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You mean CF card? I upgraded my iPod classic by pulling out the old 1GB hard drive and replacing it with a 64GB CF card. The pinout is the same, and it works flawlessly.

I felt like a real hacker when I did it!

Don't forget the chinese peptide injection parties!

All those presets are brilliantly named.

What's with all this pre-print business. It became very prevalent during covid, where it felt like every week some new pre-print was published that discusses some new aspect of the virus. These papers would then be used in arguments and put forward as proof of whatever claim the arguer was making.

Every man and his dog can publish a pre-print and in my opinion it's academically worthless.

Here, I'll simplify it somewhat:

- Get the model T480 (avoid the T480s)

- Verify that both thunderbolt ports work before buying.

- After purchase, update firmware and bios as a step one.

- Install your favourite OS.

How does wireless charging unlock this usecase? Robot arms exist?

> That’s a some 9kW lost on a 80kW battery.

*kWh

Using the right units is important.

I doubt a $15k econobox ev is going to support 1.5MW charging.

Also, I think you are underestimating the sheer size and desolate spreaded-outness of Australia.

Is it legal to advertise cigarettes in the US?

Every one must slow down except them, of course.

See my comment elsewhere in this thread, but you are blowing my mind. I'm not from the US and I did not realize that renting a mobile device was actually this common. I'm one of the lucky 10,000 today, thanks!

I honestly did not know this was a thing until today. I'm not from the US.

Where I'm from, it is common to finance a phone as part of a mobile contract: your monthly payment includes a device payment and the network subscription cost. Typically 24 months, but in recent years I've seen 36 month contracts as well. But at the end of the term the device is yours outright. No further down payments needed. Usually the device payment is effectively 0% APR over the 2 years, so it's a pretty lucrative deal. I've purchased all my phones this way over the past 20 years.

Leasing, as in long term renting, required to give it back after the lease period, in near perfect condition, or face a penalty?

Or financing, paying it off over a fixed term, after which you own it outright?

The latter, I understand. And I'm also familiar with it.

But the former, I find hard to believe. Although, I'm not from the US. Are you telling me people rented nokia bricks in the aughts?

The moment apple ship MacOS on their iPads, sales for their macbooks will all but collapse.

If leasing a fucking phone isn't a sign of the times then I don't know what is.

Shutup and take my money!

/s

MacOS spawned a whole cottage industry of paid software that make up for it's deficiencies.

> Apple does not have a psyops division

This sounds exactly like the kind thing that someone running a psyop for Apple would say.

Flock is not CCTV though. There's nothing 'closed circuit' about it at all, and that's the problem.

Ireland nd UK are doing fine and we're farther north than most Canadian cities.

Do you have personal success using powerline ethernet? I tried it once and it was utter shit.

A very expensive "up to 1000mbps" kit maxed out at ~200 when both devices were plugged into the same outlet. It just got worse with distance.

Even more fun anecdote, barely related.

In a recent South Africa vs England rugby match, an accusation of racism was levied against an SA player because he directed the phrase "white cunt" to one of the English players.

If Afrikaans, the word "kant" (pronounced 'cunt') means "side". "Wit" is "white".

So when he said "wit kant" he really meant "white side". England traditionally wears white livery, South Africa wears green. So it was the "wit kant" vs the "groen kant".

Hilarity and much confusion ensued for a while after that accusation!

"If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit!"

I knew I read a book about this once! Thanks for the reminder. Pretty riveting story as I recall it now.

It's the same way how every AI generated poster looks exactly the same. As if there is a single underlying prompt that describes the template of the poster/long-form article, and it does not dare deviate from that.

In Xbox's defence, pretty seamless. I am signed into my xbox account, which is a Microsoft account. When launcing a game all that account auth bullshit is taken care of.

My wife has her own account, and our accounts are bound to our controllers. When you press the xbox button you are immediately signed into your profile, and it's instant. When she launches a game with her controller, she sees her saves and vice versa for me. With Baldur's Gate 3 it even keeps all her mods separate from my mod-free setup.

Some game publishers (activision, ubisoft et al) require their own accounts, and that's usually also taken care of automatically. The xbox goes and sets up a profile on that publisher's system on first game launch.

How can you put Ryanair and BMW in the same category?

Ryanair's whole shtick is "we'll treat you like cattle in a truck, and you'll be grateful you only paid €20 for the experience". I feel that anyone who is outraged by their nickel-and-diming doesn't really understand what Ryanair is about.

If I paid €200 for a flight from Dublin to Amsterdam, and they forced me to watch ads on the seatback screen and charged me to use the loo, then I'll be rightfully upset. But €50 for Ryanair? Where do I sign up for the €20 standing-only tickets?

Half the time? What is it then the other half of the time?

When I search for a place on google, and I click on the 'directions' button, I'm taken to maps, ready start navigation. I'm in Ireland.

What's your experience?

There was an old version of firmware that would brick the thunderbolt port. Something about every connect/disconnect cycle would write tons to the port's eeprom eventually bricking it.

I don't think there is a fix, it's more a case of if your T480 still works, get a newer firmware installed asap.