I’ve got an old Motorola AMPS phone around somewhere that has a charging cradle that will fit either the whole phone or the battery on its own. Most commercial two way radios still work like that, I wish they would still make phones like that too.

The dual laptop batteries are handy too. I’ve got a Thinkpad T480 and it can hot swap the external battery. The high capacity battery lasts so long that you rarely need to swap it, but if you use the slim batteries, you will need a couple to get through a whole day. Unfortunately, that’s the last Thinkpad model that can hot swap batteries.

You can still get it from F-Droid. It’s a much better app store anyways. The google play store is mostly full of ad filled crap.

The only reason to have such fast internet at home is for torrents. Nothing else will saturate 10G, even with several people using it.

They shouldn’t have made it so bloated then. The 2003 version opened fairly quickly, even on a late 90’s computer.

Are there any good log monitoring programs that will automatically blacklist the IP of any crawler that ignores robots.txt?

If you want to tinker with it, stay away from that DJI crap and build your own. Then you can get more than a flight or two without something burning up.

That battery is way too small. I prefer to have a 100WH battery. It definitely needs a couple more USB ports and an SD card reader.

That’s pretty impressive, but if they can’t figure out how to mass produce them cost effectively, then it’s pointless. Most of these battery breakthroughs never make it out of the lab.

Does anyone still use it? I just use markdown if I want basic formatting, otherwise I use Libreoffice.

Just buy a small, industrial CT scanner and scan your device. Compare the results to a device that you know hasn’t been tampered with.

AI image upscaleing isn’t something I would associate with being energy efficient or fast. I wonder how that’s supposed to work?

I’m surprised they didn’t put a time limit on the storage since they are not a file hosting platform.

Firefox currently has no plans to drop support for manifest V2. It also supports the WebRequest API in V3, so ad blocking would continue to work if they do discontinue V2.

If you suspect it has been damaged, you should try to get a replacement. Considering what has been happening with them, I would suspect damage if there were stability issues in Prime95.

If you do get a replacement, don’t use it until the microcode has been updated in your BIOS.

Some Lemmy instances disallow indexing in robots.txt, however indexers can choose to ignore that and actually blocking them takes a lot more effort.

It sounds like they need to do a lot more work to increase the cycle life.

Boeing could supply virtual floppy drives that take USB drives or SD cards if they wanted to. I’m sure they don’t want to spend the money getting one certified until they are forced to though.

Floppy disks will continue working fine until the supply of new old stock disks runs out or becomes unreliable.

Of course it’s done intentionally so you have to buy a new motherboard. Stick with AMD if you want to be able to upgrade your CPU.

I’ve never had any issues with the speed or storage capacity of the SIM card in any of my phones.

What benefit will the average user see from a faster SIM card?

They need to mandate that the laptop USB C connectors be located on a user replaceable daughterboard. They are easy to break and hard to replace. Sending a motherboard to the landfill because of a broken charge connector should be unacceptable.

People could always switch to a privacy friendly web browser.

Will the chip actually last that long though? I would have expected a ceramic package with gold plated leads, not a plastic SOP-8.

It also makes the game look worse since you need to run it in 720p to get a playable frame rate, which requires non integer scaling on a 1080p screen. They could have gone with a 120Hz 720p OLED screen with variable refresh rate if they wanted a better screen than the Steam Deck for marketing reasons.

Why do they keep putting 1080p screens in the Steam Deck clones when they don’t have enough GPU power to run most games in 1080p?

Batteries have separate C ratings for charge and discharge.

Most cloud providers have a way to set limits. Make sure you learn how to set appropriate limits to avoid unexpected bills.

4K bluray can be up to 144 mbps, so that’s reasonable.

4K is nice for a large computer monitor if you want to replace a multi monitor setup with a single monitor. It needs to be 40+ inches, unfortunately there are not many monitors like that available.

Of course it doesn’t support band 71, which is the only 5G band I can get at home.

If only there were still a backup like LORAN. It wasn’t as accurate as GPS, but it would still get you to your destination.
VOR and NDB stations keep getting decommissioned as well.

I doubt they would be reliable enough for a RAID array. It would be much better to use m.2 drives.

Windows 11 looks like a crappy knockoff of KDE with all the good bits removed and replaced with spyware and adware.

Good, Google has enough access to everyone’s data already. Nobody needs to willingly give them even more access by routing all of their traffic through a Google server.

I wouldn’t spend $80 for a game, let alone a useless DLC.

It’s a cost that wouldn’t be needed if they would let us host our own servers.

A large portion of the cost of those games was the mask ROM that had to be manufactured for each release.

There was no patches or updates. If there was an issue, then your very expensive mask is trash and a new one has to be made, which also significantly delays the release. The games had to be released in a finished and fully working state. A lot more work had to go into testing before release.

Development for old consoles was also much harder. You had to write very well optimized code to get it to run on the limited hardware that was available.

I would never pay that much for a game. I just wait a couple of years and buy them when they go on sale for under $20. I’m not going to pay a premium just to be a beta tester.

Bluetooth headphones are unusable for videos and games if they only support high latency codecs.

It doesn’t support 5G and 3GB of RAM is not very future proof.

There are trace amounts of precious metals mixed in with a lot of other crap. It’s possible to recover them, but nobody is going to do that if recovery costs more than the metals are worth.