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541.
by 1over137 3y ago
Hilarious how 2016 is "* extremely outdated* ". Only in tech does anyone think this. :)
542.
by 1over137 3y ago
>Scale for an external display without a specific PPI. Be happy they still let you use non-Apple external monitors! :)
543.
by 1over137 3y ago
Depends on the government. Where I live, yes. In many other countries, no.
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by 1over137 3y ago
>Maybe house builders and doctors can come too if there's a demand for it? Maybe the new comers can pay for housing and healthcare like everyone else(taxes, insurance etc.)? I think you are maybe missing the scale of my point. Canad
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by 1over137 3y ago
Of course. But it might mean that the 77% of the population that is born in Canada is more accustomed/acclimatized to immigrants. They are not a weird/rare thing, and so they are accepted/liked by a bulk of the population.
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by 1over137 3y ago
>and let everyone who wants in That could be a lot of people. Canada is (I think objectively) a better country to live in that most of our planet (alas). Very many would jump at that offer. Where would they live? There is a housing sho
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by 1over137 3y ago
Canada's population is already 23% immigrant, highest of any G7 country. There may be less of that 'quasi-xenophobic sentiment towards foreigners' than where you are.
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by 1over137 3y ago
>back when America enforced antitrust legislation on its own companies A great book about that era is "Goliath" by Matt Stoller.
549.
by 1over137 3y ago
People used to run Mac OS X servers, but Apple does not care for that market.
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by 1over137 3y ago
>You'd think ad buyers would have a problem with this... Alas, no, I wouldn't think that. :(
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by 1over137 3y ago
Instruction are for FreeBSD 12, I wonder if it's still current for 13 and 14...?
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by 1over137 3y ago
>I can't remember any tech company in my life making this big a change in one step. How old are you?
553.
by 1over137 3y ago
Cope in that sentence is likely https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cope
554.
by 1over137 3y ago
>Can't possibly be secondary effects of Covid-19, right? It could be because of that, which is why the article address it, and accounts for in in their modelling.
555.
by 1over137 3y ago
I think you misinterpreted my comment. Calling the National Post "ring wing" is not some kind of slur. I would similarly call the Toronto Star "left wing". They all have their leanings, that's all.
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by 1over137 3y ago
It's because they weren't running everything on top of Electron. :)
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by 1over137 3y ago
>publicizing it like this is consistent with a playbook this government has been using... But it's not the government "publicizing it like this", it the National Post, probably the most right wing newspaper in Canada.
558.
by 1over137 3y ago
>Nowadays my gmail inbox is virtually only advertisement. It's almost as if Google is an advertisements company. :)
559.
by 1over137 3y ago
>Only US-based operations will go to the trouble of blocking Utah. Apparently not, as Pornhub is Canadian.
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by 1over137 4y ago
The current Canadian federal government worker strike is big on keeping work-from home (temporary pandemic policy): https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6822467
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by 1over137 4y ago
Oh that would suck. I've had an iPhone since the week they were first released, but never associated an Apple ID with one. My whole beef with the App Store is it requires telling Apple who I am. If you have to associate your phone wi
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by 1over137 4y ago
>today you have the ability to install facebook with app store restrictions on iOS and without on Android You have a third choice: don't install facebook at all.
563.
by 1over137 4y ago
>...this could be a trend that starts small but overtime I no longer have the choice to avoid these alternate stores... You wouldn't lose that choice. Want only Apple-vetted apps? Only use their App Store. Easy. Maybe I'm misun
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by 1over137 4y ago
>It's a computer I paid over £3,000 for, that got cut off 7 years after release "after release" isn't even the metric we should be using. Rather we should measure starting from when the machine is _no longer sold_.
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by 1over137 4y ago
>In the tech world, 8 years is already practically a lifetime. I feel like that was the case in the 90s and earlier, but now? An 8 year old computer is quite capable of doing the kinds of basic browsing that most non-geek users do. But
566.
by 1over137 4y ago
True, but it means you don't get security updates, because Apple doesn't provide full security updates except on the newest OS: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-clarifies-secu...
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by 1over137 4y ago
Indeed. But two wrongs don't make a right.
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by 1over137 4y ago
>Supporting old hardware costs money because you need to write more tests. Not supporting old hardware has major costs too: ewaste pollution. But of course those costs are 'externalized' and not borne by Apple, but by everyone
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by 1over137 4y ago
>It doesn't make sense to build every other program on top of SQLite I dunno, it's not a crazy as building everything on top of Electron. :)
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by 1over137 4y ago
Good points. But 3 and 4 are partly caused by social media I think.

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