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by ericabiz 3y ago
Sports fans watch a lot of live TV.
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by ericabiz 3y ago
I live in Austin (well known for its high energy prices relative to the rest of the state.) I’m at $0.09 for the first 300KWh (I’m including all fees/markups/charges in this calculation.) For the next 600Kwh it goes to $.10, and t
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by ericabiz 3y ago
If you live in Austin, there’s a $4.17/mo charge you can add to your bill for unlimited charging at Austin Energy-owned Level 2 chargers. They’re installed all over the city. Many people commenting here don’t live in Texas and are unaw
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by ericabiz 3y ago
Why would you spend dev time on this when you can set up something like Bitwarden across the org and have all the same benefits without wasting precious dev time on it? FWIW I’m on 1Password and it hasn’t had any of these issues, either. I
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by ericabiz 3y ago
I have owned Apple Watches since the Series 2. (Currently on an SE 2) I have always used third-party watch bands I get off Aliexpress--much cheaper than Amazon if you're patient with shipping. Zero issues with the latch mechanism.
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by ericabiz 3y ago
Many years ago, there was an image that floated around with Craigslist and all the websites that replaced small parts of it—personals, for sale ads, etc. It turned out the way to beat Craigslist wasn’t to build Yet Another Monolithic Craigs
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by ericabiz 3y ago
I guess it depends on the city. I live in Austin (metro population 2.28M), and most places price sandwiches around $10 or less here. Here’s Thundercloud, a popular chain (often described as “a step up from Subway”): https://thund
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by ericabiz 3y ago
I run phone repair shops and the app starting up slowness is often caused by a failing battery. In fact, at our shops, on older iPhones, I can test the battery state by opening the camera app. If it takes 10-20 seconds to open, it’s usually
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by ericabiz 4y ago
As a former Cobalt employee, it made my day to see someone resurrecting old RaQs! What a fantastic piece of equipment for its time. I worked there in 1999 through the Sun acquisition and then at Sun for a little while before I started my ow
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by ericabiz 4y ago
You mean the passing of Right to Repair? Completely unknown at this point. We're hoping it will be helpful to raise awareness of independent repair and offer more choice to people who want to get their devices repaired.
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by ericabiz 4y ago
iPhone batteries have underneath them strips of adhesive that can be peeled up using a screwdriver rolling in a motion like you would twirl spaghetti on a fork. This isn't glue. Certain older MacBook batteries were glued down. But n
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by ericabiz 4y ago
It definitely helps to heat the phone for a bit to loosen up the gasket. We have a blue heat mat that helps with this, as do most repair shops. I had to go back and look since my knowledge dates back to around the iPhone 4/4S (we'
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by ericabiz 4y ago
OK. We literally repair these for a living. You and I may have differing definitions of “glue”, but the water seal gasket is not what I would call glue. It is a sticky gasket that is peelable and removable. It can be replaced, and in fact w
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by ericabiz 4y ago
Most phones are not glued shut, including iPhones starting all the way back to 4/5. iPhone batteries are also not glued in. Source: We run independent repair shops.
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by ericabiz 4y ago
An aside, but I really hate how the tech and media industries have so many unintuitive acronyms. I am highly tech-savvy, as I would assume are most people on Hacker News. I have no idea what FAST and AST are in your comment. By context of
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by ericabiz 4y ago
https://archive.ph/mBEXx
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by ericabiz 4y ago
Your username contains “googl”, and 9 days ago you commented on a post about Google stock options with an insider perspective. It sounds like you either work, or have previously worked, at Google. I would advise disclosing this if you’re go
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by ericabiz 4y ago
Here’s what the author, Tom MacWright, has to say about it (which you can read on his blog, as long as you don’t click on a link from here): “If you’re lucky, you end up being good at a few things. If you’re really lucky, those are also the
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by ericabiz 4y ago
In case anyone else has this issue, at least it’s pretty easy to turn off: Launch Device Manager. Go to Mice and other pointing devices. If you’re using a Bluetooth mouse, go to Human Interface Devices. Right-click on your mouse and select
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by ericabiz 4y ago
Oh, right. I agree with you on that front. I see it working this way: If you are standing on top of a mountain, right now you can’t send anything. With Apple’s upcoming announcement, you’ll be able to send an iMessage. If you try to send a
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by ericabiz 4y ago
I wasn’t looking at this from a technical perspective, more of a business/finance/operations perspective. This is Apple we are talking about. They wouldn’t make this play without some form of vendor lock-in. They will probably cho
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by ericabiz 4y ago
I believe this is SpaceX trying to stay one step ahead of Apple. Anyone else remember this strange rumor about iPhones including satellite capability a year ago? https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/29/iphone-13-
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by ericabiz 4y ago
You certainly can, and more technical folks will have an easier time with it. A happy medium is an independent repair shop (not Apple affiliated.) Check Yelp near you for one with good reviews. Try to avoid franchises.
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by ericabiz 4y ago
Many laptop screens are that fragile. We repair computers and it’s quite common to see a broken screen because someone closed something inside the clamshell accidentally. I’ve seen everything from pencils, pens, erasers, paper with staples,
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by ericabiz 4y ago
> causing the slow demise of all the entertainment content that they love No. Piracy is not a cause , it is an effect. If people can’t get what they want easily, they resort to piracy. Piracy went way down with the advent of Netflix.
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by ericabiz 4y ago
More info about the “drum computer” this was written on: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/lgp-30 Previous discussion where another person tried to replicate this: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by ericabiz 4y ago
I co-own third party repair shops (we are not Apple certified since we do more complex repairs) and the screens for the 6S-XS have 3D Touch on them even if they’re not replaced by Apple. I will say this, in 50,000+ 3D Touch iPhone screen re
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by ericabiz 4y ago
https://pomofocus.io/ is a nice-looking website with Pomodoro timers.
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by ericabiz 4y ago
The Ads service has a different, and much more thorough and aggressive, anti-spam algorithm than most Google services.
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by ericabiz 4y ago
Yes, that’s correct. They are basing it on the card issuer.

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