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Comment I've had 3 cell phones ... (Score 2) 135

#1 - Qualcomm QCP-1900, 1998-2015 (17y)
#2 - Kyocera HydroVIBE, 2015-2021 (6y)
#3 - Google Pixel 5a, 2021 - Present (4y, so far)

The Qualcomm was on nTelos (initially PrimeCo) and had to give it up when nTelos in my area was sold to Sprint and they didn't/wouldn't support the phone's spectrum. The Kyocera was on Ting (Sprint) and gave it up when Sprint was bought by T-Mobile and CDMA was deprecated and VoIP required, also Google Play support EOL for KitKat. The Pixel 5a is on Ting (T-Mobile) and I'll probably keep it until forced to get something newer - works great so far.

I'll note that the Kyocera - from 2015 - was IP57 certified *with* a headphone jack and removable battery (along with 32GB MicroSD and SIM) under the removable back w/gasket.

Comment Re:uh (Score 1) 23

That's not what "native" means.

It's exactly what it means, it becomes a core codec that all of Windows programs can universally use, managed by the OS, native support. Just because it's it's not there by default doesn't mean it isn't native to the OS.

Or what do you claim it to be? Where do you draw the line? The kernel? Is nothing in the OS userland "native"?

You know that's not true. By your definition, Windows natively supports every network card that requires a driver to work, natively supports every printer or scanner that requires a download before it works, and natively supports all the GPUs that haven't been released yet.

Native support for a thing means in-box support.

Comment Re:undeniable (Score 3, Informative) 113

Renewables are undeniably a good idea. The energy is just right there.
Sure they are not without problems, and in a country the size of the UK, there's not enough to be energy independent, but even with that we should build more.

Denying it: Trump - Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere (and other sources):

Trump called wind and solar power “THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY!” in a social media post and vowed not to approve wind or “farmer destroying Solar” projects. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” he wrote on his Truth Social site.

So short-sighted... (sigh)

Comment Wasted resources and money (Score 3, Interesting) 50

Just imagine the cost of this over the course of a decade. The utility seems to have borne the brunt of the work, having to analyze and filter this data multiple times per year. That cost would have been passed onto customers - I'm sure it's appreciated that everyone's power bill was just a bit higher to fund this fishing expedition by law enforcement.

Then of course the investigators would be tied up digging through the 33,000 "tips" this data produced. Literally, law enforcement had to review 33,000 potential customers who met this profile, checking them for warrants or other known crimes giving them some excuse to surveil or even search that residence. Pretty extreme when you think about it - and that is just to catch people growing weed of all things. Not the dangerous drugs killing people or contributing to the homeless population on so on.

Finally, the fact that this generated so many potential leads shows how stupid the concept is in general - the "profile" they were going after regarding power usage. I can think of a hundred of other things that would cause higher power usage 24/7 that has nothing to do with growing weed.

Comment So... Can't fix the corruption? (Score 3, Insightful) 131

The situation in Tehran is the result of "a perfect storm of climate change and corruption," ...

The current Iranian regime seems pretty "Off with their heads!" for the slightest infraction and they can't punish whatever corruption is at play here? Is it because it's being done by those in religious/political/financial (whatever) power rather than rabble? /s

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