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brokenodo··on Regarding the eSIM-only iPhone 14 models in the U.S.
Travel SIMs are great but so are options. One issue with outfits like Airalo is they often give you an eSIM from a random third country carrier that happens to have a cheap roaming agreement in the country you are in, resulting in your data being routed around the world and 300ms+ pings.
brokenodo··on Apple Announces iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus
Only the US models lack a physical sim tray.
brokenodo··on Ask HN: If I enter account or order in a phone tree, why am I asked again?
I also had the displeasure of working for Comcast in phone support before I went back to school and this is definitely part of the reason.

Multiple completely different decrepit and kafkaesque billing systems because they were too lazy or incompetent to properly migrate customers over to a unified modern one. IMO, one of the reasons Comcast has had notoriously bad customer support is because their internal systems were so complicated that even reps who wanted to help might have just given up and told you they fixed the issue to get you off the phone.

brokenodo··on Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU
My 3170Ti will create 512x512 image in about 5-6 seconds with 50 inference steps
brokenodo··on Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?
Under no circumstance would I apply to any job that required me to record videos of myself as part of the application process.

I’m curious how many people feel the same way.

brokenodo··on Royal Caribbean to use SpaceX's Starlink to provide internet onboard their fleet
I haven’t seen the specific announcement this thread is referring to, but it sounds like it will essentially be an extension of the free inflight messaging T-Mobile has long offered on Wi-Fi equipped flights, except that it will work on flights without Wi-Fi. Extremely low bandwidth and limited to only messaging apps, but an extension of a service they already offer.
brokenodo··on What would a “good” WebMD look like?
I’m honestly blown away by the Merck Manuals! How can this resource be so comprehensive and clear yet seemingly never come up in topical searches?

It seems like the most comparable medical version to Cornell’s Legal Information Institute. https://www.law.cornell.edu/

brokenodo··on Subscriptions are out, refills are in
This entire comment is waxing poetic about an imagined loophole that almost no one is actually relying on. If your credit card charge doesn’t go through, nearly every consumer oriented digital subscription simply revokes your access to the product. Neither side has any obligation to continue doing anything. There is no debt to collect on because nothing was delivered. There is no contract that was breached because the purchaser is not obligated to subscribe to future services.
brokenodo··on SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas
FWIW, 5G isn’t really to “thank” for increased range. LTE was widely deployed on the 700Mhz band in the early 2010s and line of sight range could easily exceed 10 miles for useable data.
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