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  • I wouldn't say gas stations have the same frequency of problems honestly. 19 times out of 20, my gas is dispensed without issue. And I'm able to buy it without joining a program or going out of my way. Electric charging is not yet that convenient, and it should be.

  • When I bought my Volt 10 years ago, I knew more about the car than any of the dealer sales people. I doubt the situation has changed much. That being said, I would hesitate to recommend an EV to a non technically inclined person, because the charging situation is still rough even in CA. Stations are often broken, or the billing doesn't work, or they are in inconvenient areas. Gas is still the idiot proof option. We will know we're really in the future when you can go to most grocery stores or strip mall and charge with tap to pay (no stupid app to pre-configure). There has to be 95% reliability. Right now I'd say about 1/5 of stations I visit have something wrong with them in terms of no internet connection for billing, slow charging, illegible UV-damaged screen, or just outright broken hardware. https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/nema-14-50-mobile-charger-lucid-air

  • There has been no tablet UI for Firefox on Android since the Fenix update 4 years ago. It's just the phone UI stretched out. It's a big bummer

  • This is also why languages like R and Python are supplanting SPSS and Matlab. Open source is just better in some ways, particularly once it gets over the initial usability barrier, which Jellyfin seems to now be achieving.

  • It handles all the dynamic DNS stuff out of the box for remote access. Took me a while to figure that out for Jellyfin (as opposed to VPN tunnel)

  • There is barely any full-time staff left. It is a shadow of its former self

  • Yeah, I wouldn't take him as a completely reliable narrator, but still an interesting inside perspective

  • It's had this for a few years. Microsoft has its Office Lens both as a freestanding app, and built in to the combined Office Android app. Adobe has a pretty good scanning app too, though I've moved away from Adobe anything. All of these companies are chasing after corporate clients who might already have the app installed as part of their enterprise subscription. Probably helps with locking in if employees are used to opening the Drive app for their scanning, as opposed to a freestanding app.

  • Every billboard in SF is just these words shuffled

  • The one I like most is Darq. Allows me to force some apps to use dark mode which wouldn't otherwise. I also use SD Maid SE from F-droid, which allows me to auto-clean app storage without having to have accessibility loop through the settings. Pretty useful!

  • Turbotax has entered the chat. Turbotax has DMed your senator a couple hundred thousand to make sure you will never be able to use this

  • I give it 2 years til they sell off or kill fitbit entirely

  • Yet again, Google seems to be using security as an excuse to expand control over their platform. Funny how they consistently pursue the security changes which allow them to lock down their ecosystem