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by giobox 1mo ago
This for me is one of the last great unsolved problems on the internet. I've yet to find a book recommendation site/algorithm/social thing/whatever that actually works well enough for me to trust it and invest my time in
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by giobox 1mo ago
I was genuinely curious to see what the legally mandated calorie/ingredient content labelling was in 1991 on a UK Mars bar, but sadly no pictures of the underside. While I've no doubts shrinkflation explains a great deal of this,
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by giobox 2mo ago
> Enable cloud tunnels so you can access your apps on other devices (paid feature) It's not much extra work to do this technique (tunnel to publicly accessible domain name from locally or privately hosted setup) with cloudflare tunn
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by giobox 2mo ago
KOReader is widely known to be less energy efficient than Nickel (the native reader on Kobo devices). It's a commonly observed issue. It still lasts a long time! It's just not as efficient as Nickel on the same hardware. Personall
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by giobox 2mo ago
This is correct, the 256gb is substantially slower as uses fewer physical memory chips - less ability to read/write in parallel. The 512gb or larger models have substantially higher read/write rates, and typically performs 50-100
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by giobox 2mo ago
My only real complaint with KOReader is that the book browsing UI is file and folder based by default, while virtually all other ebook readers support some kind of cover based library view you can sort 20 different ways based on metadata ra
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by giobox 2mo ago
I almost never see it now, but twenty to thirty years ago when there where far more cars on UK roads with no air conditioning, you would very occasionally see someone leave the window slightly open to try and keep cabin temps a little more
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by giobox 2mo ago
I genuinely wondered the other day how long before we see some country try to regulate the new self-hosted radio mesh messaging solutions like Meshtastic etc. Eventually some crime group somewhere is going to be busted using a homebrew encr
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by giobox 3mo ago
Since the dawn of USB-C iOS devices (iPhone 15 onwards), you can plug any old usb card reader into an iPhone or iPad without an adapter and it works.
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by giobox 3mo ago
I think this is going to be a much more common sight in most major western economies - many of them have a rapidly growing aged retired population and a declining young working segment etc. The effects of this change are definitely being fe
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by giobox 3mo ago
If Wikipedia is to be believed, Ultima Online and Everquest would have had circa 500k-1m subscribers between them by 2003. Ultima Online had 100k subscribers as long ago as 1998.
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by giobox 3mo ago
I don't think I'll ever stop pressing ctrl + s/cmd + s every 5 minutes, the habit is too deeply ingrained at this stage!
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by giobox 3mo ago
They are beautiful things, but the last few I rode on with BA were absolutely starting to show their age inside prior to BA retiring them in 2020. I think the last passenger models were produced in 2011 and most of BA's 747 fleet was f
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by giobox 3mo ago
All of them pre-exist Swift, so I think it's perfectly fair to compare. Swift wasn't made in a vacuum.
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by giobox 3mo ago
I'm always surprised as well when new languages targeting widespread use launch without an official one. Dotnet/C#, Go and other languages that come batteries included with the package manager built into some kind of compiler&#x2F
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by giobox 3mo ago
That seems low for a Frigate setup with a Coral and suggests something else isn't right. Im running ~20 1080p cameras on two Corals right now. The general rule of thumb is 8-16 cameras per Coral, but it all depends on frequency Frigate
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by giobox 3mo ago
Sony have admitted to selling the PS5 at a loss during the first 8 months of sales. Even when they announced the $499 disc drive SKU was no longer selling at a loss, they admitted the $399 SKU still cost more to make than it sold for. Thing
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by giobox 3mo ago
Sony have admitted to selling the PS5 at a loss during the first 8 months of sales. Even when they announced the $499 disc drive SKU was no longer selling at a loss, they admitted the $399 SKU still cost more to make than it sold for. Thing
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by giobox 3mo ago
Their camera system isnt awful, but I would still pick Frigate over it (I have the option for both at home and have ran each). Frigate is nice in that it works with any old RTSP IP camera - many features in Unifi's NVR support only wo
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by giobox 3mo ago
> with basically no AI product to speak of? I don't use Meta products regularly, but they've crowbarred the "Meta AI" feature into everything - FB Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram... There's even a standalone websi
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by giobox 3mo ago
It's never been explicitly forbidden, just heavily discouraged in virtually every version of the spec. In the current 9110: > "A client SHOULD NOT generate content in a GET request unless it is made directly to an origin server
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by giobox 3mo ago
It's also a two line Dockerfile to add wget or curl to almost any pre-existing container image. This is a fun idea though.
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by giobox 3mo ago
It's interesting that this is a brushed design. In the RC car community, brushless motors are generally regarded as superior, but those of course have the rare earth magnet problem. Technically the brushes can wear out, although there
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by giobox 3mo ago
Similar situation, one thing I like the with the Pis design is you can throw PoE hats on them and build a whole home infrastructure system where the only thing that needs battery backup for power cuts is the main ethernet switch - all of th
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by giobox 3mo ago
And GPIO support for your used office equipment is often just a cheap USB adapter away too, GPIO support is not some Pi exclusive thing, even if its 40 pin layout is widely used now etc.
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by giobox 3mo ago
The APIs in iOS that turn feature flags on/off as you travel now have gotten insanely complex. Some are on time triggers, some change instantly, some depend on where your iCloud account was setup, AFAIK there isn't a black and whi
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by giobox 3mo ago
I know a few folks who work in FTC compliance roles at Meta. I don't think the wider nerd-sphere appreciates the extent to which the FTC regulates Meta following the consent order after their privacy scandals of the 2010s, or the sheer
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by giobox 4mo ago
Boxer was wonderful in its day, I think it also became the basis of the official GOG Mac DOS game releases for a while too: > https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/mac_dos_game_editi... I've hoped for
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by giobox 4mo ago
There was definitely usecase overlap due to the presence of the GPIO, but huge numbers of Pis ended up doing things a microcontroller can't - stuff like the PiHole and Retropie projects, and never used their GPIO pins at all. Thinking
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by giobox 4mo ago
> It was a "microcontroller" you could program in Python with a friendly Linux environment and is now an expensive, power hungry, hot computer with a microcontroller hanging off of it The Pi project was never originally a micro

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