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My NUC11 with 8 GB of DDR4 and Ethernet idles at 3-4W when I tell it to not power any status LEDs. Can be power-limited in BIOS so that it runs off of a USB-C power adapter with a …

I've had the same free Google Apps account with forwarding for me and couple friends on my custom domain. We didn't use the mail boxes themselves, only forwarded email from the cus…

I'm thinking more and more that the biggest new realization for big youtubers is that they have a very powerful marketing platform bundled for free with their business. You know, t…

At ~$2.5/GiB of changes in Europe, this is a very expensive service. Is the sync process that resource-intensive, are they increasing margins to recoup development costs, or is it …

I feel you on that, but in these moments I remember a quote from Steve Jobs: "You can't connect the points forward, you can only connect them backwards". Which for me means that yo…

Yep, finally my TB3 eGPU starts being at least in theory outdated. The fact that there was no improvement in TB speed for the last 5 years is ridiculous. Edit: but probably PCIe la…

Just get a Dell charger, they are high quality and relatively cheap.

Yep, a 5-seat personal Office 365 license is $100/year, and academia loves Google's online counterparts which are totally free. My wife who's a PhD also gets a free Adobe CS instit…

I use MS Edge for trusted websites and the ones I want to be logged into and DuckDuckGo browser for random pages and news articles which are normally filled with ads and tracking c…

The invoices and the "order details" page (one that looks like it's from 2000's internet) should retain the item description at the time you bought the item. That's how I successfu…

The Chromium Edge can produce .MHT files as well

If you have kids and live in Europe already with a spouse who also has their hopes and dreams and works in a different field, kids cost you 500k out of the total 600k compensation …

Hey, Europe is not that bad. ASML is the leading semiconductor fab tech producer is based in Europe. They use optics from Carl Zeiss which is a german firm. ARM chip corporation is…

You can do "g!" instead of "!g" on mobile. (And even hn! works, but not every other one.) This helped me considerably

Yep, Apple exploits holes in everything. Remember when Europe tried to introduce one charging port standard? Apple got around it by selling the shittiest most flimsy and easily bro…

Epic, while huge, is 100 times smaller than Apple. Apple could buy 3 Epics from one quarterly iPhone revenue.

What the other person meant, I think, is that when you buy services from the companies, those companies then pay a 20% tax on profit to the state, additionally, all the salaries th…

A little bit related: I've got a latest Hario Slim ( https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/aw/d/B01GPMH590 ), and it has a hexagonal post for the handle. Using a 7mm hex wrench in a cordle…

All good points, thank you! Yeah, I kind of tuned the issues out because for me the XPS is the only machine that combines slickness with repairability and that's what I value. I ha…

Yes, they could. Look at Dell XPS 13 9310. It has the battery that's not glued in (using screws) which you can get a replacement for 70-150 bucks and change youself. It has trackpa…

Me too, this speaks to me so much. The games all look wholesome, in line with the device itself. Judging by what I've seen, the processing power inside will be quite good and would…

They addressed the SDK availability here - https://twitter.com/playdate/status/1400849495198289920?s=19 Basically, they don't have resources yet to open it up and support it enough…

Countries are supposed to in the end benefit people who live in those countries. There are many things that countries do that private companies can't, like jail people without thei…

Yeah, but by that same logic there may be unknown holes in app review and app sandbox as well. And since Apple aren't big on publicising their missteps (while Chrome is developed i…