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Why would an open source solution improve on that though? If anything, that would be way lower on their priority list as anyone doing large numbers of investments would (should?) h…

There are already affordable alternatives. The people still using turbotax are the same people that spend 0 time looking into alternatives or there is some import feature that an o…

Surprisingly enough, you can get that from the BMW i3. - The monitor is necessary but it is not a touch screen and it comes with a nice clicky knob to control it. Plus you can make…

I have to wonder, at some point with googles system not being the DMCA, when does it become copyright infringement on the part of youtube that they are hosting your copy righted wo…

This has so much more potential because its a desktop OS. You could e.g. play WoW using this. Not to mention the huge selection from emulators. I've tried gaming with Android befor…

I feel like a lot of this article really should be about how bad tarsnap is. Defaults to no progress updates, has no builtin multithreading, has failures around large files, can't …

my phone had an issue with charging cables falling out. Turns out the port had compacted lint jammed in it. Turned the phone off and used a needle to clean it all out, phone retain…

You can buy splitters that convert the PoE into standard network + barrel power plug. Cost 20ish dollars and a roughly raspberry pi sized device in physical space. One such example…

I can do this with fastmail, though fastmail is a subscription (like $5/month? IIRC, mine auto renews every 2 years so not sure). I have my primary email setup as @ .org. If you se…

Pretty quick to watch the tapes and see what register you bought from. You have to scan membership id at checkout, so then seeing whos membership was used is simple.

The natural gas genny portion exists, the water one does not. The water one doesn't exist for two reasons: 1. There is only energy in the water system because your city has pumps/w…

I had this exact problem on mine. I took a panel off from back of inside freezer compartment, and there was a solid block of ice below coils. I didnt own a hairdryer, so used a tur…

I feel like the real problem here is that bash is still the default and bash defaults/UX are straight up awful. The fish shell gets a lot of things right in regards to a sane out o…

As soon as you walk by someone or shake someones hand, they can copy your implanted RFID. Now, if you want to 'change the locks' to your house and car, you will need to dig out the…

I use an xps13 9350. I am running fedora on it and quite literally everything works out of the box on install.

First 6 is shared across the cards a particular bank issues. Its not a secret as you can google the first 6 to find the bank or even the reverse google the bank to see what BINs th…

In Haskell, this would look something like: data Player = Player (Maybe Weapon) Class data Weapon = Sword | Staff | Dagger data Class = Warrior | Wizard type Error = String mkPlaye…

gmail makes josh@... and josh+swife@... resolve to the same thing, but there is no guarantee that all other email services behave like that. For all you know, there is an email ser…

Isn't this model already relatively heavily used? There are loads of apps that have a free ad supported version, but if you pay for it, all ads are removed. They could spin it in a…

This is off topic a bit, but there is a solution for this: > Slow compilation: more than a minute (makes to start browsing HN, missing the end, thus losing even more time) See the …

https://emby.media/ is an open source alternative.

I like to equate it to giving instructions to someone who takes everything you say extremely literally. Ask me to make a PB&J? If you tell me to stick the knife in the PB, since yo…

J1772 plug (the one that every EV has) is an AC connection and there is a converter in the car that converts it to DC. The super charge ports (CHAdeMO/CCS/etc) use DC power and are…

Your list of 3 is filled by Haskell, have you looked into the concurrency options available? If not, there is a good book that you can read online: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/…

You would have to upgrade the Windows license first. These ship with a version of Windows that only allows installations from the windows app store. To upgrade to a 'real' Windows …