Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. College: We can sell you a degree for 100,000 Government: We'll throw in 30,000 College: We can sell you a degree for 130,000
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  2. The real money to be made in New York is draining the pockets of people actually doing worthwhile work.
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  3. A shitty thing is they didn't even pop up a message saying "Can not stream in 4K on this device". They just left you to happily keep going. Presumably there are people who won't notice and just keep paying for something they're not getting.
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  4. Saying "memory corrupt" when it's actually a totally deliberate outcome is a sure sign you know you're dealing with bullshitters. When first we practice to deceive...
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  5. Broken window theory applied to trash. Once one person throws down some trash, everyone else thinks they have permission to add to it. Having that be the default for legit trash probably doesn't help. They should probably come up with front-of-store dumpsters that would work for that environment (You say there is no space but there is space for trash so that is where the dumpsters would go).
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  6.  @mikebalentine  Just like with any "great offer if you sign up right now", if it's such a good deal, it will still be available tomorrow.
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  7. "Screw your freedom" - former governor of California
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  8. It happened to 1984 too. Amazon put out an unlicensed version of the book and then removed it from peoples' devices.
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  9. “But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
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  10. Frying pan -> fire.
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  11. Walmart is currently advertising Walmart Plus with "free delivery". The "free delivery" is done by gig drivers who you are expected to tip. I hate this tipping thing. Pay people properly and charge accordingly.
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  12. Any company that feels the need to make their motto "Don't be evil" is sus in the first place.
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  13. Some people won't like this suggestion but a few years ago I had a company Dell Latitude. It had the track-point and seemed fairly solid if uninspiring. Dell seems to treat their business customers right.
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  14. I think you need to tell these people up-front that you're not a tech company with IPO money burning a hole in your pocket.
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  15. I can recommend refillable cartridges if you can get em. Worth researching before you buy a printer. Mine report to the printer like the official ones but will "reset" if removed from the printer when indicating empty.
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  16. I really think there's some momentum building against this. Tipping culture is all kinds of broken and it's only getting worse.
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  17. Yep. Tried selling a property in Florida recently and the first, really quick offer is a builder who starts talking about septic tank lines being over property lines and it'll be expensive to sort out and they made a low offer and the realtor backed them up. My wife confirmed this was bullshit. Needless to say, we didn't take the offer and fired the realtor (who we believe was in cahoots with the builder). Got another realtor and we're selling for pretty much what we were expecting. It's important to remember that realtors make their money from selling houses and are typically more interested in volume than making sure you get the tip-top price (and may have other incentives also).
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  18.  @mosesbuddhajesus3362  As stated. There was a "children at play" sign but no school zone.
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  19. "spontaneously"
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  20. Everyone should be republishing their content on the new alternative sites and encouraging people to use them. Also center your funding around subscriptions and donations (and possibly merch and sponsors though sponsors are risky too).
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  21. Amazon is up to a ton of shady shit recently. Might be a good time to short.
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  22. "I'm the Boardman!"
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  23. It's not a good answer but for the ones you have, I'd pop them open and see if there's a jumper or resolder that converts between the voltages. Often it's just where a tap is taken off the transformer. Surprised they're not dual voltage these days to be honest.
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  24. Yes. I'm planning on talking with my wife about this later today. Prime has become basically worthless for deliveries and now this?
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  25. When I have a failure at work, when I explain myself, I say that it's not an excuse, it's a reason. Then we can look at the causes of the failure and address them going forward. It's a much more productive way to handle things. If the problem is external or a process issue, that can be changed. If the problem is in my approach (and, hey, we don't always get it right first time), I can say how I will adjust that going forward. If the problem really is me, they can always let me go. That last hasn't happened so far.
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  26. Not all of America is like that. Virtually none of it, in fact.
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  27. I think Signal is going to have more to worry about dealing with the fallout of removing SMS functionality from their software. But that's just my opinion.
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  28. Middle-grounder here. It's amazing to have watched how this has devolved into a partisan issue. Even trying to suggest an evidence and data based approach, people will attack you.
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  29.  @GreatSageSunWukong Louise Rosswomann
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  30. Definitely seems like an over-reaction. I've been more shocked about what Louis has said about Paul Daniels' software to be honest. This was very mild to spit your pacifier out over. He didn't even throw out a diss. Heck, he's been sending you customers and you called him a Jackhole.
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  31. They're from New York where they have rats the size of a small horse and cockroaches the size of a small rat.
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  32.  @rossmanngroup  It's not really a feature, just a function of how the car works. When you take your foot off the accelerator (in gear), the wheels drive the engine. The engine is still sucking in and compressing air so it pushes back against the wheels. In a manual car (and kind-of in some automatics), you can select a lower gear so the engine pushes back harder against the wheels. I can come to a near stop just doing that. Some people worry about wear but in truth, if done right, it's extremely slight. Being in the lower gear also has the advantage that you're ready to accelerate again.
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  33. To be 'fair' to AOC, she went from a low-skill job to a low-skill job. She should probably try actually getting some experience of what it means to do a high skill job before commenting.
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  34. Happens all the time already. I've had multiple perfectly functional items be obsoleted by "End of life" bullshit. The Oculus (facebook) CV1 headset has a cable that's essentially a wear part that they stopped making a couple of years ago. I bought an electric chainsaw (Worx) a couple of years ago and a gear stripped out. "Discontinued". Modern manufacturing processes mean that it's trivial to design new parts that are very slightly incompatible with the old rather than have any kind of continuity and lineage. Meanwhile my 20 year old washer/dryer still works fine with the occasional repair for which parts are still available.
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  35. A lot of rural areas are caught up in the opioid epidemic too so it's not impossible a lot of missing people just ODed.
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  36. Put some trackers in them. They are probably being stolen but at the least, dumped.
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  37. It's quite possible that masking emboldens criminals since it adds a sense of anonymity just like being on the internet.
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  38. Word up ladies, I hear Rossman love interests get a 10% discount on motherboard repairs and a free screen protector.
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  39. Too many people just sign whatever these days (we've been conditioned to it) so they get confused when someone refuses.
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  40.  @zsoltlajtos6527  Many European cities are even older than NY. Not having good records is a problem but it isn't insurmountable, especially with modern technology.
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  41. I visited NYC a couple of times up to 2010. I was thinking it might be nice to go back again but the last several years have totally changed my mind.
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  42. The government demands less energy use, the manufacturers downgrade the components to provide it then the fridge dies early and any energy saved is lost multiple times over in making a new fridge. A truly energy efficient design would be modular so the whole mechanical cooling part could be swapped out as a unit.
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  43. I believe that info is in the credit check which can involve a whole lot more than just a number. You might want to check cards haven't been opened in your name (though that's not the only reason this could happen)
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  44. He mentioned this in a video and I went looking over recent videos to that one and never found it. I'm not sure it was ever on the public channel.
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  45. Not to defend what he did but it wasn't a school zone.
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  46. Probably not in NYC.
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  47.  @ohger1  No water pumps or hoses? How does the battery cooling work then?
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  48. Louis, get a Latitude, an Elitebook and your Thinkpad and do a comparison review. Add another string to your bow.
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  49. Same for the US at the federal level. Only the US and Eritrea have a draconian tax law that attaches you and follows you wherever you go as long as you're an American citizen (or Eritrean).
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  50.  @EddieGooch  If the real thing don't do the trick.
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  51.  @volvo09  But so is a closet with a toilet in NYC.
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  52. I understand that a lot of the scaffolding in NYC is not so repairs can be made but because it's cheaper than doing the repairs.
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  53. He had some broccoli in his teeth.
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  54. I think this may actually be a big scam. I have a feeling refund checks were being sent out and ending up in that PO Box.
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  55.  @youtert  Tech edition.
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  56.  @mromutt  It would have paid my mortgage 7x over.
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  57. I occasionally end up doing so and it's awful.
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  58. I had a few SSDs that just stopped working. That was fairly early days and I've heard they've improved things but the state of affairs is that with SSDs, you have to be prepared to lose everything at any instant. This can also occur with spinning hard-drives, of course but gradual failure is the more common experience.
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  59. Not only that but by doing so, Louis helps create confidence in the market of aftermarket repairs because more competition = more competent people doing it. It's the bigger pie model rather than a bigger piece of a smaller pie.
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  60. I'm currently working on implementing Colin Furze's motorized knife belt with katanas.
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  61.  @mjc0961  Yes. The other ridiculous thing is that on a $100 order, I could pay $20 or alternatively, drive the ~1 mile and pickup for free. There's no nuance there. Not to mention if they did it properly, they could probably have someone with a van do a 20 delivery run instead of bunches of one-offs.
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  62. You won't be able to download them from USB going forward though. They're not stopping loading through USB as far as I'm aware (though I'm sure it's coming).
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  63. Would that be the New York NYPD Police?
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  64. Unfortunately, in the same way that Microsoft seems to be copying Apples shitty hardware, Linux developers have been adopting the flaws in Microsoft's shitty software.
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  65. I hear Eugene said he liked to do it for contingencies.
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  66.  @jacobleeson4763  Dollar Tree has always been a dollar until recently. I think they were a little less for some candy (maybe 2 for a dollar? Not sure.)
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  67. Another common question from journalists: "Is this my arse or my elbow?" also "Do you have a mirror and a dollar bill I can borrow?"
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  68. Scalping usually means the manufacturer should be raising their price (this encourages manufacturers to try to find ways to meet demand) but the public has been conditioned to react badly to that. Any other method attempting to address the issue is typically a kludge.
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  69. I still do it. Not looking forward to upgrading my S5.
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  70. This kind of thing is often the sign of a company in trouble.
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  71.  @YouTube_stole_my_handle  Or just paper. If you have enough space and it's a quick repair, you can even just put the screws on the surface in the rough layout of how you took them out. Be sure to make sure you don't have a cat first.
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  72. I'd put money they gave it to the new guy or an intern.
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  73.  @lurker993  Texas might have something to say about that. There are extradition procedures.
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  74.  @Eagles_Eye  I think Iggy was referring more to the brake-saving possibilities. Though I find this is much more of a thing on manuals than automatics.
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  75. Bear in mind that typically the retail space is not the only use for the building. Louis' store has three stories above it. Presumably residential.
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  76.  @SethPowell7 Not to mention the huge boost they got through the lockdowns. This is sheer greed.
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  77. This is apparently a common thing with gyms. They'll also send debt collectors after you if you miss a payment. Be careful out there. If the collection agencies do come after you, check your local laws. In many states, uncollected debt expires (by law) after so many years.
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  78. Just watch those parasocial relationships. Louis seems like a cool guy but he's on the other side of a camera. Be careful not to end up like a stalker like that one guy.
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  79. People need to check their 365 licenses. Apparently Microsoft have been doing a forced upgrade (at a higher price) and including Copilot and it's possible to downgrade to the old tier with copilot removed at the old price.
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  80. From Linus past behavior, he seems to try to wing it to transfer blame when the spotlight is on him. I assume someone had to sit him down and have a good talk with him when all that stuff with Gamers' Nexus went down.
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  81. To be fair, I have an Epson that I use occasionally and when the ink dries in the nozzles, it's a pain to get them clear and I killed a set of cartridges trying to get it to come clean (used about 1/10 per clean). I've ended up buying a kit that lets you push cleaning fluid through the nozzles which is a lot cheaper. I keep meaning to set up a schedule to print something every couple of weeks but haven't got it set up yet. The real lesson is to avoid inkjets if possible. I have a cheap Brother B&W laser I use most of the time and it never lets me down.
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  82. Yes. Firework complaints in NYC are through the roof right now. Louis himself has mentioned it in his videos and you can even hear them in the background sometimes.
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  83. Yeah, all brands seem to go through their bad patches. Perhaps Seagate more than others.
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  84. But no label. So it all balances out.
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  85. +Manolis Gledsodakis, you can also throw it in the microwave for a few seconds to warm it up. Don't do this for too long though as you may overcharge the battery.
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  86. The free shipping thing is about not being out of the price of shipping if you need a refund. It wasn't helped with ebay sellers loading cost into shipping to keep their listing fees low and improve their search rankings.
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  87. Musk is using the new definition of "lifetime" which is "when our product breaks, that's the end of its lifetime. Sometimes sooner".
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  88. As someone from Europe, it surprised me that the plate is owned by the person, not assigned to the vehicle (though it the vehicle and plate are connected, it's not the primary connection). This is what leads to the whole paper plate thing (and for private sales, people often 'chance it' because you have to get the car home somehow)
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  89.  @bitessun  I've seen ads for their other shows which is annoying enough but I think this is straight up ads and may be during the programmes which is 100% unacceptable.
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  90. I have an idea for a Usenet 2.0. Properly decentralized (no central control) and using cryptography.
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  91. Louis should use the crazy-ex-girlfriend girl in his thumbnails.
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  92. If it was any noisier, he couldn't affoid it.
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  93.  @dertythegrower  Word is in some places, people are leaving their cars unlocked and trunks open now because the locks don't stop them anymore.
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  94. The thumbnail looks like you're about to sell me a ShamWow
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  95. Smaller even.
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  96. I got a G7. Big Clive also has one so well recommended. I like it a lot. I upgraded from an S5. Only thing I miss is the removable battery.
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  97. That's reminiscent of an old scam. The scammers would watch the obituaries and when someone died, send a bill for some small amount for something like plumbing repairs or somesuch. These bills would often get paid because the executors of the estates assumed it was a valid bill.
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  98. Look into the tax history of that residential building (it's available online). The ownership history is quite interesting. I don't know enough to tell but it looks like shenanigans might be involved.
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  99. As someone who does my own repairs, I sometimes have to buy parts from the dealer. They don't always have them in stock but they usually turn up within a couple of days.
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  100. Makes sense. I was fairly sure this wasn't a feature of PNGs. Though I was hesitant to say it couldn't be as I have seen metadata induced weirdness with pictures before (usually image rotation being set in metadata but not honored by forum software).
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  101. I couldn't get Corel Draw 4 working on a recent version of Windows. I think it failed at 7 which was a pain. VMs work well though. I switched to Inkscape anyway.
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  102. Are we really that much in a minority that these manufacturers are not willing to cater to us? How about a swapable battery with the case back built-in? Then it can be made as big as anyone would want. Add a few screws if you really want to improve the water resistance.
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  103. They had a big corruption investigation here and some of the amounts the politicians were selling out for were only three figures.
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  104. The older people know that life is for living. They also know they have lived their life and probably wouldn't want to be responsible for others not being able to live theirs. There are worse things than being dead.
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  105. They might have removed the garbage cans because they're a potential place for bombs. They did it in the train stations in the UK when the IRA got more active.
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  106. It's not quite the right shape for large rolls but as someone else mentioned, stacks (folded) are also an option.
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  107. Can I keep this one, ma? It followed me home.
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  108. And never can.
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  109. From comments in this thread, it seems like some kind of "Right to repair alliance" might be a good idea with some kind of logo available for companies/products in compliance.
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  110. It has crept up over the years too. It used to be 10% then 15 then 20. I think there's something shady about that.
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  111. This is true. There is definitely less opportunity for comment on a well done repair.
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  112.  @InfernosReaper  There's supposed to be a "non-obvious" part to patents but the patent office is often not rigorous enough and leads stuff to be settled in the courts. Which has obvious issues.
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  113. I think he should consider a small shopfront for dealing with customers and then set up the actual work area in a cheaper warehouse somewhere not too far away.
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  114. Don't forget to carry a posy of flowers to defeat the foul odors.
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  115. Every now and then, companies start to come to the belief that they have captive customers. Then suddenly they find out they don't.
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  116. On the other hand, if you do want a word processor with source code, they are available and can be installed directly on your Windows system.
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  117. Some of that is the lens on the camera.
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  118.  @HangerHangar  There are lots of good mod on reddit. Though a lot of bad ones too. The issue is that the reddit admins don't have much incentive to police the bad mods so many subs are very toxic (or maybe I could say 2Xic).
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  119.  @svampebob007  Yes, there should be plenty of money. Economies of scale mean that taxes should be cheaper in cities but they are staggeringly higher. This alone is a sign of massive corruption but when services are crappy as well...
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  120. It actually comes from the war as a way around wage controls, I believe. Either way, it's overdue for retirement.
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  121.  @walrus-splice-renewable  Ah, the Weinstein argument.
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  122.  @CDWCAULDRON  In theory, they should be able to use some parity to make SSDs more robust and have more warning of failure.
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  123. apk-mirror is also good for a lot of older versions of software. Of course, if it also uses web services, there's a good chance you're still screwed.
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  124. Yes. Watch out for yourself Louis. This person is likely to think that you're what's getting in the way now. Hopefully he's just a pest but sometimes they're willing to go further.
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  125. This guy seems borderline incompetent in the videos of his I've seen. Watching an expert share their knowledge is a joy. Watching him is an exercise in frustration. I hope he keeps his tweezers handy.
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  126. When they say they'll show you how to use it is when you pull out your Motorola Flare.
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  127. "I'm sorry, this was a zombie *event*, not an apocalypse"
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  128. A group of 20 something year old males? Yeah, probably counts as most justified demographic to not be worried.
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  129.  @Aethelbeorn  I might steal a handbag.
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  130. I heard about that. Apparently, you can 'downgrade' to the old price if you start to cancel your subscription. I can't believe this is legal.
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  131. The government wins until they see their receipts next year. All that infrastructure will still be there, requiring maintenance.
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  132. It sounds like it's less of a calibration and more simply a setting.
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  133.  @Anonnonner9546  No. They're used anywhere. There's one at the end of my drive (for the road). There's no requirement to keep them current either (not that that excuses anything).
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  134. The start menu, click to focus, things becoming bloated and monolithic and dumbed down. You can still get a good, streamlined user experience which is why raspberry pi, android and chromebooks are a thing but the KISS mantra has been abandoned in many cases (KDE and systemd two major examples).
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  135. I only got shadowbanned :(
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  136.  @mjc0961  Well said. Though I'm not sure that the removal of the headphone jack is about selling headphones from anyone other than Apple. There seems to be an obsession with how phones look when not in use and a total rejection of functional design. Honestly, I think some of these reviewers would be happier if they were handed a piece of clear, tempered glass with a company logo stamped on it.
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  137. Another thing you have to watch for with inkjets is that the nozzle clean function uses a significant amount of the ink in the cartridges. If you can, I recommend getting a cleaning kit which involves pushing cleaning fluid through the nozzles with a syringe. This saves precious ink and is less hard on the nozzles.
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  138. I visited about 12 years ago and it was OK. I don't see myself ever going back unless things change radically.
