Bud

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by Bud 4y ago
Hard to know where to start with this nonsense. Suffice it to say I'm impressed: every single part of what you just said is wrong.
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by Bud 4y ago
Not working yet. Nuclear paywall on this site, also.
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by Bud 4y ago
I grant some of these points, but: 1) You're citing the 2014 Mac mini because it's an outlier, and also old enough that some things which are integrated into the motherboard now (RAM, storage), weren't then. Coincidentally, t
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by Bud 4y ago
Please cite evidence that Apple is doing this for tiny random components on the board as opposed to more major components.
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by Bud 4y ago
Why would you "speculate" when the facts on this program (for iPhones) have been out for months and take 15 seconds to check and entirely falsify your comment?
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by Bud 4y ago
Please don't continue lazily spreading this "planned obsolescence" nonsense, especially in cases like this where it's obvious, immediately, that the claim is wholly unsupported by any facts or even possible theories. Tha
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by Bud 4y ago
Do you want to pay 25% more for Apple products so they can afford to train hundreds of repair techs to repair 10-year-old stuff, and keep supply chains alive to keep supplying 10-year-old parts, or, apparently, by your standards, 45-year-ol
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by Bud 4y ago
Nonsense. This isn't prohibitively expensive, as anyone who has googled it for 5 seconds knows, so why tell that kind of lie? And it's also obviously very very accessible.
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by Bud 4y ago
I remember when 10BASE-T was brand new and hilariously fast and radically better than the clumsy, bulky connectors and cables that had preceded it.
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by Bud 4y ago
You actually think that's a useful point? It's not. Mozart's father was an extraordinary musician, and had support from royalty. Obviously, most kids, the vast majority, don't have that privilege. Furthermore, you'r
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by Bud 4y ago
Except Vivaldi did nothing of the sort.
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by Bud 4y ago
But how different, really? Bach still has a lot of relevance in the present day. Try out Paul Simon's "American Tune". Based on a Bach chorale.
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by Bud 4y ago
Since this article focuses in on Bach chorales, here's a project I headed up in 2020 during the first months of covid to record (remotely; each person recorded their part individually, then sent it in) all the chorales from Bach's
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by Bud 4y ago
Elite schools for everybody? Hard to laugh hard enough at that. No. It doesn't mean that at all. We were a lot better off when participation in the public schools was much higher. Draining resources from that system cripples it, and on
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by Bud 4y ago
Home-schooled kids are missing out on a lot even if you assume they are getting a good basic education and you're also somehow compensating for the social aspects. Just to cite one example: music programs. Drama programs. The arts in g
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by Bud 4y ago
This might be a bit brutal, but to be honest: yeah. They kill a lot of humans. And humans very much need to be killed. There are way too many of us, and we're doing an awfully good job of wiping out Earth's biodiversity and long-t
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The world's rivers are drying up. See how 6 look from space(cnn.com)
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by Bud 4y ago
Pure guessing and speculation. You have no idea what California will manage and what it won't. As for Brightline, that's another joke argument: it's privately run! It's not public at all! So it cannot possibly prove anyt
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by Bud 4y ago
No, you failed to answer, then doubled down and hoped nobody would notice. We noticed.
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by Bud 4y ago
Ah, jailbreaking. You mean that thing that you can now, and have always been able to do, without anyone interfering? Having trouble seeing which tiny sliver of a point you have left.
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by Bud 4y ago
Conversely, though: what gives you the belief that you should get to dictate to companies built and run by other people the way in which they run their business? Why do you get to decide?
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by Bud 4y ago
A "government of elected representatives" (which is not what ruled in this case, of course, that's not what the EU body in question is) actually is the worst possible way to determine what a good customer experience. Which is
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by Bud 4y ago
SunRail has an average speed of 31 mph. This is less than BART (35 mph). Tell me more jokes about how red states are superior? And tell me again about how this is high-speed rail? It also has a ridership that's a small fraction of BART
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by Bud 4y ago
I'm sure you think you're being very clever, but actually, you're not. It's really quite clear here whether there was due process. Which is why a judge already ruled. Probably took about five seconds to figure this case
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by Bud 4y ago
Relax. Nobody is talking about sending you to jail. What's at issue is whether you have the right to force Apple to carry any apps you want, in their App Store. And you don't. It's really that simple.
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by Bud 4y ago
I put a rack/cabinet in the laundry room, with a QNAP NAS in there, Plex server is running on the QNAP, then an Apple TV 4K connects to that and feeds the TV. I like this better than trying to do some sort of long HDMI cable setup, bec
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by Bud 4y ago
Screw the impact on developers. As a user, I'm more concerned about the impact on users. The EU is dead wrong. EU commissioners have absolutely zero clue about what makes for good "customer experience". There's one party
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by Bud 4y ago
The user has no "right" to "install what they want". Words have meanings. Apple absolutely has the right to control what apps are available on its store, and what apps are not. This isn't about what is "appropr
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by Bud 4y ago
Another really creative and novel idea might be, perhaps we could try having a liberal Democrat run the FBI occasionally, or maybe even just once in its entire history. Check the facts: there has never once been a Democrat in charge of th
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by Bud 4y ago
Care to put your own money on the line behind that completely unsubstantiated guess?

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