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COASTER1921

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  • Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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  • So maybe my experience is unique but websites don't always test with Firefox now and some simply don't work with it. I use it anyway out of principle but occasionally I need to open Chrome.

    On mobile it's even worse. Firefox is stuttery on my Pixel 8 Pro and doesn't handle more than ~20 open tabs well. The nightly version fixes the stutter but crashes all the time (it's a nightly build after all so this is expected).

  • Visitor to Taiwan hit with $9,000 fine over 'roast chicken and pork combo' lunch box

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  • Almost no countries allow meat products due to potential exposure that couldn't be easily seen. Sometimes for commercially prepared meats there are exceptions but these are in relatively few countries. For countries with substantial livestock keeping diseases out is critical to their economy and therefore treated with such a high level of urgency.

  • Visitor to Taiwan hit with $9,000 fine over 'roast chicken and pork combo' lunch box

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  • They take pork products particularly seriously. At least on their flag carrier, China Airlines, it would be incredibly hard to ignore the video played prior to landing with the talking pigs specifically pointing this out.

  • California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices

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  • This has been the case forever. Itemizing receipts for hotels is always a pain and at least my company's expense tool has buttons for more than 7 different tax fields each night. It's like filling out a whole spreadsheet it the nightly rate varies.

  • Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse

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  • When they charge many $100s for an extra 8gb the value of the bare minimum 8gb doesn't look so terrible (if only comparing to Apple). Especially considering the performance of swap on a fast SSD.

  • Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

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  • Part of the difference is that the Apple silicon Macs aggressively use SSD swap to make up for limited memory. But that's at expense of the SSD lifespan, which of course isn't replaceable.

    I'd never recommend a Mac, but the prices they charge to get a little more RAM or SSD over base are crazy. The only configurations offering any "value" are the base models with 8gb RAM.

  • Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect

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  • This is just going to lead to people using outdated Windows 10 for various reasons. I don't use Windows much but have it installed. The trackpad gesture customization is basically gone in Windows 11 but was at least serviceable in Windows 10 (to change virtual desktops and volume easily).

  • Do you prefer the headphone jack to be at the top or at the bottom on a phone, and why?

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  • I love when phones place the usb on the top. I have no idea why the bottom is standard, nobody uses docks anymore.

  • YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious

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  • Spoofing app version stopped working. Luckily if you simply patched a newer version it still works correctly.

  • Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

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  • This is referring to the Roku built into many TVs. So you have no choice but to deal with it at least a little bit for switching between your HDMI/PC inputs. The reason this case is so bad is that it literally prevents you from using any input or device until you find the Roku remote that came with the TV and click accept. The TV is a "brick" until you do this.

  • Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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  • And exactly this is why I use Google Photos in addition to hosting Photoprism. Google photos is too big to disappear overnight, but over the years I've seen nearly every open-source app I use go through the cycle of lost development interest. Eventually a dependency breaks and you're back to searching for a new open source alternative or coffee to manually use some outdated dependency which from a security standpoint isn't great.

  • TIL personal credit scores only started in 1989

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  • They should write it as "you must allow targeted advertising at least once every 5 years before submitting a new opt-out request for the next 5 year period".

    So dumb this is legal, I just sent my email.

  • TIL personal credit scores only started in 1989

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  • The first time I saw this I was shocked. Every single paycheck of mine is there and there's basically nothing you can do about it without having negative credit impacts for having manually disabled it. Why on earth is this opt-out rather than opt-in? Then it wouldn't look like you're trying to hide something if you value your privacy at all.

    It's crazy this is legal. So dystopian.

  • Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.

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  • Not only did they have the option, as I understand it the API was even configured as such since all requests from an app shared the same API key. They're basically whitelisting like this now but only for the accessibility oriented 3rd party apps.

  • Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News

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  • Yes, but to increase longevity energy density goes down substantially. Manufacturers (and many users including myself) would not make this decision for something as weight and size sensitive as a phone. The lithium ion batteries currently used already last for 2 years after all and are relatively small. A single model S battery contains 7104 individual cells for comparison. Further, lithium battery recycling has made substantial progress over the last year and will already need to be done at scale when higher volumes of EV batteries have reached their end of life. The impact of the of life phone batteries even from the entire world will be dwarfed by that of the 26 million EVs already on the roads today with thousands of cells each (or equivalent if using prismatic cells).

    Some cars use LiFePO4 batteries for the superior longevity. But the range is reduced to somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 their lithium ion counterparts. The industry is moving away from this trend in recent years in favor of traditional lithium ion with a software limited charge/discharge range.

  • Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.

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  • If they hadn't applied the same charges to legitimate 3rd party applications they could still do this and have avoided the massive community backlash.

    Considering their horrible track record with advertising and selling Reddit premium this should be the single best way for them to finally monetize their platform. They didn't need to destroy what little credibility they had remaining to their users to get to this point, but for whatever reason they did.

  • Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News

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  • The chemistry from holding that last 20% of charge for a while is what causes the degradation. The BMS can tell the system to stop charging before it's full but it can't do anything itself to prevent the cell from slowly being degraded by full charging.

    This is is a problem that occurs on the order of years and that's why the EV companies care but phones historically don't. More easily replaceable batteries is the real solution here, not software stopping you from fully charging.

  • Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

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  • Exactly this. Lower resolution and added compression. You could click to view full version if needed, but this was a feature as it meant faster loading and a small fraction of the data usage.

  • Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

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  • And despite being designed to run on potatoes with a 2G connection it somehow felt just as smooth as modern mobile browsers (at least as I remember it). It's crazy how well it worked considering the hardware and network limitations of the time.