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  139. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".
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  140. I've lived in cities and been to NYC. My assessment was that I could probably happily live and work there for about a year and that would be enough for me. If I was single, I might give it a go. I like my space though.
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  141. Louis, you said you nearly made some mistakes a few years ago and no doubt you have actually made real mistakes along the way too (as. no doubt. have we all). How would you feel if John Deere set up a team to look into the minutiae of your life to get you off of right to repair through legal persecution? What if something like that is what happened to you with the lien?
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  142.  @maxworth4687  peaceably assemble
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  143. The battery getting old can cause crashes due to being unable to supply power so the manufacturers decided to slow the phones down to require less power. Side benefit that it makes your phone look shit next to a newer model when all you need is a new battery.
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  144. Knew it was coming. Didn't know it was here. Hopefully they'll reshelf some of the stuff they'd discontinued.
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  145. Louis, I took a look at the publicly available tax records for that "piece of shit" and it was quite interesting. I didn't understand it enough to make a comment and maybe somebody else could but it definitely looked like Shenanigans to me with the property trading hands frequently, often to holdings with very similar names.
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  146. There are chips with ant-tamper layers that will destroy the silicon. It's only a matter of time.
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  147. It's probably still a fancy hall-effect. The only angle to be interested in is the one between the keyboard and the screen.
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  148.  @WutipongWongsakuldej  DNS is hierarchical and decentralized. You don't need to store the whole thing (which is what used to be done and why DNS was invented).
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  149.  @tiagotiagot  Plotters used to be a lot more popular. There was even one for the C64. They were pretty cool in their own way.
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  150.  @corrosivepyro  There's a lot to complain about.
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  151. The dread when the phone rang is why I gave up being a sysadmin. Only outmatched by the feeling of looking at the phone and seeing "15 missed calls".
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  152. Gotta have the luminol too.
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  153. This fantastic idea is going to lead to false negatives with the high beams and the drivers not bothering to dip them because they're paying for the car to do it.
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  154. Check out the shadowstats website. They aim for a more accurate report of inflation. There are tricks the government uses to underreport.
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  155. The key is that your workers are people just like you exchanging their time for money. They take direction from you but they are not your underlings.
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  156. This could be interesting. It seems quite often these days that when I go to reddit, subs have been closed due to lack of active moderation. So kicking out mods could cause a real issue for smaller subs. Even on bigger subs, there is a good chance that otherwise reasonable mods could end up being replaced by the bad, power-hungry ones (you know the type). Either way, that could be very short-sighted (but then, that's typical like when they edited users comments).
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  157. It seems like it's only if you move state. It still doesn't make a lot of sense tho.
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  158.  @rossmanngroup  You can fight it Louis but I think it's inevitable. :D "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
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  159.  @PuffinPass  In light of all that's gone on. Some suggest that he was got out of the way.
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  160. This might be one of those substitution things where they use a lower quality product instead and act like you're buying the same thing.
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  161. Quite happy with my Moto G7. Headphone jack and SD card. No removable battery, alas but the fast charging makes that a little better. By no means a premium phone but does everything I need and was easily rooted. Looks like they're sticking with the formula for newer models too.
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  162. Pine. But they're not for everyone yet.
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  163.  @sonictech1000  Yep. That's a big issue for international interoperability too. Things are going backward.
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  164. Most people only expect a certain level of scuminess from businesses they are dealing with. It seems (some) gyms have decided that they're going to take advantage of that. It probably speaks to the business model of gyms which is where people join for aspirational reasons but then largely don't turn up.
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  165.  @calebbarnhouse496  Many places are making it easier to carry than ever. The number of states with some form of constitutional carry is now up to 26.
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  166.  @looksinfectious9642  Nothing wrong with taking a look. I visited several places I'd heard of when I visited New York. Going in (without business) would be a different thing and if I did, it wouldn't be to say more than "I've watched a lot of videos and just wanted to see it for myself" and wouldn't expect any more unless it was initiated by someone there. Just don't presume of the time and attention of others.
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  167.  @rossmanngroup  SMS integration was what differentiated them from the 100 other messaging apps out there. I might use such an app (I value encryption) but it's a harder sell for all the people who don't. My wife just asked me to disable it for her because she has no use for it anymore, for example. My contact list in Signal is now desultory. Metcalf's law is a thing. The real issue is that the protocol was not open and other people were not allowed to make compatible clients. No competition in the market of ideas.
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  168.  @BrianG61UK  Who knows what an investigation might turn up. Maybe someone dialing in over PPP from a caller ID number belonging to Apple.
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  169. The genie is out of the bottle on that one. Open source controllers are easily produced.
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  170. Karlyn Boysenko read through a study recently that said the biggest factor in coronavirus cases was public transport (not masks, lockdowns or social distancing). I suspect that shoving sick people into nursing homes is probably a factor too but I don't have the raw data on that.
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  171. Haha, yeah, blame America. Those European consumer protection laws didn't come about in a vacuum.
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  172. Tim Pool called Louis wrong when he brought this up in his podcast but I think Louis' source is more credible than Pool on this point.
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  173. I live in a small city in the south. Rents are just too high. The companies that stick around own the buildings. Everyone else works for the landlords effectively. I don't have a problem with landlords but they are feeding on peoples' dreams and savings and not charging what would give stable long-term businesses.
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  174. Between reliable lasers, photo printing services and full printing services, the real market for inkjets is definitely small and niche. I would say that a rule of thumb is that if you're buying a cheap one, you probably don't need it.
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  175. They won't though because then one will fall out and they'll lose it.
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  176. I think he was probably surprised because it seems for certain retail environments, that's considered standard operations. It's no wonder there's an opioid epidemic.
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  177.  @chrispycryptic  I pay for access. Sadly, a lot of the most vibrant stuff has been cannibalized by web forums. Also the quality of Google access to the archives they bought from dejanews has deteriorated horribly.
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  178. Sponsorblock already skips those.
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  179.  @danceswithpaperhands6221  Possibly one of the FATs got messed up. There's a free tool that's very good if you only want to recover pictures, it's called Zero Assumption Recovery (no affiliation).
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  180.  @Aliens308  YouTube got wise to that a while back and now serve the ad content from the same servers as the regular content.
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  181. Probably needs the rotor and at least the piston of the caliper (which realistically means the caliper) replaced though. Still no excuse. Pull one from stock and have it overnighted.
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  182. When I go to lowes with a list for a project, it's not uncommon for a third of the stuff to be out of stock.
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  183. Reminds me of when that guy was kinda following Louis around on his ride home.
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  184. Unless he's not getting paid for it, I'd say Louis counts as professional.
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  185. The only constant is change. Some of it was complete bullshit but no reason we shouldn't keep the good bits. A move to remote work (where possible) has been overdue for a decade.
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  186.  @whathanul5798  Just because there are bigger businesses does not make a business a small business. Though it is somewhat arbitrary. It might be worth putting companies like Walmart in yet-another category but we have what we have.
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  187. reddit is a dumpster fire, r/twox is a tire fire in the dumpster fire. Your first instinct to scoll on by was the correct one.
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  188. The way I do things is to keep a relatively small SSD for boot and stuff I'm working on and a large spinning hard-drive for rarely used data. The SSD gets backed up to the spinning hard drive periodically. The spinning hard-drive gets backed up to an external drive. This isn't as good an option for a laptop for obvious reasons.
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  189.  @chrism2279  Some places, they'll break your windows just for being a smartarse, sadly.
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  190.  @Rob2  To be fair, NYC is a big hole in the ground already. (I kid).
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  191.  @dark3031  This is a new one.
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  192. Do you think the concern over tik-tok which started rising several month ago was an astroturf prelude to this legislation?
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  193. I tried finding it a while back and no luck here either.
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  194.  @rossmanngroup  A decent bit narrower though. Not that it matters.
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  195. The editing is free, it's the export you pay for. Scammers.
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  196.  @joevining2603  I prefer to go in person to the acrylic and glass table district.
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  197.  @MrBearyMcBearface If they're as bad as it seems, that's a win/win.
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  198. I'll be interested if you would do a video coming back when a new company has moved in. Assuming they don't just tear the whole thing down. I'd be interested to see that too.
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  199. If creators make it easy for me to support them directly, I'll consider doing so. If they don't, that's on them. Best options are Paypal (where you can send money as a friend for free) or crypto.
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  200.  @justsomeguy5470  Merchandise is good if you want it. If you don't, give them money direct (if you can) and buy a mug from dollar tree. I'm not really interested in most YouTubers merch though LTT is doing some interesting stuff with their screwdriver and backpack (Both a bit too pricey for me but not bad in concept).
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  201. Everything OK in your area?
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  202.  @davidwarford3087  Yep. Totally different categorization in almost every way and makes a mockery. Not enough kids entering STEM? Well, give em a paintbrush and everything is fine with STEAM.
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  203. You laught but I've seen many monitor boxes that don't specify the resolution anywhere on the outside.
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  204.  @ZeranZeran It's a lot different now. I speak as someone who was around to craft X mode lines. Last few installs on random hardware have been seamless.
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  205.  @ZeranZeran LOL. No. I have a Linux desktop I use for a few things that's exclusively Linux and I put Steam on it so my son could play Terraria and then Portal and Portal 2 and Don't Starve Together. I came up yesterday and he had installed a few more games on his own. He's five. There are some games that don't work (I hear) but it's looking a lot better than it was. He also uses it for Minecraft but that's outside of Steam.
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  206.  @Xander1Sheridan  Yeah, I thought it was ready to collapse in the late 90s. The market has softened a couple of times but resumed on to new highs. It's absolutely insane.
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  207. I'm an occasional recreational Android developer. I was dismayed when I saw a bunch of the functionality move from being general OS provided services to being provided by the proprietary Google Play services. A very dark day.
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  208.  @Justinstormer  That's Hanlon's Razor.
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  209.  @IamUzyf  They got worse, not better. At least in the functional design dept. Stick a new processor and more memory in and S5 and I'm good. The hardware guys are doing a great job. The designers are dropping the ball.
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  210.  @TheMeisterManuel  I should do. My OS is very outdated.
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  211. The accounts for different things are so intertwined now too that it's quite possible that it could have far-reaching repercussions. One badly interpreted youtube comment could get an account banned which with cloud services, hosting, gmail etc, could take down a whole business. I think Amazon is a little bit less broad but there's still plenty that could go wrong (they own Twitch, AWS and probably a bunch of other services I'm not even aware of).
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  212. I think that's gone the way of Google's "Don't be evil".
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  213.  @zzaretube  You misunderstand statistics. You can't apply the general to the specific. Can't tell if the vaccine helped or not on an individual level just from a story like this.
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  214.  @xSkittlesxNewbx  That's only for copyrights, not trade secrets.
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  215. The big box home improvement centers are often very bad on restocking. It's not unusual to go there with a shopping list for a project and only come away with 2/3 or less of the items needed. Sometimes, I'll make a pickup order just so they're the ones who have to waste their time looking for stuff that's not there.
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  216. Are these chips serialized? What does the 'calibration' software do? I'm wondering how hard it would be to come up with substitute chips. They've done it for printer cartridges.
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  217.  @n-11ordoskirata70  Just so. What's worse is that the best and perhaps only way to win an argument is to attempt to understand your opponent's position. The "I'm right and you're just wrong now shut up" people only make the divide worse. Anyone who says there's just one obvious answer (other than in a few cases) is just not putting any mental effort into the discussion and is just knee-jerking. You should be able to strip down and take your opponent's argument apart like you're rebuilding a car engine, not just call them names and then block them.
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  218.  @rossmanngroup Note also that they didn't even tell you you were watching a downgraded stream. How many people continue to pay for 4k even when they're not using it?
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  219. Wrong way on a one-way street... Great song.
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  220. The way of the left. Never mind if something is effectual as long as the virtue signalling is accomplished.
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  221.  @rossmanngroup OK, that describes the dollar but what about crypto?
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  222.  @anemoneyas  A lot of that is due to zoning, unfortunately. Some areas are starting to experiment with mixed usage to put people closer to the services they use.
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  223. They also sent a bunch of people home and started paying them more than they were earning working. You couldn't plan a shit-show so well (unless they actually did).
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  224.  @Prophetofcthulhu  Imagine if New Yorkers would stop voting for people embezzling tax money. Economies of scale should give cities like NYC incredibly low tax rates. Yet taxes are high and services are shitty.
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  225. In the stock market they call this front-running (it's a literal different but I think there are comparisons to be made).
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  226. I managed to crack one putting it in my back pocket for ten minutes. Fortunately, the last thing I had done with it was back it up. I was able to get by borrowing the one from my phone (another reason to like phones which support external memory).
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  227.  @christykail3314  I wasn't too happy with WD after their recent secret shingling escapade so I bought some ironwolfs. OK so far. One has had a link error but checked out fine after I pulled it so I think it's just a bad sata cable.
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  228. Seriously.
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  229. Wow, doing it in the first place is bad but doing it after an update? That's tantamount to stealing. I think we need to find a decent quality printer and come up with a community firmware for it.
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  230.  @DJRaffa1000  Lots of audio stuff isn't usb-c though. Like my car or my fancy wired headphones. That would require a dongle. Many people won't care and that's fair but it's an option I like to have.
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  231. It's gone so quick since you cut Eugene loose. I hope other NYC people get to see this and avoid being taken in by people like him going forward.
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  232. Just to be clear here, this was their definition when they first placed it into their dictionary in 2018. It's still bullshit but you're going to get called out if you say they changed it or that it's new.
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  233.  @rossmanngroup  I've said for a while that the model needs to make the financial incentives work properly. The way YouTube does things makes things all out of whack. Patreon/subscribestar redresses it a little but it's still a mess. Rumble and co are basically reproducing the YouTube model so don't really address things.
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  234. I think they're different subdivisions so the others are likely still doing good work. It's like how Sony is compartmentalized.
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  235.  @triduck  I think there are still some dumb TVs out there. I think Sceptre is one who still makes them.
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  236.  @ThePopo4 A crisp 480p is often perfectly adequate.
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  237. Also, if you can download the service manual, it will show you which screws go where.
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  238. Dude, you're an influencer. People want to be influenced.
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  239.  @ConeOfArc  I'd say most things could be learned online. In the lectures I attended, most of the interactivity was typically not all that useful and that was in classes that were much smaller than is typically the case in the US.
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  240.  @dolorlux4612 It's fishing with a net but I'm not sure what the reference is either and I'm familiar with most methods of sailing the high seas.
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  241. There was a off-ramp near me where traffic would back on to the interstate during evening rush hour. Though there was an obvious easy fix, I postulated nothing would be done until someone was killed. Unfortunately, I was proven right.
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  242.  @glorgau  Important to remember that it's quite easy to become a realtor so it's not like it has to be a calling or anything. Thinking about it, it's something where an online service that facilitates "for sale by owner" could really be disruptive.
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  243. It's just a guess but it's possible that this line is at 5V at all times (or at least when it's plugged in), even when the rest of the computer is off. This would make it more susceptible to corrosion, especially with the computer not being on meaning it would be cold and condensation would hang around.
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  244.  @cinnavision  Did he use a credit card? They'd probably have his name.
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  245. That's actually understandable. What makes me scratch my head is when the fanboys repeat that crap.
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  246.  @TomikaKelly  Then it's not free delivery. It's not rocket science.
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  247.  @Johncw87  The left was concerned about harassment of people of Asian descent until it turned out to be the wrong racial group doing the harassing.
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  248. Also worth bearing in mind from Louis' recent videos is that buying a used Tesla means you're closer to that $20k battery replacement fee. That would buy you a very decent new-used car.
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  249. Not an option to remove the sim card?
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  250. LOL. Oh wait, you said real journalist. That's a search worthy of Diogenes.
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  251.  @3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7  Google has the right but issue is that they are riding "Open Source" hype while simultaneously taking steps to coral devs into making apps that only run on google approved devices.
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  252. @ Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not saying that you're doing the wrong thing, I'm saying that that's the option that's going away so you won't be able to do that anymore.
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  253.  @AlvinKazu  This is not distilling, it's simply condensing water from the air.
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  254. Borrowing money to buy their own shares. There has to be some conflict of interest for the people implementing this stuff.
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  255.  @darthverminates9708  He might be able to sue a "John Doe" which would allow him to subpoena the information.
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  256. They all turn evil in the end. It's best not to get too brand loyal.
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  257.  @pollodormido2  Too difficult differentiating them from the regular residents.
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  258. I figure either places had pre-arrangements for outdoor dining or this is something that has been specially allowed for the pandemic.
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  259.  @IamUzyf  That's like, just your opinion, man.
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  260. We were moving office back when LCD panels were fairly new. One of the monitors had permanent finger marks where it had been picked up so we made the moving company pay for it. One of my colleagues kept using that monitor for another three years.
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  261. The Prius is a hybrid that's still primarily a gas vehicle so the size of the battery pack is a bit arbitrary and will typically be smaller than a pure EV vehicle. It was originally not intended to be charged externally at all (though some people found ways to do so). Vehicles like the Volt are designed to rely more heavily on the battery.
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  262.  @1DwtEaUn  Having had both, I can say there's nothing like having a full-size on hand. If my next car doesn't have one, I might get a cheep steel wheel just to keep in the shed at home.
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  263.  @zzaretube  Can you confidently say that it did?
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  264.  N DD  Exactly. And in the moment, you can argue it and get kicked out, then try and take legal redress but you missed what you came for or just go along. Unfortunately, you need to be pre-prepared for this kind of thing with letters and printouts but who would know to do that first time around?
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  265. Could someone just reverse engineer the schematic? Wonder how much it would cost to have someone do that.
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  266. Pestilence of Livestock Ave is much more hip anyway.
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  267. When they print the money, where do people think it goes? Then shlubs like you and me put our pensions into it and then the bubble bursts.
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  268.  @ciarasweeney  Bingo. Nothing you said refuted what I said. That strategist potentially could if backed with a bit more evidence on performance but on its own, not so much and sounds a bit like a fluff job title. Elected official, is, of course, a low skilled job, (attempted Trump jab aside). Now, their staffers who get (and keep) them elected, that's another story.
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  269. If you have some spare cash lying around, it would be interesting if you'd do this ride with a 180 camera.
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  270. In this thread: People proving my point.
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  271. It's strange because Amazon built a lot of its business on a reputation of excellent customer service. This seems like it would be the antithesis of that. Did some rogue manager get put in charge of retention or is this signs of something deeper and more troubling?
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  272. I think "move out of the expensive area" would be a good thing for someone like Fran of Franlab but for Louis, it's about the foot traffic and sheer density of Apple users.
