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by acolumb 7mo ago
nice to see an article from my industry! st2110 is such a complex standard which a lot of the hardware mentioned has been molded to deal with.
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by acolumb 4y ago
It costs $5 to open a bank account at most US credit unions.
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by acolumb 4y ago
Not even for the average HN user.
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by acolumb 5y ago
This is because Apple has barely updated the iTunes/Music App codebase and featureset since iCloud came out in 2011.
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by acolumb 6y ago
The only asterisk to that statement would be if OP was a Mac user. Using Firefox for reddit and youtube nets me 4 hours of battery life on a 2020 13 inch MacBook Pro, while safari will get my 6.5-8 hours with the same usage.
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by acolumb 6y ago
Ah. Then there really isn't any completely voice activated solution on the market that can sort your needs. They're all so cloud-focused.
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by acolumb 6y ago
You can use HomePods as dedicated outputs for your Apple TV 4th gen or newer. Can also work alongside your amp. Also, as stated in earlier comments, you’ll be able to use AirPlay to stream anything from your NAS via an iOS/Mac device.
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by acolumb 6y ago
Considering that the HomePod non-mini doesn’t do any on-device language processing, I don’t see a need for that much power.
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by acolumb 6y ago
I also think that leasing or buying used negates the car-rental argument. The costs of owning a used sedan are very low, and the on-demand convenience imho beats renting a car for $8/hr. Leasing enables one to have a new car without ta
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by acolumb 6y ago
I bought my HomePod mainly for its value as a speaker first -- at $199 I don't think any Sonos or Harman competitor can produce such high-fidelity sound. I also put more trust into Apple/Siri than I do with Alexa or Google. Their
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by acolumb 6y ago
There is a team taking advantage (jailbreaking on iOS) of the security flaw in all A-series chips up to A11 in the hardware-level bootloader. The T2 in your 2018 or newer Mac is a variant of the A10. The bootROM flaw allows for an exploit t
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by acolumb 6y ago
Making UXs for desktop that share design elements with touchscreens will always be a mess. It's my biggest fear for the future of macOS development given the recent announcement of Big Sur and ARM.
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by acolumb 6y ago
I find that funny when Among Us (indie) and Fall Guys (also indie) are some of the highest-trending games at the moment.
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by acolumb 6y ago
This has nothing to do with human rights violations. Two very resourceful companies are fighting over money.
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by acolumb 6y ago
As long as VSTs are native-only (which based on the low-latency nature of audio processing would probably never see a cloud implementation,) web-based DAWs will never replace locally-run ones. Most music studios airgap their systems anyway.
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by acolumb 6y ago
That's why I use high-quality firefox forks like Waterfox, which keeps the most popular Firefox features and security while removing things like phoning home or Pocket.
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by acolumb 6y ago
With the advent of Tunein and similar services, our family has taken WXRT with us everywhere since moving out of Chicago. We appreciate their culture and it gives us a sense of home no matter where we are.
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by acolumb 6y ago
No, but having a desktop client fully integrated with the popular desktop environments is a big creature comfort.
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by acolumb 6y ago
I was in Seattle (where it supposedly entered the US) in mid-December and got pretty much the same symptoms as you, a week and a half after ! Everyone else on the trip was sick, too. I've never had the flu.
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by acolumb 6y ago
I have a Book v1, and let me tell you, that thing is riddled with issues. The hinge is the biggest thing. Because it connects over PCIe to the base, the Book is very sensitive after a decent amount of time. If I adjust the screen, the hinge
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by acolumb 6y ago
I think we are jaded to the point that we forget that 2 cores and 4 threads was the norm just five years ago.
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by acolumb 6y ago
I was in my photography class and my magsafe cable was tripped about four times in one day. Crazy.
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by acolumb 6y ago
Ripping DVDs is something that takes very little time. Open the drive, put DVD in, click "go" on HandBrake. Rinse and repeat. You have all the time in the world to work while your machine is encoding them. And Plex makes the organ
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by acolumb 6y ago
My friend had a Blade back in 2017 -- had to replace the charger 5 (!) times until he downgraded to a chromebook.
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by acolumb 6y ago
I disagree. Lower middle class people can open businesses propped up on loans, in which their drive to hit their margin is even higher.
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by acolumb 7y ago
I use Nextcloud[1], a self-hosted, platform-agnostic file sharing / personal cloud app. It's FOSS and is super easy to set up through Docker. Whatever file I put onto it is available on iOS, Android, a browser and WebDAV. It also
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by acolumb 7y ago
I do think that full self-driving cars will exist (meaning that you can put in the GPS coordinates of a location and it will drive itself there.) What won't happen is cars without the ability to have a human take over . There are to
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by acolumb 7y ago
FWIW most of the comments are debating the ratio of working to slacking and salaries across geographical regions, not gender differences.
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by acolumb 7y ago
CES starts tomorrow. I wouldn't be surprised if they released a PCIe 4-ready chipset there.
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by acolumb 7y ago
I use Firefox and what is ironic is the integration with Pocket - an on-by-default service that has tracking pixels [1] [1] https://getpocket.com/privacy#passive

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