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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BEV/Hybrids have been around a while, there’s places you can buy individual cells when they die and it’s pretty easy to replace them. As time goes by, it should become no harder than going to the auto parts store like we do with regular ICEs. Unless they do shady stuff like making the batteries OEM only, like how Apple do with their batteries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Start selling cheaper ones. The day a sub $20,000 EV comes along that can do more than 150 miles on a charge you will all shut up and take my money. The Leaf and Bolt are close, can we get something a little cheaper, pretty please?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on them, all the files I put on there are encrypted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is that $35 Apple Watch real? How misleading TikTok influencer videos could be the next big headache in e-commerce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  OK I refuse to read the article because it’s behind a paywall, but I can tell you it’s 100% fake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube fumbles NFL Sunday Ticket streaming | "You pay all this money for streaming services…"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad I didn’t pay for it, the price is just ridiculous anyway. I use the, ahem, free sites that exist all over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new CGP Grey video, try to keep spoilers out of the comments for this one.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t win, but fun experiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X tests charging new users $1 to tweet, retweet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People still use Twitter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Still works with Windows 10 keys, however. Makes sense since Windows 8 and early are EOL now. Also, you don’t have to activate Windows if you don’t want to, it’ll just bug you occasionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No cable modems where I lived. I worked for an ISP and we’d order fire alarm circuits then just put DSL routers on them instead. Up to 2Mbit speeds depending on how far from the exchange you lived, I was only able to get 512Kbit reliably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of people had broadband, I was one of the first to get it in 1998. A whole 512Kbit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No motion sickness, but most VR games make me disorientated after a while and I just don’t enjoy them very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right now it’s an idea, but Musk’s ideas tend to become reality more often than not. I already stopped Twitter, they do this I’ll be gone for good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Says He Might Put X/Twitter Behind A Paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care what he does with it at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple 15 relegated to USB 2.0 unless you buy the Pro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The only people who need the USB 3 transfer speeds are going to be Pro users. For everyone else, it doesn’t matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Only thing I used it for was when older versions of Notepad couldn’t handle larger text files. Now it can. So, no loss to me. Notepad going away would suck, that does at least get occasional use although Notepad++ is far superior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are on a trip to disaster. Trust me, I do this for a living. One day you’re going to have a horrible surprise. I once had a guy get fired right there on a support call with me, he lost years worth of data because he wasn’t following good archival processes.

  For consumer stuff:

  1. Buy a cheap NAS, plenty out there. Even one with just two drives is better than nothing (that’s what I do). Splurge and get one that does RAID-5, you’ll thank me one day. 1a. A cheaper, but less effective option, just buy two drives and see if your BIOS supports RAID (most modern motherboards do). If not, well you can do it in you OS too, but hardware RAID is always better.
  2. Subscribe to a service like Google Drive, or One Drive, or Dropbox, or whatever you prefer. If you’re uncomfortable about putting stuff in the cloud then encrypt it first (VeraCrypt, GPG4Win, Password protected ZIP files even).

  If you are running a business, definitely go with a good NAS, AND buy a tape library and get into a routine of rotating out the tapes and storing them off site (tapes are no use to you if your building get broken into, or burns down). And, use cloud storage too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google search is over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Google gave me a list of countries as the top hit. Bing did the same. Whoever wrote this article has an agenda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally? It’s cost more than cable in my area for some time now. I gave up on pirating almost completely when it was just Netflix and Hulu. Now every single network has their own streaming service and they all charge a premium… sorry guys, back to flying the Jolly Roger for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Whole bunch of low cost 8-bit machines in that era, the Dragon 32, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC ranges to name but a few. Of course we must also mention the BBC Micro, was not low cost but every school had one if you grew up in the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Only had BBCs”. The best 8-bit computer of their generation? ONLY had a BBC? You have any idea how lucky we were growing up with those amazing machines in the 80s-90s? I owe my whole career to the BBC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Shut up and take my money!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I do, wonderful machine. You could get a 16K RAM pack (most did) that made a huge different. Problem is, if an ant sneezed in the next town over it’d wobble loose and the machine would crash. A dab of Blu-Tac was just the ticket.

  The ZX Spectrum came out 2 years later and was far more capable, and reasonably priced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was quoted £450 for 16MB in 1993. Approximately double that now with inflation. I was a 15 year old with a part time paper route, no way I’d ever afford that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why the ZX Spectrum was so important, in 1982 it cost £125 for the 16K model (£469 or so now). That’s within the reach of many consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Footage Shows Tesla On Autopilot Crashing Into Police Car After Alerting Driver 150 Times⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  150 more warnings than a regular car would give, ultimately it’s the driver’s fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on them, last phone I bought from them was in 1999. Still have it somewhere. Haven’t used it since 2000 or so of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s still headers and it’s fairly trivial to block using packet analysis. Using other protocols such as SSH tunneling may work (until they try to ban that I suppose). There’s always way around these kind of blocks, it’s a cat and mouse game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “I trusted all my important data to a single point of failure and now I’m screwed”.

  So, yes, I respect that SanDisk’s drive may have a manufacturing defect and that sucks but they have to share the blame for this. Seriously, drive mirroring is a thing and every single OS supports it out of the box. A proper RAID system is a thing and even better. Adding duplicate storage, be it cloud, another NAS or backing up to tape is even better still. It’s the 21st century, you should know that by now if your literal job is based on storing data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had zero compatibility issues with Firefox in the last, oh, 5 years? It was an issue a long time ago but not these days. If you absolutely, 100% must use a Chromium engine then Vivaldi isn’t too bad, but do your own research on their organization and see if it’s right for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped using Brave over the whole BAT thing, it just felt shady and weird. This article just validated my decision even more. Happy to be back with Firefox, even though Mozilla has its own issues.