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"Here's the thing most people miss: promotions don't fall off the tree and land in your lap. You've got to show that you're capable of handling the responsibility for a sustai…

The Communicator is interesting but why are they marketing this as a "second" phone? I can see buying this as a primary but who is really looking for a phone they carry specifically as a bac…

Still no big CAD names that I'm aware of (annoyingly), Libre Calc works fine for me as an Excel alternative, I have used Matlab on it but not recently, not sure on the others. Laptop sleep and su…

I've been using Kubuntu for years with good results. I prefer KDE to Gnome, which Kubuntu takes care of, and I normally add in the flatpak repositories so I don't need snap. That has general…

What is "severe" in this case?

Atleast for me I still need atleast two banking apps so I can: - Send money to friends - Deposit checks That being said I haven't had issues with using them.

I've used GrapheneOS for years now and it is the easiest-to-use, lowest friction privacy oriented software I've interacted with. I'm not sure why one banking app not working would be a …

I don't think it was a miscalculation, it was big business interests winning over geopolitical considerations. Of course, with some added hubris when it came to opinions on the ability of third w…

People who demand others sacrifice their privacy to allow a private company to collect unlimited data on public spaces, to be used, sold, and profited off of as they see fit, with no oversight or cons…

The dealer owners have better cocaine and hookers. If you think I'm joking you probably live in a more sane country.

That's an "american" small, lol.

I talk later on that I think a small ev van would have been a better entry into the market. That being said I do love pickups, my dream car is probably the Slate if it ever gets made. I won't arg…

Shouldn't the chart that shows effective number of researchers show them as a factor of the population? Not a factor based on how many there were when we had a much smaller population?

You are looking at the wrong thing, look at overall vehicle dimensions. 1995 Ford Ranger Extended Cab - 3200+ lbs - 198" long - 69" wide - 6' bed 2023 Ford Ranger Super Cab (last year t…

The F-150 is in one of the markets I think ev's will take over first (small commercial vehicles) but it just was not the right vehicle to start with. To expensive, even when the tax incentives we…

"Gatekeeping trauma with a broad brush is never good in my mind." Everyone self diagnosing has its own problems though and these days what is presented as trauma on social media has a ridicu…

I'm less bothered by the ever present smart tv and more bothered that there is no way to just turn on the tv and go straight to input from a certain port. Would love to know TV's that just d…

You are framing it as "this technological advancement is being thought of as bad because we always think of new technological advancements as bad". AI is bad because of all the ways in which…

Can anyone recommend an alternative to GMaps for searching for restaurants, services, or general "discovery" near a location?

Also Dark City

The power management is one of my biggest issues with my Framework 16 but I am hoping it gets better over time with newer linux releases as it has for other laptops I've had.

I think the interest in cottagecore and similar things is less about people finding them cute and more about people looking for meaning, something we've always struggled with as technology advanc…

I know this is off topic but if you ever have the inclination to write about it, I would be really interested in reading about any books, people, experiences, professional lessons learned, etc. that h…

The current housing costs (price + interest rate) just seem so out of line with the average household income it boggles my mind it hasn't cooled alot more already. At $84k average household incom…

There is nothing here to say it being a maintenance issue is doubtful. It could quite literally be a similar issue to Flight 191, we don't know yet. It did have ample engineering reserve beyond t…

If schools are problematic or have kids that are problematic, wouldn't it make more sense to focus on investing in them to make them better, adding resources to support difficult kids, to help pa…

It depends. This aircraft was made near the beginning of the MD-11 production and if the original analysis for the fatigue life of this location was wrong, then you would expect to see that appear in …

Not many pictures, some more pictures here: https://www.youarecurrent.com/2024/03/12/column-visiting-the... Grabbed this one as it was the first I found that a picture …

I don't understand how the bigger vehicle theory tracks when pedestrian deaths were dropping from 1990-2010, a period that saw vehicles in general get larger and the same trend towards buying SUV…