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tdklon Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions

Number of hands on the steering wheel has nothing to do with reaction time.

tdklon Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions

Learning to drive on an automatic is like never learning handwriting and going to typing instead.

tdklon Our World Is Going Full ‘Black Mirror’

> significant parts of Europe fall to far-right authoritarian/strongman parties

If this is about to happen, is only going to be as a reaction to the leftist policy in recent years - similar of Trump/Brexit. Merkel is probably next.

tdklon Our World Is Going Full ‘Black Mirror’

Your idea is just that - your idea.

Term safe space is being perverted by people who can't cope with feelings caused by reality of every day occasions - they're "triggered" for every thing they feel non happiness.

It's a direct result of being pampered from primary schools on with "everybody is a winner" trope. America is specially obsessed with happiness and if somehow someone is causing icky feelings, these people scream about "safe space" - it's what they've been let all these years anyway.

When a YALE student can't debate with a proper tone with the teacher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ZVEVufWFI

tdklon Our World Is Going Full ‘Black Mirror’

Seems that anti-white slurs and calls for a president assassination are a-OK with Twitter though[1]. Hypocrisy much ? But considering who's the generous donator [2], I'm not even shocked.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpi3F0E5ro

[2] http://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twit...

tdklon Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps

I think someone wants to sell some more hands free solutions before the holiday season, so lets use some bogus "evidence" to make choices easier.

Oh look, it just may happen that some tech companies are offering some that aren't selling well !

tdklon Firefox 50.0

Sure, but there's way more distance between Ctrl and PgUp then Ctrl+Tab (I'm taking a classic desktop keyboard in the account now). There are quite some more compact models where PgUp/Down are between the NumLock and - on the right side with the Numpad.

Not to mention you'd need to set the hand from one end of the keyboard to the middle, just to press something you'd otherwise move 1 key.

As I said, it's dumb.

tdklon Firefox 50.0

Which is a pretty dumb shortcut to use one handed and compared to alt+tab.

tdklon Secret Backdoor in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say

Pixel ? The phone which advertises/ships with a data collection assistant ?

tdklon Secret Backdoor in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say

It took me couple hours to get an unlock granted, then the unlock was done in couple minutes - it does require to read the instructions though.

After the unlock:

fastboot flash recovery twrp.img

fastboot boot twrp.img

Same as Nexus.

tdklon Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm?

Dec 5, 2014 8:42 AM

tdklon Diamonds Suck (2006)

Well, they might, but your ring doesn't get you anywhere faster and more comfortable.

Also you don't attract men with a ring, but the other way around...*

*This is not my way of thinking, but it exists out there.

tdklon Diamonds Suck (2006)

Here's a nice show "Adam ruins everything" where the host explains why weddings (and the ring "tradition") is just about marketing started in 20th century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLGsc0M9h0

tdklon Slow email replies cause serious anxiety

That's why I love chatting with Wire, there's no "seen" status by design and can completely avoid this kind of mental BS.

tdklon Reasons not to use Uber

Uber, Airbnb (and more of those modern "community feel good" services) are a slap in the face to all the workers who fought for workers rights and unions.

tdklon Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team

People should ask themselves deeply why this happened and start researching. Because that would be a rational response, not "protesting" with destroying property.

tdklon Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team

> People listen up until the point you prove to them you're not worth listening to.

And they decide that based on emotions, which marks them as not being capable of rational discussions.

tdklon Apple selling a $79 MacBook Pro power adapter without a USB-C cable goes too far

They should just rebrand to Apple Accessories co. at this point, because the level of greed is unprecedented.

tdklon Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation

> showing people only like-minded opinions

Can't wait until they do the opposite in case of free speech then get sued by people who can't deal with their emotions and accept them. Some of them are already out protesting (and some "protesting" with destroying property[1]).

But hey I guess helicopter parenting and after that safe-space culture they grew in can only get you so far.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9lm-T87AQ

tdklon Spotify excessively writing to drive

It's beyond me, why doesn't Spotify do exactly the same thing instead of overusing the VACUUM command.

tdklon Spotify excessively writing to drive

Probably at this point it's time to vote with the wallet and let them know why.

tdklon Trump, our next president, promised to block AT&T/Time Warner merger

Doesn't the decision base on the context ? It's not a black or white world.

tdklon Introducing the Nextcloud Box

Specs are impressive but

> ESPRESSOBin will be launched on Kickstarter in the next few days.

sigh

tdklon Introducing the Nextcloud Box

I wrote that thinking the Pi is included (they wrote "compute board"), but it seems it's just the drive and case.

tdklon 4G LTE protocols used by smartphones can be hacked, researchers found

That's a great point and probably the reason, thanks.

tdklon Introducing the Nextcloud Box

The Nextcloud box consists of the following parts: 1 TB USB3 hard drive from WDLabs Nextcloud case with room for the drive and a compute board

It's worded weird, but I assumed the "compute board" is the PI.

tdklon 4G LTE protocols used by smartphones can be hacked, researchers found

> people would use the word "hacked" a bit more clearly

It gets more clicks though nowadays. Bad password discipline ? It's a hack !

> shoving them over onto 2G networks

Wonder why Android doesn't have a setting to lock on LTE/4G as it does for 3G, maybe in the future when LTE is more widespread.

tdklon After protest, Lenovo adds Linux compatibility to Yoga 900 and 900S laptops

Well if it does work with Windows, then fine, I took it from the article, that there's no chance running Windows or dual booting after switching to it.

> because they don't want to spend money on officially supporting it

I hope this doesn't mean the warranty and support is void after doing this, wouldn't even surprise me.

tdklon Introducing the Nextcloud Box

The price is very competitive, getting all the parts + cables and power brick would cost more.