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I love the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, even though it can't fix the same old foldable foibles
  • The reason I got the OG pixel fold was because the dimensions were very similar in size to the pixel 5 and I love it. Bigger phones than that don't work well with my smaller than average hands. That being said I don't like how the newer one is less wide. Also yes there are non flagship phones that are smaller, but I want pixel due to update support and their A series which tend to be smaller always lacked wireless charging which I prefer to have.

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    Is your phone really listening to you? Here's what we know
  • Maybe it's a distraction for cars constantly listening to you. Their privacy policies are horrid and they don't have a mic listening feature.

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    ‘Democrats are losing’: a battle on EVs could cost Kamala Harris votes in Michigan | Trump promises to end electric vehicle mandate. Harris has been silent, risking swing state autoworkers’ votes
  • Sure I'd love that. The chance of that happening for a rural area to cross states when my city got it's first bus a couple years ago is unlikely to happen for at least a decade probably 3 with the crappy politics and the amount of trump supporters around here indicates they are very against it. People around here think their pickup trucks are better for the environment than an EV.

    Meanwhile my state had somewhere around 30% spike in EVs last year and now is doing a yearly road EV tax since it has grown so much. We need more public teansit,but EV cars is not just a solution for car makers, it's literally the only option especially for consumers in the near future, which we need to do change now and in the future not just hoping for public infrastructure to come that will let everyone travel anywhere.

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    Chaos!
  • Mine has that too. Its cool and not so cool. Camera gets dirty, but I can spray to clean it. Driving in rain you just see water kicked up from the tires so it's all you see. Its also harder to gauge distance IMO. On the plus side, if you have the back window blocked by heads in the back seat / recently purchased a big object like a TV, it's a great backup so you can see out the back. Also, mine at least seems too use a wide angle camera, this is pretty nice since you can see blind spots and more lanes when on 3+ lane highway.

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    ‘Democrats are losing’: a battle on EVs could cost Kamala Harris votes in Michigan | Trump promises to end electric vehicle mandate. Harris has been silent, risking swing state autoworkers’ votes
  • I agree we need strong public transportation but there is still going to be a need for cars. I travel across state borders for my commute from a small town. Sure I could move, but then I'd have to likely pay way more for a house, taxes, groceries, etc, so unless the unlikely event they add a train that crosses state borders and connects small towns, some people will always have a need for a car unfortunately.

    Also the public transport would likely take decades we don't have to be everywhere meanwhile you can buy an electric car right now.

    That being said I wish I had public transportation everywhere. I'd totally use it. I hate driving.

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    Chaos!
  • The day when they make that adjust to the profiles! In mine we found kind of a sweet spot for seating position with the mirror adjusted the same for both of us. Heights are close through.

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    iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron
  • I believe this is one of those Google "F it I am going to make this protocol my own way without anyone else's input" which results in security concerns and also Mozilla prioritizes it being a browser more.

    Searching serial looks like this is still the case. There are security and privacy concerns over it.

    https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

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    Navy officer lost job for secretly installing internet on warship to check social media
  • Its not even that IMO this does two very bad things

    1. Anyone that has access to starlink can track their vessel.
    2. Nearby enemy vessels could easily have pin pointed them through the signals being transmitted.

    She endagered her crew and lied about it.

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    Vaultwarden has such a steep learning curve
  • At least one great thing about bitwarden, the passwords are stored on each device, so you kind of already have backups. That being said backups for vaultwarden is still beneficial.

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    Have you ever committed mistakes while setting up your homelab?
  • Yeah it's a fun ride.I run a cluster and the storage is replicated and distributed among them. 3/6 of my disks were QLC. One disk went bad super early and caused a bad latency but the other 5 disks kept performance up for the most part. Once I found out it was hardware I went with an enterprise SSD with a a 3 DWPD rating (drive wipe per day) and those beasts are so good. TLC m.2s seem to be okay too but I don't think I'll ever touch QLC again.

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    Can somebody solve this puzzle?
  • I used Google lens. Got stuck afterwards on a chess rule. The captcha rule used the notation for the chess one to complicate it further haha

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    Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
  • You can do a few things to reduce interference if the device broadcasting the signal supports it. Unifi APs support these settings. Most routers with WiFi probably do not support transmit power.

    1. Adjust transmit power to lower setting
    2. Higher the frequency, shorter the range (but that frequency may be highly used in the area), so #3 is the better option
    3. Analyze the frequency usage and picking a frequency that is least used
    4. If 2.4Ghz band isn't necessary disable it and only use 5Ghz since it's a higher frequency it again has a lower range.
    5. You could also faraday cage your room so the signal won't leak out, but thats probably more work than its worth.
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    SmartCookieWeb, The best web browser for Android.
  • Based off their release times I wouldn't say best there's some gaps for security updates.

    Also it lacks PWA support still. Its not a fork of Fennec like other guy said but they are using the gecko engine in the preview releases, prior they used the web engine.

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    Whoopsiedoodle!
  • I have a bridge near me that gotten taken out similarly. I wonder if it was this I was assuming the driver forgot to put it back down. Driver in my case got injured and I have a couple extra miles commute for a year. Good news is the bridge is almost fixed!

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    President Biden Visits Westby, Wisconsin, Announces $7.3 Billion for Clean, Affordable, Reliable Electricity for Rural America; The Largest Investment in Rural Electrification Since the New Deal.
  • I know your trolling but...

    If every American home replaced just one light bulb with one LED bulb that has earned the ENERGY STAR, we would save about $580 million in energy costs and prevent 7 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions per year, equivalent to those from about 690,000 cars.

    Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20230329090016/https://www.energystar.gov/products/light_bulbs

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  • I am looking for something to replace Fitbit for Android / WearOS.

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    www.yahoo.com Google Pixel Fold shipments delayed — now as late as July 7

    Google may have underestimated demand for the Pixel Fold as shipping dates appear to have slipped to between July 3 and July 7.

    Mine went from an email "Congratulations your order is being processed!" On June 22 to delayed with estimated ship date June 28th - July 5th. What's everyone else that pre-ordered looking like?

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