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I have a Brother color laser printer and it’s great. Just as reliable as my B&W Brother laser printer. I don’t use it to print photographs, though - I assume your recommendation is more for people who need photo quality color?

Ah, so maybe the controller is overheating and unable to properly respond?

I use this m.2 adapter; the outer shell functions as a heat sink: https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Type-C-Tool-Free-Enclosure-EC-SNVE/dp/B08RVC6F9Y/

What kind of adapter are you using?

It sounds to me like you have a bad drive. I have several m.2 drives and they all run hot to the touch, but none of them regularly (if ever) lose data.

What drive are you using? Have you run any diagnostics on it to see if it’s failing? Are only new files disappearing?

If you just want to address the heat issue, have you tried a heat sink? If you already have one make sure you’ve taken off the plastic wrap or anything else that could be reducing contact with the drive.

Per https://www.imore.com/how-law-enforcement-uses-graykey-devices-access-locked-iphones it appears that they aren’t able to bypass your password and have to brute-force it instead. It’s unclear if they can bypass biometric auth if that’s an accepted auth method.

So, if you’re concerned about this sort of exploit, make sure to use a password with a high level of entropy and that you hold down the power and volume up buttons (or however you disable biometric auth on your device) before handing your phone to a LEO.

Google Music had DRM free downloads, so the DRM wasn’t the problem - it was that they didn’t download them before Google Music was shuttered.

I can’t think of any reason why it would be inadvisable to cut off billing to an MMO subscription that was connected to a privacy.com card. Is there any basis for your concern? Do you know of someone who had “prevented Blizzard from billing them for WoW” on their credit report?

I can’t say I’ve ever had an MMO subscription - or any prepaid account, for that matter - show up on my credit report. Or that I know anyone who has. Even prepaid credit cards don’t show up on your credit report.

If a game, site, or app subscription fails to bill, the recourse the provider has is to cease providing the service. Standard industry practice is to suspend service and send out a notice, attempt re-billing a couple times, and to them consider the subscription canceled.

A debt can show up on your credit report, even if it’s not associated with a loan or line of credit… But with a prepaid account, like an MMO subscription, you’re never extended credit and you never incur a debt. The exception would be if you signed a contract for your prepaid account stating that you’d maintain it for a certain amount of time (common with phone plans, internet plans, leases, some shady gym memberships, etc.) or you caused damages to the provider. Without such an agreement, there are no damages from just causing them to be unable to continue billing your credit card. If you were paying by check or disputed an already posted payment, that would be different - but neither of those are relevant here.

The Steam Deck doesn’t have Thunderbolt, but rather a USB-3 Gen 2 port. As such, a Thunderbolt dock that isn’t optimized for USB-C might cause issues.

For example, the CalDigit TS3 Plus is a great Thunderbolt dock, but it is not compatible with USB-C only computers like the Steam Deck. The TS4, on the other hand, is compatible with both. I figured this out when I tried plugging my Steam Deck into the TS3 - charging works, but nothing else does - and the fact that the TS4 is compatible with it was part of how I justified the purchase. To be clear, nobody should buy the TS4 as a dock just for their Steam Deck, but if they’re considering the two for their laptop, knowing one’s compatible with the Steam Deck and one isn’t might help them make a decision.

If you’re looking for a dock primarily for your Steam Deck, looking for a USB-C dock will also help you find much cheaper docks than looking for a Thunderbolt dock will.

Easy solution if you only have one SSD: instead of installing Windows as your second OS, install a different Linux distro.

Donating a 10th of your net worth in less than a year is huge. And it only offsets her taxes by as much as she donated. Best case scenario is she sold stocks, made a profit of $3.8 billion or less, and then didn’t pay any income taxes on those stocks. But either she was awarded those stocks and taxes would have been paid taxes when she received them (meaning, even if she didn’t pay the taxes herself, that she would have less total money now) or she bought them cheap and sold high, meaning more of the total amount is profit.

So even if she didn’t get taxed on the $200k she lived on that year, taxes for that $200k still would have been paid on the assets already.

The only exception for this is basically for income-like money that is in the lower tax brackets, which is an advantage that most people have and that impacts lower-income people a lot more in terms of total percentage of taxes paid.

If every billionaire donated 10% of their net worth each year to worthy causes, we’d be in a much better place. Not as good a place as if we didn’t have billionaires in the first place, but that’s not because of the billionaires - it’s because of the system that allows them to exist in the first place.

She’s also pledged to donate a full 50% of her net worth. That’s far more than she could ever benefit from in tax breaks.

I was curious if this supported cross save with the existing game and if it was also going to be launching on Android. Looks like both answers are “No.”

From Supergiant Games’s blog post:

Does Hades on iOS support Cloud Saves and Achievements?

Yes and yes. Please note, however, that due to a variety of technical constraints, automatic save transfers (i.e., cross-saves) with any existing version of Hades** **are not supported.

Is Hades also coming to Android devices?

We appreciate the interest though we have no plans for additional versions of Hades at this time.

This comment reads like it was written by someone who has never designed a mushroom identification app.

Many edible mushrooms have poisonous look-alikes, so your approach would be likely to misidentify those poisonous look-alikes - a potentially deadly mistake.