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  273. Maybe have a "right to repair" organization that rates devices according to their repairability (availability of parts, accessibility, modularity etc).
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  274.  @Zuriki09  Ideally, if the design is right, those elements, or the nodes that support them can be cut out. It should not be a problem to have multiple networks (that's decentralization).
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  275. Definitely a negative but you can get it with a bigger battery and the turbo charging is pretty decent. I'd definitely have paid extra for a removable battery though.
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  276. Once again, these companies make piracy the superior option.
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  277. It's Just Pho Small, Just Pho Expensive.
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  278.  @cbalan777  Being protective about your work makes you a liability and smart managers will know that.
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  279. That "conspiracy theory" is automatically assumed to be wrong is evidence of a very effective propaganda campaign. There have been many conspiracies that have been revealed over time.
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  280. It's always been a broken business model to me. The people using their service for hosting don't pay for it. The advertisers are the source of money (what isn't coming from 'Alphabet' or VCs) and the connection to anything is all wrong. This leads to all kinds of wrong incentives. The correct model is for the viewers to pay for the content (with various ways to manage that, potentially including free tiers) and for that to pay for the bandwidth and hosting. Whenever I say this, people complain but it's usually those who want something for nothing. Some services out there appear to be going that way (locals for instance, though I think there are still issues with their model) and I think that kind of setup will ultimately prove the most durable.
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  281. I also bought some cartridges that are refillable and reset when they are empty. I highly recommend them.
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  282.  @QueLoKevin  Big cities lean blue everywhere. Not sure where Louisville sits on that spectrum tho.
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  283.  @chubbymoth5810  Very much so. I live in an old small city and you can see how it used to work as a community. Unfortunately, all the stores on main street don't really serve the same purpose any more (though there are a couple of older holdouts). Ironically, places like Dollar General are bringing groceries back to being local.
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  284.  @ZippyDan  Good point. And it isn't necessarily redundant even so since I'm sure NYPD has many other occupations working for it like NYPD accountants and NYPD janitors. It's amusing to laugh about though.
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  285. There's supposed to be a Linux phone coming out this year. I'm not holding out a lot of hope but it could be interesting.
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  286. I was thinking it might be cool to pick a decent quality printer and come up with a community firmware for it. Just have it ignore the cartridge level. I do have some cartridges that reset once they are empty (you just have to remove them from the printer once). So they are available, for some printers at least.
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  287.  @rexsceleratorum1632  Yes. The pre-installed remote app on my S5 gradually morphed into adware malware over several updates.
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  288. Usually these are phrased so that if you quit early, you have to pay for the training. Which is probably fair enough if there's no shenanigans with the price of the training. You should avoid this if it's training that's only useful to that one company though.
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  289. If you ever visit the UK, I suggest renting a narrowboat for a few days. It's not great if you want to see a lot of places but it's quite a calming experience.
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  290.  @shiroiokami9 What is this? Fucking vampire rules?
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  291. Sadly, the police are often ignorant of the facts of the law (somewhat understandable, there's a lot of it) and many are lazy. This is completely actionable with video evidence but the dude got fobbed off because the cop he called has exactly the same mentality as the guy with the box cutter.
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  292. Yeah, Paxman was definitely one of the first to start going for the jugular and working against those who were going for the evasive tactics.
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  293. How about Windows 10 IoT? I haven't tried that yet.
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  294. My daughter spilled milk on a 7950 (don't ask how) which appeared to have killed it. I tried stripping down and washing with distilled water and IPA but still no go. Think I might try an ultrasonic and see if that can bring it back to life. There are no apparent signs of water/liquid damage so maybe it got under some chips?
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  295. 1.21 Gigagrrrr? Great Scott!
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  296. If you want to see a model for protecting the consumer when it comes to these things, the Direct Debit guarantee in the UK is a pretty good one. You can always cancel. If the other party messes around, you can do it through your bank.
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  297. Yeah, Microsoft support is atrocious. I think they post some bullshit just so they can have a good response rate/time.
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  298. Gotta have my external battery (I keep two spare around) and MicroSD slot. Holding on to my S5 for now.
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  299. Big cities don't work. They were doomed from the day one computer was connected to another. The depreciation of the value they provided for networking was inevitable from that point on. (There is still a place for cities as some network effect is still beneficial)
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  300. This is a different fire to the previous one, right? To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: To have one bike go on fire can be regarded as misfortune. To have two go on fire looks like carelessness.
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  301. I managed to be a pilot scheme for wfh for a company in 2015. It worked pretty well but it was only one day a week and I ended up leaving anyway after a while. I like to hope I helped them be prepared for the covid stuff. What I think was pretty good was they gave me a video IP phone as a separate device, not an app on PC. This allowed for not interrupting my on-screen workflow as well as keeping my regular work number. It's also a nice reminder that you're working, not homing
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  302.  @Baneling93  I was happy to take it from my commuting, clothing and food savings. Less stress too. Though they did get the increased productivity for free.
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  303.  @wesleyswafford2462 You're not wrong but certainly Youtube policies have encouraged it and they've played fast and loose with contract law in a way that wouldn't be tolerated in more traditional industries.
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  304. "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage"
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  305. That must be one bright candle.
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  306.  @LagrangePoint901  So you don't like the sunglasses?
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  307. I got a free ride, a decent degree and enjoyed my time but looking back, if I could have been mentored by someone about running a business instead, that would have been many times more valuable.
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  308. I wonder if this pushes the mods into employee status.
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  309. Heck, get 4 wheels from harbor freight and screw them straight to the bottom.
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  310. 8:10 - Louis patient zero for Covid.
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  311.  @stanimir4197  He put extra voltage too which could have turned it from a low-resistance short to a high-resistance. Should have used a known-bad part.
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  312. It's a clever strategy. If you ensure that the people who won't put up with being abused won't be your customers, you can abuse the ones who are left pretty much as much as you want.
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  313.  @Wahinies  Do you mean 5TB? 5GB is really low these days and more in the realms of mobile data limits.
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  314.  @RandyXandar  God forbid that a manufacturer of electric automobiles should face an engineering challenge.
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  315. It makes things look so dramatic though. Cycling down a knife edge at high speeds - cut to external shot - speed is pedestrian, drop-offs are mild. It's why everyone thought Louis was going so fast yesterday.
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  316. Wait, is the employee in hospital for covid or for vaccine reaction?
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  317. Portsmouth and Hampshire are copied from England anyway (as is New England, come to that)
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  318. And the bus full of nuns it clips on the way in.
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  319. Definitely not release quality.
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  320. Louis, I'm on your side in this but one question I have is whether Linus' response about the damage to the Mac could have been more as a response to your accusation of nickel and diming. Not so much to convince you to go but more as a defense. I haven't watched this video yet so maybe you address it. This wasn't the impression I got from your previous video but having read some more, it seems like this could be a possible scenario that could maybe soften the view of what Linus wrote a little. Not that I'm accusing you of misrepresenting him, it's just that often in these situations, it's more that someone gets the wrong end of the stick and it gets out of control from there. (I do think that Linus' previous behaviors leans toward your interpretation being more likely correct).
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  321. I think PJ's got a class-action about that recently.
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  322. Those prices for the parts on the battery pack sound like retail to me. I.e. if Tesla is selling the battery for that price, Tesla already has a nice profit. It doesn't sound like they're providing it at cost. Not that that's potentially not reasonable as well.
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  323.  @snowfalleon7629  Well, the broken widow theory is really about making the breaking of windows not normal so that is kinda the point. Broken window theory is not uncontested but the most popular alternate theory is that it is mostly the increased presence of police which improves things. Which is fine as improved enforcement would also help with the trash issue.
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  324. You're a good man, Louis. This sounds like one of those deals where you're supposed to know the right palm to grease.
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  325.  @CristiNeagu  And he will soon be unvaxxed unless he gets the booster.
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  326.  @aabaahgnaarbuulaajaadiijn744  It makes me wonder what other definitions are being changed that we don't know about.
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  327. Because of the reaction to covid,
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  328. Man, use FTPS at the very least.
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  329.  @remyllebeau77  Fair. I was being charitable. I don't discount that what you suggest has a non-insignificant probability.
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  330. Most companies are somewhat greedy but they usually have to temper that with keeping the people who bring them revenue happy and keep increasing costs somewhat palatable. This smells like an act of desperation.
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  331. I think they have to open inward so they can't be blocked on the outside.
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  332. @@GH0STST4RSCR34M Actually yes. The upgrade could download when in signal but not offer to upgrade until the car was stopped.
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  333. Louis, I'd like to suggest you contact the manufacturer to get more info on the OSB vs plywood debate. They will have an interest in their product being used correctly.
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  334. The main reasons I can see would be to work with the kind of businesses that make their home there. That's going to be mostly financial and some big names. Other than that, I'd agree with you that other big cities are probably preferable and for most large industries, you're going to have a choice of a few different places.
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  335.  @jochenstacker7448 Some of the BMW deal is that other companies upped their game even on the low-end models. My first car was a bottom-of-the-range ford from the 1970s. Door metal on the interior, no glove box (just a shelf) no power steering, no brakes, no stereo, AC not even a merest hint of a consideration. It didn't take much to be higher-end from there. Some of the features that make a car "luxury" these days are a bit risible and fall into the "conspicuous consumption" category IMO.
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  336. He could have grown his company and had all his money in SVB.
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  337.  @dog-jk2hn  They may not have changed their definition in their database but in making the entry that way, they definitely altered the definition to suit an agenda. People who are anti-vaccine probably oppose mandated but you can oppose mandates without being anti-vaccine. I may do some research to see what other dictionaries have said because there's more than just Merriam Webster out there. It would also be instructive to see their research since it seems there is expected to be more to creating a dictionary than just making shit up.
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  338.  @xXxLolerTypxXx  The tool battery system would be better if the batteries were compatible between brands.
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  339.  @xXxLolerTypxXx  Probably only a matter of time until they're serialized. You're taking a little bit of a chance with those adapters too, though it does seem they all use the same 10k style thermistor.
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  340.  @xXxLolerTypxXx  Yes, for sure. I actually couldn't find an adapter for my battery and tool so I designed and built my own. It needs a couple of more iterations though.
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  341.  @xXxLolerTypxXx  The dumb thing is, it's all the same cells inside, often even down to the same brand and model number.
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  342. Here's the thing about those barriers... Fire regulations mean that they have to be able to be defeated by pushing hard on them. You're right, they're not going to do shit.
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  343. Yeah, there is a degree to where stuff gets dressed at the end and some of the stuff you don't need to see gets hidden but this wasn't that.
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  344.  @houghwhite411  The ancients had a phrase for this. It's "form over function".
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  345. One important thing: To my understanding (I am not a lawyer), downloading is not copyright infringement, only sharing is.
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  346.  @Latsu15  I'll have you know I cook my frozen lasagna in the oven!
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  347. Well, noise is one of the biggest things that can make your life a misery quickly.
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  348.  @SirReptitious  Similar but different.
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  349.  @ehsnils  The epoxy blob is not beyond possibility.
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  350. Something doesn't add up here. Both in my experience and in what is being described. Firstly (though less relevantly), I can access the UK amazon site using my US account. I used that fact to buy a kindle for my UK friend. So setting up a second account with the same email address wouldn't seem to make sense (albeit I'm not saying it's impossible). Secondly, If you make two accounts with the same email address... When you join a kindle to your Amazon account using the kindle, you use the email and password. So if you have an account with the email address for the UK and an account with the email address for the US (say), how does the kindle know which to use? With that said, I'm not sure how this resolves with buying books from the various sites and buying books from the store on the kindle itself. Let's just say I have questions. Maybe there is geoblocking going on.
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  351. I'll add another point, which is more informational than anything. If you download a book to your kindle and then you change account, the book is still readable on your kindle (the first kindle I had, I bought used and it came with a bunch of books installed - none of which I was interested in reading). So it's possible to utilize books from multiple accounts at the same time. (Please note that none of this is to say that other points aren't valid. There's certainly plenty to call Amazon out for. Also I support non-DRMed local copies of media).
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  352.  @bufordmaddogtannen  Yes. Looks like they were more interested in making the printer mechanism look slick than in making it functional.
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  353.  @joevining2603  I find you really don't get the proper feel for the texture of the glass and/or acrylic online.
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  354. The ubiquity of remotes can be annoying. I have a wall clock that's wrong since the time change because it can only be set from the remote and I have no idea where I put it.
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  355. I wonder if Pine could be convinced to make an open printer.
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  356. The annoying thing is I'm going to have to waste time on this.
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  357.  @randomman057  Yes, if you're willing and able to settle for less range, it's less expensive. If you can get by with a golf cart, I'm sure it's very cheap indeed.
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  358. If everyone spans availability zones/regions, you don't eliminate the issue, you just have a bit more headroom. That's better than nothing but doesn't change the underlying issue.
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  359. I just installed it on my gaming PC. Everything was plug and play. Bluetooth is even much more saner.
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  360.  @pjotrsavitski  Sucks to have choice. Must have been scary when Jobs died and you might have had to make decisions for yourself. I hope Tim Apple is working out as your navigator.
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  361.  @The_Ballo  Windows parity attained...
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  362. I looked into that 281 E 91st St building last time you talked about it. I has a very esoteric ownership history. I think there was something weird with the taxes too.
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  363. This is how you get killdozers.
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  364. One advantage might be that we would get some more clarity about what all these charging standards mean.
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  365.  @rossmanngroup  As someone who's a bit of a power user, I find Signal is a bit dumbed down for my tastes and very restrictive in what you can do, in ways that seem designed to lock you in (can't do a bulk export except to their format without third-party tools). Signal is a prime example of a company that grows big enough they think they know better than their customers.
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  366.  @fhunter1test  Also, not many developers for them. Smartphones are a much bigger market.
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  367.  @shrikedecil  Yep. If I make a mistake in a comment and it's been up for a bit, I'll typically line it out and add a correction. Especially if already has replies. It's good to leave context.
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  368. That's where all the crazies who are upset the delivery dude walked on their flowers post.
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  369. I'd love to see an open source printer. I wonder if the Framework guys would be interested.
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  370. True enough. But how many people would accept a contract based on tips? It's on people to understand what they're signing up for but it's still kinda shady.
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  371.  @MrJest2  This isn't California though. I've seen buildings in similar condition turned into apartments (though I can't speak to this particular building, of course). Brick is a remarkably resilient building material.
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  372.  @littleshopofrandom685  Engine braking is fine (It couldn't not be if you think about it). Coasting in neutral is usually not allowed. (YMMV depending on jurisdiction and given you mention MOT/DOT, I'm fairly sure that applies to yours).
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  373.  @littleshopofrandom685  Agree on the Tesla. Can't argue that the signs aren't there but engine braking is just taking your foot off the accelerator (and then you apply additional mechanical braking as needed). I wonder if they mean what is referred to here as jake brakes. (Edit: I've looked it up and it appears that's the case so it appears we're talking about different things, possibly even a regional variation in terminology. It seems also that the reason they're banned in those areas is because of the noise - which makes sense). FWIW, I thought you were in the UK but I guess the MOT/DOT thing carried over.
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  374. I enjoyed the couple of times I visited NYC and never really felt any danger. I even felt it would be fun to live there for about a year or so. I wouldn't want to go back right now though (and not just for the danger). NYC, get your shit in order.
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  375.  @3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7  Agree completely. Patents too.
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  376. Haven't bought a Canon printer in a long time. I'm liking Brother lasers mostly these days. Though they're all at the scamming.
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  377. They're making an argument for someone to come in and eat their lunch one way or another.
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  378.  @USSMariner  Yeah, there's definitely some crossover and art has validity in its own right. I've never heard of this before but it screams of shenanigans.
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  379.  @bubba99009  Gotta love those ads with sirens. They should be illegal.
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  380. Please report to nearest genius camp for reeducation.
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  381. The "Piracy" thing is just name calling. I don't care. We used to swap cassette tapes full of music or games in the playground. I do throw some money to content creators every now and then, especially if they have a bitcoin address, sometimes Paypal. Superchats, I'd have to have something I really wanted to say cause 30% to Google is bullshit.
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  382. It's kinda 50/50. You can still use the hardware, you just don't get updates. Where do you draw the line at updates? Not sure but there's a reason I prefer open source.
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  383.  @toms382  Good point with the current inflation. FJB.
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  384.  @economicprisoner  I mean the whole refrigerant system.
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  385. Just FWIW, car manufacturers did try similar shenanigans in the past and legislation was passed.
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  386. What flavor of protein shake provides the best digitizer-to-screen adhesion?
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  387. I like my Microsoft natural keyboards and I'll buy them any time I see them at a good price.
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  388. My worry about privacy is you have to give them access to your bank account. If there was something you could just pay money in to, that would be much more preferable to me.
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  389.  @unoriginalyoutubename8761  It's not terrible. I still use one and the chrome is flaking off and Google maps causes problems and I'm sure stuff is going to stop being compatible soon but it works well enough for most things.
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  390.  @ixian_technocrat  Haha. No. European companies have long been capable of their own terrible behavior. Though US consumer protection is definitely lagging currently.
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  391. 4kW through a 1kW motor? Sounds like some photoinduction fun.
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  392.  @user-zf3mb2rh9n  You're not wrong. Some people were setting up (fairly nice) shacks for the homeless in SanFran and the government came and took them all away.
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  393. Blackberry got pushed out because they were concentrating too much on trying to exploit enterprise relationships and ties to Exchange (which they totally messed up) and not on improving their handsets.
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  394.  @DarthZackTheFirstI  They have some gps/gsm on ebay but I don't know how good they are. Even something like a Tile might be worthwhile.
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  395. Hah, I've bought some of those when I had to do some impromptu online training. They did the job but they're worth about what you pay for them. If you're listening to music through them you're doing yourself a disservice.
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  396.  @southernflatland  All I'm saying is that maybe you deserve $5 of audio quality :D. The DG ones were also uncomfortable in my ears but maybe they were different from yours.
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  397. All LTTs videos make money so they don't have to be using it for any particular purpose for it to be commercial. If they wanted to treat it as promotional, they should have gone to the developer to make arrangements. However, I don't think there was anything malicious going on here and your points about the commercial requirements not being advertised well enough are well made.
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  398. While I think mandating software support for 10 years is not a good idea, I think companies should have to advertise how long their supports run for and be made to stick with it.
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  399.  @chitlitlah  Ah OK. I bet the first lady was right though.
