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mavhc··on Pixel 4a battery update due to overheating risk, per Australian 'recall' notice
A 4.5 year old phone has battery problems? And they give you money for a phone you've probably replaced already? Seems like a great ecosystem
mavhc··on Pixel 4a battery update due to overheating risk, per Australian 'recall' notice
I would have picked the 50 local currency units if they said the 100 was only a phone discount, not a total store discount, sigh
mavhc··on Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
because there's a second manual lever that does work without power
mavhc··on Google begins testing AI-only search results
Brave search seems the least censored
mavhc··on Windows NT for GameCube/Wii
NT was designed to be CPU and OS level API independent, of course mainly being used with closed source software meant hardly anything supported non x86 CPUs, and if you wanted Unix you could just run Linux by then
mavhc··on Everything Is Chrome (2023)
Google did try letting you pay to not see ads, guess not enough people did it as they killed the programme
mavhc··on How the U.K. broke its own economy
Are you including energy usage that's currently not electricity but should be in the future?

https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/Tesla-Master-Plan-Part-3.pdf suggests 240 TWh of storage is required, but also that that's a realistic target

mavhc··on Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked
Why do you hate your lungs?
mavhc··on Everything Is Chrome (2023)
imagine the horror of being shown ads you find useful
mavhc··on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
So brakes not being used, isn't that a problem with all EVs?
mavhc··on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
And Tesla only failed at 12%? So it's almost twice as good as average?

What did they fail on is the next question? Brake discs not being used because regen is a thing it seems

mavhc··on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
https://www.whatcar.com/news/most-reliable-cars/n27337 and here the Model Y is in the top 10 most reliable.

It's as if all these news articles are useless...

Tesla sales down as new Model Y being released, big surprise

mavhc··on Why aren't we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains?
Don't set fire to your brain then, problem solved.
mavhc··on Why aren't we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains?
Can we blame phones instead so we can keep selling our McBurgers?
mavhc··on AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
Is their job to reduce private data to the minimum needed, or the maximum allowed?
mavhc··on Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game
Imagine if security software did that, but also ran on boot and took down a million critical machines
mavhc··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
If you're expecting a week's worth of work from them you'd better pay them for their time, if they turn up.
mavhc··on Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions
I rarely see RSS buttons on websites any more, rarely does a podcast link to an RSS feed
mavhc··on LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting
Now it has working auto update they should get loads more downloads
mavhc··on I do not want AI to "polish" me
The old human:

1. Born into plague 2. Never learns maths or writing 3. Nor spelling 4. Half the time your life ends before childhood does 5. Nothing happens in your life

mavhc··on Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect
However they applied it to all phones of that model, not just ones with degraded batteries
mavhc··on Starship Flight 7
Given that a) most human rated rockets have had 0 flights before use, and b) I'd expect each starship to have at least 10 flights, and at least 100 in total without mishap before launching, the statistics should be good
mavhc··on In the belly of the MrBeast
Don't use the homepage, use the subscriptions page
mavhc··on IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine
Quassel is basically self hosted irccloud, I use it on 5 computers, Windows, Linux and Android, it's great
mavhc··on 60 Years of Spaceflight Patches
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385393 When the only copy of your computer is 15 billion miles away, and the documentation is OCR'd 50 year old printouts, and no one recorded what was patched when
mavhc··on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force
Do you assume laws cannot be updated?
mavhc··on How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click
They'd have to know your password, and get you to click your 2FA accept button, that's 2 factors still
mavhc··on ' first' open-source ARMv9 motherboard surfaces – Radxa Orion O6
Can't see the source
mavhc··on How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click
Most people wouldn't realise they can't recover their TOTP codes. But the hacker would still need to know your password surely
mavhc··on A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles
If I'm the only person going from/to somewhere having a large public transport vehicle take me is wasteful
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