FalconSensei

10 ms·

61.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
If ads are not being served, the content creators are not being paid, right?
62.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
Also: I watch Youtube on my TV. So circumnavigating ads is not as simple as installing adblocker. Also 2: I got rid of Spotify because of that so that's a win. (Considering the payment changes they are making now + Joe Rogan and anti-v
63.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
They already made gmail slow on FF on purpose some time ago, no?
64.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
the counterpoint is also that, internet is evolving way faster than those standards are able to keep up to speed. Considering the issues folks are mentioning here about moving on to RCS and then possibly being unable to receive messages, et
65.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
photos/videos get highly compressed, you can't share live location, don't share the typing status, don't have reactions, stickers, the list goes on
66.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
IMHO, you can tell that Google's also at fault because there's no Android messaging besides SMS. Android users outside of US (where SMS is not used) have to rely on Whatsapp/Line/Kakaotalk/Facebook Messenger. If And
67.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
You can send a SMS to iPhone users, and they'll see that in iMessage. If you want a group chat with friends, there are a bunch of apps for that. If your friends wants those cool features but refuse to use any one of existing apps besid
68.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
I think many people do, but not everyone. Wife and I use iPhones because we prefer iOS and for us the experience is better
69.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
The thing is that in Europe people don't use iMessage or SMS. They use Whatsapp. So this problem is already solved there
70.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
> For P2P communication. SMS is alive and well for B2C messaging, most importantly for 2FA OTP delivery, but also as a first line of defense against spam/bot account creation. In Brazil, businesses use Whatsapp to communicate with c
71.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
In South America it's the standard messaging everyone uses, even businesses. No one uses SMS
72.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
Even Instagram allows you to search your contacts. If they have their number set in their profiles, it'll find a match
73.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
That's the one thing I really want
74.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
apparently, a lot of american teenagers do. But I think it's because when a message uses iMessage, then there are reactions and other features available, where messages from Android are regular SMS and will lack those
75.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
> Even then, midori was considered a shade of ao. As you can imagine, this sudden switch-over had lasting effects in Japan. One of the most popular forms of Japanese wordplay is numeric substitution—writing numerals in place of words or
76.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
> but I’ve never seen orange juice that wasn't distinctly on the orange side of yellow wait what? I never seen orange juice that was not yellow (in Canada and Brazil)
77.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
> and dare I say it…disposable It's not like people pay for Netflix for enlightenment, or that their shows are all groundbreaking and life transforming. I do watch a mix of different stuff: - meme/video reacts - tv show/an
78.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
but the lesson learned is that apparently people can't live without Netflix, so they can raise prices. People complained and were up in arms agains password sharing, but not only they didn't cancel their subscriptions, but folks t
79.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
I do use the YT Premium family for me and my wife. I basically only watch youtube on the TV - so being ads free is really neat - or use it for music on the computer. Since YT premium comes with YT music, I don't need spotify/apple
80.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
I haven't yet seen this on my professional life (12+ years). There's always a few engineers that want to fix tech debt and improve code quality, but we have to fight with PMs to be able to, because is not new features, experiments
81.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
ppl also use DSLR to refer to the body type
82.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
Also, for someone doing street/landscape/portrait photography just for fun and instagram, iPhones will give you a nice image out-of-the-box. Fuji and Ricoh also do this with their built-in "filters", but it's more i
83.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
> I can guarantee with total certainty that github & cloudprovider & your external drives will not exist in 200 years. Probably not even in 50. tell me you don't know how doing backups work without telling me your don't
84.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
> I think you are severely underestimating the complexity of preserving digital data for 200+ years although I doubt my personal notes will be necessary in 200+ years
85.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
> I can bet a notes written today in a paper notebook - would be accessible 200+ years from now. compared to notes written in some notebook app I think it's the opposite, at least if you use obsidian or just md files. With paper not
86.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
Brazil does this too
87.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
> The advice that people react well if you pronounce their name correctly Yes, but it doesn't mean you have to keep forcing the person to try to pronounce your name perfectly when it includes sounds that their native language doesn&
88.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
As a Brazilian living in Canada, a coffee shop name is a must have. I tried using my name, but then Ill have to spell it. And then they are going to mispronounce it when reading it, so I'm not gonna know it's me they are calling.
89.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
It doesn't match my experience. It's easier to take a decent photo n rough conditions on the iPhone, than a camera. I have Sony a6400, Ricoh grIIIx, Fuji X100V and X-T5. With the iPhone (and androids too) you just point and shoot
90.
by FalconSensei 3y ago
on the other hand, I find GoodReads super intuitive. Moved to storygraph and I find the UX there kinda bad. Hard to find stuff

More ›