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  400. Another fun thing is that AT&T won't let you use unapproved phones any more. This sucks as any open source phone is likely to be GSM which really only leaves you with t-mobile in the US currently.
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  401. That's pretty bad. There are ways to easily avoid this. Even Tivo in the early 2000s made sure it wasn't bricked by a failed software update (the trick is to have two - or more - bootable partitions so you always have one 'known good')
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  402. A slightly sloping floor isn't the end of the world anyway.
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  403. The problem for Qualcomm is that they can't just negotiate a higher flat rate with Apple due to that whole "Reasonable and non-discriminatory" thing. But I think taking a percentage is bullshit too, it's just discriminatory via the back door.
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  404. I'd suggest the viewer isn't YouTube's customer. YouTube's customers are the content creators (who use YT for storage and broadcasting) and the advertisers (Premium purchasers being a vanishingly small fraction of the equation). As you have suggested, YT's business model is borked and a large part of that is failure to correctly identify the roles of the participants.
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  405. Is it in standby or actually off? There's sometimes a way to put devices in a lower-power state.
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  406. I was hoping that was going to be an ironic title. I couldn't imagine a worse place to start if you aren't starting out with a silver spoon. At least until you're getting to those really small towns like you say. There are a lot of other big cities that will offer you opportunities without having to live in a hamster cage. I think you might have been right 30-40 years ago.
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  407. It's complicated.
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  408. Usually modifying the original is not good behavior but it depends on the workflow.
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  409.  @northuniverse  I'll stick with motorcycles. I'm only so crazy.
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  410. Hey, gotta get those subscribe & save discounts.
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  411. Where we're going, we don't need wheels. But we do need a 3000lb battery made from materials mined by slaves.
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  412.  @uraldamasis6887  Sinclair ZX Printer did it back in the day. It needed metalized paper though.
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  413.  @stroke_of_luck  Apple will just grass you up to the feds. Don't think this stops at CP and even if it did, who wants to be risking that?
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  414. There are actually specific laws about auto makers not being allowed to do this in the US. Unfortunately, they seem to be managing to slip by this somehow for some things (key transponders for one)
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  415.  @rabywastaken  Good to know. Vanced is currently still working for me (last I checked) but I know it's only a matter of time.
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  416. Well, he got the first bit anyway.
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  417.  @aravindpallippara1577  Recently? Wow, has to be around three decades since I had to mess with that kind of thing.
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  418. @Paradoxical Nightmare I was a little concerned that Louis' waterproofing may have had detrimental effects on the cooling of the batteries too.
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  419. Most of the deadwood got cleared out in the last 18 years. That which didn't will get bailouts.
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  420.  @karstenjensen1467  Low interest rates are caused by printed money competing with other money in the lending markets. That's why your savings go to crap in a regular saving account now. Nobody wants to borrow it.
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  421. Nah, they're already soldering them directly to the MB.
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  422.  @kompst_tu  I think A is meaning classically liberal, not what modern liberalism is.
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  423.  @kompst_tu  There's a lot of hyperbole and dissembling going on, especially from the radical left. Don't take anybody's word at face value, do research and definitely check out more than one source of information (none of which should be CNN).
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  424. It's part of their program to align their product design with their genius bar service. When their guys say "We can't fix it, you have to buy a new one", they want it to be true. Next innovation will be small explosive devices on all the major components that will detonate when a critical hardware failure is detected.
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  425.  @olencone4005  Reddit has an awful system for maintaining long-term discussions.
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  426. Currently looking for an alternative to Ring as a camera doorbell. Preferably something that keeps everything in my LAN and doesn't use proprietary protocols and software.
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  427. I'd still like to know about that weird store that was closed from the 80s.
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  428. If it was any nicer, you still couldn't afford it.
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  429.  @radtronic  Yup. I just replaced the battery in my ratty old chromebook a few months ago. Still works fine for my purposes. I only replaced the one it superceded because the new one can run Android and Linux apps.
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  430. @ To be fair to Linus for a split second, there's circumstantial evidence other creators knew as they dropped Honey but they didn't speak up about it anywhere so there's nothing for sure. That's a risky strategy if it ever slips out that they did know as that's exactly what has happened with Linus.
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  431. Homelessness is a multi-faceted issue so doesn't have one simple answer. Many are only homeless temporarily. The chronically homeless often have mental or other issues and simply giving them a home/regular place to live will not provide a solution for them. Shelters are often just that, a place to shelter. They are not supposed to be a home. Though they should not be that condition and certainly not 4k/month.
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  432. Should have said "Under 5 minutes or more".
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  433. I've heard of Paris Syndrome. I wonder if there's New York Syndrome. Personally, New York was pretty much what I'd expected but I've been to big cities before. Though that was pre-covid, of course.
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  434. I'd use some custom Perl (or scripting language of your choice). Much more flexible than trying to manage it through wget.
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  435. Big cities like NYC are probably an anachronism. Modern technology means that you don't see the same benefits of having so many people working in the same area. This is why people are fleeing in droves. NYC is now past the point of diminishing returns. Possibly even in a death spiral (though probably won't die completely). Many floors in the WTC were empty even back in 2001.
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  436. I had an odd slightly-difference experience. I'd previously bought a car from a certain type of car dealer and a few years later told him that I was looking a new (used) car and specifically what I was looking for and he said he'd get back to me. Very shortly after I saw he'd put exactly that car up on ebay. I contacted him by email and we did the trade offline but I couldn't understand why he'd want to throw away money like that.
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  437. This actually doesn't bother me too much. I can easily imagine people who wouldn't have much use for one of these so why should they pay for them (because make no mistake, Tesla wouldn't be eating the cost of these if they came with the car). Maybe someone has nowhere to plug in and only uses public chargers. My cheap ass would probably go with a third-party option anyway (that would have no name and catch fire randomly).
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  438. @c c Viruses don't just magically jump across rooms. Time and distance. I'm not arguing one way or another, I'm just saying we don't know which factors are more important than others and can't say with surety that one is safer than the other. You should carefully consider whether you're just trying to rationalize your own behavior as acceptable (a very human thing to do).
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  439. I have seen OSB subfloor and that wasn't the same stuff.
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  440. It's the same around here. Step1: Buy all the kids ipads. Step2: Complain the teachers aren't getting paid enough and demand to raise taxes.
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  441. Chromebooks being cheap is ideal. If you really want Windows, set up a bunch of virtual machines in the school's datacenter and have students VNC or RDP in. You could also have a bunch of virtual Linux and maybe even Macs too to allow for proper diversity.
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  442. You should really be doing this shopping in Germantown because many Hans make light work.
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  443.  @rexsceleratorum1632  Yeah, always sucks when that happens and it happens way too often. The worst thing about the remote is the app came pre-installed in the phone and Samsung didn't supply an in-house option. I found one that as specific for my TV and that was OK except one of the buttons didn't work properly for some reason and the guy stopped updating it.
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  444. Their panic is hilarious and 110% deserved.
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  445. Yes. They frequently use lower quality substitutions to make the stats appear better. Though I'm surprised they aren't on the lowest quality shit already.
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  446.  @cassidybb10  The power of chocolate. Just imagine if they had a good product.
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  447.  @nunyadambidniss  That would be sexist probably.
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  448. I'd like to see Musk launch his own phone. Only thing is, Bezos already tried it with the Fire Phone and it was a short lived excursion. It was a fork of Android itself so that may not be enough. Possibly Musk could add enough value between Starlink and Twitter that it would make it attractive though.
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  449. Chosen like a wand chooses his or her wizard.
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  450.  @Bri-bn5kt  If it flies, floats or f***s...
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  451.  @Bri-bn5kt  Well, the phrase continues with "you're better off renting" but I definitely want to keep a few of those at home.
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  452. I think it was through the 70s that this really came to the fore in the UK. Then again, before that, the press was a bit more "tame". Now we have evasive politicians and mostly tame press so it's a bit sad all-round.
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  453. I've been wondering for a while... Are those things on Louis' wall specifically for the cat?
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  454. It might also turn out that there are standard attachment dimensions that would make it easy to swap in a better camera. Possibly not but I would think it was worth a look.
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  455. Part of the problem is if the things you want to do don't generate income (or you don't know how to make them do so).
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  456. Cost. It depends what the cameras are typically used for. Or what the companies believed they were used for. In this case though, it's probably more like they are just not keeping up with the times.
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  457. That smiley face sucks. I killed a bunch of time on a friend's laptop trying to work out what was wrong with that. No obvious reason it wouldn't boot, it just wouldn't boot. Tried restoring all sorts of things including MBRs, registry etc. Finally had to do a reset which took it back to 8.1 then had to reinstall 10 on top of that. Microsoft have managed to introduce something stupid and fragile in their boot sequence.
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  458. Her argument is inconsistent. She refunds if she can't fix but why should she refund if she has put in a bunch of work? The answer is that it's good business. Equally, it's good business for Paypal to issue a full reversal when a refund is done. It does cost them some money to do the refund (and, of course, there are other costs of just running the business to be accounted for) but you just amortize that into the fees you charge for regular completed transactions. The implication, of course, is that not refunding fees is bad business which means it will probably hurt Paypal who have decided to get too greedy.
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  459. $1000 for a monitor stand from Apple that sends 52V to the CPU? You must be joking. That option is $1500.
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  460. This is why every laptop I have opened has had the flex cable socketed on the panel, right? How hard is it to do this shit right? It seems Apple's head is so swole they don't feel that good design practices apply to them anymore.
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  461. I was wondering how much hassle it would be to commission a knock-off.
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  462.  @ЕмилиянНиколов-ж4ж  A possible option. It might also be possible to do something with a microcontroller which could possibly be soldered to the pads like a mod chip.
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  463.  @ЕмилиянНиколов-ж4ж  True. I'm not really aware of the full function of this chip.
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  464. I've been using revanced. It takes a bit of setup but works well. I intend to give newpipe a try too.
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  465.  @cagneybillingsley2165  Wages (like everyone else). Unfortunately I have no say in the matter.
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  466.  @nikolaikalashnikov4253  Sadly, you're correct. But I think momentum may be building where a switchover becomes possible.
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  467.  @321CatboxWA  That's a backronym.
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  468.  @Drak976  Also, many more people are asking for tips. Even handing you a paper bag with a sandwich in it is deemed tip-worthy today.
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  469. If only there were an organization, or even three, that specialized in taking items from one place and delivering them elsewhere, sometimes even overnight...
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  470. Is that regular paper? It looks a bit like that thermal paper to me.
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  471. Have "achievements" for various types of contribution. 5 contributions, 10 contributions, rare solution contributions, power solution contributions, you know the drill. Make sure people are well attributed for their contributions. Also, allow commenting (though that is its own can of worms). Occasional physical rewards too (think the Youtube 100k badge).
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  472. Google must still be having problems being profitable.
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  473. You can actually take the tops off the glass/plastic ones with a little heat.
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  474. You have to work with the info you have. From seeing your old store and growth, I would say the move was the right choice at the time. Circumstances just punched you in the kidneys. Then again, I'm not a rockstar YouTube billionaire ;)
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  475. This is the same all through tech. Both Facebook and Google have pulled technologies that I was investigating basing a business around, one of which I'd put a fair amount of work into. Imagine if I had a lease and employees.
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  476. Playon pulled this shit recently too. I've also seen similar from Tom Tom and Tivo. Playon is especially egregious because even old versions of their software rapidly become useless without updates.
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  477. Important thing to remember about markets. Just because they're asking a price doesn't mean they're going to get it.
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  478. Louis has actually spoken about similar experiences with them. You might be remembering one of his videos.
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  479. Serial modems are actually probably still more relevant than Firewire to be fair.
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  480. Alabama, Texas, Loiusiana and Florida are actually more racially progressive than New York. *Spaceman*: Always has been.
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  481. Yep. I've been hoping to get a VW wagon but they phased them out in favor of stupid crossovers and SUVs. Between that and dieselgate, there's not many of what I am looking for.
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  482. It's not true. There are dozens of us.
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  483. You've spend some time investigating and seeing what's around. Don't pick one yet but use this information to decide what you want and for what price. List positives, negatives and deal-killers and things that affect price. Then go back and decide if one of your choices fits your criteria or whether you need to keep looking. This will improve your ability to bargain even if you don't like doing it. You say you have until 2023. I wouldn't stop looking because you'll lose momentum but use the time to give yourself the chance to find the place that really suits your needs, professionally and financially.
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  484. Not your keys, not your coins.
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  485.  @webreakforsquirrel4201  It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness but in this video, Louis does both.
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  486. +therealmikeshea The case thing also nullifies all that slim, sleek design stuff too. I have an S5 still that I have carried for a few years now with no case and it's still doing great. I've dropped it a few times but no lasting damage. There's a bubble in the top left of the screen (apparently common) the crappy silver stiff is peeling and the charger door broke last week but otherwise, it's a fine phone. As someone above said, I wish they'd just upgrade it and do a re-release.
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  487. My S5 has wireless charging. No glass required. A kevlar back like the Droid Had would also be fine for charging. Glass adds thickness and weight, shows fingerprints like a bugger and increases risk of damage. It's a bad idea, really.
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  488.  @raymaster  You're absolutely right. It's not really a viable business model anyway. VC capital has been keeping most of this kind of thing afloat and when they try and pivot to monetization, everything goes to shit.
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  489.  @Account.for.Comment  openid was a possible solution to the account issue. It never really gained critical mass and some of the key players (facebook, google) decided to 'alter the deal' to drive their own solutions instead.
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  490.  @STONE69_  Throw a small engine on there too and drive it to the new place.
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  491. Are you going to turn away the obese? gangbangers? smokers? motorcyclists? rock climbers? jaywalkers? Alec Baldwin's coworkers?
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  492. I read somewhere it can be due to lens choice and lighting. It was in relation to a Biden speech which looked a bit sus, I think.
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  493. "I like being nickel and dimed" and "I am buying an Apple product" is redundant and doesn't need a checkbox.
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  494. I think you should beat yourself up a little bit. But just enough to discourage yourself from making the same mistake again. The trick is knowing when to move on. Also learn to recognize when something went wrong and it was not your mistake and definitely don't beat yourself up over that (but try to learn from the experience).
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  495.  @wh0_am_152  I have a wireless charging back. It makes the phone thicker which actually feels better. It works well but I prefer the speed of wired charging.
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  496.  ukkr  I have a wireless rechargeable back (though my power connector still works). Another benefit of such arrangements along with high capacity battery upgrades.
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  497. This is why you take your gloves off before shaking hands with nice young ladies.
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  498.  @Heynmffc  Well, they fired the person who was really good at moderating the AMAs a few years back so I'm not sure how unbiased they are anymore.
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  499. He gone, Louis.
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  500.  @ilya6355  My G7 has one and it's not that old. Still takes my er6is when I'm on a long flight.
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  501. Isn't Las Palmas a chain or are there just a lot of places with the same name?
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  502. Devil's advocate here, is it possible new threads are just hidden for a while to allow moderators a chance to review them? If it's a legit shadow ban, that's pretty pernicious.
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  503. To add insult to injury, if you lose a key, you're going to have to pay extra to repurchase all that technology even if you're not paying the subscription to be able to use it.
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  504. You wouldn't steal a handbag You wouldn't steal a car You wouldn't steal a baby
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  505. It used to be "The show must go on". Are these shows receiving government subsidies if they have to close due to covid?
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  506. Just an anecdote. I got a fancy business scanner given to me which is not working. I did a little diagnosing and tracked it down to a corrupted flash memory. If I could get a copy of the memory, I could restore this device easily, even if I also had to replace the chip (which I'm thinking I probably don't). I tried contacting Epson. I wasn't expecting to be able to get the flash but I was willing to pay for a replacement board which I think is the minimum a company selling business oriented products should be willing to do. No luck. They want me to send it to an Epson service center. I'm not willing to put that much into it. Ridiculous. It's a DS-760 in case someone can help me out by chance.
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  507.  @SkylineFTW97  I'm not sure why they're so in vogue. I guess they make hill starts easier. I think it's more related to the engine-off requirements some governments are making.
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  508.  @SkylineFTW97  I agree. But they're not making them for me.
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  509.  @SkylineFTW97  it's a shame. With modern technology, if used wisely, we could have fantastic cars and in some ways they are but they're accompanied by braindead changes too. All the Internet and screen stuff today will be obsolete in five years.
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  510. Quite happy with my Moto G7. Headphone jack and SD card. No removable battery, alas but the fast charging makes that a little better. By no means a premium phone but does everything I need and was easily rooted. Looks like they're sticking with the formula for newer models too.
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  511.  @extapul6377  To me, it's more about lack of DRM and local copies. There are ways to extract Kindle books so they can never take them away from you.
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  512.  @MrMansionIV For sure. But then he talks about 15Mbps so...
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  513. "I value my life more than I value my hair". That seems fortunate (sorry, Louis).
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  514. Yeah, green hills ain't gonna be cheap. A little further out would probably be better (Unless you really insist on heavy traffic). Depends where your shop would be.
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  515. All these cars are going to be junk in 10 years when half the features don't work and the giant touch-screens are dead and unreplaceable.
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  516. Do it now before they implement leaving taxes.
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  517.  @highkicker11  I figured about a year could be fun. It's more of a place for the young IMO. The key to surviving nearly any indignity is knowing that it's going to end. That's why what Louis is experiencing is so pernicious.
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  518. He's on a mission from God.
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  519. Looks like Louis has been hitting the gym. Did he also delete facebook?
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  520. I think the "dump" house with the side driveway has potential. Take some of the trees down, bit of landscaping, small hedge or fence at the front to define the area... Depends what the bit of the house we can't see looks like. A driveway like that can be nice for entertaining.
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  521. Had good luck with VRBO. I think they're a bit better about keeping up standards.
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  522.  @dorjedriftwood2731  Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best And...
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  523. I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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  524. Though only in the US thanks to Disney pushed copyright extensions.
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  525. Shouldn't Apple be helping to fight this?
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  526. Isn't that daVinci's tank?
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  527. Playon did something similar to its users. Twice, apparently. TomTom tried it on with their lifetime maps (they're still updating for me so it seems like they gave that second thoughts) Tivo left its lifetime antenna users high and dry when things switched to digital.
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  528.  @STONEDay  Not Larry Bundy though. He turns up everywhere anyway.
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  529.  @actually5004  Seems to me more like they just can't be arsed to look it up.
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  530. I'm sure they have a list of things which are acceptable and not, designed to guide people towards buying new devices and subscribing to Apple services.
