psud

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That makes sense. The Italian word for find doesn't start with f

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I think the bad superscript is not a thing on the desktop app. I wonder if that's AI learning autocomplete

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

search sucks

The workforce where I work is diverse, so often it's easier to find someone by their first name, but you're not doing that in outlook's address book when names are in "surname, given name" format

Likewise when the address list was changed to "first name surname" you could no longer find someone with just their surname

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I think it's more about power. Musk wanted more, but got less.

[–] psud@aussie.zone -5 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Regarding "Elon is stupid" I don't agree. He has shown exceptionally good technical skills, he has no people skills, he's worse than useless at presenting himself to the public in general

I don't think he engineered much at either Tesla or SpaceX, but he had an excellent understanding of what they were doing - he could answer all the (non-ITAR, non trade secret) questions Tim Dodd asked in his tour of Starbase. When model 3 was new Randall Monroe did and assessment of the vehicle, Musk took the criticism and the next version fixed all the identified problems.

I would say Trump is the opposite. Actually low IQ, poorly educated, but good at talking to the population at large

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think I have personally fixed my last three phones, my current one is so far undamaged. I'm clumsy and break phone screens too often.

I have kept old fishing gear in service where my friends replace their gear every few years.

I did maintenance and mechanical repair on my cars before they went electric.

My computer keyboard is currently on "the healing bench" waiting for the correct size LEDs, as I destroyed the LED for a key role replacing its switch

I really hate throwing stuff out when a minor but vital part is broken.

Better repairability also makes repair cheaper if you pay someone to do it

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

And beyond the law it depends also on enforcement

The US doesn't give a right to break Bluray copy protection and make a personal backup or access it on a device that otherwise couldn't play it. But the only enforcement is on people sharing copies, no one is prosecuted for format shifting their collection to play over their LAN

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm in Australia and get about 100. High latency to the rest of the world though

[–] psud@aussie.zone 25 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Repairability is important to me in things I buy. I'm glad iFixit get that information out quickly so I can decide to avoid or buy a thing better informed

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

We let huntsman spiders stay in our homes. Many don't like them living in the bedroom. Huntsmans are a large spider.

Funnelweb spiders don't like indoors and are also limited to the Sydney region

Redbacks are a threat in the garage and garden, but they're not especially dangerous

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Giving Musk a feminine name insults him because you're sexist, I guess.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

When it happens enough you get used to it :(

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