[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

For me, phones have never not been diy repair outside of the ones with parts pairing, on the paired parts. But I know I'm very much the exception to the rule. I have a lot of equipment and experience doing it.

As to the fairphone 5....it's not really a US phone. You'd have to import it and have no warranty with it. Not a good deal for how much they are and what they're specd at.

FYI, as of January 1st 2025 both Oregon and Colorado have banned paired parts in smartphones from being sold there. So that shit practice should be going away. The EU has been doing the same.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

I've also heard pumpkin seed oil works as a topical dht blocker. Never dug into it to fact check much, since I still have great hair.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 hour ago

DHT blockers (like what he is taking) are proven to work, but not everyone's hair loss is due to dht sensitive hair follicles. That's a genetic lottery.

It can also come with side effects.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 hour ago

There's a lot of people that get their balding stopped with DHT blockers. It all depends on what is causing the hair loss. It isn't all snake oil.

Most of what you're recommending is just stuff to treat the dead hair after it grows out of your head, and not treating the follicles no longer growing hair.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 hour ago

Yes....or no. There's more than one reason for balding. You might try a DHT blocker. Caffeine(more caffiene helps, supposedly), vitamin B, and many other things could effect your hair loss.

For a non guessing approach, you want a full blood panel and testosterone/dht level done up at a legit specialist for hair loss.

Or just go the Mr.Clean route.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 hours ago

Too much weight. Thus far, electric semi trucks aren't viable outside of shorter range delivery fleets.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 hours ago

EVs are already too heavy and wear tires out quickly. The upcoming solid state batteries are what will go into future EVs. Samsung is producing them right now and they're currently set to start going in higher end E vehicles in 2027. At best the sodium ion batts may be good for hybrids.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 hours ago

These will be useless for EV's, but great for storage. They aren't energy dense enough for what the EV market needs.

Samsungs solid state EV batteries are currently the only positive step towards EV replacement and production vehicles are set to start rolling out around 2027. They're supposed to be lighter, last more cycles, charge faster, more energy dense, and safer than current EV liquid lithium batteries.

The sodium ion batteries will be great for large scale solar storage and house/business solar storage. They should let someone build a solar powered house that could continuously run completely off grid without needing to use lithium batteries that would need replaced every 10 to 15 years.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago

Step one. Install Linux Mint.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 hours ago

You have a lot of upvotes for the math being so wrong. Lol. 100% tax would still just mean it costs twice as much to buy an election. Just ban the shit.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 hours ago

I literally just told you that it has worked out in court. Do you think wal mart, target, and cvs got in trouble last year when a company in India sold them bacteria tainted eye drops? Of course not. That would be as dumb as you are dense. A retailer is not responsible for shady shit that other companies do.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 hours ago

For many, but I already know how to fix my phones and have all the equipment to do it. Plus, re0airabilith is slowly starting to leech back into the market by means of being forced into it by the government.

Personally, I just want my damned microsd card slots back. I've been a samsung note fan for ages because I like the s pen. I'm currently using the last one made with a card slot. The n 20 ultra.

HTC just came back from the android grave and released a nice mid tier phone with a headphone jack and an SD card slot for just $600, but im not ready to give up my s-pen yet. My phone will still be plenty good for the next couple of years, and I'm hoping a company like HTC makes a successful comeback with card slots. I'm more willing to give up my s pen than give up my storage slot.

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Just curious if anyone else has had issues with their track pads on the OLED models.

My left side touch pad doesn't "depress" down at all in the middle, and requires much more force around the sides to depress down and "click". If you go by the haptic pressure measurement, the right side will click at around 3,000 anywhere on the pad,, but the left side takes about 10,000 around the edges and never does in the middle.

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All of a sudden my clutch went from totally normal to very hard to press down. It's now been this way for quite a long time. It's a hydraulic clutch (clutch was replaced by a shop a few months prior to the issue, but me and the shop....did not get along.) in an 06 tribute with a 4 cylinder motor.

Looking for what I'll need done in order to not have to break my leg to shift the thing. Thanks.

I figure it's something the shop didn't do correctly, as it was supposed to have new flywheel, pressure plate, clutch disc, pilot bearing and throw-out bearing but there's no way to verify they replaced it all or did it correctly and the problem started suddenly about 3 months later.

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