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Damn even though you explained the abbreviation I still read it as Wife Approval Factor for a second and was very confused
Damn even though you explained the abbreviation I still read it as Wife Approval Factor for a second and was very confused
If you care to minimize Standby power “comfortably”, usually libraries or power companies will let you borrow an AC Power Meter free of charge.
You can use that to inspect your various devices Standby Power. For example I have an amplifier that pulls nearly 15W in standby, since finding out it lives on a smart plug.
However my TV pulls less than 1W, and at that point I prefer the convenience of just being able to use the remote to turn it on.
(Also keep in mind with the smart plug solution that the plug itself will pull a little bit of power too, this will pretty much always be <1W though.)
I don’t know how it works in America, but in Germany and presumably most parts of Europe, red light cameras are triggered by coils under the road (similar to speed cameras). There’s usually one coil right past the stopping line (for cars being halfway over) and another coil somewhere closer to the center of the intersection (for fully running a red light).
If your hate only goes towards touchscreens and not having physical buttons, Mazda is (or at least was) very anti-touchscreen. I haven’t done any research on their current stance or if they have good EVs, but a neighbor of mine was really happy with his Mazda ICE car for having a button for everything.
It’s not a full car or even entertainment system, but comma.ai is an opensource autonomous driving software. Last time I looked into this was a few years ago, but basically for most newer cars you can rip out the adaptive cruise control, and effevtively replace it with autonomous driving. Either powered by certain supported phones or dedicated hardware.
Not quite, it stands for Quantum-Dot: https://www.samsungdisplay.com/eng/tech/quantum-dot.jsp
I bought an LG TV, connected it to the internet once to download Jellyfin, blocked internet access directly after.
If you’re cool with connecting it to the internet once, I’d recommend LG, the Magic Remote is light years ahead of the competition.
Other than that, just get any OLED TV and don’t give it internet access (or one of the new QD-OLEDs if you have the money for it).
Yes, but as you say, they have a good privacy policy. Also their revenue model backs up their privacy policy, and I find their reasoning as to why they aren’t FOSS fair:
Will Magic Earth be Open Source?
No; since it is also used commercially (we have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners), we cannot make the code public.
(from the FAQ)
At least in terms of addresses, I feel like Magic Earth is significantly better than Organic Maps.
I really enjoyed Tetris (2023). The story was super riveting and I also really liked the soundtrack (mostly just “modernized” Tetris music).
I absolutely loved Splatoon 2, especially the DLC. It’s such a shame that you have to pay for online battles though.
While I do mostly agree with your statement, it’s incredibly annoying when I type in a local IP for my router or server and it automatically gets turned into https.
I have bots on and it’s mostly ever these two.
There are still reddit repost bots, but they are all on reddit repost instances. As I have those like two or three instances blocked, I don’t see any of them.
There’s a lemmy profile setting whether to show bots, you probably have that turned off.
It’s not decentralized, everyone connects to one central server.
I will once again shill for Proxigram (not my project), the only? remaining FOSS instagram frontend. You can try it out on one of the public instances.
I’m not entirely sure if it supports opening Instagram links though.
While I do agree and have stopped using the Samsung keyboard, it does have many unique features that I still miss almost daily.
A few that come to mind:
Do you mean the SimpleMobileTools keyboard or the “normal” Simple Keyboard?
Coming from the Samsung keyboard (and before that Apple), I’m quite dissatisfied with the cursor movement in most Android keyboards (including HeliBoard).
Soumds like revolt might be interesting to you.
Same! I’m lowkey tempted to get a fancy one now, but deep down I know it just isn’t worth it.