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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
> The EU could start blocking payments to that porn studio. Sure, but this is not punishing the company in any way which was the other posters point. If the EU was blocking payments to Apple after Apple withdrew from the EU, they are not
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
> So instead of losing 5% or so of their revenue in the EU they’d rather lose > 80-90% seems like a smart business decision… Not sure where you're pulling that 5% figure from, but the EU wants to fine companies like Apple a much
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
> Certainly always, in the case of companies like Apple. No, lol. If Apple pulls out of the EU, they won't have any official presence, period. > They either lose > 95% of their sales in the EU or comply with their regulations.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
It's not people making silly claims so much as you being very attached to your assumptions.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
Translate what you like, it doesn't change my point: Free to play is not inherently predatory. There's a big difference between free to play and using as many dirty tricks as they can to fleece as much info as possible (and/o
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
I mean, if it's too much, they will just pull out of the EU and sell to Europeans via online only. EU citizens will still be Apple customers, just without any EU protections. To be fair, the EU is being a bit ridiculous sometimes. Ap
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
It's going to be amazing watching Apple accept that they have to remove their stupid, anti-consumer and limited restrictions, at least in the EU.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
None of that matters. The owner of a game doesn't dictate whether the game is predatory or not, the behavior of the game does. The free to play model isn't inherently predatory, either, although certain companies certainly are. Ca
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
> It's a problem for those who already bought Apple and didn't know any better or didn't care. Also, not everyone likes the only available other alternative, which is Google, as while they allow sideloading, they're s
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
Get around it.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
Not optimally.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
Conversely? Who mentioned there being a performance impact?
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
I recall that as well. Linux basically filled the need/goal they wanted with Hurd, so it became far less important.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
You're not making the point you think you are, or at least not remotely well. Look at big picture stats to draw a conclusion instead of pointing out a pretty obscure US problem that has no bearing on the claim made.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
> However, I was a little put off by the glorification of nVidia's shady practices and lock-in policies as key to their current leading position. While technically true, I dislike "ends justify the means"-style thinking. P
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
Maybe that kind of childish decision-making is why Japan is failing as a country.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
> I use Firefox inside eatmydata nowadays, because it spends 10 minutes enumerating the same 2 directories every time it starts up (hundreds of thousands of times). What have you got like a 10 year old profile or something? Librewolf sta
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
I'm not aware of any bugs like that. Got any links maybe?
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
> It’s uncharacteristically un-Apple in terms of UX polish. Apple's polish has always been more about the surface then the internals.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
> I am MacOS's biggest fanboy and Tim Cook's strongest soldier wow.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
Some people can't.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
>The Finder has so many bizarre quirks and it's so slow to proliferate updates that it's just embarrassing Say what you will about Windows, but the Explore file manager has always been pretty rock solid.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
With lots of marketing to make people want the change as much as a new iOS version.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
Trump supporters and fascists are more likely to destroy themselves before it ever gets to that point. If anything worse than covid comes, given their resistance to vaccines, the problem will sort itself out.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
Read the judgement and stop making assumptions.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
The example you gave doesn't seem emotional or blatantly false, but factual and appropriate.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
Reagan destroyed the US by cutting funding for schools, cutting mental health social services, and removing regulations from companies.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
> Especially if the dissent writer is Sotomayor or Alito, frankly. Weird. Sotomayor is one of the few credible justices we have.
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
> Or did they listen to and trust someone who told them that? And if so why did they listen to and trust that person? Who cares? The issue is their gullibility and lac of education and ability to think critically. > How about the peop
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by DEADMINCE 2y ago
I agree that would be a great help, but I don't see that happening when half the population is just going to be contrarian and obstructionist to something like that. Not least because it would mean they would have significantly less po

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