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COASTER1921

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  • Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

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  • Depending on how you use your phone this concern may not be as big as you think, flip phones spend the vast majority of time with the screen closed and protected. My partner got a 2024 Razr and has been using it daily for 1.5yr without any scratches or other screen related issues (there's some expected slowness from the clunky MTK processor of course). I was skeptical of the durability at the time but for $450 with an 18mo warranty including accidental damage figured it was worth the risk. The technology is much more mature than I realized.

  • 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.

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  • All my friends who have one rave about the reliability. I can't get one on principle. They're all at the mercy of Bambu's closed source firmware which means you're always only one automatic update away from a required subscription.

  • Social Security payments predicted to be cut in 2032

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  • Removing the cap is a complete no-brainer but on its own not enough to solve the problem. The fact we can't even do that gives me zero confidence that it will be solvent to fully pay benefits when I ultimately retire.

    There's a polished calculator for the impact of each policy change here: https://www.crfb.org/socialsecurityreformer/

    Imo there are many reasonable solutions, but the only "free" thing that won't upset the public is removing the cap, and we can't even do that.

  • House committee advances bill to ban chemtrails

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  • The sad thing is that there is a huge amount that could be done for global warming with some basic legislation around contrails. Clouds that high in the atmosphere are quite bad in terms of greenhouse effect. By avoiding flying through areas that they'd be generated there's a surprisingly large environmental benefit for minimal cost. A good explainer: https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08

  • House committee advances bill to ban chemtrails

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  • You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised

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  • These attacks are more around the encryption and all require a fully malicious server. It sounds like Bitwarden is taking these seriously and personally I'd still strongly prefer it to any closed source solution where there could be many more unknown but undiscovered security concerns.

    Using a local solution is always most secure, but imo you should first ask yourself if you trust your own security practices and whether you have sufficient hardware redundancy to be actually better. I managed to lose the private key to some Bitcoin about a decade ago due to trying to be clever with encryption and local redundant copies.

    Further, with the prevalence of 2FA even if their server was somehow fully compromised as long as you use a different authenticator app than Bitwarden you're not at major risk anyways. With how poorly the average person manages their password security this hurdle alone is likely enough to stop all but attacks targeted specifically at you as an individual.

  • What YouTube downloader are the kids using these days?

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  • On Android Newpipe has the best UI in my opinion.

  • [Video] Hasan Piker says he will vote 3rd party if the Democrats run an establishment candidate in 2028

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  • If there were ever an election to not vote third party in, I'd argue it's these upcoming elections. They are effectively over the validity of the constitution itself, since the Republicans have clearly demonstrated they have no intention to follow it. A vote for Democrats isn't a vote for Democrats as much as a vote against fascism.

    The system itself is incredibly flawed and the Democrats are truly spineless. I have zero hope that they'd do anything to actually fix the system's problems, but when the alternative is becoming even more like Nazi Germany I don't see how voting third party could have any benefit. With the recently increased federal voter ID requirements beyond normal registration I worry that it may be too late to have truly free and fair elections already.

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    r/communism rule changed from "No non-Marxists" to "No non-Maoists"

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  • China didn't start it's transformation into a modern nation until Deng Xiaoping took power, pivoting away from strict maoism with market reforms. Modern China is far from maoist, the majority of their GDP is from private companies. And for their state owned enterprises most are run as if they were a private company once they have stability and an established market.

    And many state owned enterprises started out as publically traded companies, so in those cases the state has no motivation to tamper with production as it would risk the enterprise becoming unprofitable and burdensome.

  • America is dying.

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  • I haven't seen $20/lb brisket anywhere since COVID regardless of how nice the restaurant. But I'm also far too cheap to eat BBQ unless my work is paying for it or I have visitors from out of town.

  • Chinese man dies after intensive work week, receives office text 8 hours posthumously

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  • This happened last December where I work in the US. Unlike most Chinese companies we have a pretty reasonable work life balance but the dude wasn't near retirement age and just died in the middle of the night. It's not like the team could have known in the AM why he didn't come in. That was a sad day.

  • But at what cost.

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  • There are so many, you can get a good overview of them just by taking rideshare in China. The intense rideshare competition between drivers means that you're pretty much guaranteed to get an EV just because they're cheaper to run. Roewe is the most common brand for this in my experience, but there's significant variety especially by region.

  • White House backtracks initial claims about Alex Pretti after intense backlash

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  • I (unfortunately) live in Texas and haven't noticed any presence like what it appears they have in Minneapolis.

    Of course we also have Republicans top to bottom in our government, so we're probably a "good" city. Which is ironic because we (Dallas) voted in a Democrat Mayor, but he announced he was changing to be Republican a few weeks after his term began.

  • White House backtracks initial claims about Alex Pretti after intense backlash

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  • If they actually backtracked they'd remove ICE from Minneapolis and move them to Texas. If they're seriously concerned about the Southern border as they claim there's no reason they'd start in Minneapolis.

  • my 100% legit distro tier list

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  • Snaps bundle dependencies and sandbox applications. The dependencies aspect is what matters more to me, but apparently there's also security benefits if you were to try to install a malicious program.

    You can remove snapd, doing so also removes a number of built in apps. But at that point you may start questioning why you're not just using Debian stable and add the stuff you want. Both of these options pretty much defeat the point of what Ubuntu was.

  • This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry

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  • 18hr of battery with the display off is a killer, and even if you could get an m.2 modem working in it m.2 modems tend to be far less efficient than the ones integrated to cell phone hardware. At least if my experience with Quectel and Sierra m.2 modems is representative of other brands.

  • my 100% legit distro tier list

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  • I get what Canonical was going for with snaps but wow did they ever ruin Ubuntu's reputation. It used to be the clear choice for anyone who wanted a generic Linux where you don't have to configure everything yourself. Sure some people didn't like Unity but the core distro still worked well and was stable. With snaps, package management has become more complex than other distros while decreasing performance if memory limited (and who isn't nowadays). The number of times I've had something not work in the "stable" snap package is far too many, and it's pretty much always fixed by installing the same package with apt.

    I get the reasoning for sandboxing applications, but they needed to wait until it was more stable to make the default. At this rate I doubt we're ever going to get a truly mainstream desktop Linux distro rivaling macos and Windows...

  • Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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  • Power management could still be a lot better for Intel laptops (though admittedly over the past decade it's come a VERY long way). On my Chromebook running Ubuntu the powersave governor noticably stutters as it decides whether to boost the clocks, but all the other governors significantly hurt battery life. Somehow Windows managed to solve this battery problem with all its bloat, and Chromeos also has while also ultimately running Linux under the hood. Laptops could really benefit from the same level of driver maturity as desktop platforms.

    I'd also point out touchpad gesture support as a secondary point which is lacking. I love that pixel perfect scrolling and gestures are integrated into many desktop environments now, but they lack configuration for sensitivity and in some cases leave it to the applications themselves to control. Scrolling in Chrome is way too fast and Firefox way too slow for my trackpad, but unlike the cursor speed/acceleration, there is no setting to adjust the sensitivity of pixel perfect scrolling in supported applications.

  • mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say

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  • The cost will be INSANE whenever these become available, each vaccine is personalized to a specific cancer in a single person. But unlike other vaccines you wouldn't be able to get one preventatively. They're more like a treatment option which targets a cancer specifically (unlike chemo). Since every person's cancer is different the vaccine needs to be custom made from a sample for a specific cancer in that specific person who already has it.