Telaneo

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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Ahh, DRM-ed cars. I should have seen that one coming, really.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Assuming your car has all the functions you care about, and the OTA updates aren't bringing you any bugfixes or feature updates you care about, is there any good reason to update? Or even have it online to begin with? I'm not expe
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Given that the (user-facing) software that comes with the car is always broken (modulo Tesla and a few other modern exceptions), it's no wonder people want to replace that software with literally anything else that actually works. This
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Pirating songs is not stealing. It's copyright infringement. If I go to the store, pick up a carton of milk with my right hand, and magically get a second carton of milk in my left hand, then walk out the store with the carton of milk
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Copyright infringement is not stealing.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
It's a case of some people making it worse for everyone. If people behaved on the server, MS wouldn't have intervened, which then wouldn't have made 2b2t cave on a what feels like a core ideal. It may only have chipped a corn
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
If your app is paid, there should be a business behind it, which has a business address and other associated contacts. Replace 'app' with literally any other product or service in that sentence, and it still seems reasonable to me
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> I know this may seem like moving goalposts, but I forgot to mention another point here, which is that I'm perfectly happy with allowing my customers to reach me by mail and they actually can reach me that way. What I'm much l
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Correct. They get one shot at correction, and if the fault isn't gone by then, refund it is (or the seller can just jump straight to a refund if they want to). You'd be surprised how often this happens.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Even then, I've had success with older HDMI and DP cables up to fairly high bandwidths. It's only on a longer cable and a 4K screen, as well as one 1440p screen that was just really picky for some reason, that I've had issues
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
It's not too bad if you know it can happen and more or less expect it. Nobody goes on 2b2t not expecting chaos. Thankfully, there are other servers on which people play nice. And there's always the option to host your own with fri
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
It's been a joy to not need to bring 3 chargers along when I travel. I think the only thing we're missing to make the USB-C experience perfect is cable labelling. It's unreasonable to make every cable perform to the max spec,
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
It's become less common to play in 4:3 over the years. The additional peripheral vision has become too obvious a benefit to not make use of. It's probably mostly a habit thing. Most of the pros started to play these games back in
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> if business A sells a widget to reseller B who sells it to reseller C who sells it to the customer, there's multiple layers of markup. How can the original manufacturer be expected to refund the purchase price? Simple. They operat
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
A fair argument at least for some games. The games I have in mind though still have those details present on lower settings. Instead they just look like shit rather than disappear. To be fair though, that just might make those details have
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
The joys of consumer protection. This one is fairly old (2002), and doesn't have any origin in any EU law, although I would have though that the EU had something roughly equivalent by now, and if they don't, they really should.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> No, Dell will not give you a refund for something purchased at a retailer. They're legally required to.[1] [1] https://lovdata.no/dokument/NLE/lov/2002-06-21-34/KAPITTEL_5... Section 35 Edit: F
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> Apple is the analog to the local electronics store. They're the ones with the direct relationship with you, they're the ones you paid, they took a 30% cut off the app developer's top line explicitly under the pretext tha
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> I often see people targeting frame rates way beyond their display’s refresh rate. I’m not sure whether this actually provides a real benefit or whether they’re chasing a placebo effect. If they are chasing a placebo effect, it's a
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
I have a vague memory of (X?)Wayland being much worse than X11 before, and some patch or protocol making it out to all the relevant implementations, but I might have imagined that, since these result show virtually no difference, and only X
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
I don't need a physical address nor a phone number to get a refund from my local electronics store either, but I do believe they should be available.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
Sounds like something Apples needs to be fix then.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> In case of an app, what is the "product" you are buying? The app. > Because according to Apple, they add a lot of "value" by ensuring the software is safe, performant, etc etc. Am I not buying "a safe, check
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> How far down does this go? Should I be able to contact the individual person who picked the specific strawberries in my carton of strawberries? Down to the manufacturer of the whole product you're buying. In the case of your straw
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> Plenty of very large “reputable” companies obfuscate their physical address and phone number, and don’t even offer an email address for contact. This is whataboutism. They should do that too. The fact they don't isn't an excu
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> Developers cannot issue refunds from the Apple App Store. That sounds like something that needs to be fixed. > Contacting the developer by physical mail doesn’t have any effect. Ditto.
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
I agree. Even the platonic ideal of something like Facebook isn't really a problem (assume a Facebook with a chronological feed which shows nothing but what your friends and liked pages have posted, and it'll be a lot less addicti
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> I might be misremembering or misinterpreting, but it seems like you really need an LLC with a mail forwarding service and a cheap second phone line just to avoid the App Store sending the whole internet to your personal phone and addre
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
> Leap-hours seem to me to be moral equivalent to the "fuck it, let's just give up" option. Sometimes, doing nothing is the right option. Sometimes, giving up is the right option. I believe this is one of those times. The
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by Telaneo 3mo ago
I agree. The difference in how much we're out of sync with the sun is tiny and also completely inconsequential in the vast majority of cases, especially compared to the trouble of the alternatives. By the time the difference is relevan

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