Reason077

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by Reason077 7mo ago
This sounds rather similar to the form of scientific fraud where you first create a conclusion, then invent/manipulate the data until it supports your conclusion.
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by Reason077 7mo ago
Honestly, Fortnite is run pretty responsibly. It's not bad at all compared to some of the other nonsense that's out there. Everything in the store is straightforward and fair. No gacha/gambling mechanics, no “pay to win”, no
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by Reason077 7mo ago
> ”Sorry, HOW?!? How can a company like Epic games … be losing money with a product that is so mature?” I’ve been playing Fortnite a bit lately, after my nieces got me into it. One thing is that although the player counts are high (alw
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by Reason077 7mo ago
Gravity. The aircraft is heavier at the back, where the engines are. With the nose severely damaged/missing, the centre of gravity has shifted aft, so what’s left of the nose is sticking up in the air.
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by Reason077 7mo ago
> "Spending time and money to acquire a calendar scheduler shows just how badly they have lost the plot." It sounds like Clockwise was pretty good at what they did, perhaps even the best in its class. Salesforce presumably se
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by Reason077 7mo ago
They broke into an RAF base, and defaced/damaged UK military hardware (spraypaint on aircraft). This is a serious crime, but in no way does it meet any reasonable definition of terrorism. There are plenty of laws under which those resp
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by Reason077 7mo ago
> "Im not going to risk getting in trouble because I made a post online or discussed immigration or trans people in the wrong way according to them." This is a mis-truth which has been spread by Joe Rogan and his ilk. Politic
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by Reason077 7mo ago
> "From all the reviews, those of us who are skeptical of 8GB of RAM are very much wrong" Yes and no. I had a M1 MacBook Air for several years, with 8 GB. It's fine if your needs are relatively simple (ie: just a browser
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by Reason077 7mo ago
Exactly! It wants to stay running constantly as a menu bar app, but I don't think there's any reason why that helps me. As you say, the mouse has a built in memory to remember its settings. I guess it might have something to do wi
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by Reason077 7mo ago
The Mac software for my Logitech mouse is called "Logitech G Hub" and it's also pretty awful. Every now and then my Mac starts going bonkers, random clicks all over the place or windows randomly switching focus. Quitting the
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by Reason077 7mo ago
No need for a retro Mac. macOS Sequoia runs great on all but the very newest Macs, and is still getting maintenance updates. And unlike with iPhones, it's perfectly possible to downgrade Macs back to older macOS versions if you want.
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by Reason077 7mo ago
Apple isn’t this bad, of course, but they’re slowly heading in that direction. The number of overlapping iPad models and variants, for example, is getting kind of crazy these days. Now there’s the MacBook Neo and a rumoured new MacBook Ultr
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by Reason077 7mo ago
> “Once or twice a day I need to manually bump the display brightness up or down.” This is a daily, albeit minor, annoyance on my MacBook Air too.
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by Reason077 7mo ago
There's also been rumours of a new high-end OLED MacBook ("Ultra"?) in the works, possibly this year.
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by Reason077 7mo ago
I really hope they roll back some of the more obnoxious and pointless aspects of "Liquid Glass" in macOS 27. And the super-rounded window corners are high up on my list. Looks childish, wastes screen space, causes so many little a
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by Reason077 7mo ago
> "elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog's, at 10 milliliters" Surely this depends greatly on the size of the dog. I've seen dog poops that are far bigger than that. That
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by Reason077 7mo ago
> “Also, credit card fees are not 4%, they're 1.5-3.5% with an average of around 2.3%.” And they’re much lower than that in the UK and EU. Even the smallest UK retailers can pay as low as 1.6% or 0.8% + £0.02. The big guys who are
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by Reason077 7mo ago
Not really. I did the thermal mod to my previous (M1) MacBook Air and it still didn’t get all that warm. The Intel MacBook Pro I had before that one got far, far hotter - almost scalding hot if you really pushed it - without any modificatio
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by Reason077 7mo ago
I’ve used both extensively and there’s very little difference in the keyboards between an Air and a Pro. The difference in displays (Pro much brighter) and size/weight (Air much lighter) are much more significant considerations, IMO.
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by Reason077 7mo ago
> ”Kids walking, biking, and being driven to school in mornings in darkness ... that's also what permanent DST gives us.” Can’t schools just open 60 (or 30) minutes later if this is a problem? ie: school has winter hours where cla
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by Reason077 8mo ago
Biodegradable foam packaging, as well has food containers, disposable cutlery, etc, has also been made from corn starch for decades. I’m curious what the advantage of mycelium packaging is over these existing materials. Presumably, it’s not
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by Reason077 8mo ago
I’m not, I’m just explaining why swap-ability is no longer as necessary or useful as it once was, and unlikely to make a comeback. Smartphones have always had replaceable batteries, and in the case of the iPhone, they’ve been compliant with
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by Reason077 8mo ago
All iPhone batteries are replaceable. And since the iPhone 16 or so, they’ve already improved the design to make it compliant with the EU battery regulation. It’s the Apple Watch, AirPods, etc that are more of a concern...
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by Reason077 8mo ago
Standby times were indeed great in those days because those phones weren’t doing very much when they were idle. ( Weeks may be an exaggeration, though!) You might also be misremembering talk times, unless you had a phone with an exceptiona
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by Reason077 8mo ago
It’s pretty difficult to do that. iPhones are known to potentially lose some of their water resistance after a battery swap, as it’s hard to guarantee the replaced waterproof seal is as good as the factory one. The EU battery regulation has
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by Reason077 8mo ago
> ”Replaceable batteries mean that you can just buy two or more and just carry them around so you can charge them less often.” If you think this is what the EU battery regulation means, I’ve got some bad news for you. Besides, as other
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by Reason077 8mo ago
Removable batteries were standard in the early days of mobile phones (and laptops) out of necessity: batteries in those days just weren’t very good. They didn’t last long, took hours to charge, and wore out relatively quickly. You’d carry a
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by Reason077 8mo ago
> ”it doesn't explain why Amazon would have a 2x market cap over Walmart when they both roughly make the same revenue.” Why does Tesla have 15x the market cap of BYD, despite BYD selling more cars, having more revenue, and much fa
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by Reason077 8mo ago
The key binding for Exposé is just F3 on most keyboards!
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by Reason077 8mo ago
The macOS Settings app is broken in all kinds of ways, as far as UI/UX goes. It's been this way since they redesigned it a few years back. Not that it was great before, but the redesign just made it worse.

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