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ribboo,

Not nearly this bad. Go read the article. It’s much easier to spread crap nowadays, even though you could before.

ribboo,

Genuine question: in what ways do Apple track iOS users (that cannot be turned off)?

I’m of the viewpoint that most tracking can be rather easily be turned off, and that android plays in a totally other ballpark here. But I might very well be wrong.

ribboo,

If that’s the reason WFH should be the new normal in a couple of years when leases are up. That won’t happen though.

ribboo,

It’s actually a more costly process to make non alcoholic beer, than with alcohol.

ribboo,

Having been paid very good, and today less good due to a career change. I’ll happily tell you payment gave absolutely zero impact on feeling engaged at work. If the job sucks, it’ll suck with good pay as well.

Sure, it might be easier to push through. But it will not make it more engaging. Co workers and a supporting environment sure will though.

Not to say I don’t want compensation to be higher across the board, but we should have both.

ribboo,

It is however people that in very high degree support their president.

ribboo,

Only service where I’ve done the region thing. Paying 15 kr a month because I signed up through Argentina.

ribboo,

Yeah definitely. Feel like even Lemm.ee could be at risk, the admin have written once in three weeks. Might be nothing, but does not feel all too safe.

ribboo,

People keep saying this about Plex, yet I’ve received one pop up about paying them during the last 6 months. That was while I tried to use a pay feature. Not once otherwise.

There are plenty of apps that I can’t use due to their annoyance when you’re in the free tier. Plex have not bothered me in the least.

Why am I not using streamio? Well, we have an Apple TV so that’s tough. Might get something else down the line, but I pirate to save money, not to save money on entertainment and spend it on equipment instead.

Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach (noyb.eu)

The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta plans to move to a “Pay for your Rights” model, where EU users will have to pay $ 168 a year (€ 160 a year) if they don’t agree to give up their fundamental right to privacy on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. History has shown that Meta’s regulator, the Irish DPC, is...

ribboo, (edited )

No one is saying they shouldn’t be allowed to run ads. But that they should be allowed to run highly specific and targeted ads is not by any means a forgone conclusion.

Television, newspapers, ads out in the “wild” and whatnot. All manage without individualizing ads. And Facebook could as well. But it’s more profitable to say to hell with our users privacy, let’s individualize the shit out of those ads.

That’s the problem.

ribboo,

The protection cited in the article is for buildings. Alright? No one is becoming a militarized surveillance state over buildings being protected by the military.

This is a prime minister wanting to look strong in tough times, not a country becoming a surveillance state.

ribboo,

Fantastic news. Really appreciate the openness these last weeks.

ribboo,

Avalon works fine for me, and was updated just a couple of days ago. Voyager works good as well, though not as frequently updated lately.

ribboo,

I personally had 4 active accounts in August, until I settled on one instance I like. Very likely many others did the same, so these numbers are far from perfect.

ribboo,

Well there is, if you wish for apps created by others than large corporations with hundreds or thousands of developers. It will get better with time now when progress is slower.

But phones 10 years ago were absolutely trash compared to those we have today.

ribboo,

So much this.

People want more “real world usage” in college and school overall. Teach kids how to do taxes, teach engineers how to use X and Y software.

Well, in 10 years there’s a new software that does your taxes in another way, and plenty of laws have changed and there are new stuff to consider. And those software the engineers were taught, they are obsolete.

That’s why focus should be on getting people to a place where they themselves can acquire the skills needed to do those things by themselves.

ribboo,

I feel like the jury’s still out a bit. We had some insane development during July, then it steadily dropped off. Lots of decent apps, but not many being updated during the last month.

And they aren’t really in that good of a state, still many kinks to iron out.

Lemma is a newcomer that seems pretty great. I miss some sorting options, other than that it’s awesome.

ribboo,

I mean their events are literally held to give news about updates. Revolutionary or not.

Why would they not mention stuff people could make use of, just because it’s not some amazing new things.

Events are rather decent to be honest, no that I look at them. But people do, so it’s very easy to get an overview over upcoming features.

ribboo,

That it just works does not mean I’m bound to Apple apps only. It just works includes having fantastic third party apps that do the job when Apples are lacking.

Calendar, mail, maps, music, password manager and the likes are such for me. But it still “just works”.

Missing features at OS level is one thing. But missing features in a goddamn app, when there are alternatives? Common…

ribboo,

I mean it’s obviously not news, news. It’s marketing. Most people just don’t care about latency on a product, especially when it’s for use with another - not even released product. What do you expect?

ribboo, (edited )

Fair enough. Guess we just have different views when it comes to that then.

For me “it just works” is much more about the OS. Sending files between my Apple devices in high quality within seconds without internet, browsers and files syncing, having my Airpods switch from phone to Apple TV with the press of a button/automatically, face-id not failing 50% of the time, the watch works when I speak to it and does what I want it to.

