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Fun fact, they'd already need one if they weren't buying the data from private companies. This is because both the courts and legislature have been busy desecrating and burying the…

Once I started leaving just the ones with parasitoid wasp eggs on their backs in the garden, I completely stopped having problems with these guys.

Agreed, the xda forum thing is a huge security smell. "Here, download this big binary from a random forum user and put it on a device you carry with you everywhere which is equippe…

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That was their point.

I struggle to believe that it had anything to do with "Gaming journalism". I tried several times to figure out what the big deal was, and each time left with the impression that it…

I don't disagree with that, but it seems kind of like a acute cause/proximate cause sort of distinction to me. That, and I don't forgive the general populace either.

> The President isn't to blame. I mean, there's a lot of blame to go around, but tearing up a working deal that gave us unprecedented, multilateral access to Iran's nuclear facilit…

Fine, the whole post was explicitly "my experience" but I think it's a reasonable gripe - why is it not configurable, and why did it take me so long to sift through the impenetrabl…

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> the vastly superior apple experience After switching away from GrapheneOS to iOS after RCS stopped working for me, I can safely say my experience has been the opposite. The camer…

Fortunately there's less mechanical stuff to break or go bad on EVs.

That's a really rude and dismissive take - the impact of cars has been immense, in particular the ways in which they've been given primacy as a mode of transport and the ways in wh…

> might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it Also... is that a thing most people want?

I personally can't stand to ride without a mirror for situational awareness (or, if on road, a mirror and also radar).

Yeah, I prefer a bell.

> A bell is still rude in a shared space I just don't think that is even a little bit true, or at least it's something that is very culturally specific and thus not generally appli…

Yep, a wave helps as well.

What they described is also good etiquette in the Midwestern US.

Shouting that while traveling too fast is indeed incorrect, but a polite "on your left" or bell while traveling an appropriate speed is considered good behavior to avoid surprising…

> Some cyclists ring their bells because they're worried a pedestrian might suddenly turn into their path, This is wrong - on mixed use paths, it is customary and proper to announc…

Have you ever seen anything like a MSGEQ14 or equivalent? It would be cool to go beyond 7 in such a simple-to-use chip, but I haven't seen one.

I described my own attitude, obviously companies are going to do what they want. In this case, AllTrails has a perfectly functional website which they allow users to access from co…

If a website disrespects "request desktop site" and still tries to force you into an app... ugh. Had this happen yesterday when someone sent me a link to something on AllTrails. If…

Or Hegseth running his mouth about exactly this issue...