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  • The upside of IANA doing it would be a standardised place for sites to move to. Without coordination, different sites would move to different TLDs, probably mostly based on what isn't already registered. IANA could create a new TLD for this and give existing whatever.io owners a chance to register whatever.iox before its generally available

  • Is it worth upgrading my cheap Chinese bike?
  • If you're just commuting & riding flat, even-ish trails, you maybe don't need a MTB at all. You'll get much bigger changes in handling/comfort/speed from changing the style of bike than the marginal gains from upgrading individual parts.

    What are you hoping to gain from a drivetrain upgrade? It might make more sense to look at changing the type of bike you have, rather than trying to transform a MTB to act like a hybrid/gravel/road bike

  • Why do podcasts have preroll ads now?
  • Blaming Spotify for this is like blaming the company that made your TV for showing you ads that are part of the broadcast. Unless Spotify makes the specific podcast you're listening to, they're just playing you the content someone else made, including the ads they included in that content.

  • How grep with -e (regex) `/log/messages` ? [ solved ]
  • It's marked solved, but since OP didn't post the solution:

    -e uses basic regular expressions, where you need to escape the meta-characters ((|)) with a backslash. Alternatively, use extended regex with -E

    $ echo a | grep -E "(a|b)"
    a
    $ echo a | grep -e "\(a\|b\)"
    a
    $ echo a | grep -e "(a|b)"
    $ echo a | grep -E "\(a\|b\)"
    
  • I Continue to Feel Horrified by Katy Perry’s New Single
  • The male gaze is the idea that we judge things from the perspective of a (heterosexual) man. In particular, it often refers to what society considers to be beautiful. Society often equates being sexually attractive with beauty, and often values people who are considered beautiful more highly.

    The article is critizing the video for claiming to subvert this trope in the second half, while still placing emphasis on Katy Perry's sexual attractiveness.

  • [FIA] Car 10 (Pierre Gasly) gets a 50 place grid penalty for exceeding PU elements allowance.
  • That seems too harsh a penalty, it makes using an additional PU likely to mean starting from the back for ~5 races. It'd also hurt smaller teams worse - if your average qualifying position is 16th you'd be starting from the back for about 12 races.

  • I'm Conflicted
  • Botnets targeting android devices are a thing, here's an example: https://blog.fox-it.com/2023/09/11/from-ermac-to-hook-investigating-the-technical-differences-between-two-android-malware-variants/

    In this example, they're renting access for thousands of dollars. These people have a clear motivation to find ways to exploit devices and unpatched CVEs are an easy way for them to do that.

  • Any suggestions for cheap but decent laptops for coding?
  • The x390/x280 are the same era as these but smaller, so might be a better fit here. The X390 has soldered RAM though, so I'd look for the 16GB version if you can find it (there's not much of a price difference used)

  • Is waiting for the Pixel Tablet 2 my only option?
  • I wouldn't wait that long in the hope that Google release another Pixel tablet and that it then fixes the issues you have with the current one. IMO there's too much risk that either they don't release it, or they don't release it at the time you're expecting, or it doesn't change things you care about, or they change the price/features.

    I'd say buy the best (/least worst) thing you can actually get now.

  • Talk me out of an 18" dishwasher. (or into it)
  • I'd question whether the 45 degree option will really be optimal ergonomically. It'll mean that it's harder to get at the dishwasher racks from the sides while they're pulled out (since there's a cabinet door at a 45 degree angle to them). Particularly for loading the back of the rack, that'll mean reaching relatively far.

    I have a dishwasher next to the sink, and I tend to load it from the side standing in front of the sink. If it was at 45 degrees the door would open so that I couldn't stand in front of the sink while it was open.

    Obviously I haven't seen your floor plan, so there's maybe something I'm missing, but I don't see how a 45 degree angle could make the ergonomics better.

  • GrapheneOS: Frequent Android auto-reboots block firmware exploits
  • Graphene OS drops support for devices pretty soon after Google does. It's not a good idea to buy anything before Pixel 6 to run Graphene OS right now (see https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices)

    This will get better going forward since Google is supporting the Pixel phones for much longer (5 years for the Pixel 6/6a onward, 7 years for the newest devices).

  • People who park in the handicapped ramp boil my blood.
  • I think you're misunderstanding which ramp I mean. Looking between the wheels of the white car, it looks like there's a ramp the goes from the parking lot up on to the sidewalk. The white car would prevent a person using a wheelchair getting onto the sidewalk.

  • roku remote app showing ads now
  • Changing DNS isn't the same thing as a VPN. Your traffic isn't "tunneled" over DNS, it just changes which server your devices use to look up IP addresses. Your ISP can still see quite a lot, particularly if you're using plain DNS rather than DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS.

  • Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap
  • I've always got them from eBay.

    The T and X series are the high-end ones. Between those it mostly depends on what size of laptop you're looking for. Its worth checking a guide for how you replace the SSD/RAM/battery - some of the newer ones have these soldered in place, which means you're stuck with whatever it originally came with.

    Personally, I think the sweet spot is around 4 years old. By that point they're pretty cheap (maybe 10% of the original RRP), and going for older ones doesn't save you much more money. I recently got an X390 and it's doing everything I need from a laptop

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