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I've been to Silver Crest Donut Shop. Once. I was disappointed that they didn't have donuts, or at least things you could legitimately refer to as donuts. Or much of anything, real…

I thought this was going to be an article about one of the classic banes of many a marriage, intestinal gas. Try vibe coding your way out of that one, Tom!

When I specced out my macbook pro M1 16gb it was entirely possible to get 32 and 64gb without any tie-in to CPU upgrades. You're misremembering. The Macbook Pro M1 (2020) supported…

It totally would have been normal to have a custom shirt like that back in the day. I had a few. In the late 70s and early 80s, there were custom "iron on" T-Shirt shops in most ma…

Keeping in mind that I wasn't the interviewee and this happened over 15 years ago, there was apparently a combination of extreme secrecy about the organization and a massive discon…

I was hoping the comments would be full of similar stories, in which a demon makes a half-hearted effort to pull you into his clutches, only to be naively blown off, then not thoug…

You read the parent I was responding to, no? You're reinforcing my point. "Users who don't know about the feature can just use a pre-configured system like Mint Cinnamon and never …

> That's cause you're using a distro like mint which is using older builds of stuff. The context here is that I was commenting on the parent's assertion that one "can just use a pr…

Nope. Linux user for decades, but headless since the early aughts. Decided to dip my toes back into the desktop space with Mint Cinnamon. I can mirror or run lots of phone apps on …

Give it to someone you know who needs a laptop.

I hadn't run desktop Linux in several years now. (I've run it server-side for decades.) Out of the increasingly loud outpouring of support for desktop Linux over the past year, I w…

"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence." - Hydration as a Behavioral Addiction (Immortan Joe, 2015)

Lede. It's "Burying the Lede". I'm going to have to assume that for all intensive purposes this article doesn't cut the mustard.

Had ISDN in the mid-90s back when I worked for an ISP. Wasn't expensive from my telco, 40 1996 dollars a month and the cost of a Motorola BitSURFR Pro. Got dial-up bonding working …

The article is simply incorrect when it says that Youtube Music doesn't allow streaming of one's own personal library. It does - up to 100,000 songs. This functionality has been av…

We need to start looking at obesity as a hunger disorder, and not as the result of an addiction, a lack of knowledge about nutrition, or a lack of self control. When an obese perso…

You post the thing. The HN audience upvotes it or downvotes it or flags it or ignores it. From the reaction, you get an impression of the reception of the thing. That's... it.

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As the owner of a 2012 BEV (still going), I do not believe that BEVs are getting substantially better year over year. Are they getting better? Of course! Within a period of a few y…

No, I wouldn't touch a Tesla at this point. It's a Volvo. Bought it in February, a magnificent deal. I just calculated it, it was 37% of the original price. Still feels new.

With ICE cars? OK, perhaps. With BEV cars? No, no, no. Also, no. You can buy an insanely great BEV for 40% of retail after it's gone off lease after 2-3 years. Everyone is concerne…

The early Leafs always had a fairly standard (for the time) Li-ion battery, but the corner they cut until a few years ago was to make it air-cooled rather than the liquid-cooled sy…

Sure, postal banking [0] has been around forever. Could it be updated to the modern day and in the US? Of course! Why not? Because we apparently just can't have nice things. It's a…

I own 3 EVs. Two of those, from 2012 and 2014, were built with 3G modems, and fully lost connectivity in 2022 when the 3G networks were turned down. Nothing changed, not even an er…