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New comment by nrdgrrrl in "PinePhone Pro [GNU/Linux smartphone] has been discontinued"

nrdgrrrl — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:07:25 +0000

You say that, but they're discontinuing it because they didn't sell enough of them. It may be the device we need, but it's not the device we're buying.

New comment by nrdgrrrl in "First randomized trial of Ozempic for alcoholism shows big drops in drinking"

nrdgrrrl — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:21:22 +0000

Seeing the types of things this helps with, I wonder if there is any effect on impulse control issues for people with ADHD in general. Would love to see some studies done on this.

New comment by nrdgrrrl in "Carmakers Will Give Your Location to Police Without a Warrant, Senators Say"

nrdgrrrl — Wed, 22 May 2024 20:05:06 +0000

Surely you can find the GPS antenna and disconnect it?

New comment by nrdgrrrl in "Digital Telecommunication in HF band - WWWAN - World-Wide Wireless Area Network"

nrdgrrrl — Sun, 05 May 2024 14:29:26 +0000

There's also SSTV. Surely images, voice and text counts as multi-media?

New comment by nrdgrrrl in "Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back"

nrdgrrrl — Sat, 27 May 2023 02:52:15 +0000

Feel 9 times as far?

New comment by nrdgrrrl in "Companies save billions of dollars by giving employees fake “manager” titles"

nrdgrrrl — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 18:43:30 +0000

This happened to me at a non profit - everyone had a manger title even though very few (myself included) didn't manage any people. I found out later on that I couldn't get overtime, and this was the reason.

New comment by nrdgrrrl in "Show HN: Remove unwanted objects in photos simply by dragging boxes"

nrdgrrrl — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:26:50 +0000

That's welcome to Hill Valley you're likely thinking of. https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/106917/1368185/Hill%...

New comment by nrdgrrrl in "Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker"

nrdgrrrl — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:34:51 +0000

Oh the old days at IBM... I almost got a security violation once for wearing shorts on a "casual" Friday, but my boss let me go home and change.

New comment by nrdgrrrl in "Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation"

nrdgrrrl — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 20:03:10 +0000

I'm transgender and this business of putting pronouns everywhere bothers me too. If I'm in a group that usually doesn't do pronouns but does when I'm in the room it's like they're pointing a finger at me saying "you're different and we're afraid of offending you, so we're going to act differently around you".

No. I just want to be a human being. If you wonder about my pronouns, ask and I'll happily answer. If you get them wrong I'll happily correct you.

If you're an ass to me I'll report you to HR, but putting my pronouns at the bottom of my email isn't going to make you any less of an ass.

New comment by nrdgrrrl in "The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review"

nrdgrrrl — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:05:49 +0000

They've spent almost 10 billion dollars on this telescope so far. What's another 0.5 billion for a repair mission?