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  531. You'll want to take a look at Cool Springs, particularly the business buildings on the east side of 65 between Cool Springs Blvd and McEwan. That's possibly what you meant when you mentioned Franklin anyway. If you get a chance, take Erica for a trip on the Natchez Trace parkway. If you catch it right, the leaves look amazing when they're changing color.
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  532.  @MAKER_GURU  Fair point. I rarely do. I do need to actually try it out. AT&T started requiring whitelisted phones then Verizon bought out my carrier and messed up their website so I kinda got caught in limbo with it. Still glad I bought it as a show of report but I really do need to be able to report the function.
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  533.  @MAKER_GURU  There are multiple distributions so I think one should work OK. My carrier's website is back to working so I'll probably try porting my number to t-mobile. In theory, Verizon works too but I have a Moto G7 that I'd like to be able to swap into to (though maybe that works too... Verizon used to be a lot different).
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  534. There was a TV a couple of years back where this came with an update.
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  535. Vacationing needs concentration. It takes me 24 to 48 hours to get properly into vacation mode.
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  536. I heard Linda McCartney got a lot of hate when she hooked up with Paul. I imagine it's a similar scenario.
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  537. Indicates krebs may not have been the great white hope he was thinking.
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  538.  @rossmanngroup  That's sarcasm, right? You're actually buying what Krebs was selling?
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  539. Did you check Motorola?
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  540.  @rossmanngroup  Sorry, for the phone. I'm getting on well with my G7plus and it matches your (listed) requirements.
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  541. The government is printing a huge amount of money (which comes from the wealth of the populus) and is lending it out. This ends up becoming investments in businesses which rent huge expensive places (pushing prices up) and quite often fail. They are using your own wealth to make it more expensive for you to succeed.
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  542. To your left, to your right... I'm to your south and glad to be well away from there.
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  543.  @rossmanngroup  Thanks Louis. I thought things would be that way. Just throwing a potential option out there. I typically only watch his channel when it looks like the subject is something I have an interest in and I've seen him take jabs at employees in their own homes. It doesn't seem like he has much class.
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  544. The only question is if this is related to right to repair or the real estate stuff.
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  545. I managed to get a pilot wfh deal going with my company back in 2016. As a software developer, it worked really well. No having to "Come down" from the commute in the morning and no turning up late because I had to get up unnaturally early for me to get in at the expected time. Only one day a week though and eventually the rest of the week's commute was still to much so I moved on.
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  546. Yeah. They have clearly been thirsting after the low end consumer market for a while
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  547. Tidy your room and turn some lights off.
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  548. Amazon is trying to elbow in on Aliexpress and ebay, it seems. There is so much cheap crap going up there these days. I really think they're going to start suffering for it soon. For a while, Amazon was the place you could get decent stuff quickly.
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  549. It makes me wonder if there's a bigger scam going on here. I can't imagine how it would work but something along the lines of some kind of refund check all going to the same address.
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  550. If the video game won't play the console, you may have your tweezers installed incorrectly.
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  551.  @bluephreakr  That's ultimately what phones are becoming with the voice part basically being VOIP.
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  552.  @samosaara  I had a Dell Latitude with one. They might have been paying fees, of course.
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  553. Rent control also means the free market isn't in operation.
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  554. Call it "Fool's self-driving"
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  555. Do YouTube really make 10-20 per user from advertising or are they just getting greedy? I'm more inclined to pay the creators than YouTube so charging the creators for the service they are provided seems more appropriate. People raise objections to this but they typically do so without having bothered to think about how those objections could be handled.
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  556. Needs a more click-baity title.
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  557. That's awful. Though not uncommon. Tivo did something similar (someone did find a work-around).
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  558. Gyms are well-known to be particularly bad for this.
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  559. The year was 1982. Computers were really just starting to seriously enter the public sphere. I said to one of my teachers that computers were going to be the way we all learned in the future. They told me there would always need to be teachers. Coming up on 40 years and I still think I was right. It's just a matter of time and getting invested parties out of the way. Teachers are such a mixed bag. Why wouldn't we want to make the same quality of teaching available to everyone? (Tailored to learning needs, of course. Something again easier to do with computers than humans).
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  560. Twitter is poison for the soul.
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  561. I do mind having a tip jar. It has implications. Might as well rattle an empty cup with a few coins at the bottom. You don't need one if tips are only for exemplary service.
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  562. Many of these people are paying "social media managers" to tweet for them so clearly there is value provided. I'm with you that it's toxic though.
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  563. Just bought a new TV. Samsung dismissed out-of-hand. I think there should be a bounty on being able to flash open firmware to some TV. I'm pretty sure it doesn't actually have to be that fancy, the HDMI decoding is handled elsewhere.
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  564. Someone should make a deletedfromdac.com
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  565. They should get the guy who does the Elon Musk calls with Rich Rebuilds to do this.
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  566.  @Tech10x10  We need a model where the bandwidth costs are made by the viewers and/or content producers. It's the only model which will properly serve the viewers and producers. I have a few ideas based around the cloud that could be made to work.
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  567.  @toysoldier46552  Shorts suck.
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  568.  @benstanfill363  I go to Rumble and I have to dig around for my subscriptions. It's stupid.
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  569.  @gpsoftsk1  Servers paid for by the content producers and brokers who collect funds (from users or advertisers), authorize access and compensate the producers. Brokers could have many producers and it could even be many to many. Or maybe some might want to be both. The trick is the protocols to tie it all together.
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  570. Down with the Never-Louisers
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  571. Overvolt a cap, it becomes a resistor, overvolt a resistor, it becomes open circuit. You got too carried away. Should probably have used a known-bad part instead.
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  572.  @johnchedsey1306  There's some suggestion that the Twitter shutdown may have been because it was being scraped to provide data for Threads. I'm just getting the popcorn ready.
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  573.  @rossmanngroup  I've seen analysis before where too-rapid expansion can destroy businesses. Although the demand is there, income lags expenses and businesses end up with cash flow issues that can destroy them due to one or two small hiccups or sometimes with no problems at all.
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  574.  @eno2870  Problem is, eventually the OS updates and your software doesn't work any more. That was Corel Draw for me. Inkscape does everything I need now though and all the latest features are only an upgrade away.
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  575. In London, I visited a cafe which printed the bathroom password on the receipt. Different for every customer and it expired after an amount of time (about an hour, I think).
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  576. Wait until you open the trunk to find a credit card reader on the spare tire.
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  577. Things like earbuds are always semi-disposable as they don't tend to stand up to the treatment they receive very well. That's why I tend to stick to the cheap end (decent headphones for use at home are worth it though).
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  578. Sounds like Microsoft's AARD code. They ended up settling that for 150 million. (Edit: 280 million)
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  579.  @LoremIpsumDolors  Doctor pepper? ;)
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  580. You can buy display boards that let you use HDM etcI on old laptop panels. I wonder if they could be swapped into TVs. I do have a dead TV to play with.
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  581. The money isn't in achieving 100 transactions a day, it's in 10000 other people doing 100 transactions a day and you get to take a percentage on all of them. You could probably franchise your repair business.
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  582. Do the law anyway, Louis. You'd be a national hero. Maybe look to the UK's direct debit guarantee for a model.
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  583. Possibly landlord logic. If fewer people are renting, you have to make up the lost income by raising prices.
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  584. Louis, check your laws. Around here, it's illegal to release vermin in proximity to other dwellings.
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  585. If you removed that component from the computer, you might actually be in trouble since you then took it from a working condition to a non-working one. When I take my car in for work and it's clear it will probably need some, they'll typically ask me to agree to any work up to a certain amount (and within the scope of the work requested) without requiring approval since, as for your example, it's often easier and cheaper to be able to do work during the investigative phase. The Tesla situation is a little different to that in key ways but I'd say it's similar enough that it's a douche move on their part. Somehow I ended up with a Kindle with the ads disabled even though I paid for ad supported. Probably they just didn't notice but it's never been "fixed" but it has made me consider going for that option on my next one.
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  586. They know the GOP will back down. They always do.
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  587.  @Designsecrets  Covid is endemic to the whole world other than NZ now. How do you hope to keep it out forever?
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  588. Was it a fire station? It looks a bit like the ghostbusters building but not as nice.
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  589. Viral load could be important though. Even if virus from breathing is in the air, it may not be enough to pass an infection. Note that I'm not saying that the masks and barriers are worth doing, just that this seems an incomplete analysis.
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  590. They make more money but I find more and more that the bump in the bottom line when it comes to the bill makes me want to go out to eat less and less. 10% was OK but today's standard of 20% is egregious. Still, there's a worker shortage right now so I guess nothing's going to change.
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  591. That's cause they're winging it and selling their hopes as the truth.
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  592. "It's a lot easier to get compliance". Aesop had a handle on this 2,600 years ago.
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  593. I used to live in Kent, UK. There was Invicta everything there, even the radio station.
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  594. Sony have always been shitheads.
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  595. It's not really technically cheaper. Price per sq ft is important but total price is the clincher and will make your profit or loss. $50/sq ft would not be good if you were only using half the space. I suspect you have good use for all the space though so should not be an issue.
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  596.  @Chris-hw4mq  To be fair, some crowdfunding has gone into this.
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  597.  @whuzzzup  What @Segphalt said plus it's very likely standards were not what they are now when the building was built. As long as the floor is "flat enough" why worry too much (in those days)? Plus you might want to somewhat conform to the lay of the land so you don't have big steps at the front and back and you may need to conform to other buildings that are already there. We have a store with a 4" ramp halfway down and it's not a big deal. I've been in buildings in the UK where you can feel the slope under your feet change as you walk along. They call that quaint and/or rustic :)
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  598. C'mon guys, I want to upgrade my S5. Get your shit together.
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  599. I think Amazon's FireOS only recently got a native YouTube app. Microsoft have a long history of failing at Mobile OSs though.
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  600.  @robmalcolm8042  It depends which back when. Microsoft have had a few goes. You're probably talking about the Nokia phones though. Unfortunately (or fortunately), there's more to success than smoothness.
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  601. I think I saw Kurt Russell with an eyepatch around 2:00
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  602. CNN told me not to do my own research though.
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  603. They could make one with a built in USB hub.
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  604.  @gerrya4818  The grand jury has been convinced there is a case worthy of proceeding to trial which is where guilt is ascertained. The prosecutor? Who knows what he believes, we're not mind readers. I can tell you're a partisan idiot though.
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  605. After hearing her say it so many times, it took me a little while to make myself remember what it is actually called.
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  606.  @technoman9000  That's actually probably very good advice if it can be done without too much inconvenience.
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  607.  @bikeman7982 How much does it nag you to do the update if you postpone it? (just curious)
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  608. They may want you to pay a "certified technician" or something. A lot of these higher-end brands customers like they don't own the item and, to be fair, for some of the customers, they like it that way.
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  609. 2
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  610. Google street view shows it as being a dump since at least 2014.
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  611. New York is a place for middlemen, especially with financial stuff. If you want to "belong", don't make a profit of $100 on 100 repairs but take 5% of 100,000 repairs that other people are doing.
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  612. I bought a dock for my T530 and the audio didn't work on it. I went to research the issue and it seems the solution from Lenovo is "Well, fuck you". This was a few years ago now so it seems it's an ongoing situation.
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  613. Antibody test is important because it is likely that you won't be able to catch it twice (though that is not certain yet). Also, it will allow us to start getting real numbers on how dangerous this thing is. Good data will allow us to set appropriate policy instead of just guessing.
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  614. I've somehow wondered about cults and how they establish themselves. I mean, if I just went out and tried to start one, I'd just be an abject failure. But it seems like some people are just drawn to jerky assholes like moths to a flame. Steve Jobs may be dead but his legacy lives on.
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  615.  @ddjohnson9717  They already aren't.
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  616. I have a door needs a shim. I just 3d-printed a really thick latch plate for now.
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  617.  @subho1766  No idea but the operation was "Tennessee Waltz".
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  618. He could just use the current limiting feature of his fancy power supply.
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  619. The Gell-Mann amnesia effect suggests it's *everything*.
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  620. A Tesla I believe. Though he may be renting again.
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  621. Is there any way you can get hold of previous tenants and ask them how their interactions with the landlords were? Perhaps there could be a website for that. Maybe an Alan thing.
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  622. I don't blame you but until you put a scope on things, diagnosis of serialization is just speculation.
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  623. In ya what?
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  624. I just bought a G7-plus to replace my Galaxy S5. Not too shabby so far. Way too slippery though.
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  625. I'd suggest Pine. It's really not ready for primetime but they're the only company that appears to be heading in the right direction.
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  626. "The adults are back in charge".
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  627.  @janisir4529  But you typically only get a handful of hours in port so you're rushing around if there's anything interesting to see and then there's the stress of risking not being back on time (they don't wait for you).
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  628.  @janisir4529  Sure. But planning won't give you extra hours. Your excursion day basically ends at 4 and more realistically 3-330. Lots of interesting stuff happens after that on land. Not that I'm saying anyone is wrong for liking cruises but that's a significant negative in my book.
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  629. Time to buy a bulldozer and a dozen sheets of 1/4" steel.
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  630. I have a retired S2 with this.
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  631.  @NothingXemnas  It kinda depends where and how you're riding. I'd assume that what you're used to has a lot to do with it too. I never wore a helmet when I was a kid and it would feel weird now. I wouldn't ride in traffic anyway though. People just aren't used to cyclists here.
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  632.  @bufordmaddogtannen  Yes, can confirm. I was working on applications for mobile phone Companies that pulled your credit score (actually a little more involved than that) in the UK back in 1998.
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  633.  @gauloise6442  Banking in the USA is terrible and has been behind the rest of the world for a while.
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  634. It was pretty good when Jon Stewart was hosting it. Although he clearly leaned left, he was astute and managed to keep it from becoming a partisan affair. He appeared to genuinely want to unite people too rather than just mouthing the words while sticking the knife in.
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  635. I thought hibernation was different than swap anyway?
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  636. Google is at the "Phase 2: ?" stage.
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  637. Do these shows get subsidies if they close due to covid? It may be the better financial decision if they are having trouble filling seats.
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  638. As Gabe Newell said, piracy is a service issue. Adblocking is not piracy but if you view it as similar, then you can start to find solutions. Ads on YouTube are intrusive and I will block them any way I can and YouTube premium is not good value. There's your starting point.
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  639. "Most people are not qualified to make decisions". Sadly these people also get voted into office and then get to make those decisions for thousands or hundreds of thousands. Just look at "right to repair", "series of tubes" and, well, just about most things. Decisions are made based on what's going to get them elected next time around and electioneering costs money.
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  640. One of the governors here put those in to try and extort passing an income tax. He didn't get the income tax and eventually they disappeared. F.U. Sundquist.
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  641.  @Tufhhuyy Louis lives in Texas. I believe it's there.
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  642.  @Tufhhuyy Yeah, I think when they were here, you just paid. I used one in California a while back for camping but I can't remember exactly how that worked (I wasn't the one paying).
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  643. We went to one place and they had some dumb tablet menu thing and my wife, out of idle curiosity, clicked on some game that they then attempted to charge us for. They were good enough about taking the charge off but that kind of shit detracts from the experience.
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  644. The (repair part of) store should sell the laptop back to the retail part of the store and enter yourself as the source in the leads online database. Don't forget to deduct the cost of the repair.
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  645. You know the dongle is just some shitty usb audio chip with modified USB IDs too.
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  646. 3) It's all your fault.
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  647. I've figured NYC and other megalopolises have been on their way out since TCP/IP was standardized. They're too crowded for industry and the other kinds of jobs are prime targets for work from home. It's actually been overdue for a while and the whole covid thing just brought it to a head. NYC is dead, most of it just hasn't got the message yet.
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  648.  @truckerzachbell  I considered going with those but decided it would be better to have the cartridges dry out than the bottles if I didn't use it for a while.
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  649. For what it's worth, although it's trendy to do away with the sound absorbing tiles, they do actually do a good and important job of absorbing sound.
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  650. Note that legislation has been passed that is effectively "right to repair" (somewhat) for cars otherwise things would be exactly the same there. People try the same tricks through history. Edit: Well, I went looking to back this up and as far as I can tell, this is not the case in the US.
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  651. That escalated quickly. It was only 960k a few days ago. Congrats.
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  652.  @gordonrichardson2972  maybe since the new iPhone launched
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  653.  @jort93z  There are jusrisdictional reasons for that (less so in current times). However, it does have the benefit that the government is less inclined to raise taxes. VAT in the UK has increased again and again since it was introduced. It's ridiculous now and it all disappears into the final price..
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  654.  @jort93z  I agree that it's more convenient. Though you're not seeing how much the store is making either since you don't see their cost. What you are seeing is what the store is charging you then the government asks for their pound of flesh. Sales tax is 10% here, VAT is 20% in the UK. Correlation or causation? You decide.
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  655. I'm not from New Hampshire but "Go New Hampshire!"
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  656. Unfortunately, the critical flaw in your argument is in not putting five-figure sums in campaign financing accounts.
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  657. Those extensions will still be there in 30 years too.
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  658.  @L9MN4sTCUk  It's not hard but Edge still keeps getting pushed in all sorts of places, especially after updates where I just want to use my computer but there's a full-screen "Set up edge browser" push without an obvious way to dismiss it. Gets old when it's the 4th computer in a row you've had to deal with it.
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  659.  @Dowlphin  How you carry yourself counts too. I'm sure Louis carries himself confidently.
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  660. Depends on how cryptographic Apple got. Nice to know the extra money you pay for Apple products is going in to screwing the customer over. Though Apple isn't the only offender in the space (printer cartridges).
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  661. Anyone tempted to sledgehammer a toilet should know that the pieces are very sharp (the glaze coating is glass after all) and could easily injure you or bystanders. Please take appropriate precautions.
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  662.  @cinnavision  It would just confirm it but it doesn't sound like that's really needed. I hate that this is happening to you and hope that it stops.
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  663. Darling Fascist Bullyboy, give me some more components, you bastard. - May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman, Louis
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  664. I had an issue with Firefox where if I left a few YouTube tabs open, the browser would often be nearly unresponsive when I came back in the morning. I tried reporting it but got a "don't use it that way" response. I think the developers are more interested in making awful bars and hot-pockets. I use Brave now.
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  665. That yard looks like it could use some self-leveling concrete. Happy to help.
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  666. I bet it's someone in the govt or one of their relatives. But I never bet over 50c.
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  667.  @af8312  Yeah, Louis is right that he shouldn't have to. On the other hand, it looks like the holder was designed for a wide range of uses. But absolutely anyone who's done much work with this kind of design could knock one out in a few minutes. Some dimensions would be desirable though.
