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COASTER1921

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  • 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 it 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.

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  • And exactly this is why you should always make sure to change the message text when asking a seller something.

    I haven't sold anything for several years but have purchased several items with multiple interested buyers lately sold on a first to come gets it basis.

  • Annual merit increase

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  • Every company I've worked at has "annual" raises for cost of living. But sadly according to management they now average 2% when throughout COVID they were closer to 5%. Further, this company has made excuses to delay the review cycle 3 of the past 5 years I've been there, meaning they've now done 4 review/raise cycles over a full 5yr period. Employees definitely work less hard now, and many have left. I was also going to leave but just got promoted (with a whole 6% raise!)... So maybe I'll stick around another 6mo?

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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...