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>If someone does not read a contract or a legal agreement, before accepting or signing, it's on them When was the last time you read an entire EULA before installing software? I'm …

Marketplace has taken over literally all of the other reselling websites and apps. Try finding a decent car on Craigslist today.

My 8mbps DSL line is $43USD/month after everything, and the cheapest internet I have access to. The next tier up is Starlink or 250mbps Fiber, which have the same cost. I do not wi…

Shutting down in the middle of work is a common failure mode for overheating, for men and machine. Got an IR camera?

Most old forums would let you toggle Flat or Tree view, but Tree view was obviously beholden to hitting "Reply" to the post you were addressing, and not just copying a bunch of peo…

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Oh, you see, that's wind energy. No one can charge for the wind, so they don't like it. You can't build big expensive wind drilling machines and keep big vats of wind for bad days.…

That's not the point of fast.com Fast is a one click solution to finding out your download speed from Netflix. Latency doesn't matter, nor does upload.

Would you rather that the 100% of bugs in those 20% of tickets never got fixed? Linux users write highly detailed bug reports because it's the only way to get things fixed without …

>Windows 7 would take minutes to boot. Citation needed. I went from Win7 on a i5-2500k that booted in sub 15 seconds on a SATA SSD to Win10 on a 5600x that takes 45 seconds to a mi…

>search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement. Too bad it's been completely broken by Windows 10. It can't even find the names of software I have p…

>you said even one of them in a contract negotiation the first order of business by the union rep would be to remove you from contract negotiation. You can do the same thing by say…

> it's still a tool, not a person. Tell that to the CEO's who have replaced all of their yes-men with yes-chatbots.

>The first is the fear of job loss, and I feel like this is the most straightforward to deal with. Personally, I think the solution should be to share the productivity of AI with s…

I can't wait for the Faro Plague and the robot dinosaurs.

>What is most concerning to me is how people are turning their brains off for anything tangentially related to AI. Everyone is betting the farm on that .01% chance that they become…

Today's car crash deaths are sometimes software bug caused deaths. Toyota failed their forensic audit of their drive by wire code back in 2013. https://capitolweekly.net/toyota-has…

My phones all fail from internal hardware faults. Also never broken a screen. I had a S3 that the battery would only last 12 hours or so, but the EMMC failed before the battery did…

No. You get a 2 year old flagship phone for $200-300 outright, instead of $1500+ Samsung also makes the A-series Galaxies which are a pretty solid mid-tier phones that are supporte…

>Running AI locally could be a big selling point Actually will push a lot of people away. I don't want any hardware that has special relationships with AI LLM's.

And if the majority is "no confidence" we get a special runoff election with new candidates.

The S3 ran Samsung software for about, oh, a month after I bought it brand new? I'd been running CyanogenMod until they quit giving updates to the S3.

Never. I am very gentle to my phones. Thing has one small dot of a scratch on the screen. Never been opened.

My Samsung Galaxy S3 died after 8 years. EMMC failure. Just started boot looping while I was asleep. Everything gone. Known issue. My Samsung Galaxy S8 died at 7 years. Some kind o…

>those who by definition want more than everyone else and can seemingly never be satified There's a medical word for things like that. Schmancer?