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  668. Or a banana.
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  669. Well, the roof has square footage and it's equally available to all tennants...
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  670. There's planned obsolescence and there's not designing parts of an item to last beyond its expected lifetime and the line between the two is not always very clear.
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  671.  @logicalfundy Yes and no :)
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  672. Just watching it from the YouTube webpage, it looks like the video is compass aligned. It would probably be better if it was aligned with your head. I don't know if that's an option.
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  673.  @rossmanngroup  I still think it's mail fraud. Contact USPS.
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  674.  @rossmanngroup  USPS is federal.
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  675.  @derekpeterson1643  The post office said the box was no longer in use when Louis called.
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  676. Just wait until a trade secret leaks out through this. Or potentially classified military information.
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  677.  @calebbarnhouse496  That's a tangent.
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  678.  @calebbarnhouse496  You said it's in decline because it's made hard to do. I pointed out that it's being made easier. Don't move the goalposts.
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  679.  @mjc0961  FWIW, apparently there was no tip originally but I'm not sure of the details.
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  680.  @Furluge  People are getting idiots about tipping now though. The places where it is appropriate have become confused with places where it's not (personally, I think it should be largely inappropriate).
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  681.  @raouljoseph1411  That's what I mostly do now unless I have a reason to browse. There are times when it's a bit inconvenient through and if it was just $100/yr, I'd give it a go. I'm also interested in trying out the checkout-with-your-phone thing.
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  682. An attempt was made.
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  683. I rarely bought Amazon books because I saw something like this coming. I did remove DRM to have a local copy but it's become harder over the years and presumably this is the closing the final loophole (still a shitty move though). I do still have a kindle 1 FWIW. Still works just fine and the keyboard was a nice feature at the time. I think they had bigger plans for it.
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  684. What seems to happen with a lot of this stuff is that they may even start out with good intentions and offer perpetual/lifetime licenses then they end up having to pay for the development of patches and upgrades but there's now not much revenue coming in, particularly as the company may be growing. This is unfortunate but I do know the answer is not to screw over your existing customers. They made a financial decision based on your promises and changing it after the fact is an asshole move and if it isn't illegal, it should be. Then you get companies like Playon which have done it twice, after promising not to do it again after the first time.
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  685. DJS50 car jump starters also have a settable laptop-charger output. Though it's dumb and not USB so that may not be useful to you.
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  686. Providing your content for free is good and I think you should continue to do that but you could consider what value-add you could do with it like selling a box set of your favorite board repairs with director commentary and a genuine canvas (nylon) bag or something.
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  687. Just wait until they start pulling smart tv style hi-jinks. Your car won't come with this advertising but two years down the line, an OTA firmware update will make your experience awful. Potentially, they could even tie it to when you transfer the title. Car manufacturers have been seeking a way to monetize the used market for a long time. (This has arguably already begun with Tesla)
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  688. They don't care until it directly affects them. Then they immediately go back to not caring.
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  689. Google sucks but Firefox has issues too (Remember when they dumped Communicator because it was too bloated? Yeah...). It's probably about time for a new player.
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  690.  @WutipongWongsakuldej  I didn't get that from what he wrote but it's a bit ambiguous. I think he was referring to DNS for his own servers.
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  691.  @joedoe3688  Maybe. Your ISP can still see your outgoing DNS queries, of course. Mozilla is now pushing DNS over HTTPS to their servers but that makes me even more uncomfortable.
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  692.  @joedoe3688  Yes, it doesn't worry me much either, it's just a data point worth knowing. DNS is fairly lightweight so it would be easy to keep logs (undoubtedly the NSA is anyway). With the Mozilla thing, I see what they're trying to do but what they have effectively done is make themselves a single point of attack.
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  693. Just shave it down and don a Tim Pool beanie.
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  694. Yes. Most places are not very dangerous in the instant but that integrates over time and there's always the risk of it affecting someone you are close too as well as personally. Even then, the level may be acceptable (especially if you follow all the safety "rules") but if it's increasing, that's a concern.
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  695.  @AcmeRacing  Yes, this is a whirlpool too. New drum bearings, new felt, new belt, new motor and a new heater element due to a slight brain fart about unplugging everything one time. I also replaced the timer as the knob got broken off as well. The washer part has required no maintenance so far for reasons I can't fathom.
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  696.  @gperch  There are certain requirements for car companies to support parts supply their vehicles for a period of time. It's a shame that doesn't apply to other areas. I'm not sure what loophole Tesla is using.
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  697. UK has pretty strong consumer laws so I'm surprised they're even trying that.
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  698.  @EternalLegionGaming  Basically a small utility vehicle.
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  699.  @a.banana  OK, now you're speculating. How about actually providing a price for that? There was someone who did the costs calculation and said that 20k was actually a fair price for such a battery pack (the majority naturally being the cells). Bear in mind though that we're not discussing the fairness, simply that it's an expected cost.
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  700. Back several years ago, we ran into issues provisioning new instances (it was a dynamic QA environment). It was this time of year too. I think online retail just ate everything. With everything that's going on, it could be the same situation. Once things start getting oversubscribed, things go awful.
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  701.  @abavariannormiepleb9470  I guess intrusive spying pales in comparison to blacker blacks.
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  702.  @pjotrsavitski  You don't need to, you choose to. The option to read the source or pay someone to do it for you is always there. With closed source, you don't have the choice.
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  703.  @peterjansen4826  People also forget how much work it was (and is) to learn the Windows way of doing things.
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  704.  @dvanomaly420  I sometimes complain about how much Linux has adopted Windows conventions. Many of the ways Linux/Unix used to do things were superior and often more user friendly. Some of the things WIndows is only just adopting (or are often hidden away) were available on Linux decades ago.
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  705.  @dvanomaly420  You know, it occurs to me that if you have autohide, you could have the dock on all four edges simultaneously.
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  706.  @Bob-of-Zoid  fewer
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  707. Fool's self driving
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  708. I've had a few devices with swollen batteries. It's never been an issue because they were designed with removable batteries.
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  709.  @looksinfectious9642  Some of it's not there now or destroyed by rioting (Nintendo store). I did drop by the Daily Show studios (Jon Stewart era), Times Square, of course (not that interesting) but saw the New Years ball stored behind the NYT building, the skating rink, a huge magic store, Central Park, Rockefeller Plaza, the Library, the natural history museum, where John Lenon was killed (not a fan but...), ground zero, rode the ferry. It was a bit of a flying visit so I'm sure I missed plenty.
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  710. This may be because Louis has a recent video about the cost to replace a Tesla battery. Something in the region of 22k, I believe.
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  711.  @haramaschabrasir8662  They'd be concerned at the US's involvement.
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  712.  @RanEncounter  Disgusting, disgusting labels.
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  713. Still, the promise is part of your consideration when paying the price. It should be honored one way or another.
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  714.  @fromgermany271  That's ideal but not always necessary.
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  715. Hopefully they haven't got the guns all-out for you. I've heard of people getting audited every year for 8 years (guess which 8 years). Note that the intention is not to catch you out with the audit, merely to subject you to the audit. You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride.
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  716. Yelp? You probably just need to write them a check.
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  717. Another "mistake".
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  718. Many of these circuits have reference implementations anyway.
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  719.  @PatrickRatman  Yeah, I started upgrading my computer but the new hardware is not compatible with 7 (or even 8) so now I'm pondering Linux.
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  720.  @traister101  There's all sorts of telemetry and spyware built-in, unfortunately.
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  721.  @traister101  Some of it you can't opt out of. Though I heard they back-ported some of it to 7 and 8 and installed it through un-blockable updates so there's no refuge there either. Computer is still sitting there waiting for my decision. I think I'll probably end up going for dual boot with 10 and Linux and migrate my workflow over over the next few months.
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  722. It's standard usb and android phones support USB peripherals. People have got floppy drives working with them.
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  723. Louis' jump-cuts have gone TOO FAR!
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  724. Can someone who has been a customer comment on the actual ease of removing the label?
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  725. Editing has much improved 👍
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  726. I was thinking about you when I heard about this.
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  727. You don't hit the mime? Now I really don't want to go to NYC.
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  728. Buildings have been a small part of the value of a property for a long time. Here, they'll buy nice houses and immediately tear them down so they can put 6 McMansions on the lot. I mean, it makes sense, property prices have risen but the cost of actually building a house is fairly static.
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  729. My understanding is that the insurance companies are basically protecting themselves from wide-scale events that could cost them excessively. It's one thing to pay out when someone drives their car into the front of the store, totally another when hundreds or thousands of stores are affected at the same time like a flood or this virus. Now, that doesn't make it not slimey and definitely such things should be made clear up-front and yes, insurance companies do try and back their way out of too many valid claims but it's worth considering why those exceptions are there. If you or I were to start an insurance company, we'd probably find it necessary to have the same exceptions too because you can't really promise something you're not going to be able to fulfill.
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  730. Word is no.
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  731. Woke Google can't use "whitelist".
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  732.  @KPalmTheWise  I think my explanation is a fine abbreviation of the process for someone with Louis's mechanical knowledge given newton's third law. Nothing wrong with further elaboration though.
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  733. I could respect the Dems blocking the bill because they don't think it makes good economic sense. The problem is, they are just standing in the way to make sure they can add stuff in that stuffs the pockets of their own interests. Meanwhile, the rest of us end up paying. The US is being looted from the top right now and there's no one to stop it.
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  734. Rat is obviously a New Yorker. Doesn't know to get out when the going is good.
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  735. Google was pretty open in the beginning for the clout and other companies could make devices with android but they wanted more control so started moving more and more services into Play which requires google approval (and presumably licensing fees). Fire up an android emulator without Play and a hefty proportion of the apps won't work. Users can often install Play services but you can't base a business on that.
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  736.  @3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7  Patents can be abused pretty badly, especially software patents and especially the way they're implemented in the US. Which is worse isn't really worth arguing. Both need fixing, neither will be.
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  737. I definitely recommend a laser printer for daily printing. I do have an inkjet which I bought for photographs but I use it less than I thought I would and it's always a hassle to get it printing properly when I do use it (which may be partly because the laser is my workhorse to be partially fair). I've been thinking of a dye sublimation printer which should have some of the benefits of the laser with the quality of the inkjet but that doesn't print the large format I bought the inkjet for. If only inkjets had a proper shut-down mode that would keep the nozzles fresh. Is this really such a hard engineering problem?
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  738.  @joergsonnenberger6836  Mine must be before that. It dries up after about 2 weeks. I always let it go into standby (artisan 1430)
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  739. I wonder how much of the stability was bots confused by the blackout and continually reconnecting.
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  740. @ Correct. That's all it is this time. But Amazon has been restricting things over time. You used to be able to copy the documents from the device and remove the DRM and you used to be able to add your own songs to Amazon Music. None of this is direct evidence they will do that, of course so it's up to you to decide how likely it is.
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  741. The irony? This is probably good advertising for VW's service.
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  742.  @korcommander  Yeah, I do get that, especially with things being the responsibility of the individual states. But still, it leads to this weird gap situation. Though I've had a similar situation with the MOT in the UK getting a vehicle to the testing station.
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  743. Look into the First Follower effect. Quite interesting and relevant.
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  744. I remember when popups were first a thing and then everyone was doing them but it finally got through that it pissed people off and drove people away and they all-but disappeared. Then suddenly in the last few years they came back worse than ever. Must be a whole new generation of fucking stupid middle-management arrived on the scene.
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  745. lewis@rozmengroup.co.us
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  746. Louis checking out the curb appeal with his front tire in this video.
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  747.  @alexvillalobos7137  Yep. My front pathway has started to buckle like that concrete one they were looking at. I'm making plans to fix it. Probably a weekend and a bunch of bags of quickrete. NBD.
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  748. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
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  749. I haven't been able to find an official source for restore disks for my Lenovo laptops without paying a fairly high amount for the media. Always make sure to create them. It's pretty terribly that these can't be downloaded as they are set up with keys that mean they will only be able to be installed on the hardware they are intended for. Though it should be noted that often the images can only be created once. So worth considering imaging the HD first.
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  750. Spend money when they could be embezzling it?
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  751.  @stigmaoftherose  These aren't long-term thinkers.
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  752. New York -> New Detroit.
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  753. Buy one then.
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  754. What I hear when I hear "this or that may be broken on used laptops" is that they don't build their shit to last.
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  755. You're not a customer to these companies anymore, you're a revenue stream.
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  756.  @WhiteTree97  Many large cities have smaller cities nearby with technology initiatives specifically to suck disillusioned businesses away from bigger cities. Maybe his employees (at least enough of them) would appreciate living somewhere with a lower COL and a better living environment, especially if they're thinking of starting families.
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  757. Good video. Not fond of the constant-cut editing style.
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  758. Just put a powermac sticker on that radiator and call it done.
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  759. Wow, Slashdot. It's been a while...
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  760. I have one too. 47mpg and I've got close to 700 on a tank (and I've heard of people managing that). Just coming up on 300,000 miles. Sadly, it's showing its age. I was actually thinking of a Prius at the time but they were hard to get then I came across the TDIs in my research.
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  761.  @mikelee9173 Be the change you want to see.
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  762. They call it portabella because there isn't mushroom.
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  763. Economies of scale should give NYC one of the lowest tax rates in the country. Instead, it's one of the highest with shit services. The difference is going to corruption.
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  764.  @faithful451  My phone going on silent was such an issue and happened often enough that I actually wrote an app which would put it back out of silent if it got put there. One time, it had nearly cost me my job, I think.
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  765.  @hombreg1  Wayze is awful. Pulling up to a junction and I look to see which lane I need to be getting into and they're trying to sell me a shitty chicken sandwich.
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  766. @michaelscarport It doesn't help that sirens are really hard to locate directionally. It's why they add a white noise component often.
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  767.  @AndreFG  It's really jarring when I use a computer that hasn't been adblocked to get on youtube.
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  768.  @117johnpar  Not if designed properly. And there's the rub.
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  769. Sorry Louis, your hifi sounds like cheap Chromebook speakers.
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  770.  @TheKuptis  Astounding. How did you guess?
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  771. Stars are about amenities, not quality. They actually have a fridge which is a huge plus in my experience. Though the hotel is horrible.
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  772. This. Or duct tape.
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  773. I wonder how much the upper floors play into the equation. Maybe lower rents on the retail layer would adversely affect the rents above. That doesn't really seem to make much sense though.
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  774. USB is all digital. The DAC/ADC will be in the dongle but it will be a cheap USB audio chip with modified IDs (not unlike Louis's famed LCD panels).
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  775.  @King_Kong_Song  I'll check that out.
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  776.  @King_Kong_Song  Really interesting. I haven't been following USB-C too closely and didn't know they'd stuck analog in there. It seems like they've tried to make it do too much and now there's a confusion of what's compatible.
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  777. Samsung has been at the top for too long. They are getting arrogant and thinking they are Apple when the truth is they're just another Android phone producer that has put out decent hardware and a launcher of questionable virtue. Someone can very easily eat their lunch if they get complacent.
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  778.  @Aeroxima  Samsung is a little weird in that they do a lot of other things besides phones and also sell screens to a lot of other phone companies. In fact, I suppose looking at their phones as being mostly about the screens might explain some things.
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  779.  @rossmanngroup N00b.
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  780.  @junkie2100 Sounds awful.
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  781.  @ZeranZeran Goalpost moving noted.
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  782.  @valikmora  Well, Java isn't really native as such but point noted. You may not even need Wine if you're using Steam. I was able to get Algadoo working by copying the directory from a Windows install and adding it as an external game under Steam using Proton.
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  783.  @valikmora  Java code isn't really native though though the JRE is native. True with the proton but point is, if you install steam for gaming, you don't need to worry about wine for other software, you can run it from within steam (it's not just for steam games).
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  784. Just wait until it turns out that Louis set it up himself after a 2am board repair while hopped up on Jaeger and flux fumes.
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  785. Those adhesives that don't affect the paint... Make sure to try in a place it's not going to show first. Also be prepared to repaint.
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  786. Same here. The third section is starting to look like Aliexpress.
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  787. It's not so much that it was false advertising as that Tesla reneged on what they promised. It's one thing to make a mistake, it's how you deal with it that's important. Companies that offload their fuck-ups onto their customers should be held accountable.
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  788. Messes with riding a motorcycle? Is Louis talking from experience?
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  789. You go to different bars than I if you're not yelling at each other.
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  790. The Slippery Slope fallacy is a fallacy. It can be applied in rigorous academic debate but when it comes to real-world stuff, it's perfectly acceptable and anyone that says it's not is about to push you down the slope.
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  791. There are a lot of people who don't get it but also there are a lot of bots and shills in operation these days too.
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  792. Someone told me in a previous comment thread that battery packs do not explode. I feel vindicated.
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  793. Love to see companies standing behind their products. I bought a chainsaw a few years ago, was using it the other day and a plastic gear stripped. Went looking for a replacement and it's "discontinued". So I have to scrap an otherwise usable device for a wear part (I may give it a go 3d printing one but I'm not confident that will be strong enough). Terrible.
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  794. PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?
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  795. Nothing wrong with NY living rent free in your head for a while after what they did to you. It's only been a few months, if that.
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  796. Samsung isn't bad. I have an S5. But I don't like what they have been doing with the battery on newer models.
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  797.  @unh0lyav3ng3r8  Probably activated the non-gourmet coffee detectors.
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  798. Sideloading on Android is at least still fairly reasonable if a little fiddly. So in theory, this is a bit worse for Apple since people who still want to play can do so if they move to Android if Epic provides the APM. Heck, in theory, Epic could partner with a phone provider to preload their own app store (though I'm guessing Google don't like you doing that if you're also installing Play services).
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  799. It's OK, it was only a mild heart attack...
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  800. What does it actually sense, what is the data sent and what does the "calibration" do? Does anybody know?
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  801. Lenovo's lunch is there to be eaten. I don't know why another manu doesn't go for it. I think Dell tried for a while.
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  802. Hey Louis, that wet feeling running down your leg? It's raining...
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  803. To be fair to developers, Google has been pushing them to Google Play more and more. For example, I believe their location services documentation now explains how to use Google Play and doesn't mention native methods any more.
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  804.  @cacodemon345  Thanks. It's been a while since I went looking.
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  805. Waterproof headphone jacks have been a thing for years. Try again.
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  806. My suspicion is that the "calibration" is really just software that trains the OS or management hardware with the chip serial. My wondering is whether you could replace it with a cheap microcontroller.
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  807. It's simply supply and demand. The market for Teslas (new and used) is not very mature or rational yet.
