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by GoofballJones 3y ago
What a PR disaster this will be for Apple. I can't see how they could possibly spin this or defend it at all. That is, if it's true. It probably is, but I'm always dubious of "a person with knowledge of the meeting said&
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
I'm just amazed it took this long.
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Oh, good lord, why didn't I think about that?!?! WOW! Hey everyone, just stop eating sugar! CyberDildonics has solved it! Collect your Nobel Prize in medicine! /s
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
It's tantamount to people telling others with clinical depression to "just cheer up and stop feeling sorry for themselves. Have you tried not being depressed?"
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Absolutely, REAPER. While it may be a little obtuse to learn, it is absolutely as powerful as the big guys in music production such as ProTools. Plus it works on both Windows and Mac, unlike Logic. There is a big community around REAPER als
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
I use Apple products and I am in no way, in any sense of the word, "rich". I'm not even close. And why is it that someone tries to show how expensive Apple products are, they always list the highest end, most tricked out prod
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
I'm currently on it and it was prescribed by my doctor for my diabetes. I just started it. Yes, the side effect may be weight loss for me, which will also directly help my diabetes in and of itself, but the weight-loss is only a side e
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
I used to be a professional photographer, and have been out of the game for about 10 years. For the last 15 years of my profession, I really embraced the digital SLR in my work. But I still had a big 8x10 field camera that I would take port
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
The "inshitification" now extends to our cars.
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Thanks for linking to a 4 year old story. Now link to the follow-up stories to where Apple no longer does this and they were sued for breaking their privacy policy. Google still does it, as in their TOS they basically say "yeah, we&#x2
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
It's like the owners and managers of Reddit have no idea how Reddit operates. "Mods? Who needs mods? Or users? That's not what our company is about. And what is a "subreddit?"".
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Just reading the headline I was like "why X-ray them? Couldn't they just take them apart to see what's inside". But clicking on the article made me go "Oh, I get it now. This is damn interesting and very informative
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
This is always on a case-by-case basis. Just because THIS particular person can't work everything on an iPad doesn't mean EVERYONE is the same. My mother-in-law, for instance, does everything from an iPad. She doesn't own a c
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
1993 was around the time I first installed Linux. I can't remember much of it though, but I think the first distro I installed was Slackware? Maybe? I just remember being kind of jazzed about configuring it to look much like IRIX, whic
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
This seems a little...unbelievable. Kinda semi-sensationalistic reporting.
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
"...is deeply invested in building stuff for the movie industry". I mean, they both are. That's the whole point of this post here, to show Weta and Unity and the tools they have for movie makers. With your "Unity... Well
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not trying to obtuse here, but did he take some secret knowledge with him to the grave or something? Can others not figure out the code? I can understand it may be quirky, but is the future of vim really in peril?
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Not sure if you're being factious or not. vim is an open source project and he wasn't the only person working on it. The future of vim is fine.
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
The person that posted it here made the mistake, my bad and apologies on that part. I read the article, and it's still ridiculous on many levels, number one being that they haven't even used the fricken thing. It was all just spec
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Indeed, the most ridiculous thing about this article.
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Maybe read, think, and then don't reply to my remarks. While Apple can serve ads to you, it's what they do with that data that matters. No matter what we do, if we want to have any presence online, meta-data is going to be collect
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking that it's the Steam Deck that's skewing these. Which is fine. Both Linux and MacOS are dwarfed by Windows. The weird thing is, for me personally, is that of all the games I collected over t
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Someone gave me a book about the Bell Witch in the 1970s and I just remember it scaring the hell out of me. I usually don't get scared easily, even back then. But things like that did for some reason.
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Yeah, sounds kind of like the old Renderman RIB files. Does Renderman still use RIB files? I've been so out of the loop it's insane. I learned not long ago they no longer use the original Renderman Shading Language.
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
The late, great Ricky Jay was one of the very best card magicians who ever lived...plus a fantastic magic historian.
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Though the article did hit the nail on the head with this statement from the Teamster's head: “Today’s news is unfortunate but not surprising. Yellow has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars i
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Yes, sideloading is the key. Meanwhile, from just today: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/android-malware-use...
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
"That's all going to the government! I ain't gonna use that!" ok...
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
I take it you don't use Apple products, because there are a bunch of 3rd-party apps out there that use the Face-ID or Touch-ID all the time. For instance the password manager 1Password uses biometrics to get into the app, if you choose
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by GoofballJones 3y ago
Guess the old replies to that of "oh, but it's open source! Anyone can see the code...so there's no need for security because the OS is secure because anyone can see the code! See? Any bugs and they're fixed in like hour

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