silversconfused

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by silversconfused 7y ago
Cost of ownership is nuts. My car basically just sits, but I have to pay $1000 a year just to keep it legal. My bike was $50. And that was it.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
You are mistaken. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_da-o.html#department > The average department-store bicycle is ridden about 75 miles in its lifespan from showroom floor to landfill. The manufacturers know this, and
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Did you ever try a bike from a bike shop? This sounds like a department store bike experience. Multispeed bicycles are not generic widgets you unbox, hop on, and go. They need tuning, like a musical instrument, and a lot of the adjustments
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Unless EV door handles and airbags are that much more complicated, I must be missing something. The problems with EVs are support infrastructure and profitability, NOT reliability and complexity.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
It was a time bomb to disable functionality after a certain date and should never have been there in the first place. The decision to silently disable the override in about:config is just more evidence of how sick this it. This is not softw
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Right, so we fork.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Doesn't seem to want to build against NDK 3.9 with gcc 4.7, but it was fun to try.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Accepting anti-features in exchange for security hotfixes isn't going to win everyone over.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
An EV drivetrain is extremely simple and reliable. They are dragging their feet on purpose to extend their returns on ICE investment, not because it's "too hard".
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by silversconfused 7y ago
There's no reason for local software to stop working when a remote server is unavailable, reconfigured, neglected, or your clock is wrong. They are doomed if they think this is sustainable.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
We have all the proof we need that MS is running an ad farm from the base windows experience. What proof do you have that he was infected with malware beyond that?
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by silversconfused 7y ago
That's just making the user need _more_ passwords, and will result in bad password mangement and lost access. Also pins are quite a bit easier to shoulder surf, so this is just nuts.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
If they are going to pay for 1/10 a developer, is anything stopping you from picking up 10 of these orgs as employers at the same time and delivering 1/10 of your effort to each?
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by silversconfused 7y ago
It's hard to make parts for things that are designed to be unrepairable. That said it's also hella not cost effective. I'm in $400 or more, and have only printed a few daily use items. My printed clothes dryer knob has been w
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by silversconfused 7y ago
It'd be acceptable if we could run code on it, as root, like we actually own it.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
postmarketos is beginning to support cellular capabilities. You may not have to wait a whole lot longer.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Hey, it worked(?) for the web!
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Well sure if it's for a airconditioned-hottub-phone, but I'm pretty sure a small 600 watt cable would be more cost effective here.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Mozilla has been pushing anti-features like their survival depends on it. I too have moved to forks. I use icecat and waterfox now. Tired of being abused because they assume too much. Just be a stupid browser and stop being the internet pol
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by silversconfused 7y ago
I was absolutely mozilla's target audience when firefox was introduced. Now they remove control and capabilities from us, and I keep getting told here on HN I'm not their target audience, and should accept that they are making thi
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by silversconfused 7y ago
You needed a $5 AC power extension cord.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Too complex and overreaching is certainly a valid fault.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Your man page link confirms the capability is not there. It can forward to local syslog, which is still both useless (logging holes still exist) and needlessly redundant for this purpose.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f... Later they re-released a version with an intel cpu with the same branding, so the machine is hard to google.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Well to be fair, pirates are far more honest and helpful than corporations.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
I have a 95, two 98, and two windows xp machines at home. They are SO MUCH EASIER to use than modern linux, mac, or android. And my goodness are they fast. I've booted my p75 98 machine faster than web pages can load on my i7 mac. Real
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Does this mean I can have 2d accel in X11 on my peach pit? with mainline since 3.6 or so it has been an excellent terminal and even music making machine, but browsing is a bit painful.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Yes I keep a crt around for hotd and duck hunt. :) I intend to make a multi-system arcade cabinet some day to clean up the games area.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Our win95 print server ran for years unattended with a simple nightly reboot set up in the task scheduler.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
My wife and I play two player house of the dead now and then. She memorizes levels, I skillshot. It's potent in combination. She gets the zombies I forget, and I get the ones she misses. Since it's always the same, it also doesn&#

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