minusLik

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by minusLik 28d ago
Stories like this wonderfully explain why Windows is as quirky as it is, and I love them for that.
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by minusLik 29d ago
I doubt that, I have a ABL-100 and its step counter cannot be turned off. It even beeps at you when you sit on your butt for too long. However, the manual recommends to be sparing with the backlight.
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by minusLik 29d ago
Yup, the ingenuity to pull this off fascinates me every day, too.
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by minusLik 29d ago
The button press sequences are still combo-style; when I set one of the alarms on my ABL-100WE, it always ends in trial and error. I mean, basically it's logical, but when the buttons change what they do (e.g. when the display says &qu
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by minusLik 2mo ago
Despite not quite being an artist, this resonated with me. This fits well in line with my favourite example of corpo-speak: "challenge" instead of "problem". Lately, I find myself replacing these two in my mind occasiona
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by minusLik 2mo ago
lol
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by minusLik 2mo ago
But sketchbooks don't run 9front :(
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by minusLik 2mo ago
> Wacomized laptops with pens. > Crack the screen open and draw on it. I don't think "crack the screen open" is the best choice of words here …
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by minusLik 2mo ago
I fed the technical data of my motorcycle into the model and it told me right away that this build would destroy a real engine because the piston speed would be too great. The real thing has been running for 56,000 miles, so it can't b
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by minusLik 3mo ago
For me, it's the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). It is intended to reduce/recycle waste from shipping packages. The eyebrow-raising part is that each country has a registry at which every company that int
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by minusLik 3mo ago
I for my part didn't like the sparse selection of colors. Blue, silver, green, but nothing reddish. But later there came the Zune theme and it was awesome (silver-black with orange X buttons).
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by minusLik 5mo ago
In Germany, using shock collars on dogs is even verboten.
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by minusLik 5mo ago
The account is not directly required, but you have a very hard time using an Android smartphone without a Google account. It's a bit easier with Apple, however both have in common that the apps required for eIDAS are available in their
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by minusLik 6mo ago
Fairphone actually does this. My FP3+ displays a red bar with an open padlock as long as the bootloader is unlocked, and when one changes the bootloader lock one way or the other, the phone wipes itself.
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by minusLik 9mo ago
This. The German government issues electronic IDs which can provide proof of age in a privacy-saving way, but I've never seen that being used in the wild.
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by minusLik 10mo ago
Hewlett Packard had a lifetime warranty on their network gear back in the day.
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by minusLik 10mo ago
So, do you like this? I do.
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by minusLik 10mo ago
These 0.21/day are MPESA transaction fees. I stumbled upon that, too.
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by minusLik 11mo ago
Well, to get started you could buy one of these: https://www.reiner-sct.com/en/produkt/reiner-sct-authenticat... … and then decide whether you really want to get into electronics development.
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by minusLik 1y ago
That book looks very promising. Thanks a bunch!
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by minusLik 1y ago
Is there an exploit? I've always wanted to explore the inner workings of my car's computer system, but I don't know how.
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by minusLik 1y ago
Does it work better when you use the key fob from inside the car? I would expect that because they surely tested a "unlocked accidentally and locked again right away" kind of scenario.
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by minusLik 1y ago
The cars I know lock their doors automatically when they go at a certain speed (e. g. mine does at 20 km/h). Doesn't yours?
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by minusLik 2y ago
Maybe it's intended to help with calculations. For comparison, the German BBK recommends a emergency stock to last ten days.
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by minusLik 2y ago
Amazing! The DTMF sounds look like the pins on the barrel of a music box. I am intrigued, I wouldn't ever have pictured them like that.
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by minusLik 2y ago
Thank you for the article! I found the "I understand computers and therefore the world" in the beginning a bit pretentious, but after reading the rest anyway, it doesn't anymore. I'd summarize the piece as: "The hac
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by minusLik 2y ago
> You can't solve political problems with technical solutions. Yes, that's what I've been thinking too. Tom Quiter even mentions in the interview that there already have been companies which tried to offer cheap wheelchair
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by minusLik 2y ago
What the article does not seem to mention is that an usual electric wheelchair costs about $65,000 (and is intended to be replaced every six years or so). This and the non-availability of replacement parts is why some wheelchair users start
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by minusLik 2y ago
> “Why”? What kind of question is “why”? Because low-level applications like this were promised when UEFI was introduced, that's why. UEFI's creators went even as far as to dream of replacing the Linux-based Internet-only mini-