qupada

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[–] qupada@fedia.io 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

"Surveillance-minded" (hereafter, "Helicopter") parents were almost certainly already doing that.

It just required a sharp knife and a tube of contact adhesive previously.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

(also Xperia weirdo, checking in)

This year's 1vii - which I did unfortunately pay said $1500 for - still has all of those. Hole-puch free display, SD card slot, headphone jack.

It's lost the dedicated notification LED, but - aside from the change from a 21:9 to 19:9 display which I don't love, but is far from a deal-breaker - that's the only other outward change from the 1ii I had before.

Still the best waterproofing in the industry too, absolutely can't fault Sony there.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 11 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Curiously, why on the back?

I always found that a worse location than phones that had it on the side (usually paired with the power button), as you can't unlock your phone if it's lying flat on a table without picking it up.

(Also the way I typically hold my phone, the usually top centre sensor is absolutely nowhere near where any of my fingers naturally sit, and requires awkward bending to reach it)

I know a lot of people like it, but I've never been able to figure out what it was about it.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

Using the phone as a touchpad has come in handy on a few occasions for me. Also just niceties like having your music on the PC pause automatically if you receive a call.

It should further be pointed out that it's not even required that one end is a phone. You can connect your laptop to your desktop and share content between them just as easily.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

In ours, the coolant is referred to as "PG25" (distilled water with 25% propylene glycol, plus corrosion inhibitors and other additives). It's widely available, and pre-mixed so it just gets poured straight in.

Your problem is going to be quantity. it might be cheaper per unit, but buying less than a 200 litre drum (if not a 1000 litre IBC) will prove to be a challenge.

I'd suggest a rethink, honestly.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The units are weird, and the person writing the article seems to have conflated a few different quantities.

From the actual press release linked in the article:

Using our approach, power plants can generate five thousand kilograms of gold per year, per gigawatt of electricity generation (~2.5 GWth), without any compromise to fuel self-sufficiency or power output.

So unless I've also missed something, what they actually mean is 5 tons per year assuming a continuous power output of 2.5GW, which is roughly 22TWh of energy generation.

Or in slightly more approachable units, approximately 0.23g/MWh.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's still fuckery afoot in HP's lineup. You really need to find the sweet spot of a unit that's old enough to predate their BS with non-HP toner, but new enough that consumables and parts are still readily available.

I rescued from e-waste a CP5225dn (2012 model, though mine was manufactured in 2017); an A3 colour printer with network (10/100, baby) and automatic duplex. It's not blazingly fast, but it has enough features, consumables are still readily available, and the print quality is honestly quite respectable.

As for firmware updates? Well there hasn't been one of those since 2015. Pretty sure they're not about to start releasing new versions now :)

[–] qupada@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They considered "Baking Bread", surely?

[–] qupada@fedia.io 17 points 2 weeks ago

Also did baking the cupcakes use more or less energy than ChatGPT used to order them?

[–] qupada@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Random might not be the right word, can we settle on "anonymous"?

It sounds a bit sinister, sure, but underscores the whole don't-ask-don't-tell nature of the contents of charcuterie nicely.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

Just this past Friday I had a pile of boxes I had to scan barcodes on. Two barcodes per box.

The issue was the form did nothing when you pressed enter, and required tab to get from the first field to the second (a 2nd tab would start a new row, so it was at least equipped for multiple entries).

Most barcode scanners, if you're unfamiliar, insert a linefeed character (ASCII 0x0A) after each successful scan.

It took me an unbearably long time to read through the 250 page user guide / programming manual for our barcode scanner to figure out how to change this to tab (0x09). It required no fewer than SIX barcodes to be scanned; enter programming mode / modify suffix / 0 / 9 / validate / save, which were spread across three pages of the manual (fortunately it had links, because also >100 pages apart).

It was worth it in the end, but it would have taken 5 minutes for them to code it to allow enter to switch between fields. This workflow is the only thing this site does, it's unreasonable to expect people wouldn't be using a barcode scanner.

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