AJRF

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by AJRF 4y ago
This is something I keep thinking about. I'm not rich by any means, but way over the national average and if I am starting to get concerned about the cost of things, how the hell can someone on minimum wage cope. I think this comment m
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by AJRF 4y ago
I am relatively highly paid and short of shamefully I never really paid much attention to prices when doing a shop (I live by myself, only occasionally have friends or girlfriend staying over so shop was never huge % of my monthly budget) R
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by AJRF 4y ago
Rather they didn't bother with this, but very pleased I can turn the entire feature off in settings.
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by AJRF 4y ago
But he’s right. There’s no meaningful usage of it outside of America. WhatsApp is king everywhere else. Anecdotally more people I know use Signal than iMessage, including my non tech savvy sisters and friends. iMessage is too weird and Andr
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by AJRF 4y ago
It seems like over the past 6 months there has been a change at Apple. They are consistently seeming more evil with each passing week. Any Apple employees here that can shed more light on org changes that are causing this?
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by AJRF 4y ago
By the same merit, could also be a lot better than the lazy copywriting they have now.
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by AJRF 4y ago
Apples copywriters make everything the brand says sound smug. e.g; "iPad. Loveable. Drawable. Magical" "iPhone 14 Pro. Pro. Beyond" And now; Apple Security Bounty. Upgraded.
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by AJRF 4y ago
The point is that you can't do this with notebooks though, seems silly to want to do this here, with maybe the exception of blocking sync services you can't monitor. Which is totally possible with a bit of competence.
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by AJRF 4y ago
The recent approach to advertising services and the moves they are making detailed in this article have me asking the question, what is the point in paying the Apple premium these days?
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by AJRF 4y ago
From the outside looking in with this move Google have alienated Ubisoft, Bungie & Rockstar from any and all future product launches. Google seems to have become a mediocre company over the past ~5 years.
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On Device Network Logging for iOS(adamfallon.com)
45 points by AJRF 4y ago|5 comments
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by AJRF 4y ago
Is this the same author that made the talk about PAM recently? I really like his articles.
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Meta Quest Pro leaked after headset left in hotel room(9to5mac.com)
2 points by AJRF 4y ago|0 comments
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by AJRF 4y ago
Coutts has (in)famously gone through a digital transformation recently making talking to a personal banker exceedingly difficult. They are getting slaughtered on social media and on review sites for the change, because the new website and a
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by AJRF 4y ago
Also deleted account. If anyone from Otter.ai is here - don't do this, reverse this change, email anyone affected since the change and apologise and also, i'd advise you to lawyer up.
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by AJRF 4y ago
The scrambling to stay relevant after Stable Diffusion is very very enjoyable to watch.
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by AJRF 4y ago
It runs macOS on QEMU on machines that use Intel Xeon Gold 5218's - https://twitter.com/KhaosT/status/1410332951963869185/photo/...
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Working Offgrid Efficiently(100r.co)
3 points by AJRF 4y ago|0 comments
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by AJRF 4y ago
We're going back to the piracy days, ya harr!
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> We have been looking forward to reducing pricing for a long time. Our teams have made incredible progress in making our models more efficient to run, which has reduced the cost it takes to serve them, and we are now passing these savin
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by AJRF 4y ago
You are thinking about games the way Apple and Meta think about games - purely about the $$$. It's this exact reason why they can't crack the market despite a large number of attempts. "Cracking the market" for an art fo
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by AJRF 4y ago
> I suspect in the mid-long term, Apple, Google, Epic will be the 3 main actors of the gaming industry - Apple - the perennial "also-ran" name in gaming fundamentally don't get gaming. Never had, never will. - Google - Sta
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by AJRF 4y ago
"First we have to call the bingo service, see bingo knows everybody's name-o, so we get the users-id out of there..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
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by AJRF 4y ago
Yep, I've tried them all and Dropbox is the only one that I can say works. - iCloud - simply does not work, trusting your files in here is a fools errand. - Google Drive - They've change the name 6 times since I've started th
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by AJRF 4y ago
> Well I'm not coding all day so closer to 5% If you don't code much, and CoPilot only helps with with 5% of that small amount of code, that makes it sound not at all useful.
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by AJRF 4y ago
The reason I use it is because it checks the git repo of the package out so I can jump in and edit it and be inside a git repo if I wanted to open a PR with my change. When you use package.el it will download .tar's and not have git hi
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by AJRF 4y ago
> Google settled the case out of court, and we all know what that means. I don't, does it mean he had to pay Google a bunch of money?
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by AJRF 4y ago
Apple: Great hardware, barely tolerable software.
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by AJRF 4y ago
Interestingly I get a sense among most young people in Northern Ireland that they are pro-union while very distinctly categorising NI as a country in itself. There is a party called the Alliance party that is attempting to offer an alternat
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by AJRF 5y ago
I find this weird but i've always sort of resented generations (Boomer, GenX, etc) that aren't mine (Millenial) but Gen Z is the first one i've really liked. I find the general Gen Z humour to be very funny. I love their merc

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