Though with how much labor it is, you do have to value your time at $0 pretty much. Which is fine if you want to make it yourself as part of the hobby. But if your only purpose is to save money...
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by BenjiWiebe 16d ago
Remember there's also BeiDou, Galileo, and GLONASS as well. Our RTK base station (a Ublox ZED-F9P receiver, with a cheap patch antenna on the roof) can currently see 45 GNSS satellites.
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by BenjiWiebe 24d ago
Lower channel width improves range, at the cost of bandwidth.
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by BenjiWiebe 24d ago
For the major US carriers, since they shut down 3G, VoLTE is the only way calls work. Which meant that a non-VoLTE-but-4G-capable device can no longer make 911 calls. I was using a Samsung S5 running LineageOS for a while with Google voice
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by BenjiWiebe 25d ago
I'm using uMatrix. Works fine for me.
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by BenjiWiebe 27d ago
It's the industry-standard (for grocery stores at least) term; doesn't mean it isn't wrong, but it's the way they use it. Could be deceptive, could be ignorance, but it's multiple unrelated grocery store owners, tal
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
I've seen some fail. Might have had to do with the fact that the computers were literally flooded (river came up faster than the sandbaggers could keep up) while running.
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
Really? I was under the impression, and Wikipedia supports me on this, that geocaching was always about using GPS.
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
Well, there could be quite a range of performance between a mid-tier laptop GPU (his consumer GPU), the average consumer GPU, and the average (gamer's) consumer GPU.
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
What, your stock camera app gives you step by step directions?! Feels like your explanation is missing a few steps.
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
Perhaps it's newer software, better at flagging and identifying things?
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
Actually they literally quoted the 'food' bit. There's actually people who hunt for food, and enjoy it also. You can fish for sport, or for food, or you can have fun/sport fishing for food.
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
Certificate Transparency logs
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
Yes it does. Hobbyists are willing to spend their own money, hence their blog doesn't need ads. Businesses make money by selling products/services, so they don't need money. Wikipedia is donation supported. GP is pretty much
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
That's actually a 50% profit margin. Also known as a 50% markup, even though you marked the price up by 100%.
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
Tripping and falling can mess you up for a long time. And I don't mean broken bones.
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
A1 steak sauce. Been around for 195 years, hence the GP didn't feel the need to expand.
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
And they all have Firefox and LibreOffice Calc installed, so you can teach them how to use a web browser and a spreadsheet in an OS-agnostic (and DE/distro/WM-agnostic) way.
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
The fish came from there too.
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by BenjiWiebe 1mo ago
The ocean is salty. And dumping manure on a field can prevent growth, if you do too much. So I would think some degree of dilution would be a good idea before dumping it in the ocean.
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by BenjiWiebe 2mo ago
Well mostly true. You can replace an inefficient (turns power into heat) antenna with a more efficient antenna which will then radiate more. And some frequencies are regulated by effective radiated power, where they basically care about the

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