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  808. There's still plenty of room for apologies in the world. They're important. Just don't give them to the woke/sjws.
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  809. I really need to get around to putting my outside antenna up. I have a hdhomerun that I was using with a powered antenna and MythTV before the antenna died.
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  810. I'm thinking it should be possible to read the memory in situ and either reprogram it or replace the chip with a rom. Not going to spend thousands of dollars to find out though. The fact they're suing a company that came up with a bypass shows it's possible. Probably better to drop the info on how to do it into the public domain.
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  811. A decently built brick building will do that (i.e. when the brick is not just a facade). Though it may well not be structurally sound.
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  812. Louis has shown that he's an, at least, decent businessman with good morals and with no inclination to sugar-coat things and is fairly non-partisan to boot. There's real value in that.
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  813.  @ChickenPizza  When it comes to finance and the economy, it seems that many experts are just trying to convince you that they're perfectly justified in making off with your money.
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  814.  @ChickenPizza  Was he offering financial advice? I must have missed that. Commentator? Anyone can have an opinion. Most of it's not too difficult if you're not trying to obfuscate corrupt behavior..
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  815.  @ChickenPizza  Yeah, I don't much. I don't understand how you think everyone should defer to experts and not think for themselves. Louis has enough knowledge and transferable skills to have an opinion and he has an audience. If he doesn't feel he has anything worth saying, he's perfectly free to say so.
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  816. See if the box can be opened with the same number and see what turns up.
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  817. I suspect they're just a place to dump the product of politician's money-laundering $2M book deals anymore.
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  818. The irony being that the tyrants that want to take your freedom are also the people who made old people die.
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  819. "Advertiser friendly" is a misnomer. Advertiser friendly is content which helps advertisers sell more stuff. It's only when a line gets crossed and people get up-in-arms and threatening boycotts that edgy content becomes a "problem".
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  820. It's like the old adage about when there's a goldrush, don't dig for gold, sell picks and shovels. The companies are the ones raking it in, $2-3 per delivery for managing an app and server? Almost banditry.
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  821. I wouldn't judge how worthwhile the video is by the number of views. Quality stuff often gets lower numbers. The truth is though that your other stuff is more easy to digest because the viewer doesn't have to engage as much. I do appreciate your businessey videos though.
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  822. Would you prefer the factory "trust me bro" warranty or would you like to pay for the "would I lie to you?" service plan?
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  823. Are you serious?
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  824. The other issue is that if the rent is too high, the businesses that are renting will often find they can't cover their expenses and will not last and not only will you have long periods of non-occupancy but they will also be more frequent. Better to charge lower and have tennants that will last in my book. It happens as much in our little town as a big city like NY, I think. People just turning their savings or investment capital into rent.
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  825.  @polla2256  Yes. if they made the laptop which easily uses the full bandwidth an external card is capable of, a lower powered integrated GPU would be fine. I don't game on laptop anyway.
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  826.  @doooofus  It's the logical answer.
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  827. Being bonded, maybe?
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  828. Rossmann 2, Electric Bike-aloo.
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  829. I've been watching for a while and it's seemed like mixed signals sometimes. I have used useful software with annoying or even fatal bugs so it's definitely a possibility. With enough context, it's clear you're not being serious and Paul Daniels gets his name mentioned anyway but it would be easy for a casual viewer to get the wrong idea and I'm glad you've cleared things up.
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  830. There was a short time where they were actually moving more controls to the steering wheel. I don't know what happened.
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  831. Get Erica a backpack with a battery in it.
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  832. Cheap B&W lasers are the way to go if you only print occasionally.
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  833. These properties were originally the correct size but by the time the mafia have spent a hundred years walling up bodies, they get a lot smaller.
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  834. Whatever their duty may be, a politician's main task is to get themself re-elected.
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  835. We are renting a store of about the same size. We patched and painted ourselves over 3 days. It didn't come near 20k :)
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  836. I still think you made the right decision for the circumstances.
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  837. Slashdot readers? Both of them?
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  838. Go enjoy your vacation, Louis!
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  839. "It's a Wonderful Life", Louis Rossmann edition.
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  840. Just wait for the foldable iphone...
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  841. Louis, when you download the book, it will have DRM. (I believe the big deal for many was it was easy to remove the DRM from it - at one time that was possible for books on the device too). It may be not allowing you to download the book because it cannot apply DRM for a device (because you don't have any). (As an aside, you might be able to get the PC reader working under wine or proton).
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  842. The fight against evil never ends, Louis. And I'm not going all biblical on you there. You will never beat it but fighting it makes the world a better place. I'm sure I speak for many when I say I appreciate all the work you've done and the awareness you've brought.
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  843. Have your building owners not offered to buy you out? Perhaps you should make them an offer. (Subject to you finding a new place).
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  844. If it was any more indoors, you couldn't afahd it!
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  845.  @gwanael34  People will steal anything.
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  846.  @michaelrichter4941  thumbs down don't do anything on YouTube anymore.
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  847. Although a couple of those stores didn't seem to have a huge amount of crime, they may be calculating that if they close the worst stores, the thieves will just switch over to the other stores. Also, they may be marginal on profitability to begin with. It seems sometimes stores are just kept open for brand reasons.
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  848.  @snex000 Most cable channels started out without ads in the early days. Everything old is new again.
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  849. The Louis/Linus colab video was very lame. Sorry, Louis (though I blame Linus as the host).
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  850. Thanks, Louis. As it happens, I am having a lovely day. I hope you did too.
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  851. Yeah, I had the same one. Now though I'm wondering about a second full location in a cheaper area. Keep the same "experts are at the intake" but split it in two (while expanding, obviously). Though it's fairly moot now.
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  852. The constant jumpcuts are annoying. There was nothing wrong with the way you would talk freeform. I know occasionally you need to edit out content that isn't worthy of the cut but this frequently, it just reminds me of those videos where they edit words together to make someone say something they didn't. You lose sincerity.
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  853. You can sell extended batteries too.
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  854.  @rossmanngroup  You mean the seven years of YouTube your channel grew and became popular in? Better put a stop to that, eh? A few cuts are fine. They are just frequently excessive now.
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  855. The availability of a service manual might actually help them out there if they could show that a device was not serviced to published standards. If there's no service manual, they're still the deepest pockets.
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  856. Ah, if only YouTube would actually support my rift.
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  857. Well, at least things have improved since Weimar Germany. You no longer need a wheelbarrow to take home your worthless wages. On the downside, you can't use it for wallpaper.
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  858. Yet more "Don't believe your lying eyes".
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  859. But Louis is talking about EVs. You're countering with a hybrid. Hybrids solve the problem but are an answer to a different question. While many people do have commutes that would work, they might need longer distances at the weekend to visit family or go to the lake or whatever so the issue becomes you don't have to look out not just for the common use case but also the less common ones too (though for the occasional road trip, renting a vehicle with more range might be a good option).
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  860.  @johnmcaraher  Sure, hybrids definitely deserve a seat in the discussion and maybe that's the point. They seem to make sense to me. I just think Louis is more addresses the "pure EV" people.
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  861.  @johnmcaraher  I do remember hearing that some Prius people were basically doing the same thing, even though it wasn't officially supported. Though I believe the battery is much smaller?
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  862.  @rossmanngroup  It's probably too much hassle but I find it immensely helpful to have either VNC or RDP on my phone for when I need to be able to do something on a computer but I'm not near one. Yes, it is absolutely a pain in the ass but often better than the alternative.
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  863. Fewer people paying = you gotta charge more to make up the numbers, right? :/
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  864. The good employees won't call their old boss an asshole (in that situation) when they are because they care about their job (and the one they're interviewing for) and know that would reflect badly on them. The bad employees do because they're self-centered and have no self-reflection.
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  865. OK, champ.
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  866. Wait, are restrooms for customers not a legal requirement for restaurants in NYC?
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  867. Does YouTube have an API? Might be possible to script it. Not that you should have to.
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  868. Sceptre seem to be the people making dumb TVs these days.
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  869. Before?
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  870. I'm definitely no Apple fan but they have the point here. It's no business of Qualcomm's what goes on between Apple and their customers.
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  871. I'm not sure why but I suddenly have the urge to buy a sham-wow.
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  872. I needed an old HP laserjet a couple of years ago because of the iron oxide in the toner and managed to pick up an old 4 for $20. Works perfectly and I still haven't had to replace the toner.
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  873. Olive Garden is one of those places where you can go by default and not be too surprised at what you're served up. We had a real Italian place that opened up but the owner was a chomo and was chased out of town.
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  874. Pressure cooker? Looked more like a microwave to me.
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  875. Looking forward to the Louis Rossmann sea fishing videos.
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  876.  @SakuraChan00  Or some of those glasses with a camera in them.
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  877. I empathize with the situation of those affected by what's going on but this basically takes a bunch of money out of the economy, wastes a huge chunk of it on bureaucracy and gives another huge chunk of it to the already rich. It's very much a net negative and quite damaging.
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  878.  @LKonstantina915  If it's a temporary file, they may have just reused the filename or a standard one for screenshots but that doesn't seem to be the case. Also, Linux (Which android is based on) will typically create a new file if opened for write. You'd have to open for append and fseek to the beginning to do what they've done which seems weird. Maybe they figured because they already had the file handle open, they'd just fseek to the beginning and write which is pretty brain dead and unnecessary for saving a couple of lines of code.
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  879. It never ceases to amaze me how cheaply politicians will sell out their constituents. 2M in briefcase, I could understand but sometimes it's even only three figure amounts.
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  880. Meanwhile they're also engineering them down to a point where they don't last as long anymore. We're entering Brave New World territory.
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  881. I admit, I hadn't considered that. Though street trashcans are often firmly fixed to the ground. People will steal anything.
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  882.  @siamfd202  Slower traffic keep right is generally the rule (though can vary by state) but is rarely enforced and passing on the right is generally legal (though obviously more dangerous) so there's less pressure to enforce it. Also, US driver education and testing is woefully poor and it seems like many people are unaware of the rules anyway.
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  883.  @ZNotFound  Fair enough. But he probably needs to put a price on that convenience. Not to mention he's branching out into stuff where that wouldn't apply.
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  884. I'd like four candles.
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  885. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu9MptWyCB8
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  886. Wren from Corridor Crew seems determined to kill himself with his one wheel.
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  887.  hellsfavoritesaltyberserke4724  The thing that concerns me is the high center of gravity and balance (the same as with e-scooters). I heard a story of a guy who was sitting on his motorcycle stationary in his driveway, fell over sideways and hit his head and died. Of course,I'm not saying motorcycles are safe but they're designed for stability and I'm an ATGATT kinda guy.
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  888. Here's where I see the issue: Refurbishing screens, fine. Refurbishing screens and leaving the apple logo on existing parts, fine. Refurbishing the screen and adding the logo to non-Apple authorized parts, starts to get shaky. Personally, I'd have no problem losing a logo (hate em anyway) but that's like 75% of buying Apple in the first place. I agree with others that right to repair (the concept, not the bill) is definitely free market. The trick comes when companies pull stunts like bricking devices with aftermarket parts. (Though doing that after the fact should be counted as destroying property not theirs but it becomes trickier when DRM is built in day 0). OTOH, if you act like sheep, you're going to get shorn.
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  889. Now give me your wallet. I have a knife.
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  890.  @kevinnorris6558  They're in a bind because all the expensive infrastructure continues to be expensive infrastructure with appropriate maintenance costs but revenues have fallen off a cliff. Look forward to things getting weird.
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  891.  @PrebleStreetRecords  Do they not tell you by email first? Pretty sure Lowes does.
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  892. Find a way to archive those posts in some form ASAP. Someone will find a way to adapt them to whatever you move to but once you lose access, it gets difficult.
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  893. Bah, humbug -- Tim Cook
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  894.    You can get kits that do that for a few printers. I opted to go for refillable cartridges for mine though.
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  895. You need to take a phone with this warning to a genius bar to see what they actually tell you. Bet they tell you you need a new phone.
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  896. Tim Cook sending in the heavies for a bit of intimidation.
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  897.  @d3r4g45 They should change the name of the store then. Maybe "The Warm Body Bar".
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  898. They get things right from time to time. John Oliver's stuff on civil forfeiture is pretty good too.
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  899. In general I'd agree but Fedex does have a hub there if he decides to do mail-in work.
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  900. 4000 FTW. The only way I would improve them is to put a connector on the keyboard or make it wireless and they need to fix the legs from breaking (though you can 3d print new ones)
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  901. This is from 2017 I think. I went searching for the term and ended up on eevblog referencing the original video and wondering why all the posts were made in 2017.
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  902.  @calmexit6483  It never stops there and it wasn't masks.
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  903.  @Bri-bn5kt  True dat.
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  904. Yeah, then how would you get any work done from all the dancing?
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  905. Or maybe they could install facebook. Oh wait, the manufacturer already did that along with several other pieces of unremovable shitware.
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  906. So next surcharges for the overweight? Surcharges for women who have tough periods? Surcharges if you have kids? You negotiate pay and you negotiate raises. That's really all there needs to be.
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  907. "Lifetime" now means "when we don't want more money from you, it's dead".
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  908. It seems like it might be worth small online retailers could gather together to have an online storefront that is a bit Amazon-like but doesn't put money in Bezos' pocket. It would take several years to become established though.
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  909. The broken ones?
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  910. Hate to say it but you need to check the wording of the law if you haven't already. It may use a broader term than "purchase".
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  911. I used Smarttube next on the TV but my son often ends up clicking on YouTube recommendations and the ads are definitely too many and often inappropriate.
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  912.  @jordanrelkey  Smarttube next and Brave have options to skip promotional segments (if someone has flagged them). Brave has integrated a plugin that's also available for Chrome based browsers (SponsorBlock)
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  913.  @Mr_3raqi  It's integrated into Brave and SmartTubeNext.
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  914.  @ShaferHart  New tech sites will hopefully have a decent share of the market by then. Just dump YouTube at that point.
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  915.  @JCbadminton  The ads are also horribly intrusive. I know part of that is because they're automated but still annoying.
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  916.  @rabywastaken  revanced sounds fine. I don't have any settings worth worrying about.
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  917. I just posted a similar story about my stove. My microwave has actually been amazingly reliable but the VFD is failing. I went looking for an equivalent replacement microwave and wasn't able to find one with the same features (for some reason, it looks like there's a stainless mania going on these days).
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  918.  @Intelwinsbigly  Yes. Only issue so far other than the VFD is some non-safety-issue cracks in the door bezel.
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  919. Who's this "we", Kimosabe?
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  920. Unless you're Photoinduction.
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  921. Should be fun when someone buys one of these to display still ads in their business.
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  922. The truck is just practicing social distancing.
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  923. With the disclaimer that Apple shouldn't be doing this shit, repair shops should consider offering a bounty for hackers to overcome these measures.
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  924. "Trust me, bro."
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  925. Yeah, NYC is so expensive unless you are making big bucks or have an exit plan, you're not going to come out ahead until you retire and move to Florida.
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  926. I already use Brave Browser. While I appreciate their product, an advertisement would be even more redundant and annoying.
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  927. Probably a C-level decision.
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  928. Hey, all those people purchasing your services have to find the money for their crappy Apple products somehow.
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  929.  @catsupchutney  Don't bring it into the house?
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  930. Clearly Stephen King is to blame.
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  931.  @BronxProject  The avatar is amusing too.
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  932. Aaargh. Once again, the constant cutting is annoying!
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  933. 10:37 which Steve is this?
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  934.  @muizzsiddique  I do but these were not in my personal machines. OSs are getting a bit better at these things but you'd have to set up something like smartmond back then. I'm not sure it would have warned of these failures in any case.
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  935.  @cjay2  Had good luck with Toshibas and Hitachis. I'm not sure if they're relabelled.
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  936. I don't think that's worked on any modern printer for a while. They're even getting into cryptography now (and the refillable cartridge sellers are still breaking it).
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  937. If it's not your battery to use, they should be paying you to haul it around for them.
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  938. And cops parked in the pedestrian lane.
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  939. To be fair, it's not really wide enough for a bike lane. Or at least and not have pedestrians walking in it.
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  940.  @wokencs330  Yes. Thank you.
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  941.  @teteteteta2548  Hey now, the correction is welcome. I did try to check with google but it looks like many made the same mistake I did. Gotta stop doing that.
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  942. Might be worth seeing if guy-who-knows-a-guy would cut a few less corners for a bit extra money. He's more likely to be flexible up than the other guys be flexible down.
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  943.  @stevearcher6100  Debt can become a habit. This would be akin to "first one's free".
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  944. Clips mean less flexing. I'd imagine that's why they did it rather than anything malicious. Though clips also mean bits breaking off when disassembling as I've found out many times. More than one laptop with JB-Weld upgrades.
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  945. I was doing the same for Corel Draw 4 but it stopped working on Windows 7, unfortunately. I ended up using Inkscape after that.
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  946.  @grants7390 Reddit has a coterie of deranged people who will pursue you across subs if you say a word wrong.
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  947.  @catprog  Adobe actually put all their stuff out there for download when they changed their license a while back (though you were still supposed to have a license). I don't think you can still get it but I'm sure it's floating around somewhere. It was CS6 in 2017
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  948. Even Zuck hasn't shafted me quite that hard with my CV1. I still hate what he has done though.
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  949.  @jebediahkerman8245  I'm not really familiar enough with it to comment. From what I understand, it's a step in the right direction though.
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  950.  @PabloEdvardo  They don't necessarily but usenet worked just fine without them. Upvotes are detrimental in many ways and recommendations often get subverted for agenda-led or economic reasons. They could always be added as an extra layer though and should definitely also be decentralized.
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  951. That 8 people isn't 8 people in the whole city, that's just on the subway. And the rise is presumably somewhat proportional to all the other non-fatal crimes like muggings, assault, sexual assault, intimidation, public nudity, panhandling, public urination, public defecation, mimes and flash mobs.
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  952. Those unused bike racks are nice tho.
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  953. That subreddit it poison. All of the political ones on reddit are but that one is among the top.
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  954. I suspect you were lucky you didn't get a visit from the fire marshal.
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  955. All your Youtube comments get saved too. This is fairly obvious but Google makes is impossible to search so most people may not know. However, you can download all your comments so better hope you didn't say something 10 years ago that's politically incorrect today. (I have used this to find a video I couldn't find by other methods though). There's also a risk that you posted something that looks like support for someone who has become anathema to the current mob and you'll get implicated by association.
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  956. Shades of the CIA destroying (non-covid) vaccination integrity in several foreign countries by using the programs for espionage.
