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by handedness 16d ago
Some argue gridlock is a feature, not a bug. I'm of two minds about it, but I understand the appeal.
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by handedness 20d ago
Multiple sellers at my local farmer's market source their goods from Costco.
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by handedness 29d ago
I would also add that, at least in my experience, those who are professionally ambitious and maximizing professional success, while being highly confident they are also succeeding at home, often have an inaccurate view of their home life. I
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by handedness 29d ago
I gotta hand it to you, you're like a walking, self-contained Gish gallop. The zeal would be incredibly useful, if only it could be tempered and harnessed by other qualities. You used to do the, 'I can never get answers to my simp
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by handedness 29d ago
> I never claimed the lifetime updates for the modem, did I? Exactly. You get very precise when you want to paint the device as a panacea of liberty, to the point of potentially misleading people. The rest of the time, not so much.
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by handedness 29d ago
What about patching security vulnerabilities? Privacy enhancements? How would I know when the firmware needs updating? How can I find when it was last updated?
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by handedness 29d ago
The average hatching egg costs a few dollars. Can go as high as nearly $20 if it's something remarkably rare and useful in terms of breed/quality. An egg takes 21 days to hatch. Then it's 18-24 weeks to start laying their own
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by handedness 29d ago
Isn't next year's capacity already sold out? Is there any reason to hope for significant additional capacity to come online during that term?
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by handedness 29d ago
> OPEC is a perfect example of this behaviour. It really is. First thing I searched for in the thread.
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by handedness 29d ago
As has already been pointed out further down, OPEC is the perfect example of this. Things don't really work that way when the time scales are so extended. What we need is fracking, but silicon. This system is too complex, the few indiv
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by handedness 29d ago
That sounds fun, do you have a sample posted somewhere?
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by handedness 29d ago
Also, this link is hilarious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312790 I missed that at the time. I'm flattered that you elevated me to strcat's level, as if your two links are remotely comparative. I'm
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by handedness 29d ago
They really probably aren't going to get lifetime updates to their modem's closed-source firmware. They can't even get timely updates to their modem's closed-source firmware. It's great that the OS is open source, i
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by handedness 29d ago
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312651 Enumerating why they won't build for specific devices people frequently ask them to seems like a good thing. In the past you've asked them to support certain hard
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by handedness 29d ago
You know that's not precisely what they meant. Please stop brigading here.
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by handedness 29d ago
> no proprietary drivers unlike anything else on the market You continue to be misleading with your wording. https://docs.puri.sm/Hardware/Librem_5/Maintenance/Modem.htm... You dishonestly promote an $800
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by handedness 29d ago
Now you're just being intentionally deceptive. Please stop brigading here.
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by handedness 29d ago
'You may be interested in this $800 product.' 'I'm not interested.' 'Here's why you should be.' What you call activism, others call shilling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324
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by handedness 1mo ago
Same reason almost anybody in the phone and laptop spaces seem to do almost anything these days: to copy Apple. It's the new sympathetic magic.
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by handedness 1mo ago
From our enlightened perches we mock the ancients for Zeus, Thor, and Rajin, as we anthropomorphize the large language models we have built.
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by handedness 1mo ago
Device choice is good. I'm glad the device is an available option for people whose need it meets, and I would welcome a major refresh which addresses its shortcomings so it can have wider viability. It's low-effort, endless and of
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by handedness 1mo ago
When you put in the effort to make a substantive comment, and forego the empty one-liners teaching us nothing, nobody is happier than I am to not respond.
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by handedness 1mo ago
It's amazing what endless shilling can accomplish!
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by handedness 1mo ago
> Can't recommend it enough. See, I think you can.
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by handedness 1mo ago
All fair enough. Edited to add: The people saying, actually, my device also reboots fairly often, do not inspire confidence.
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by handedness 1mo ago
I actually have one that does. But you're making my point for me: that's how bad they are as phones. A laptop with an iffy phone situation would at least be a highly useful laptop, if nothing else. A PinePhone or Librem 5 is just
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by handedness 1mo ago
So, a 2016 flagship phone available for purchase in 2016 benchmarks at about 2x the Librem 5, not factoring in the noticeably more powerful GPU, as you mention. The Pixel 3a, a midrange phone that shipped in 2019, opens that gap up consider
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by handedness 1mo ago
I'll put it more succinctly: there's no photo on that page I'd be satisfied with out of an $800 device in 2026. If it was actually strong at everything else, it may well have a shot as a second device, but the Librem 5 doesn&
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by handedness 1mo ago
> It's sad that these two devices have derailed open phones so much. Agreed. Those two have made such a mess of things that I think if something interesting does sprout up, it'll come from somewhere else. I think one issue is t
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by handedness 1mo ago
It's difficult to frame it as something that was mid-range in its time, as many, maybe most original backers probably didn't receive theirs until much later. COVID certainly compounded things and they can't be faulted for tha

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