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adrian783 , 6 months ago to technology in Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded

this is only true if they’re 1s. but all bets are off if you have cell groups. God forbid you use them to make anything remotely useful like an ebike battery or home power storage.

adrian783 , 6 months ago to technology in Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded

… home made ecig?

adrian783 , 6 months ago to technology in Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content

coded language for “we think Nazis have a point”

adrian783 , 6 months ago to technology in Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content

this ain’t about you

adrian783 , 6 months ago to technology in Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content

this is absolute horseshit. there is a huge difference in giving platform to spread Nazi ideology and vigilance. to make it simple for you, one say “Nazi good” the other one says “Nazi bad”.

there are examples plenty where not giving or actively purging hateful content and deplatforming reduces radicalization. substack is basically profiting from and encouraging domestic terrorism.

adrian783 , 6 months ago to technology in What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader

personally I use a 10 inch tablet for pdfs, reading PDFs on eink is a terrible experience.

PDFs are also often reference materials that require flipping back and forth. which makes it doubly painful.

adrian783 , 6 months ago to technology in Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software

what’s your career?

adrian783 , 6 months ago to aboringdystopia in Different social class different rules

you don’t have to report anything, thats also why they do random audits.

adrian783 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to technology in 1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles

A $500 subsidy on electric bicycles would not get Americans out of their cars and onto a bicycle, but it might make cyclists move to electric bikes, which wouldn’t be a behavioral change that would impact anything relevant to this study.

why would you think that? I think you’re wrong and price is a big factor. cyclists are unlikely to move to ebike because they can already make it work on a regular bike.

adrian783 , 6 months ago to technology in Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros

is the point of article not to stroke the ego of the Linux absolutists that have some weird chip on their shoulders when it comes to video games?

adrian783 , 6 months ago to programmer_humor in Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day?

you can setup a on-save script to force you to commit when the number of changes is greater than a certain number from the previous commit.

adrian783 , 6 months ago to programmer_humor in Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day?

it means you commit too infrequently. your commit messages should be able to describe what u just did within 10 words.

adrian783 , 6 months ago to programmer_humor in Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day?

uh in any actual company you almost never push to origin master. so I think it’s a joke.

adrian783 , 6 months ago to technology in Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros

article title: windows DEAD LAST!

also in the same article: “… When it comes to FPS, the overall leader in testing was Nobara Linux, with Arch Linux and Pop!_OS trailing by 1–5%. Windows 11, however, was only 6% behind Nobara Linux. So, **there isn’t a massive performance delta here, **”

adrian783 , 6 months ago to world in When will Mickey Mouse enter the public domain?

I want to limit the amount of benefit they can reap.