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  957. I bought a grey market Canon camera. The price was several hundred dollars under what the retail price in the US was.
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  958. I did that on the valve cover bolt on a Ford Windstar. I'd never seen an inch-pound torque before.
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  959. It's pretty straightforward. If the drive is properly encrypted, it can't be accessed with the correct key. So you should be able to replace the chip which holds the key with a new chip and the drive would be effectively blank. That's in theory anyway. Apple would no doubt make this difficult/impossible. (The bigger point it, if they are using good encryption, the drive doesn't need to be overwritten).
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  960. Haggling only really works if you're willing to walk away. You were willing to walk away. I hate haggling too but it's worth understanding the mechanics sometimes.
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  961. Like "La Cabina"
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  962. Another fun thing is that, at least on my Epson printer, running a cleaning cycle uses about 1/10th of the cartridge (and doesn't always work). Found this out after burning through a complete set of cartridges one time. Ended up buying a cleaning kit (which uses cheap cleaning fluid and not precious, precious ink) and refillable cartridges.
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  963. The S5 was the last Samsung device I wanted to own.
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  964. @ But I think most people would be sympathetic about a business having money stolen from it by another business using dishonest practices. And he would have been protecting other smaller businesses too who need the affiliate income much more. I honestly thought it was going to be about the risk of lawsuits from Honey which is somewhat understandable, if cowardly. The excuse he's actually giving is weaksauce.
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  965. @ Yes. That video is actually what my comment was based on. I'm sure he'd rather have just swept it under the rug.
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  966. @ He's living rent-free in your head.
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  967. @ I didn't say there was proof. I explicitly said there's nothing for sure.
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  968. I was watching the screen behind the screen behind him.
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  969. "Nah, it'll be fine".
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  970. Newer Google TV devices have a TV only mode. I haven't been able to try it for long but it seems to work fairly OK, booting up to the last input (not sure if it does that in non TV only mode). It seems to have the streaming apps still enabled so not sure all the differences. I use an external Android TV box anyway so not really interested in what the TV does beyond being a monitor.
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  971. I always check to see if they can be flashed with Tasmota. That's a bit technical though.
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  972. I have a 20 year old stove. I've replaced the heating element a couple of times but plastic bits have broken and I recently replaced the buttons and relays on the electronic controller and the hinges last year. It could easily last another 20 years but it's hard to get some of the replacement parts and it's starting to look tired in a few places (again down to the plastics). I did look around for replacements but no current stove has the same features.
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  973. Currently only usable with t-mobile. Which is an issue cause Verizon recently bought Tracfone and their website errors out on my number when I try and port it to a t-mobile sim.
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  974.  @Leprechaun_of_Maryland  Really? To my understanding, Verizon uses a not-very compatible system so I figured the pinephone was not compatible. I'll have to try popping the SIM in. Tracfone is a reseller. They sell (or maybe sold) phones that were compatible with all three major carriers. I had a G7 on an AT&T sim but AT&T were doing upgrades that made my phone no longer work with their network. Because of this, Tracfone sold me (at a discount) a phone on the Verizon network. I also bought a Pinephone at the same time but, as I say, something is messed up with the website.
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  975.  @Leprechaun_of_Maryland  Interesting. It kinda worked. I got a message about the sim not being in the phone it was activated in (which is a bullshit restriction) but that shows it could access the network. Now to see how to get that restriction removed. Seems like that could mean another sim which comes back to the website issues unless I want a new number (and I kinda like my old number).
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  976. Louis, I think you understand this better than 96% of politicians out there, some of whom probably don't know how to boil an egg.
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  977. I feel like you're telling Louis to fire that guy who keeps turning up late.
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  978.  @bobfg3130  I know what he means. But it can be taken as a dual-edged sword. And timeliness requirement depends on the job. Unless you're happy with your pilots rolling in 150 minutes after everyone has boarded.
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  979.  @bobfg3130  Haha, nice job, Bob, you really showed me.
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  980.  @bobfg3130  I'd reply but I'm currently busy looking for that job on Indeed. I'll get back to you when I'm done (don't hold your breath. Or maybe do).
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  981.  @bobfg3130  You know nothing and you're unoriginal too. Keep working at it though and maybe you can rise to the level of merely pathetic.
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  982. Guys, guys, I think you're missing what Bob Fg is laying down. Pay attention. He's rubber, we're glue. What bounces of him sticks to you (us). LOL.
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  983.  @bobfg3130  I actually agree with you that wage theft as you've described it is heinous and should be stopped. What a shame that you being an ass blunted your message. As to Louis' employee, you don't know what his job is so you're not qualified to make comments on whether his timeliness is relevant (most employees consider it somewhat important). Nor am I come to that. But Louis seems a bit upset and he's signing the paycheck.
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  984.  @bobfg3130  Haha. Anything anyone says to you you just say it back to them, Truly schoolyard stuff. Enjoy yourself.
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  985. I've heard of this before. Far better to use whois on a local computer if you possibly can though there are many honest registrars if you can't.
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  986. Tivo, Tomtom, Playon all bit me with the lifetime thing. Though it seems Tomtom never followed through as I keep getting the maps update (though their non-subscription phone app hasn't been updated to work on modern versions of Android).
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  987. shouts at me "Hope you're having a lovely day".
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  988. The bomb on Christmas day made a bunch of Nashville's indoor dining suddenly outdoors.
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  989. With luck, this will be the end of Yelp.
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  990. Didn't adobe put out a bunch of DRM-free copies of their software when they were discontinuing their online authentication (CS6 in 2018, I believe)?
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  991. One thought I have is that I'm sure many small repair shops keep themselves afloat with battery and screen repairs. If the phone manufacturers allow their users to do this at home, they can put those shops out of business and by doing that, make other repairs unavailable.
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  992. You kind-of have to learn how to read the ratings and reviews. The overall rating is only a broad indication. Look that the 4 star and 2 star reviews.
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  993. I think this may be the building from One Republic's Counting Stars.
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  994. Louis has spoken about it before a few times. Well worth seeking out.
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  995.  @xyoxus  The license plate allows the government to collect taxes, fines and fees. It's the top priority.
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  996.  @HamburgerAmy  Can't work off the points though.
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  997.  @HamburgerAmy  Interesting. Not here as far as I know but maybe Texas then?
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  998.  @DaaaveO1971  In England, it's called a piksy-bobbins.
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  999.  @joeroselli9867  There's a video out there of a guy who does teardown evaluations for the big motor cos and he tears down a Tesla. Apparently, they're behind the majors in a lot of quite important ways (or were at the time of the video). Not especially well engineered. That and watching Rich Rebuilds means I've decided I'm definitely waiting.
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  1000.  @venge1894  I believe reverse cameras got mandated because some kids got run over wandering behind running cars. Though there's probably some corruption and kickback behind the actual legislation. Tesla uses them for some of its automated driving features, of course. My car doesn't have one and I don't miss it but some people aren't good at reversing and some people have mobility issues.
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  1001. Louis, when I watched your recent streams about this, I hadn't even connected it to your previous comments about trying to obtain financing. This given me a knot in my stomach for you. It's just so fucking wrong. I know things haven't turned out terrible for you but so much potentially wasted... Good thoughts going your way, man.
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  1002. It's good to see the guy who made this is in work again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOy_oP3ESQY
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  1003.  @rossmanngroup  Sure. Point is, they're all shared delusions. Interested if you consider Bitcoin apart from shitcoins (I do).
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  1004.  @tomhubbard8510  You're not wrong.
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  1005.  @tomhubbard8510  Slower traffic keep right is the law in most places but almost never enforced and passing on the right is not illegal so it gives people an 'out' from social pressure. It's definitely more dangerous to pass on the right though.
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  1006.  @8BitShadow  That sucks. I hate having to google youtube ids to find what video was removed. In the recent case, it was two videos that were technical information about transistors and I was able to track them down on another site. You might want to check out youtube-dl which allows you to download videos and even whole playlists. I suspect it may allow you to retrieve playlist info too.
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  1007. I still say the incentives are all screwed up with YouTube. Premium is in the right direction but not correct enough to make a difference (and is confounded by other YT policies in any case). Your previous experience with Vimeo points the way but it has to be able to scale and you need to have a way to be reimbursed for your costs (and also some profit) to allow things to grow.
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  1008. Rossmann Repairs - Brazil edition.
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  1009. Could we start bounties for firmware to bypass all this stuff? Maybe pick just one printer or something. These days, you could even replace the whole controller board if needed. Just for interest, a couple of years back, I bought a really old used Laserjet 5. Still prints great and I still haven't had to change the toner. Those old laser printers were made to last.
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  1010. The wire is enameled and that's not conductive. However, it does scratch easily so this makes me a little nervous. However, Louis is the pro and apparently considers it acceptable so I'll bow to his superior experience.
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  1011. Sadly, all bought and paid for beforehand. Hearings are just to keep the proles passive. Probably why your opponents were so weak, they knew they didn't have any need to actually perform.
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  1012. The sad thing is, like a politician redirecting billions of dollars of public funds, they actually receive very little fiscal benefit from selling your important private and personal data. These kind of people have zero respect for their customers/constituents.
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  1013. That's corruption. Those in charge are just there to fill their pockets and get out.
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  1014. I think it's fraud but more likely that there is some kind of payment or refund (possibly some kind of deposit) to these businesses and somebody worked out that most businesses would be too busy to notice if they weren't received. Someone was going to that PO Box and collecting checks and throwing away warrants.
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  1015. If 1/3 won't pay because of a mistake in payment processing that means 2/3 do. So it's not human nature, it's scumbag nature.
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  1016. When their FSD is confirmed in court to not be FSD, that'll be a whole can of worms opened.
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  1017.  @danjayh  I like driving but when you have to drive an hour each way five days a week, it can get old.
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  1018. I went to university and while I don't regret it, I feel I could have been much more successful if I'd been mentored by someone for a year part-time instead. Most of what I've used in my career has been self-taught.
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  1019. Removable batteries have other important benefits too. Not least being able to fully power down a device and also being able to install a fully charged battery when the current battery has run down.
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  1020. If you're doing nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide. At least that's what they tell me.
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  1021.  @Nocturnalverse  That I can tell it to go away and a few days later it's back tells me that there can only be nefarious intent behnd it.
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  1022.  @nocturn9x  Hah, the insidious way YT forces them in everywhere is part of the reason they're annoying.
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  1023. Genuine environmental improvements often do come with cost savings. It's when you see claimed environmental savings that require a lot of additional expense and fuss that you should turn on your BS detector (though yes, there are sometimes circumstances where this is necessary. Often the additional expense is indicative of less visible environmentally negative processes.
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  1024. You have to have 12V on that thing. Rig up a car horn.
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  1025. The thought is that businesses will be using the software to make money so can afford to pay (though yes, some commercial licenses are disproportionately expensive). Also, personal licenses are often seen as loss-leaders. Once people are familiar with the software, they are more likely to use it in a business, generating real income. Personally, I tend to lean towards open source anyway.
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  1026. Sticky label karma comes back to bite you.
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  1027.  @dev0random  I'll give you engineers. I would include landlords in what I said though. Not that I am against landlords but it seems that they often charge so high that rent is often a big part of the reason some good businesses fail (not that good business can't fail anyway but even where I am, rent for retail spaces is crazy (not as crazy as NYC but that goes without saying))
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  1028. Also count govt in that.
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  1029. Select numeric digits -> font size, 4pt. Bingo, small number. Job(s) done.
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  1030.  @tissuepaper9962  I've been driving 30 years and I've used my spare and jack more than a few times. No surprise that the price is going up in this economy but it likely would have gone up more without this change. But make your choice as you will. Teslas seem like poor value to me right now in any case.
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  1031. @c c OTOH, clubs and bars, couple of hundred people tops typically and people often stick to groups (depending). Protests were thousands all intermingling throughout the night. Someone needs to do some modelling.
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  1032. @c c You will also come into contact with many more people. Let's run some numbers. Say there's a base level chance of infecting someone within 6ft of 10%. Someone in a bar might come in range 50 people leading to 5 infected. Someone in a protest might come in range of 500 people leading to 50 infected. Even if being inside is worse than being outside (which you haven't shown, by the way), that's a lot to make up for. These numbers are almost certainly incorrect but they are feasible and should illustrate my point.
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  1033.  @Joesolo13  Maybe. I tend to stay home more when I have less money though.
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  1034. What was that? According to strategists from douchebags AC?
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  1035. Economies of scale should make city taxes cheaper. Yet big cities have the highest taxes and often poor infrastructure (why isn't there a trash rapid response team?). If that isn't a sign of blatant corruption, I don't know what is.
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  1036. The media sits on their arse and just pulls stories off the AP feed and runs corporate puff pieces these days,
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  1037. Stay safe. I live in a fairly small town and there's word a pile of bricks was left at the top of main street last night. The bricks have been disposed of (if the report is reliable) but it's concerning.
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  1038. NYC never closed its public transportation. Which is looking to be one of the primary indicators of whether infection rate is high or not. Everything else seems to have little effect.
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  1039.  @kacangkacang7741  No need to crow about it.
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  1040. Be careful keeping asking about the deposit being the last two months. You might end up making it a thing.
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  1041. What you do is "easily reproducible" by watching your YouTube videos? What are these guys smoking? a)Although your videos are very educational, it's not like you have some secret sauce for electronics repair and b)There's a lot more to it than monkey see, monkey do. I know you know this already but it blows my mind how myopic some people can be.
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  1042. 4:40 Rookie mistake. Forums are often much more knowledgeable about a company's software than a level 1 or 2 phone jockey who's likely reading from a script and will tell you that first you have to reboot your computer and/or reinstall the software.
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  1043. Are you sure it's not opt-in? Google likes to give you these little popups that say "this works best/only works at all if you enable our spy bullshit". I just checked mine and it looks like I turned it off sometime in 2017 and the oldest stuff is 2016.
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  1044.  @FuburLuck  The company was too tight to buy us p-series so I bow to your superior knowledge ;)
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  1045.  @mjc0961  Things may have changed in the intervening years. We would typically have a tech out the next day. Though we were a Dell shop including many servers.
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  1046.  @Fiyaaaahh  Well, you could just do that with the original starter cartridges. It's all more faff than it should be though.
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  1047. Too many stores close together? We have five dollar generals in a 3 mile radius here and we're practically rural.
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  1048. Sorry, make that six. They're expanding very aggressively.
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  1049.  @timonalexandr151  Interesting. Their reply fits contextually.
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  1050. I think you'll have issues with being away from the store so much but hopefully you can get them ironed out. Good move.
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  1051. It may have been more a question of which manufacturer was willing to work with them. I can't see Apple or Samsung playing along with this.
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  1052.  @chaunbot  He's a definite mixed bag and if people bear that in mind, they probably won't go too far wrong.
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  1053. Does anyone have a link to the following videos? 1. Louis talking about the possibility of a new space and 2. Louis's bike catching fire. Thanks.
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  1054. Why is someone out there not making replaceable battery mods for existing phones? The aftermarket for phones used to be much more interesting, now it's just cases that make your phone bulkier and screen protectors.
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  1055.  @fredbloggs5902  You're probably not wrong.
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  1056. Yeah, no. If you're managing to put microusb plugs in the wrong way, you're just a ham-fisted barbarian. Sorry, it's just true.
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  1057. Hershey made mistakes over and over before and when he made the Hershey bar. You guys need some better chocolate that doesn't taste like vomit.
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  1058. You could. These sort of things tend to be specialty with only limited interest though. You could probably put them on a blockchain.
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  1059. I use Brave which has ad blockers and other good stuff built in. I'm sure the enshitification will be an inevitable thing but I'm hoping for a few good years.
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  1060.  @Mikoshi700  The cloud is great if your have bursty or unpredictable needs. Other than that, it starts becoming less of a value proposition and costs rack up quickly.
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  1061.  @Mikoshi700  Yes. Mostly I see it for things like render farms and for things like online retailers where capacity fluctuates throughout the year. AWS is a bit more costly than people think though. I worked for a company that was a heavy user of VMWare and they looked to save money by migrating everything to the cloud. Last I heard they were moving most of it back out. Personally I think they would have been better off optimizing their shitty software in the first place but you can only tactfully suggest that so many times before you want to start grabbing people by the lapels and shaking them.
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  1062. I'd expect the click-through rate to be lower if it's presenting your content to people who don't already watch your content. The rest is fair though.
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  1063. Solder wick maybe?
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  1064. Half-assing social media integration is a PITA. Oculus has an app which boast social media integration but it only allows the most basic posting to your own timeline.
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  1065. The name is 100% legit. Geniuses are *bar*red from working there.
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  1066.  @click9914  Bring a fold out seat with you.
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  1067. I had a Motorola phone that wouldn't charge from a PC USB port if it wasn't on (which would typically be because the battery was flat). Very annoying.
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  1068.  @InternetKilledTV21  Having been around at the time, VCRs did face a lot of opposition. They also managed to cripple DAT.
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  1069.  @bomber9912  Arguably it was better when people weren't getting paid.
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  1070. I bet some of his campaign funding started drying up.
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  1071. I hope there are no issues with the PPBUS
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  1072. Not in NJ or Oregon. But those people are a bit "special" iykwim ;) with respect to the battery packs, I'm sure they could be designed to be protected from unsafe handling (assuming the pack itself isn't itself being disassembled) if the will was there. I've run across this kind of interlock many times.
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  1073.  @user-vn7ce5ig1z  To be fair, fuck em. Their stupidity doesn't justifying abrogating my freedoms. Think of it as evolution in action.
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  1074. Looks like taxes are about 3000 per quarter and they haven't paid any yet this year. Tax valued at 177k https://a836-edms.nyc.gov/dctm-rest/repositories/dofedmspts/StatementSearch?bbl=3046260032&stmtDate=20200115&stmtType=NPV
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  1075. I was browsing the records and suddenly the site went down. Hopefully it isn't a black site. Hold on a second, there's somebody at the door...
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  1076. Looks like there are a couple of liens (edit: redeemed) and a bunch of delinquent taxes against it. Yet it is held by a corp. I smell something suspicious going on. Unfortunately, I don't understand it enough to have a clue.
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  1077.  @tin2001  With NFC in phones now, they could put a tag inside the battery itself.
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  1078.  @Alexander_l322  Bladerunner was actually about iphones.
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  1079. It's called the bystander effect and the famous case often used to illustrate it - Kitty Genovese - was also in New York (though I think it has been debunked recently, people did try to help).
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  1080.  @otm646  Yes. Point is, it shouldn't.
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