This is actually a bigger deal than the headline suggests if the claims are to be believed. Hopefully the licensing isn’t too expensive for it to be widely adopted if manufacturing at scale is easy.
They don’t say how it degrades in water, but if it can degrade in ~2months outdoors then that’s actually pretty good.
Most biodegradable eco-plastic is a scam because it’s either only partially degradable, or only degradable in industrial facilities. If I can throw this packaging in my own compost bin then that would be a huge way to get rid of single-use plastic.
If you’re a convenience store but pallets of Coca Cola, then they kind-of can. They can just blacklist you from buying Coca Cola in the foreign country.
It’s also different because they’re selling you continuous access one month at a time instead of a physical good you drink and they can’t take away from you. I’ve been to places where service costs are lower for locals than for tourists, and this is told to you outright. Stuff like museums, taxis, etc. It’s a similar idea YouTube has.
Prices are also almost never based on cost, they’re based on what people will pay.
I live in Canada, and cars are more expensive here than in the USA. US dealerships near the border refuse to sell new cars to Canadians, even though it’s legal for everyone as long as you make sure to pay duties on the way back. I’m guessing each brand has some rule against it.
Ultimately VPN users aren’t a protected class so it’s legal to discriminate.
There is some problem with that as you say, but the company doing the poll is pretty well-respected by the west. They were also labelled a foreign agent by Putin at some point, so I looked at their opinion.
There’s an estimate that <10% of people in Russia have motive to lie because of power they’d lose if their opinion got out, and the theory is that this is usually constant. Unless Putin is scarier than 2 years ago you can still compare differences in opinion, even if you don’t trust the magnitude. The guy also said that you can look at the positive responses as having a share of neutral because people who aren’t informed just go with the majority instead of saying “idk”.
But no matter how much lying in polls there is, the amount of people worried about sanctions went down compared to 2 years ago, and compared to 2015.
Which makes sense considering how much physical capital western companies left in Russia, since VW can’t take an auto factory back to Germany with them even if they can take some equipment (but not all).
In Canada you have to pay extra for a 5G plan even if you have a 5G phone. And grandfathered plans/plans you’ve been on for a while keep the low speeds.
I had a super cheap prepaid plan with 3g speeds until I switched last month because I was on it for so long.
Some prepaid plans here just cut you off data completely unless you prepay for your overage. Others let you go over and charge you like $5 per 200mb over (ridiculous).
There are post-paid monthly plans that don’t do overage charges, but they throttle you so much it’s not really useful.
Edit: just checked, for 50 CAD (around 40 USD) you can get 100GB of 5G a month prepaid, for a plan that gives you complete US coverage as well.
That seems like a pretty bad deal actually, you can probably find a better 4g or even 5g plan in the US for that.
Prepaid companies in Canada (who generally have worse pricing than the US because all the cell companies have agreements with each other) have 20-40gb/month for that price (depending on the limited time sales), but not unlimited w/ throttling like you have.
I’m surprised Arch is that high compared to other distros.
Also interesting that people are actually switching to windows 11, everyone I know is staying on win10 as long as possible because they’re more used to the interface.
I never liked/used telegram because it needs my phone number so it’s not anonymous. Idk why it’s used as a discord alternative, it’s not really better except for lower moderation.
If signal had group chats it’d be perfect for my purposes.
Idk what I’d use to text/have voice anonymously to other Hexbearians/feds, there’s probably some IRC spinoff useful for that idk.
I either lose the close-up macro lens or some other feature when using modded gcam. Tried a bunch of xmls and couldn’t find a good one.
ANX camera is supposed to be as close as possible to stock Xiaomi camera app, but it was also a miss for me.
Next time I buy a phone I’ll figure out how good the camera is first. Maybe I’ll just buy the least flawed old pixel I can find and put graphene OS on it.
My phone’s coming to the end of security updates but still works fine and is fast enough. I have the same issue, that there aren’t any appealing phones out there really. I also still like headphone jacks.
My Xiaomi phone that doesn’t have a good custom ROM that’s still updated. I did the bootloader unlock, I had to make a Xiaomi account and ask them nicely to do it and wait a few months, but that was years ago and the process probably changed.
There’s not any good camera apps for my phone on a custom ROM, they’re all worse than the normal one on MIUI. Also other stuff I use like Google Wallet and android auto didn’t work good.
If the wood wasn’t sealed/finished a blind person would probably end up with a splinter
Can you not do something with gparted on a live usb? Or are the files that fucked?
Crazy that it’s just clicking a sketchy link that can do that
naps2 for printer/scanners. Better than anything I’ve used for scanning. Also great for arranging small documents.
Software that comes with printer/scanners usually suck
Of course, this is not the story Apple presents to the world. For decades, Apple branded itself a nimble, innovative upstart. In 1998, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs criticized Microsoft’s monopoly. […] But even at that time, Apple did not face the same types of restrictions it imposes on third parties today; Apple users could use their iPod with a Windows computer, and Microsoft did not charge Apple a 30 percent fee for each song downloaded from Apple’s iTunes store.
Thats a good point from the complaint. Imagine if Microsoft got 30% of everything done on a PC.
The ix-nnnn scheme at least let you compare within generations better.
With the new one it’s unclear if an ULTRA 5 is better than a CORE 7. And the low end is still terrible, with those it was hard to tell which generation you were buying without going on Intel ark website (which is now confusing because Intel arc is a graphics card). Now it’s hard to tell what you’re even buying.
Don’t fix what’s not broke.
All the other animals are copying them anyways with carcinisation, meanwhile they already figured it out.
New HDD or used?
HDDs are a lot more sensitive to travel/shaking, I wouldn’t buy one that isn’t brand new from a legitimate store. Or if you’re running a used one, then run two mirrored so you’re not boned when it dies.
Used SSDs you can check the wear level after it comes to know how much you should trust it. HDDs are more of a toss-up.
Android games are different because old ones use currently unsupported libraries, and you’re not supposed to run old versions of android. That’s more a problem with how Google thinks android has to work.
PC games and PlayStation store games don’t really make sense to de-list like this because win10 is very backwards-compatible with software, and PS4/PS5 games that are released and work don’t need any upkeep.
I thought he was selling chips that let you do piracy
Either way, he and his descendants should be indentured servants to Nintendo. His lineage must be shamed.
I don’t really need the locally trained AI to recognize general handwriting, only my own.
I could provide a few pages of my own training data (maybe write out a few pages of “quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and other stuff like that), and then ideally it flags stuff it’s unsure about and I clarify some more. Maybe find garbled nonsensical sentences, realize it’s probably a mistake, and try and fix it.
I assumed the leaps in AI would have taken care of this by now, since detecting handwritten letters from touch pen-strokes existed in the 90s. But I guess handing it a chunk of text is too different of a problem, instead of feeding it stroke by stroke?