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Thank you for making Synapse happen Arathorn! I have given you flack over the Synapse migration path for server operators over the last few years, but this Signal outage brought ho…

The CEO only earning a few hundred thousand is mind blowing? Really?

Wait, you have to use a smartphone app to interact with your bank? There is no website with 95% of the functionality (or bonus functionality that the app doesn't have) available as…

AMD stopped building these in 2016 and Amazon hired away most of the AMD team that worked on this chip.

The media leans neoliberal, not left. You never see leftist leaders painted in a good light by CNN, ABC, NBC, WashPo, NY Times or LA Times, as those leaders threaten the continued …

Not everyone in Canada would be "several shades richer" if Canada were to join the USA. Most farmers would end up destitute.

You did portray Canada joining the United States as having no downsides for any individual person in Canada: >Canada could theoretically increase their GDP and literally everyone o…

American farm policy would be very destructive for Canadian farmers if they were to join the USA. Farm income would get gutted for Canadian farmers and they would end up in the sam…

Here in Seattle they bulldozed parks and diverse neighborhoods (parts of the International District, First Hill, Capitol Hill, Eastlake) where primarily queer and non-white people …

A lack of sidewalks combined with narrow streets forces drivers to slow down and pay attention, which is ideal if you want to see fewer injuries and deaths caused by vehicle traffi…

Building a parking spot in a modern building can cost $20k, which is hard to recoup with parking revenue. If the break even target is 10 years with no interest accrued, we are talk…

The Democracy Voucher program in Seattle has leveled the field quite a bit by enabling candidates that can connect with voters to field a viable, funded campaign: https://www.seatt…

Ballard is pretty isolated, constrained by the Ballard Bridge or going over to Fremont to get to Downtown. Bike access is poor, either risking death on the sidewalks of the Ballard…

Seriously, we can't expect to match the performance of a low income country we bombed back to the stone age just a few decades ago? Vietnam isn't a paragon of wealth and competent …

What doesn't work with Bluetooth today on a distro like Debian 10? I have Bluetooth 4.1 built into my WiFi card, over the last year the only issue I have had was manually having to…

Its a 1080p matte display. Good for information density, but not as high nits or as color accurate as a Macbook's screen.

Its not a development machine, but the Pinebook Pro has an all metal chassis and a great price point ($200). Solid machine for most tasks.

Mobile data prices dropped significantly in the USA, Visible, MetroPCS & Cricket (all of which are just fronts for the big 3 carriers) offer unlimited everything for aroind $25 a m…

AMD sells these older designs on generation behind nodes (eg: 14nm) as they need to be on time and under budget to get OEM design wins. If they miss the timeline to get laptop chip…

Screen Sharing works fine for browser based videoconferencing like Jitsi. Some apps like AnyDesk just haven't invested in support for Wayland, while shovelware like Zoom tries to f…

Usually fire code mandates a 2 hour fire rating for each unit, so you end up with two parallel air gapped 2×4 walls that have sufficient sheetrock on the one side facing the unit t…

Likely different strategies for software development and less need to support legacy clients contributed to the line count being much lower.

Why not just use ZRam and go headless? There are plenty of good ncurses apps out there.

Sounds like an effective way to relaim streets and break up the pavement!

How do you protect against sudden dead spots or spots where cellular data is degraded? It only takes one power cut, grumpy person with a cellphone jammer, or error in the cellular …