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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I also had a pebble 2 hr, even had two because I bought another one off eBay (unopened box). 3d printed some buttons and used is for many years until the battery basically died, and the software started to show it's age. Notifications became unreliable and such things, making it kinda pointless.

Still want nothing more than for it to work properly again. It's easy enough to swap the battery, now with the ability to fix the software, there might be a point to it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Personally I've heard very good things about mailbox.org

It can be paid anonymously, if you want. There is no (real) free option, and you didn't mention if you were only looking at those, but your examples are mostly free.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Where does the $2700 price come from?

It was the manufacture price when I purchased it.

I poured ~$1200 to Qualcomm/Lenovo

I'm even more confused now. Did you pay 1200$ or 2400$, and if the second why would you for a laptop with these specs?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Have you actually thought about the first point in your second list, the door? Imagine the machine is running and actually full of water, and turning it off releases the door. Would that really make you happy?

That said, your other points in that category are fair, and honestly incredibly weird. I never had a washer do any of that, but I assume it's to stop your clothes from wrinkling. Are you sure that can't be turned off?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Isn't American Internet also known to be pretty bad already? At least in many places?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Not buying any game that has denuvo is one of the few hard rules I follow

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

70 W is very casual riding, like 15 km/h or so. Anyone actually training (20-25 km/h or simulating anything with hills) will be more in the 100-150 W range. My fridge uses 70 W as an example, and only when actively running, with a duty cycle of 40% or so. Obviously this isn't an industrial fridge or freezer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yea I get that. But installing them is far from the troublesome experience it used to be, isn't it? It's just a one-click installer that generally "just works" these days?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Bit of a weird reason to recommend a distro for me though? Isn't installing drivers (even Nvidia) basically just the same as Windows these days?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Why the recommendation of different distros for different GPU?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

During the time when I grew up in my parents house, the heat failed exactly once, and there the heating system has to be replaced. It didn't fail before, it didn't fail after. It didn't have any short term "hiccups", ever. So to answer your question: Once in like 20 years.

Since I'm living on my own, I've had trouble starting the very old gas stove for the apartment twice, and each time at the beginning of the heating season. Once it's running, it just works. The thing is 60ish years old btw. and technicians refuse to touch it for fear of liability. Basically works fine since I cleaned it properly the last time it refused to start.

Heating should be reliable, and it usually just is. What you're describing is not normal. I don't even know anyone who has recurring issues with their heat.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Yes of course 178° is a lie and marketing B's, just like "1 ms response time". Keeping in mind that 180° is the theoretical limit of that number, as you would view it from behind if you're above it. They are saying "you can see something if you view it from that angle", not "the colors are unchanged at that angle". Again, marketing. There is no regulation or "official" definition on what the technical spec "viewing angle" means for a monitor, so it's whatever the marketing department decides it means.

 

The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

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