For example - from https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/types-of-edible-mushrooms-their-poisonous-look-alikes

Poisonous Morel Mushroom Look-alikes:

• A common fungus, the false morel is almost the spitting image of its edible cousin except it is not hollow inside and contains cottony material.
• Big red is similar except it has reddish tones and the cap is more brain-like.
• Wrinkled thimble cap truly looks like a morel except its wrinkled cap hangs over the stem.
• Bell morel is smaller and the cap, although similar, is much less textured and it has a cottony interior.

It would be easy to train an ML model to confidently identify any of those as morels if you only trained on morels.

The idea is to train on both so it’s less likely to mistake a poisonous mushroom for an edible one, and to then “hedge” your bet anyway, by always presenting the poisonous look-alikes first.

The most dangerous scenario with this app is also the most useful - a user who has some training in mushroom identification uses the app as a quick way to look up a mushroom they think is a particular edible mushroom, notes that the mushroom they think it is is within the list, then reviews the list of poisonous look-alikes, and then applies their training to rule out those look-alikes. Finally they confirm that they cannot rule out the edible mushroom.

The risks here are that

1. the user’s training is lacking and that they ruled out a poisonous mushroom that the app suggested, or
2. the app didn’t include the particular poisonous mushroom in the first place and the user was thus unable to consider it.

Identifying mushrooms with an ML-based algorithm is a fine idea if you properly design the application to leverage that. As a hedgehog, this is what I would do:

1. Train my model on a variety of mushrooms, particularly poisonous ones.
2. When testing the model, test as many mushrooms as possible and take note of what’s frequently mis-identified.
3. When testing the model, make sure to get a variety of different kinds of lighting.
4. In addition to the mis-identifications noted while testing the app, maintain a list of commonly misidentified mushrooms - like the hedgehog mushroom and its counterparts - particularly the ones a forager should be most concerned with (meaning the most poisonous ones).
5. When identifying a mushroom to the user, err on the side of calling it a poisonous mushroom. Consider providing a list of possible matches, with the worst case scenario ones up top.
6. Include pictures and other information about the mushrooms, as well as regional mushroom lookups for mushrooms that weren’t included.
7. Don’t include text like “99% confident that this is a hedgehog mushroom” when the 99% figure is an output from your ML model. I know we said earlier to make sure to do a ton of testing and I’m sure you think you did, but you didn’t do enough to be able to say that. At best, reduce your certainty by 25%, then divide that number between the identified mushroom and the lookalikes, making sure to give extra weight to the most poisonous ones. So that 99% certainty becomes at most a more realistic 38% chance that it’s the poisonous lookalike and 37% chance that it’s whatever was identified in the first place.

You might say that this app would be useless for determining if a mushroom is safe to eat, and I agree, but it’s also a better approach than any of the existing apps out there. If you need to use an app to determine if a wild mushroom is safe to eat then the answer is simple: it isn’t. C’mon, I’m a hedgehog and even I know that.

100%. I got the Brother HL-2370DW and it served me well, but it’s a black-and-white laser printer and sometimes I needed to print in color. I got fed up dealing with inkjet printers so I got the Brother HL-3270CDW. It’s great at printing off props and visual aids for my weekly tabletop game and so on.

It’s not technically “perfect” - sometimes a Mac will fail to print to them wirelessly and say they printed fine (and that seems to be an issue on the Mac side) and I think we average maybe one paper jam per year - but it’s as close to perfect as I’ve ever gotten with a printer.

If it’s one “account” then it likely has only one password.

You posted the article - did you not also read it? The article talks about that factor, among others.

The tech I’m talking about isn’t related to speed limits, but zones where pedestrians, particularly children, are much more likely to be in the street.

when you exceed the speed limit the car automatically notifies the government so they can find you.

I assume you meant “fine”; regardless, why is there a need for that in order to enable the second piece?

You can opt-in to have the car automatically control you top speed so you don't get fined.

Change that to “You can enable a feature that will automatically reduce your set cruising speed (or, if you’re not using cruise control at that point, give you tactile feedback on the accelerator foot pedal) when you enter an area where pedestrians are in the street or are expected to be in the street (i.e., there’s a cross walk up ahead and a pedestrian has triggered it).” Or, to summarize similar to what you said: “You can have the car automatically reduce your speed when necessary so you don’t kill people.”

Makes sense, and is aligned with the “reduced barrier to entry” theory posited by another commenter. Just to be clear, though, what I read (though very imperfect stat-wise) suggests that e-bikes are less prone to accidents, not more.

If ebikes are disproportionately represented in cycling accidents

To be clear, based off the (incomplete) data I have, it looks like e-bikes are under-represented. 22% of bicycles are e-bikes and e-bikes only make up 10% of cycling accidents.

It’s possible the 10% stat was of total accidents, making it 20% of cycling accidents, meaning they’d be properly represented. Or maybe the stat is from multiple years ago, when e-bikes made up 10% or less of bikes on the road. Or both, in which case they would be over-represented, at which point it would at least make sense to include the stat.

If they are over-represented, what you said would make sense! And at that point, I would think it would be most effective to focus on providing more opportunities for training and education to riders. Maybe they’re already doing that, too, and this is just one more thing they’re exploring.

Are you saying you don’t like Firefox because they don’t like propaganda?