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  • Say NO to Mandatory E-Bike License Plates and Registrations [California]

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  • We just battled HB1703 for mandatory bike registration for all bikes in New Hampshire. They wanted $50/yr PER BIKE with a $100 fine for not having a registration. It had something like 30 in support, 14,000 in opposition.

  • Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

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  • Valve has entered the chat and has summoned Proton (Linux compatibility layer) FEX (ARM architecture compatibility layer), and a Steam Machine. A future with these 4 could look a lot different than what we have now, though it would certainly take some time.

  • Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

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  • Bitlocker is computer drive encryption. On W11 it’s supposed to be tied to the motherboards TPM. End to end encryption is not really applicable in this scenario. That phrase is more applicable to cloud services or storage where a telecom or CSP hosts or transports your data but can’t see what the data is.

    Microsoft should not have the keys to decrypt Bitlocker ever.

  • A photo of man holding a sign that says New England must secede

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  • That may be a dated opinion, I’ve been in NH since 2014 and it’s always felt like a nice place to me. Sure, Vermont is cooler, but we’ve got like 23 miles of sweet ocean coastline!

    Most of the assholes here seem to arrive in 7 row SUVs from Massachusetts. Also Dodge RAMs.

  • What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

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  • I feel you on the UI changes, I’ve definitely noticed the extra clicks, and there is also a bit of a weird pattern when navigating between the main content area and the top bar where the selector wants to go to the left navigation pane.

    I still feel fortunate every time I open up Plex that it exists, and I’m sure that their devs hear enough criticism on the internet that I try to leave something positive for them to find. So until the day that Plex operates anything close to the miserable experience that is a Roku in 2026, I’ll keep using it. I maintain perfect metadata and file naming for just that day.

  • How Are You Guys Handling This?

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  • I also switched my tower out for an M4 mini last year. It surprised me how much I fell in love with it and Mac OS. Retro game corps has a great emulation on Mac video, though I also ended up with a Beelink SER9 that I use exclusively for game streaming. I’m sure there is a substantial cost, but I wish more developers would release for Apple silicon. They’re truly excellent machines.

  • What paid software is absolutely worth the money?

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  • I feel like there are a lot of people who hate on Plex here, but for me it’s really been super solid so I always try to advocate for it. JF wasn’t for me. Buy once/use forever, great capable interface, great apps (downloads work perfectly now), and I never need to fiddle with it. I replace a Synology package every few weeks when they release a new version and it just keeps ticking.

    I paid $89 for it on sale, and I’d definitely groan if I had to pay $250 for it today, but I’d still pay it. I’m just glad they’re paying hardworking folks to make the software I’ve used EVERY DAY for years. It’s the buy-once-cry-once model we wished every other software vendor would go back to.

  • New Runtime Standby ABI Proposed For Linux Akin To Microsoft Windows' "Modern Standby"

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  • Very frustrating, I remember a similar experience, the command seemed to only show wakes caused by a device like mouse or wake on LAN.

    If you still have the machine, check those scheduled tasks (like UpdateOrchestrator tasks) and uncheck "Wake the computer to run this task" in its Conditions tab, or globally disable Wake Timers in Power Options

  • New Runtime Standby ABI Proposed For Linux Akin To Microsoft Windows' "Modern Standby"

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  • On Mac you can disable what they call power nap to stop this.

  • New Runtime Standby ABI Proposed For Linux Akin To Microsoft Windows' "Modern Standby"

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  • I had a series of issues with my old tower that kept waking up and it was very frustrating.

    Just curious, did you do a powercfg /lastwake to see what woke it from suspend? For me I think it ended up being a scheduled task, something like Adobe updater, though I don’t remember exactly.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • Not everything you don’t like is a bot. I learned something new today that DP supports audio and feel a bit foolish for not knowing that before now, though I stand by my personal experience with the connector. Between work and home, it’s always the DP that flicker at the slightest tap.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • Two considerations: Displayport doesn’t support audio, and there is no connector on the planet more frustrating and unreliable than DisplayPort. It’s like a joke how sensitive it is to the lightest bump. HDMI just works.

  • Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work [Update: see comment]

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  • I back this viewpoint also. I'm not sure how Rebble could justify indefinitely charging for access to apps that they scraped from Pebble. Eric's response satisfied me that Core is not morally wrong. Some people are so willing to have a knee jerk reaction.

  • Michelle Obama says US ‘not ready for a woman’ to be president: ‘Don’t even look at me about running’

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  • I feel like she's just slipping a hint to Kamala. I'd probably vote for Michelle though 😂

  • US jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634 million in smartwatch patent case

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  • Masimo was never going to make this selling their device. I have no sympathy for Apple but this is a dumb ruling.

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    Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

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  • I was working on my Mom’s Samsung tonight and can confirm that default One UI is the worst cell phone interface experience I’ve ever had. Needing a skin or launcher is a deal breaker when devices with great OOTB experience exist.

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    Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships

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  • I am nearing the end of my rope with Android, I might suggest hanging on with your iPhone for another cycle. My P9 Pro is feeling more and more like just an advertisement data collection machine, and core features like speech to text and notifications have never been worse.

    I don’t own an iPhone, but got an iPad in 2024, and most of what I do on my iPad feels more refined. I was floored this morning when speaking out a comment on the iPad that the text to speech didn’t add a bunch of random periods/caps alongside half a dozen incorrect words. iOS also has basic things like consistent first party podcast, payment, and chat apps that they don’t continually switch out every few years like what Google just did (looking at you Google Podcasts, GPay in USA, and Hangouts). We’re also losing the ability to install apps from outside the walled garden that is then play store at some point soon. I’m not looking forward to learning what that means for my Retroid/Android gaming handhelds.

    If you do jump to Android, consider the Pixel 9 Pro. I hate it the least of anything I’ve tried in then Android universe. Battery life is very respectable, I can actually get 2 full days from a charge. The cameras have somehow fallen in their standard shooting mode, but the pro/high res mode is crispy AF, just a bummer that the file sizes are bigger than they are on my Sony mirrorless. Samsung makes nice hardware but the skin they put on Android is truly terrible. If you use Microsoft work apps on your phone, you’ll appreciate being able to shut them off with one button, and your employer’s limited visibility into your phone will be further reduced to what’s installed in the work container.

  • Chipotle stock craters as company says young people without jobs can't afford their food anymore

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  • I feel like I'm trying to rationalize insanity, and I do understand the reason, but why does the burrito company need stock?

  • US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

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  • Microtik is the router brand that I want to love, I even looked into deploying them when I worked at a service provider. Those little things had more features than anything else, but unfortunately they had such a poor track record with vulnerabilities that they really can't be considered.

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    Beelink SER9 - AMD Driver Issues and Steam Link Video Freezing

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    Horizontal Lines on Lab Scans