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onlingyding··on Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Reliability Rankings
All power to you but I know if the choice was between a Bosch and a Samsung washing machine, it would be the Bosch one every time. Too many gimmicks, poorly designed software and cheap plastic pieces.
onlingyding··on I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock
The stock Android alarm clock app has Spotify support built into it. I honest can't see a use for this in the slightest.
onlingyding··on Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
While it might not be as 'smart' as some other ones out there. The Nokia/Withings Charge HR has sleep tracking, heart rate tracking, vibrates and does notifications too. The battery easily lasts a month sometimes longer.

It also looks like an actual adults watch too.

onlingyding··on London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third
I don't know how true this is but I've heard the older diesels (2000 era) actually had lower NOx emissions than the newer models due to them running at lower temperatures as they weren't trying to hit newer regulations on particulate emissions.

This also then led to newer models emitting finer particulate which was more easily picked up by the wind and could travel into the lungs more easily instead of denser particulate which fell to the roadside.

onlingyding··on The US nuclear forces’ messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks
Old computers don't have whole computers built into the motherboards running inaccessible operating systems that can't be switched off.
onlingyding··on United Kingdom Budget Visualization
There was however a significant amount of misinformation coming from the leave campaign which are hard to ignore and given our current situation are fairly relevant. For example it was repeatedly stated that a vote to leave didn't mean a vote to leave the single market or that Turkey was joining the EU which will 'flood' the UK with Turkish immigrants.

The leave campaign was extremely successful because it targeted different groups of interests with different messages. That's why none of those different interests can now agree on the final outcome.

If I was you I'd also be slightly dubious about the dark money behind all of the pro Brexit 'grassroots' campaign groups.

onlingyding··on Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS
I don't think that's true anymore. I've blocked my Chromecasts accessing Google's DNS servers and then just fall back to the ones from DHCP.
onlingyding··on Pi-Hole 4.3.2
I haven't attempted that setup however I've got a Nginx server acting as a reverse proxy which implements DNS-over-TLS.

Android 9 has support for custom private DNS servers so I just point it to my home IP and works great, no adverts when I'm out of the house.

onlingyding··on Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure
Well they'll also have to put up with 30 miles of lorries as ports are overrun. I'm sure through all the chaos though, people won't connect the dots.
onlingyding··on A $5,600 Electric Makeover for Old Diesel Cars
An electric motor, you'll need something to run the power steering pump too.