These are by no means crazy and things, but I struggle daily at work with my none Apple headset, the windows computer, my android phone. It just “does not work” smoothly. And they all sync horribly with each other for some reason. Files are not easily shared I often end up having to email myself, my headset that cost $400 lives it own life, features are automatically turned on again and again by themselves, for some reason. I have to restart my Microsoft IDE at least 10 times a day. Stuff like that.

You do not get all the features, that’s for sure. But you get less friction. I think that’s what most are getting at with it just works. Less friction.

ribboo,

Is this data really accurate? The difference is insane for every subreddit I checked.

ribboo,

Programming.

I don’t do it as much as a hobby anymore. But that’s because I switched careers and do it all day for work nowadays!

ribboo,

Yes, the person did take that into account. That was the whole point. If leather can’t be sold, meat prices will have to become higher (if farmers are not to get less money per cow). This will lower demand for meat, and less cattle will be raised.

ribboo,

Cool.

ribboo,

They spoke usb-c like a minute, two tops. While speaking of the environment for a good fifteen.

What you describe did not happen, at all.

ribboo,

Yeah, people who’ve had iPhones for 10 years and never noticed lack of ram, probably do not know what they are looking for.

It was extremely common a couple of years back for apps to close down every time you switched app due to low amounts of ram. It’s much better today though. But definitely noticeable if you stay on a phone to long of a time.

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....

ribboo,

You obviously do not live in a cold country. iPhones up until version 5-6 or so (when this was introduced) was notorious for turning off at 25-30% battery if it was slightly cold outside (sub 5 degree Celsius or so). It was a horrible experience that was completely removed by clocking down processors of battery worn phones.

I’ve never heard of a person turning off the option now when we’ve got the choice either.

It’s 100% beneficial to the customer.

Though, they should’ve been clearer with what they did and added a toggle from the start. Which is why they were fined.

ribboo,

100% this. Paying $12 a month for basically all music I’ll ever want to listen to, is just an amazing deal. It’s so convenient. Felt the same when Netflix came about. But now when I need like 6 services, and there’s still lots not on them. Piracy is just so much more convenient.

ribboo,

Not that it’s much of a benefit today as RTS games are barely nonexistent. But StarCraft 2 taught me all about macro management. Spending them resources and building an economy.

ribboo,

In Sweden they have to be parked in a bike rack. We have bike racks, everywhere. A rather great solution.

ribboo,

Drugs in Europe are very accessible if you’re into that thing.

ribboo,

I honestly don’t get what there is to say. Anyone trying to tell me about the dramas of any social network, be it the Fediverse, Twitter, Pinterest or Facebook will have an uphill battle.

The content itself can be interesting, but the platform itself rarely is.

ribboo,

I mean an iPad mini 2 would obviously struggle with iOS today due to hardware limitations.

And you’re very much free to use it, problem is app developers do not find it worthwhile their time supporting older devices (we are talking devices that’s a minimum of five years old, more likely 7-8) so few use them and it impacts what they can and cannot do. Thus it becomes unusable.

But all Apple apps will obviously still work.

ribboo,

My 10 year old Thinkpad barely qualifies as “running” windows 10, not Ubuntu for that matter. Haven’t bothered trying 11. I do partly agree with you, especially moving forward. But an iPad mini 2 has 1 gb of ram and 16 gb of space, both rather huge limitations for a mobile OS of today.

ribboo,

Did a computer bought to run windows 95 run XP? Did a computer bought for 98 run Vista? That’s a more fair comparison, as mobile operating systems are very young. And mobile devices from 10 years ago have hardware that could not really be compared to computers.

Sure, processors at peak capacity where good. But forcing a 10 year old processor running todays software would drain the battery - that was also in no way comparable to today - to fast. And that is even if you could install the OS, as there is so little device space on many of them. Then you open one app and you’re out of ram potentially causing crashes all over the place, because mobile apps are rarely built for efficiency.

It would be a horrid experience.

ribboo,

XP was based on the NT kernel while 95 was using DOS. You’re just plain wrong. Spec wise it would not have worked.

And a computer built for 98 sure as hell did not reach the requirements to run Vista. Hell, many XP computers struggled and were not allowed to upgrade.

You’re just plain wrong.

ribboo,

I’ll do that while you stick your head in the sand to facts

ribboo,

The wire. Think I started season 1 about 5 times. Then I stuck it out. Hands down the best show I’ve seen.

ribboo,

It doesn’t get much easier than using library genesis on your iOS device. You’ll have a book within seconds.

ribboo,

Yeah the UI is not the greatest.

Libgen.fun, search for a book, press it, click one of the download buttons. Usually numbered like 1,2,3,4,5. I tend to pick the first one. Then you get a large download text, press it, then save file.

ribboo,

WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted.

ribboo,

Definitely. Not sure putting one’s trust in Google is much better though.

ribboo,

Fair enough, Google is definitely the lesser of evil comparing them. But encrypted Meta versus non encrypted Google is not a no-brainer decision.

ribboo,

Lazy loading is definitely used for exactly this. I’ve done similar stuff in react native. You load “just what you need” which is a couple of thumbnails more than can be seen.

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