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  • Monster of 2025: Endless subscriptions

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  • Companies do it because customers continue buying the products, if sales dropped significantly due to the subscription then they would be forced to change.

    Personally I will not buy anything that relies on the cloud or a subscription to keep running. My only subscriptions are Tidal and a couple more independent streaming services.

  • What's wrong with my home network?

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  • If you have network issues generally best practice is to unplug everything for 30 seconds and then turn the devoces on one by one from where the internet comes into the house and let each connect before moving up the chain. So typically modem then router then computer.

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    Canadian English supporters urge Carney to abandon federal shift to British spelling

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  • CHEK is their broadcast call sign that happens to sound like a word and therefore provides handy branding.

  • An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card

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  • Pretty much, I've been working on reducing my dependence on big tech companies by self hosting or using open source where possible. While impossible to do fully, at least if I lose an account things are either backed up or I'm only losing a small amount of my data.

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • Not saying you can't find openly racist people in the country, especially some very rural areas, but the chance of running into people who aren't friendly to visiting foreigners of any appearance is extremely low. Canada is quite multicultural, especially in the major cities where you wouldn't even garner a second glance from people.

  • What's the biggest case of planned obsolescence you've dealt with?

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  • A big problem is that most denim people buy these days is "stretch" which massively reduces durability of the material. It has gotten way too hard to find classic denim in most stores.

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    Best Racing Games in 2025: The Ultimate Guide to Speed, Realism & Driving Thrills

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  • Agreed, no matter what comes out Trackmania is the game that has me coming back day after day.

  • 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

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  • I'd love Jellyfin if not for their incredibly infuriating seek behaviour. Why do I have to press play to start the video again?

  • Crofton, B.C. pulp mill to close down, roughly 350 people affected

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  • Considering how much of Crofton is employed by the mill this is a massive blow to a small community.

  • What's the worst of your daily used apps? Be specific regarding the flaws: Performance-wise, usability, bad UI ...

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  • I work closely with a company that uses Teams and every time I'm in a meeting that they organize I'm constantly shocked at how horrible that software is. Like I thought Google Meet wasn't great but everything from sharing screens to the audio quality is leaps and bounds better than Teams.

  • STL vs Modifier quality

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  • The STL export will take your nice parametric model and turn it into triangles. The software defaults of most CAD systems are terrible for this. (I'll die on the hill that STL needs to be phased out and STEP needs to become the default for precisely this reason). If you add a vector in the slicer then it has the context to be able to choose the right quality when slicing.

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • If Windows overwrites your EFI partition then you won't be able to boot into grub. It absolutely happens, I've had it happen with my main computer within the past year.

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • Windows generally works fine alongside Linux, but then randomly one day you could log on and it boots straight into Windows and to fix it you need to learn the "fun" task of fixing your system with arch-chroot.

  • Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working?

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  • I suspect the Prusa issues were because you had a bunch of people not taking care of the machines. My Prusa Mk3S was just as reliable as my Bambu P1S.

  • Looking to buy a cheap but best first 3d printer. Ender3 V3, CR-10 SE, or something else?

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  • It depends on the type of person you are. Those machines you reference are in a class of machine where you are likely to have to put a lot of work into them to get them running reliably and probably more money than if you just bought a better printer from the get go. They are machines to recommend people who want the 3D Printer to be their hobby rather than designing and printing stuff.

    If that doesn't sound like you, just buy a used Bambu or Prusa even if you need to delay the purchase to save up longer.

  • Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones

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  • A cell's voltage will change with how much energy it stores, but if you keep applying current to force more charge to move you can cause voltages to be quite far outside of the proper range. However you don't want to do this as at minimum you are damaging the materials in the cell, or worse, cause a significant safety hazard where the cell could catch on fire.

    You can look at the Discharge Curve of a cell which compares voltage vs capacity, as a rule of thumb, essentially the steeper the curve changes, the more damage you are doing to the cell by operating in the range.

  • Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones

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  • Something is off with the link's measurements. 3.7V is a li-ion cell's nominal voltage, not its lower limit. Typical operating range is 3.0V - 4.2V. No battery chemistry I'm familiar with would have a lower cutoff as high as 3.7V.

  • God ****** dammit, here we go again

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  • Not an iOS user and it certainly seems like something they would be behind on, but with Android every password manager with a Android app will work since the hooks are built directly into Android. Other than websites and apps that don't implement passwords properly it works pretty well.

  • God ****** dammit, here we go again

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  • I hate how many places don't allow for + aliases. I want to know who leaked my email.