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Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW
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I've done that multiple times without issue.
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Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW
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I've done that multiple times without issue.
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New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment - Apple Silicon M1/M2
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Asus OLED laptop screens are as good (or better depending on what your criteria are). If you do print, they are Pantone Validated.
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Radioactivity detected in Fukushima worker's nose
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The Three Gorges dam displaced an approximate 1.3 million people, is of questionable structural integrity because of rushed construction, has had a huge impact on its immediate environment and in the event of a breach endangers 400 million people. While that monstrosity is an outlier, in most instances the construction of a dam will displace a lot of people and carries a sizable risk of breach if the construction isn't carried out properly. Should or shouldn't hydroelectric be considered environmentally friendly?
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EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers
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MS and Google are also continously fined billions by the EU over anti competitve and anti trust practices and, so they don't get particularly preferential treatment.
The issue here is that Apple only allows devs to let users sign up for their service through Apple. Apple also demands 30% of the subscription fee when doing this. They don't allow a developer to have a button in the app that allows to sign up through their website, or to mention that you can sign up through a website.
So the devs only have two options aside from not having an iOS app: Eat the cost and lose 30% of income to Apple, for who it's basically free money. Or charge the extra cost over the normal price to the user.
The EU has rules against this and to do business there you need to comply with those rules. Multi billion companies basically ignore those rules until they get fined, which in most cases is just considered cost of operation. After which they may or may not continue the practice if the fine is lower than what they'd lose by stopping.
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let there be beer
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It depends on what the alcohol is in what it tastes like. Beer is on the bitter side, wine is tangy or sweet, liqueur is sugar with alcohol, and the distilled drinks (whisky, gin, wodka, etc.) can taste different depending on the casks, the water and wether or not they put spices in, what's being fermented (barley, corn, potato) and for how long.
In some drinks you barely notice the alcohol and for others it's like you're drinking paint thinner.
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I made a robot to inspect my HVAC ducts
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Well, it's a gadget to inspect things... You could say it's an Inspector Gadget.
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What's some amazing technology they have in Japan that's very normal to them but would blow our minds here in the US and western world?
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Here in the Netherlands you can pay practically everywhere electronically (even the door to door collectors for charities carry a qrcode in addition to their collection box) , but if you go next door to Germany you'd better bring cash if you want to buy anything.
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Alabama’s supreme court ruled embryos are ‘extrauterine children’. IVF patients are worried
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I believe there's even a description of a kind medicine that a woman gets administered after a rape. According to how it's described it's kind of vile and not without risk, but it's old school birth control.
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Bagger 293, heaviest land excavator in the world
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Basically, yes.
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Apple Vision Pro Could Take Four Generations to Reach 'Ideal Form'
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I think it's more of a "willing to put in a consumer product" issue than that they're unsolved issues. Other brands don't have the automatic sales that a product with an Apple logo has at whatever price, even for a "Pro" product that can be more expensive. Meta just can't sell a $3500 headset no matter how good were to be.
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[OC] Kale and snow
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Here in the Netherlands it's a traditional winter food, but it's eaten as a "stamppot" (potato mash, one of the many we have) with brown gravy and smoked sausage. We practically never eat it as a salad.
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More ways to play your GOG games with Amazon Luna
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It looks to be included. Sadly only supported in a handful fo countries yet.
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I have and still use a few, but for new pans I'll only get bare metal (stainless or Carbon steel) for new pans. One is a Tefal sauté pan. It's not too thick aluminium and the coating has developed hair cracks over time and the antistick properties aren't consistent. The other is a small frying pan by a well regarded (local) company and only got good once I started abusing it because I thought it was a write off. That's the one I mostly use to fry eggs, but you still need oil and a hot pan to have the egg not stick.
Meanwhile I have a seasoned carbon steel frying pan that is more non-stick than either of them, and a cheap carbon steel wok (under €20) that's also doing great in the non-stick department. And you can clean either of them with a coarse steel wool without destroying the non-stick properties as long as you're not too rough. And any damage to the seasoning is easily touched up.
Stainless initially stick for meat, but once the crust develops it will detach itself. And sometimes you want some stickage to develop flavour, for gravies etc., which you then deglaze.
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That's one unfortunate downside of carbon steel. Stainless can be a bit lighter, but needs a different technique to get it to not stick (of which several demonstrations can be found on Youtube.)
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Amsterdam, spider in a greenhouse.
According to Google Lens it's a greenhouse jumping spider (Kasspringspin).
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[OC] Kale and snow
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Interesting. So instead of spinach a la creme it's kale a la creme. I figure it works better with frozen kale than fresh, as it will have a finer structure.
The Dutch do one thing very well and that's winter food. Probably similar in Danmark, as fellow Northsea coast dwellers.