Viper_NZ

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And remember: Taking a sick day is time theft that steals productivity from the company.

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Found the Kremlin stooge.

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Ukraine and Israel are both democracies with democratically elected governments.

You’re regurgitating kremlin talking points. If you’re not a Kremlin stooge, you’re a useful idiot.

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Might have been drunk. He was moving his hand so wasn’t asleep.

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BSD with Mach as the kernel.

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The PC market is shrinking. More and more of our general computing needs are being met by ARM based tablets, phones etc.

With all Macs now using ARM CPUs, Microsoft and Qualcomm making a very real ARM push and cloud compute companies pursuing ARM servers. Long term ARM dominance is looking more and more likely.

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Dual memory card camera. Copy after each shoot onto two different storage devices. (Eg laptop and external drive).

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Near motorways where they go high speed the reduction will be negligible, but is material around lower speed streets.

Something not mentioned is the significantly reduced brake dust as most EV braking is regenerative.

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Regen braking can be significantly stronger than engine braking. Unless your battery is at 100%, it can essentially replace all friction braking outside of emergency stops.

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Related: Why exactly has every person >60 years old started wandering around in public having loud conversations on speaker phone?

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Free games be damned, I’m not using it while they pay for timed exclusives and limit consumer choice.

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They’re welcome to release their own games on their platform like EA or Activision.

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Are they releasing any games not named “Fortnite”?

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Hamas were elected in January 2006 and have refused new elections since.

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You don’t have to remove candy crush etc from your start menu? Lucky you. I certainly did.

Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ (www.theverge.com)

“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”...

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I assume anyone who can get work elsewhere has, and they’re left with dead wood.

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Well that’s gross. And probably quite right too.

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

Viper_NZ, (edited )

Apple put their services on Android devices too. Just not iMessage.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they cite privacy as a reason.

Viper_NZ, (edited )

When did I say there was parity? I just pointed out they do create Android apps for some of their services.

They’re both acting in the interest of the company and not the user. Apple make money by selling devices. Protecting the services that push you to purchase Apple devices makes sense.

Google are an advertising company and by bringing their services to Apple devices they make money off the users.

Is not altruism, it’s profiteering.

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What is the business model that justifies putting iMessage on Google phones, or supporting one of its competitors?

Because if there isn’t one, they can’t do it.

As I said, Google aren’t doing us because they’re your mate, they’re doing it to make money.

Companies are not your friend.

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You’ve avoided my question. What is the business driver for Apple to do this?

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But that doesn’t make them money. In fact by making it easier for Apple customers inside the walled garden to switch away, it’ll cost them money.

There’s no way they do it without regulation.

It drives me nuts that I can’t type an iMessage from my PC (Windows phone app is garbage) so I get the frustration.

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This and the paid exclusives mean I haven’t, and won’t use EGS out of pure spite.

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Meanwhile Quake and Quake II just got awesome remasters…

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With you for the most part, except where you say the bloated, slow, unreliable, piece of crap Teams is fine…

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Or the HP Elite X3.

RIP Windows Phone.

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Until I can buy a foldable with a more robust screen (eg one that can’t be permanently damaged by fingernails), I’ll stick to traditional phones.

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Dalvik hasn’t been used since Android 4

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You’ve had one prison break, yes. But what about a second prison break?

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All the characters? Discovery is the Michael Burnham show. It’s a shame she’s such a terrible person.

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The very first episode she attacks her commanding officer and ultimately gets her killed. Her direct involvement in starting the war that killed hundreds of millions is up for debate.

She continually puts her own opinions first and ignores or undermines direct orders, and those around her if they disagree.

There’s precedent in other Star Trek shows where the violate orders which are obviously wrong, but the ones she breaks aren’t.

And despite being raised by Vulcans, she has the emotional control of a 12 year old.

An awful character, and definitely the fault of the writers and not Sonequa Martin-Green.

Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates (www.windowscentral.com)

Microsoft is done supporting the original Surface Duo, three years after it first launched on September 10. The company has stated from the very start that the Surface Duo would receive just three years of OS updates, meaning today is the last day that Microsoft has to stay true to its word....

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Apple reduced peak power limits on older phones with wrecked batteries. If they hadn’t, people would have had to put up with their phone crashing.

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It’s like Kleenex rebranding to V and then telling everyone to refer to them as tissues.

It’s absolutely batshit. Way to destroy a strong brand, and any brand recognition.

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Lieutenant should be changed to Leftenant while we’re at it.

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The English speaking world outside of the USA… Much like ‘zed’ or putting a U in colour.

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I look forward to possibly playing the Star Citizen beta before my children inherit the account.

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As long as the move to Unreal contains no epic store exclusive agreement baked in, this is good news overall.

Italy detains three boats - for the crime of saving hundreds of refugees' lives (www.thecanary.co)

In the space of 48 hours, Italy’s authorities detained three refugee rescue vessels which had just saved hundreds of lives. The news comes as Italy’s far-right government has been cracking down on both refugees and those protecting them – amid over 2,000 people dying in the crossing....

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“The duty to rescue persons in distress at sea is a fundamental rule of international law. It has been incorporated in international treaties and forms the content of a norm of customary international law”

…icrc.org/…/duty-rescue-sea-peacetime-and-war-gen…

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They’re not really in the dominant market position they were in back in the 90s.

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To be clear: I think this is appalling behaviour and I’m not defending it.

I just don’t think the DoJ will care.

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My current office, and my previous office was a mixture of windows, macs and iOS/android devices.

My previous role was the same.

Teams also isn’t in a monopoly position. There are plenty of alternatives which are in use and don’t force the use of edge.

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Sure, but teams isn’t part of office.

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Are there any electron apps that aren’t?

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A lot of talk of antitrust in this thread.

Unfortunately while this behaviour is disgusting and unethical, it’s not exploiting a dominant market position to stifle competition.

To do so teams would need to be in a position of dominance, which (thankfully for anyone forced to use this garbage) it’s simply not.

This sucks, but don’t count on the government doing anything to fix it.

Viper_NZ, (edited )

IOS didn’t allow you to set a default browser other than Safari for years and still doesn’t allow third party browsers to use their own web rendering engine.

If the DoJ don’t care about that, they won’t care that Teams ignores your default browser.

Again, I don’t condone what they’re doing. I just doubt the Justice department will care.

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I got hopeful for a new Supreme Commander game when I saw the thumbnail.

Back to Beyond All Reason for me then

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Fixed, LOL

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$200 million is a lot of money for a podcast when your core Business is music streaming.

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