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by Schlaefer 9y ago
Why the sentiment is right, their products always offered a very perceivable leap in some areas. But what "important thing" does the HomePod better? It feels like a late me-too for people who are locked in the ecosystem (i.e. Appl
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by Schlaefer 9y ago
Give the non-canceled rest a try as long as it's there. – Did you ever upload your own music in the cloud with Apple or Google but everything got messed up quickly and you had to fight with opaque upload mechanisms and servers represen
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by Schlaefer 9y ago
Also you need a "powerful" GPU (i.e. Metal), so not every Mac which is able to run Sierra supports Nightshift.
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by Schlaefer 9y ago
Same situation here ("Zwischenablage"-country, was made familiar with the concept in the non-icon days, learned the shortcuts and never click icons). The icons were always somewhat confusing to me, I have to actively think what th
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by Schlaefer 9y ago
> opening Paint, and pasting from the clipboard! That's not a solution that will be available on a machine without Paint. You will have Paint 3D and the first three buttons you see after opening the app are "New", "Op
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by Schlaefer 9y ago
There will still be a Paint on every Windows machine, it's just Paint 3D instead of MS Paint from now on. And yes, Paint 3D allows to manipulate 2D images as MS Paint did.
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by Schlaefer 10y ago
> The first iPod even. I was specifically talking about that device. Taking later years into account the situation may of course be somewhat different.
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by Schlaefer 10y ago
I understand, but I can't remember that anybody - esp. outside the very small Apple bubble - cared about the product itself or extensibility in particular. I would completely dispute that extensibility was a common concern. At the time
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by Schlaefer 10y ago
Not really. Memory cards were what back then? 128 MB at best? The iPod had 5GB storage build in.
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by Schlaefer 10y ago
> Germany always knew operations were conducted there but now must react to this overt news. Snowden outed Frankfurt (and Berlin) years ago. [0] There's no more interest in meaningful consequences now as it was back then. [0] http:
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by Schlaefer 10y ago
Maybe this was an WP7 feature which still had backwards compatibility. My personal knowledge starts with 8.1. At least since 8.1 - so practically any relevant phone sold or in use today - the SD card has a hidden encrypted partition which h
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by Schlaefer 10y ago
Windows Phone/Mobile user here. SD card content is not encrypted. Encryption for SD cards is coming in the Windows 10 Creators Update and just dropped in the dev builds[1]. [1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperienc
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by Schlaefer 11y ago
Actually h.264 hardware acceleration was introduced in 10.1 mid 2010 and it had a public beta in the months before. It was Windows only with Adobe saying: "Mac OS X does not expose access to the required API" [1]. Apple opened up
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How Windows Insider Feedback Influences Windows 10 Development(blogs.windows.com)
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by Schlaefer 11y ago
You have to understand that some circles of the german internet avantgarde have a beloved Feindbild [1] when in comes to the Spiegel (google "ehemaliges Nachrichtenmagazin" [ironic "former news journal"]). It's not
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by Schlaefer 11y ago
We are pretty sure what the literals mean. On the other hand we have many string channels: get/post/cookie/persistent storage¹/… Given that environment its probably natural that you try to convert a string into its &quot
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by Schlaefer 11y ago
It's hard for newbies who want to master the language. It's not hard for people who have no interest in learning a programming language and just wan't to make the thingy in their HTML do some stuff. Register globals, &l
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by Schlaefer 12y ago
SourceTree is that app: you know how git works but you don't want to fiddle with CLI commands and text output limitations. 99,5% of the everyday workflow is covered by a nice GUI. Alas atlassian decided to go after the "Github App
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by Schlaefer 12y ago
There's an extended ticket for that issue [1]. The gist is to update to the latest Java 1.8. For PHPStorm JetBrains has also released a version with a bundled JDK 1.8 which fixes the flickering for me [2]. [1] https://youtra
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by Schlaefer 12y ago
Mp3 redeeming and Amazon's DRM-free AutoRip (Germany here too) is a real game changer buying Vinyl. It's a convenience that makes me happily pay 20 bucks for an LP without thinking twice. Most of the time you consider it creepy
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by Schlaefer 12y ago
> What's the deal ? Mac OS and OS X always had good multi-monitor support. In 10.7+ Apple tried to push a "one app in fullscreen as in iOS" approach as new paradigm, negatively affecting the multi-monitor experience. It ba
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by Schlaefer 12y ago
Bypassing security for profit is not the definition for civil disobedience.
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by Schlaefer 12y ago
But I'm voluntarily visiting the place! Of course I'm using my resources doing that. What's next: let the cooking magazine pay your electricity bill, because you decided to try out their recipe? Let the cinema pay for your gl
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by Schlaefer 12y ago
But how does it apply? A website is hardly a "public space". This quote makes no sense in the virtual world where everyone can build his own planet without ads if he wants to. Space is not limited here.
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by Schlaefer 12y ago
Imho FA doesn't need so many brand icons or subculture symbols ala Star Wars at all. These should be separated from the core. FA was a go to because it had a great set of useful generic icons, not because it included every symbol unde
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by Schlaefer 12y ago
The last tweet is pure gold in this context: https://twitter.com/thinksimplenow/status/464738030125711360
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by Schlaefer 12y ago
Google does one thing right that makes me quit DDG: put the URL next/below the title. What and where together. 90+% I don't need the Why and parsing over it to find the URL is distracting.
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by Schlaefer 13y ago
NoScript: yes. Disconnect and Ghostery: no. An online article, friends or family send people to Disconnect and they click the install button. After that it protects them by "disconnecting" from "tracking sites". I promis
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by Schlaefer 13y ago
Small businesses don't reinvent ads or analytics, they rotate banners and that's it. They also don't implement their own software but use third party tools/plugins to manage their ads. Ghosterly and Co blocks those commo
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by Schlaefer 13y ago
Many companies consider controlling essential to do business. But even if you disagree, you would do end user support a huge favor if you could mention that "It alters the webpages you visit and may break them." next to the down

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