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The DOT standard isn't good, but the US doesn't disallow helmets that meet other standards. You can buy Bell and Alpinestars MIPS helmets in the US today, no gray market needed: ht…

Hasn't become more friendly from what I've seen. The project seems largely centered around K8s, and isn't really investing in fixing anything on the "compose" side. I did the same …

This seems to run completely contrary to Mazda's own Connected Services Privacy Policy, which states that by default (ie if you aren't paying the subscription for connected service…

I can't recall the exact settings to push via ADB, but the Internet Connectivity Check is "easy" to fix. Create a server that's always up that responds with a 301 (or whatever the …

LineageOS + microG here, on a motoX4. It's been the phone I use every day for about a year. My wife has the exact same setup, and generally gets along fine with it. FDroid has _mos…

More and more functionality is being shoved into Google Play Services. I have a deGoogled phone running Lineage, but even with that, no Google Play Services, and some custom settin…

I got my Pinephone last week, and have been fairly surprised that it's reasonably usable. I viewed the purchase more as a donation and a signal that there is a market, but I've bee…

Not entirely correct, here's an interesting YouTube channel by an ex-F1 aero engineer: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kyleengineers You're correct insomuch as he's not sharing CFD se…

eh, I ran the command, alt-tabbed to something more interesting, and checked later in the day to see that it was done. Never had an issue running it, and only ever needed to when I…

Ah, during our migration we did try to move thousands of files from a "Dropbox" folder to a "NextCloud" folder, and indeed the Windows client was not happy. Since it was a one-time…

I had the same thought as the title of the article go through my head, but we ended up with a simpler setup as I wanted something I don't have to constantly mess with: * Put togeth…

We've been using Nextcloud in my home for the better part of a year now, almost completely problem free. I even have auto-updates via watchtower. We have 136 GB of data on it (just…

You can buy an American-made Purism phone, which may or may not fit your definition. It's not cheap, though.

Ended up with some used Cisco equipment aimed at the small business segment. Similar-ish price to new Ubiquiti gear, and I've spent essentially 0 time maintaining the stuff beyond …

I almost did the same thing, but it was clear a year ago that they were moving towards "cloud based" services, something I didn't want to participate in. Looks like it was a good d…

Doing something is better than doing nothing, you're leaking less data overall even if you install all the same apps. In general though, yes, with a deGoogled phone you have to wat…

I recently de-Googled both my phone and my wife's. Although we try to use FOSS apps as much as possible, there's still a handful of apps we've downloaded via Aurora, all have worke…

This has been _specifically_ called out in Shopify's recent emails to partners. If the private apps are essentially all the same, it's considered abusing private apps and they may …

I live in Phoenix and had the same worry when moving here. I'm in the suburbs, and have a fairly long commute with my current job (well, we're still WFH, but it _was_ fairly long).…

For what it's worth, location services work fine in MicroG, at least for any app I've tried. MicroG presents the same API as the "real" Google version, and lets the user choose whi…

Tesla is pushing the same anti-right-to-repair angle and also seems to get (mostly) admiration by the "tech community" at large. As seems to always be the case, it's a lot easier t…

Posted this in another thread, but TDA and other blocked buying on margin , not buying with your own money. Completely different IMO. Source: Their own statements and buying GME th…

Schwab, TDA, and others restricted trading on margin . A company saying "we won't loan you money to speculate on this volatile stock" is way different than saying "we won't let you…

Most pumps around here will mute the sound by pressing the right button, second from the top, beside the screen. Some pumps require a different button to mute so I just spam all th…

I've made the same switch and had the same thought. In response I just unsubscribed aggressively from most everything. Much cleaner mailbox now, and I really never took any action …