RonanTheGrey

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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
> I've had Apple lead me into the woods one too many times to really be willing to trust it. This reflects my experience as well. It's usually correct but when it's wrong it's really wrong. In a thread about getting o
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I'm about 98% ready to leap off Gmail for good and I was going to consider Fastmail but unfortunately won't, due to this. The ones I'm considering are Microsoft 365, Protonmail, Tutanota and Posteo. Seems tough to pick betwee
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Wow that's amazing, will definitely take a look!
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Damn, nice rundown. I will check out Carbonite, looks very promising.
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I'm really struggling with this one. I'm increasingly unhappy with Apple's bullying and the only other option I have is a company that may brick my device at any moment because "machine learning". There's serio
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I remember when I first got my Gmail address, what... 18? 19? years ago. Google was hot shit and everyone was like "Well if Google makes it it's got to be good!" I don't think people actually believe that anymore they ju
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
That statement reads, to me, as unprofessional and petulant. What kind of editor makes a personal attack on a former colleague in a public setting in the name of a journalistic organization? It simply drives home to me the idea that it was
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Not upholding the first amendment; upholding the principle of the first amendment, that is, the first amendment doesn't create a right, it protects one that we all already have. The Bill of Rights are based on natural rights, ones we
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
> are using thinly disguised lawyer-crafted threats I don't think there's any other way to interpret that than "threatening litigation". You don't receive a message from a company's lawyers because they&#x2
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Are you claiming that Glenn Greenwald, one of the most respected journalists, is publishing a garbage article?
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
> You don't sound like you've had much experience with these variations and their impacts. Lol... I have had tons. In more than one language. My point was, that despite your best efforts, you will still offend someone eventual
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Exactly. In generations past this was called "respecting boundaries" and was something we do as a social activity -- we literally teach others how we are willing to be treated (or more generally, we teach others what behavior will
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
You're kind to interpret that as generously as you are. I mean that. I appreciate that. Forcing ourselves to see the other side is important, even if only to immediately discard it; because it's the practice of doing so that helps
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Agreed, another statement I don't find fulfilling is "oh well it's always been this way". Well I mean yes, it has... but we're discussing it because we're considering the option that maybe there's another
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
So the drivebys are here again, no idea what issue they took with your post, I thought it was beautiful. Just wanted to be positive in a thread where there seems to be lots of negative.
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
A subtle feature of language, at least in English, is that prefacing things with "I think" or "I feel", while displaying humility in personal conversations, has the effect of devaluing your own argument if done in excess
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I paused on that as well and took OP to be relating bullying to NumFOCUS' criticism of the article author; rather than simply saying that all criticism is bullying. Perhaps a bit too generous but you're right, the statement didn&#
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
> it's slight, but feel the difference between "You should read...", "You'd like reading...", "I think you'd really like...", "I got a lot out of reading...". I used to obsess about
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
> they're planning to remove the charge port entirely in the iPhone 13 I can't... I don't... why would they do such an insane thing.
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Ah, ok. Good points... So, I have been around awhile -- 6 presidential elections and many more smaller ones.. I got to thinking about this and I realized that at some point, the national conversation changed from 'who you vote for and
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
100% with you that FPTP was a mistake and should be rectified - I've seen some pretty good proposals of how ranked choice voting could work and would result in much more equitable outcomes.
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Here's the problem: Those people have a right to be wrong. That's why your vote counts as much as theirs does. The space that that leaves is where leadership is supposed to come in, in order to tilt the balance one way or the ot
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
> I recently had a generator installed that attaches to the natural gas line. Hmm. Is this something I can buy at Home Depot or something?
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Don't go giving them any ideas.
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Comes and goes for me. On an average technical search these days I'd say DDG is easily equal to Google and on the rare occasion I still have to switch to Google.
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
DDG had a period a few months ago where when I toggled on my country-specific search, the results were _spectacular_, language specific, relevant. Then it went away again. :/ It did make me hopeful that they're working on somethin
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I think you misunderstood (but I appreciate your reply) This bank is NOT using FaceID, they invented their own version and are calling it the same thing. Your picture goes to their servers. Who knows what happens after that. And they'r
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Lol...
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Rather than downvote me for pointing out how companies abuse this, explain how this is an improvement.
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
All that's well and good until companies start implementing their own FaceID then forcing you to use it [0] on the back of trusting Apple, even CALLING it the same thing. This app linked above (my bank) contains NONE of the security yo

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