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[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I understand the reason for this, but if this is what they've decided to do they should also provide a trusted HSBC keyboard that can only be used with their banking application.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why seek the approval of strangers if what you wish to do is behave poorly on the internet?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Thank you for pointing that out. I don't use it for anything critical, and it's been very useful because Kagi's summarizer works on things like YouTube videos friends link which I don't care enough to watch. I speak the language pair I use DeepL on, but DeepL often writes more natively than I can. In my anecdotal experience, LLMs have greatly improved the quality of machine translation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The services I use, Kagi's autosummarizer and DeepL, haven't done that when I've checked. The downside of the summarizer is that it might remove some subtle things sometimes that I'd have liked it to keep. I imagine that would occur if I had a human summarize too, though. DeepL has been very accurate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (13 children)

It's great at summarization and translations.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

NOT ONLY WOULD I DOWNLOAD A CAR, I WOULD THEN WORK ON A WAY TO LET EVERYONE DOWNLOAD CARS

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The DMCA is a curse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully Servo gets a good UI soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've found it remarkably difficult to replace a battery in a modern smartphone, even as someone who's quite handy with electronics. Any improvement is greatly welcome, and I wish we'd do more to make it easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's about usage patterns. If you know you only need 60% of the battery, charging it to 100% will degrade it more, for little utility. The newer Google phones get 7 years of updates, but without due care the battery will reach 80% of its capacity before that. On an aside, a battery is considered to have reached its end of life at a capacity reduction of 20%, and not 40%.

If you 100-0 the battery every day, then there's not much you can do. But if you're a lighter user, then using the 20-80% (or 40-60) part instead of the 40-100% part of the battery makes it last longer. And that's good in terms of environmental sustainability, reduction of e-waste, and you can use the phone for longer, too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Pragmatically speaking, for battery health you should charge only as much as you need the battery, so it sounds to me that in your case that's 90%. Also, here's a paper about battery charging:

Strategies to limit degradation and maximize Li-ion battery service lifetime - critical review and guidance for stakeholders https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/154859/Woody_Maxwell_Thesis.pdf

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I quite like the crust, but could you not slice the crust off? That would likely improve the bread to crust ratio considerably.

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