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COASTER1921

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  • I've used these in San Francisco and Colorado Springs. You press a button to open the door, then once inside another button to lock it. You then have up to 5 minutes to do your business before the door will open again iirc. Toilet paper is carefully rationed out and dispensed. Once you are done and leave the door will close behind you and sprayers pop out pretty much everywhere, washing down every single surface. Sometimes the toilet also folds up for a more thorough cleaning of the seat. This means they're always a little wet inside, but also remarkably clean. SF in particular really impressed me with these, I expected them to be absolutely disgusting and tried my best to avoid them until I had no choice. The US needs public toilets, and assuming the maintenance costs are low enough the self cleaning ones really aren't as bad as an unattended public toilet sounds on the surface.

  • I just halted a job interview process - due to self respect.

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  • This process pretty much summarizes why I'm scared to try changing companies lately. Presumably these measures are to make sure you're not cheating with AI, but then if you get the job they expect you to use AI.

    I like in-person interviews most, they totally resolve the trust concerns. And to other engineers interviewing you using fewer MS products is typically viewed as a good thing. But getting to the in-person part is difficult in this market even if you're willing to put up with all their spyware from what I hear.

  • Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

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  • Indeed it's misleading wording but credit where credit is due, this is far better than turning them all into e-waste. It's not like anyone bought these with the assumption they would have any sort of official API someday, especially after seeing how Sonos handled their similar situation...

  • Trump’s $100 National Park Fee for International Tourists is Now in Effect. What to Know

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  • It's cheaper to take a whole vehicle in than two individuals on foot for most parks, and even for the America the beautiful pass they only check the ID of the passholder. There's pretty much no way they could enforce this so long as at least one person in the vehicle is a citizen or can pass as one.

  • Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison

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  • Full Windows 8.1 thanks to Intel's x86 tablet push at the time.

    Windows RT never made it to any other devices besides the Surface RT iirc and was pretty much an immediate failure.

  • Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison

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  • They made so many terrible Windows 8.1 tablets which they had to support. I used one of these with an atom z3735f and 2GB of RAM as my only Windows computer for a long time, and Windows 8.1 was completely smooth on it despite the anemic hardware. Some even cheaper tablets and mini PCs released with 1GB RAM and 16GB emmc yet somehow also were also able to run Windows 8.1 okay.

  • The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged

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  • If I were in this position I'd strongly consider using 16GB for the next year or two. Especially with an NVME SSD, good swap performance makes the impact of running out of memory much smaller than it used to be.

    It's very strange both sticks failed at the same time, have you tried them in another motherboard?

  • Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

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  • This is almost certainly US Mobile. They have some really interesting plans at surprisingly reasonable prices. But ultimately if you just want the cheapest cell service then they're not the carrier for you.

    https://youtu.be/Khv-0X1IURs

  • Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

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  • All web browsers are nearly unusable with 4gb of RAM lately. Even with desktop Linux I usually have nearly my full 8gb used. With 8gb AND Windows it's only a matter of time before these computers become unusable...

  • Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

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  • Company computers often come with pre-installed spyware which is notoriously RAM hungry. My company laptop immediately after boot uses nearly a full 16gb before you open any programs. Luckily our IT department realizes this and only allows us to purchase machines with 32GB and up. They're probably not happy with the current prices, but being a F500 company they can afford it...

  • China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed

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  • There's huge investment in domestic semiconductor manufacturing in China, but they're certainly not ahead of the West yet. Or even on par. If they were we'd see them exporting semiconductors and not buying from foreign companies, yet they still do. I work as an electrical engineer in the semiconductor industry and also visit China for work. We all know that our jobs are doomed in 5-10yr, but for now their domestic semiconductor industry simply isn't able to compete.

  • COMMUNITY VOICES: Trump Removes MLK Day & Juneteenth as Free National Park Dates, Adds His Birthday

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  • I mean that planning a presidential campaign takes years, years which they didn't have. And beyond the time required to plan and refine the campaign messaging, the candidate needs time to train how to answer questions following it. They had no choice but to reuse all of Biden's preparation for these, and even then it still looked hastily done.

  • COMMUNITY VOICES: Trump Removes MLK Day & Juneteenth as Free National Park Dates, Adds His Birthday

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  • The "Harris" campaign was a continuation of Biden's ongoing campaign under a new candidate. They never had a chance to set their own messaging nor policy priorities. And although I too doubt it would have ultimately stopped Trump, it certainly would have allowed them to try to target younger demographics with their policy.

    I also fear that the Democratic party's takeaway from the whole ordeal may be that America is not yet ready for a woman president. But any candidate would have lost under Harris's circumstances. And Hillary was just a terrible candidate. Yet because those are the only two woman candidates we've had for President and both lost horribly, it's easy to draw the wrong conclusion here that those are related.

  • COMMUNITY VOICES: Trump Removes MLK Day & Juneteenth as Free National Park Dates, Adds His Birthday

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  • Throughout Biden's whole term it was a big question if he'd run again. It being a question at all should have made the answer a clear NO. Harris never had a fair chance at a campaign because of this despite being in my opinion one of the better Democrat candidates we've had in recent history. Obviously she's not as liberal as most Democrats would like nowadays, but when the alternative is an openly corrupt billionaire con artist I'll vote for the mainstream Democrat candidate every time.

  • Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall

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  • News websites need to stop saying Russia's economy is crashing, I feel like I've read this headline 100 times over the last 3 years. It's the wartime economy of a petro-state, they don't need that many outside buyers of their oil to make their highly controlled domestic wartime production work. Traditional global indicators of economic health shouldn't be applied for as long as this continues, claiming otherwise is just false hope and a poor excuse for providing less help to Ukraine.

  • What's your boomer trait?

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  • I try tapping when I encounter an unfamiliar mobile app interface. I've not been trained to vertically scroll tiktok style when something looks like a complete page.

  • Porsche Is Adding Fake Gear Shifts to Its EVs, 2027 Taycan Will Be First: Exclusive

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  • This isn't letting you control when the "shifting" happens. It's just cutting the power for a small period at preset speeds like an automatic transmission ICE.

  • Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

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  • The unfortunate part for DIY PC is that the RAM is likely all buffered ECC. And used flash is sketchy in my experience, even if you buy SLC where the whole point is supposed to be that it is more durable.

  • Hi guys, how many of you are here as an alternative to Reddit?

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  • I'd argue it already is an actual alternative so long as you're following more general technical content rather than niche local stuff. Most of us the people here have Reddit's API shutdown for third party apps to thank including myself. At least for me the last time I tried using the first party app it had major issues playing gifs on my Galaxy A52. Combine the bugs with the general closing of the platform and it was quite an easy switch. Lemmy is certainly smaller, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. I waste less time on it than I used to on Reddit which feels more healthy.