FractalParadigm

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by FractalParadigm 9d ago
Re. The last paragraph, that's what confuses me the most about all of this. LG has virtually held a monopoly of the entire OLED TV market for the past ~15 years, selling (arguably) one of the TVs on the market and being the only thing
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by FractalParadigm 2mo ago
I just bought a house and this was the conclusion I came to. A cheap PoE-capable multigig switch and a single Omada access point cost about the same as a cheap WiFi 7-capable router would have. I did opt to run the Omada Controller software
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by FractalParadigm 3mo ago
How often are you still receiving physical cheques that mobile deposit is an essential feature? I could probably count on one hand the number of cheques I've deposited or written in the past ~15 years, nor can I say I've been so d
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by FractalParadigm 3mo ago
> Canadian TikTok is now also being similarly moderated for content unfriendly of your administration. I feel like this has to do more with the consolidation you typically see international companies do with their North American operati
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by FractalParadigm 3mo ago
I don't know, maybe it's the way I was raised, but to me it just seems like common sense that a privatised monopoly is going to be worse in literally every metric imaginable, than maintaining public ownership - not just with reg
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by FractalParadigm 4mo ago
> Anyone will hopefully lend you a phone if you're in a pinch I honestly wouldn't count on it, at least not where I'm from, not anymore anyways. IME, having been in that situation (and knowing the numbers I need to call) i
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by FractalParadigm 4mo ago
And honestly, that's my biggest gripe. Identical search terms on different systems, or even the same system in different physical locations, almost always return different results from one-another. Telling someone to "Google it&qu
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by FractalParadigm 6mo ago
The author's complaint(s) stem from the ads that "just keeps downloading" which in approximately five minutes downloaded "almost half a gigabyte" worth of information. This is a prime example of why many people use
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by FractalParadigm 8mo ago
I feel like an easier solution to having six different email addresses is to use Gmail aliases - I've caught a few less-than-honest companies either selling my email address, or been breached without disclosing such, simply by using
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by FractalParadigm 8mo ago
Your dates are a little off - Rayman Legends released in 2013 and saw a remaster in 2017. Rayman Mini was released in 2019, but it's not exactly a main-franchise title...
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by FractalParadigm 8mo ago
> Keep in mind that the US auto industry is also very much a Canadian one. As someone who's worked in the auto industry (in Canada) I have to 'hard disagree.' The big three have proven time and time again that we (Canadian
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by FractalParadigm 8mo ago
> It's not profitable to recycle small electronic devices otherwise you'd see heaps of shops doing it. It's toxic, hazardous and labour intensive. Sounds like they should be banning their sale and/or production then,
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by FractalParadigm 9mo ago
What burned me was that there was no updating from WP7 to WP8 - After playing around with one and genuinely enjoying the experience, I convinced myself to buy a Lumia 900 in April of 2012, just for Nokia/Microsoft to effectively say &q
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by FractalParadigm 10mo ago
It's pretty easy to accomplish the same using virtually any 3D printer, even something as simple as an Ender 3 can be set to pause at a set layer in GCODE where the filament can manually be changed to the next desired colour. Realist
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by FractalParadigm 10mo ago
This seems like an incredible disingenuous take. There's a marked difference between collecting information to freely share with the rest of humanity, and collecting information to feed into algorithms under the guise of "artifici
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by FractalParadigm 1y ago
I don't even get calls from my doctor anymore, everything is done online/through a portal, I just get an email with a link to my doctor's "secure portal," enter my DoB, and all our "conversations" are ri
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by FractalParadigm 2y ago
> But where I live, winters could be a big issue. These vehicles could coat the roads with thin black ice. I never even considered this as a problem. Is the exhaust liquid water though? Because my understanding of the process is such t
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by FractalParadigm 2y ago
I was thinking the same thing; the city I'm in isn't even that large (approx 450k pop.) but I could probably go through my list of contacts that live in-town and rattle off at least two-dozen area codes that aren't native t
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by FractalParadigm 2y ago
Not necessarily my own use, but I built a few tools (that I volunteer free for use on a perpetual license) for my day job to make life a little easier in a few departments. Nothing impressive imho, they're mostly 'basic' ca
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
Realistically, it's been possible on and off for quite some time. Chrysler's UConnect system received quite a bit of flak some years back over just how easy it was to take over full control of a vehicle[0]; not just locking&#x2F
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
Given GM's commitment to actively removing the most popular and asked-for feature in the automotive world from their own infotainment systems, I'm not even surprised. This is a company that has proven before and continues to prove
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
In many cases the coils were integrated into the casing of the battery, and the back panel of the phone was thin enough to transfer sufficient power through.
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
Being one of those weirdos still using a proper receiver and 5.1 speaker setup on our main TV, but a stereo pair on our other TV, it's incredible the difference the lack of a discrete center-channel can make. It seems like Netflix et.
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
It's become wildly prevalent the past few years in Canada, to the point where co-workers whom I've thought were decent people for the past ~10 years are actually inhuman pieces of shit, they've just never felt 'free&#x
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
I think, for me, it satisfies some kind of hoarding instinct. I have a hard time keeping 'random junk' laying around my apartment, but I have absolutely no problem keeping a copy of a DVD I ripped 15 years ago that I will probably
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
A friend and I were able to phish passwords from nearly the entire school we went to with VB6 - the school (board) used active directory for logins on a shoddy network where some switches would often just drop all traffic to a random port f
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
For gaming you need $$ for CPU as well. It's all fine and dandy if your GPU is capable of rendering/filling the ~1 gigapixel/s of 4K120, the trick is keeping it fed with enough data so it can render all those pixels.
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
It still wouldn't hurt to have as an option for, say, a swap disk in RAM instead of the SSD, or expose it as storage to macOS for use as scratch disks, or even just use it as a buffer/cache for the flash storage. There are all kin
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
Un fortunately, a lot of vehicles these days, mostly high-end, do not come with oil dipsticks anymore[0]. I know that Audi starting switching to sensors-only around 2012, and I believe BMW started even earlier than that. [0]: https:/
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by FractalParadigm 3y ago
That about lines up with my Jellyfin experience ~18 months ago, although I was coming from (and switched back to) Emby at the time, which Jellyfin was forked from (still evident by all the Emby/MediaBrowser references in folder and fil

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