MrPhibb

MrPhibb, 11 days ago

I think the reason is because apparently a lot of people are unhappy with a deal Nix inked apparently with a company that does business with the US’ Immigrations and Customs

MrPhibb, 11 days ago

Don’t really know, hit something about it elsewhere, but it didn’t say anything more than that, but yeah, that seems to be the gist of things.

MrPhibb, 19 days ago

Don’t forget Clue

MrPhibb, 28 days ago

Wonder how long before they add the Maverick to that list because IIRC it uses the same chassis and motors

MrPhibb, 1 month ago

I’ve got a Canon TS642A that’s serving us well here. My Brother was giving me problems, mostly in wireless connectivity so we replaced it with this, which was I think the second cheapest Canon we could find, and we’ve only replaced the cartridges I think once in the last year, though we don’t use it all that much. On Linux, I don’t think it even needs drivers, its… Postscript I think? Setting up the wireless was a bit tricky, but once up and running, it’s been rock solid.

MrPhibb, 1 month ago

It was around $60 for a full set of ink (colour and black and white) when we grabbed some a month or so ago, so about average I think. When you think about printers, what brands do people talk about? HP, Brother and Epson, right? Canon I think isn’t really trying hard here, printers are just an offshoot of their camera business, do they make much else that isn’t cameras or camera related?

MrPhibb, 1 month ago

Except that Amazon doesn’t own the vans. Seriously, the entire thing is carefully sculpted BS, the drivers work for a company that works for Amazon, a company for whom Amazon is nice enough to set up with vans, computers, scanners, and everything else they need, long as they keep Amazon happy, but at any time for any reason Amazon can pull the rug out from under them. For the record, I’m a Flex driver, IE contract Amazon driver, which is why I know how the other side of the deliveries work.

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

I always loved when Picard broke out the polite British fuck you, remember when he was dealing with the Shelliac<sp?>?

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

It particularly sucks for desktop use on phones that support it, no right click, no keyboard short cuts, and it clips a bit off the bottom of pages, and they’ve apparently said they have no plans to support desktop on Android.

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

True, but even if such tests double the price, it’s still cheaper than anything else offered, what’s the lowest right now, $29K?

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

No need for an Apple keyboard unless you’re looking for extra function keys, a regular keyboard will work fine, and if’n for some reason you need the Mac layout, it’s available, I’ve always used the English (Macintosh) layout so I can get easy access to keys I like to use or sometimes need.

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

You’re welcome, it’s a favorite, and I was going to post it to my blog, but decided it’d be more appreciated here

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

Chuckles, “Yep, only American manufacturers should be allowed to cheaply build cars in Mexico and export them to the US.”

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

True, but banning them seems like using a nuke to deal with a fly, just a bit overkill. I don’t expect the Chinese to play fair, but it seems that just saying that the rules only apply to American companies seems wrong and lazy.

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

True, I’m not sure what the solution is, but saying the rules only apply to certain players rubs me the wrong way. And that’s not even getting started on how much of the threat comes from US automakers refusal to produce electric cars until they were staring down a gun, plus how much they want to sell large expensive vehicles so they get nice large paychecks. Sure, China could and prolly is subsidizing their electric car industry, but we could do that too, in a way we already are with the tax credit only applying to American made vehicles.

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

Considering what I’ve heard about their network, this smells like a way to bail out of a failure while saving face

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

IIRC didn’t Tesla start building their network when there wasn’t really a standard, and who was still going to win was up in the air? Seems like a good investment, but now that things have settled, creating your own network is really just a vanity project. Tesla opening up their network is smart, they were one of the two winners in North America, so opening up the network gives them a new revenue stream, and I’d be surprised if’n they don’t find a way to leverage those chargers to drive sales.

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

Well there is .floorp and .var/floorp for it’s files, so I’m really not sure what they did, I suspect they left a few code calls to something Mozilla and that’s where the problem lays

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

This is the second time I’ve tried Floorp, and a far bigger failure than last time.

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

In what way? It has some nice features that I’d like to see in Firefox after all

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

I suspect he will come to regret this, the Chinese aren’t stupid, and will be happy to slit his throat once they’ve got what they need.

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

Yes, but knowing China, they’ll be happy to supply Tesla, while selling knock-off parts and quality control failures under their own brand to anyone who wants them, at least until they get their own operation up and running to make their own cars, a process a lot easier when you’re in the country, something Tesla will be facilitating.

MrPhibb, 2 months ago

If you’re going to drink that much coffee, look at St Louis Bread Co/Panera Bread, their Sip Club makes it cheap. $13/mo, and large cold drinks are around $3.25, so it doesn’t take long for the membership to pay for itself, and as I’m a courier, it definitely saves me money. That said, support local if you can.