Rule of thumb when buying electronics (or anything for that matter) is buy it cheap, buy it twice.

Nervously looks at the 10€/TB refurbished drives that just arrived

Imo untested always means dead. Especially when it is something easy to test - like a laptop

Most of the gold’s price comes from it being used in jewelry and as an investment. Less than 7% of gold is used by the tech industry

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-industry-sector-share/

There should also be a 30sth page doc about how the e-voting machines are set up, configured and secured somewhere. But it is in Estonian and I can’t be arsed to find it now

Everyone in Estonia has to have an ID card, which contains the RSA keys and x.509 certs for giving digital signatures.

You were doing the God’s work

Ah, sorry, I misread your comment. I understood it as you’ll never need a smart temp control as a static temperature is always correct.

Audio quality reduction might not be noticeable to the average user, as long as they don’t use the mic

FM on a phone is a banger. I used to have an old Nokia with a FM transmitter as well.

To be honest, the FM transmitter was more reliable and easier to set up on a random car with no aux than Bluetooth was.

SD cards are awesome, because a high quality 256GB SD card costs about $30, while a 256GB memory upgrade is at least $100 with no option to transfer when you get a new phone.

Cloud storage is pretty expensive and only as fast as your internet speed is, so for a lot of people that is not really that feasible. Especially considering that some have data caps as well.

3.5mm jack is just more comfortable to use for a lot of people, especially when they have multiple source devices and want to switch between them. I have BT headphones and it is way easier and more reliable to just replug the wire than to go through the BT disconnect reconnect dance.

The issue with dongles is that you’ll have to find the correct aux dongle, some phones support analog passthrough, others require active dongles and so on

If you have a home office or someone is at home 24/7, then yes. Otherwise it would make sense to reduce the heating/cooling of the house when no one is home and setting the correct temp again when people are about to get back. Saves quite a few bucks.

Wtf is a smart scale?

¿Whaaat?

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Most of Protonvpn addresses seem to not be in those lists usually. I haven’t had any issues with anime sites, Netflix etc

That doesn’t mean it will continue to be the case, it might just also be that I have gotten lucky so far

When I set up my account, then during setup they asked if I wanted to get email notifications about their products and later it is also available and clearly marked in the account settings. I’d assume that if I turned those setting off, I’d stop getting those emails.

That being said, I have gotten 8 notifications from them over the last 3 months. I have all newsletters and promotional content enabled. This isn’t much imo

Is it though? I have 2 different USB adapters that work perfectly out of the box for my Windows, Ubuntu and Android devices, but my 2016 mac pro just kernel panicked every time I used either one of them.

And very recently I got my M1 to shit the bed by having a HDMI display connected to the HDMI port.

What I meant by “turned pink” is that the display showed only bright pink color and the mac display had a single corrupted line of pixels on it.

Yup. Yesterday my mac turned my external display pink. The monitor was connected directly to the HDMI socket on the M1.

Tell me a more iconic duo than external devices and a panicking mac.

I mean, it is?

I hope all Erasmus trips in the next year are funded by Apple