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by posguy 2y ago
Ubuntu is a subpar package maintainer, but in well run distros that middleman who does the packaging makes an effort to ensure you are getting a stable, performant package, and tries to catch eratta or abusive practices that upstream starts
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by posguy 2y ago
No, Apple will still have the advantage of not being restricted like 3rd party apps when it comes to running background activities, access to hardware features they haven't published APIs for, and integration opportunities via private
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by posguy 2y ago
Seems really expensive given when these were last in the USA they were offering $99 a month leases for 36 months, and you got the tax credits as though this was a purchased vehicle which nearly covered all of the monthly lease payments.
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by posguy 2y ago
Fighting every municipality and Homeowners Association (HOA, aka Strata) along the way. Running fiber is tough here in the US, even motivated incumbents see a minimum of a 6 month delay waiting for permits in many municipalities to run fibe
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by posguy 2y ago
CGNAT is killer though, the random connection drops when you don't get a static IP from your cellular provider cause random connection drops whenever their CGNAT gateway burps or misbehaves. Most people on cellphones don't notice,
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by posguy 3y ago
Remember, your still getting a censored perspective of the internet, but now from wherever they are hosting the browser's from. You might get routed to different servers with differing localizations or feature breakage, and its hard to
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by posguy 3y ago
Learn to break your content out into separate paragraphs. Proper formatting makes your content easier to read! Additionally, any kind of pricing would be great, rather than a "Contact Us" button.
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by posguy 3y ago
This is one person's passion project and they are writing it in the language they prefer. We need to respect that they are doing free labor and publishing the resulting code as open source. It sucks that it is not modern C#, but rather
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by posguy 3y ago
Google would not be revoking API keys for Chromium to nerf its functionality if this were not a real issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mo60q5/psa_you_can_e...
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by posguy 3y ago
There is plenty of computing related stuff that Google doesn't do, has stopped doing or outsources nearly all of, whether it be ceasing to be a Domain Registrar, providing voice & texting services (Google Voice being just another B
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by posguy 3y ago
Some university networks are run tightly, others are rather loose when it comes to security, monitoring and debugging network cables that are syncing up at lower speeds. Really depends on who is staffing the IT team... Many older universiti
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by posguy 3y ago
A fool and his money are quickly separated. The guy probably didn't educate himself as a consumer and did not want to put more effort into chasing Tesla to uphold their legal commitments. Perhaps he read about https://www.th
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by posguy 3y ago
The PinePhone uses a really old, slow modem (the Quectel EG25). Why not get a modern Snapdragon x62 like the RM520, drop it in a carrier board, root the modem and do all the shenanigans you want? Useful links: https://github.com&
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by posguy 3y ago
Mozilla didn't want to fund further development, most of the team ended up at Coqui.ai
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by posguy 3y ago
Depends if Apple really feels they can run a backoffice banking arm effectively and cheaper than a partner that is already at scale. Underwriting credit & customer risk, handling edge cases, maintaining relationships with ATM networks,
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by posguy 3y ago
Where does it say GrapheneOS is moving off Matrix? They are still advertising their Matrix room on their Twitter...
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by posguy 3y ago
Volkswagen (Porsche's parent company) certainly has the scale to make this happen. Seems like its entirely a corporate culture issue, same as what plagues Volkswagen's EVs and newer cars with terrible infotainment systems.
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by posguy 3y ago
If your planning to use services that are ban happy like Discord, Stripe and ilk, make sure to document and communicate a fallback plan. For example, ensure you have a backup email address for those you communicate with on Discord, and conv
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by posguy 3y ago
Yes, T-Mobile and a few other carriers support videocalling right in the Android dialer. https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/t-mobile-vid...
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by posguy 3y ago
Since 2013 there have been multiple iterations of SSD technology that increased storage density but sacrificed storage durability: https://www.howtogeek.com/444787/multi-layer-ssds-what-are-s... This is why people are
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by posguy 3y ago
No, MS Teams for Linux launched in 2019 and unlaunched a few months ago. All we get is a flakey PWA now on Linux. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/... https://techcommunity.mi
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by posguy 3y ago
The counterparty might expect that you are honest when you say it is not negotiable and the reasonable course of action is to re-evaluate working with you as a business partner. This burns the platform as you destroy features the userbase h
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by posguy 3y ago
Considering he was a major force driving the rewrite of Reddit from Lisp (the version that HN is based on currently) to Python, adding features like Markdown support (a language he helped create in 2002), Aaron defined major parts of the si
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by posguy 3y ago
Basically HitLeap as a service? Thats a lotta bots!
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by posguy 3y ago
Upgrading to just sectors would net them so much more range! Sprint and T-Mobile here in the USA used to do egregious stuff like this, or only put up 1 sector of 3 on a tower just to mostly cover a freeway or highway, ignoring the rural use
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by posguy 3y ago
GSM is not available on AT&T or Verizon and T-Mobile is ending GSM support in under a year. Right now T-Mobile's GSM is running in a 200Khz carrier in the guard bands of LTE, making it perform worse due to the narrow bandwidth whic
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by posguy 3y ago
Yeah, neither WebDigits nor other carrier offered services seem to offer a public API, it would be a matter of reverse engineering their website :c
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by posguy 3y ago
Have you considered using T-Mobile's WebDigits ( https://webdigits.t-mobile.com ), AT&T NumberSync for computer or whatever Verizon and other carriers have to offer for handling SMS on a computer perchance? You could a
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by posguy 3y ago
Search before you speak! NPR is a non-profit, not funded largely through taxes like the BBC or other state operated broadcasters. https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...
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by posguy 4y ago
Engage with a lawyer. If you work for a mid-size or large firm that gives a hoot about their employees, they will have a disability law firm on retainer for their employees and spouses to use as a privilege. Having seen said law firms in ac

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