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by WWLink 6y ago
Oh I love visiting my friends and hooking all their IOT things back up to the internet! Last time I enabled Alexa on everything. Now they can turn on their microwave from the bathroom! It's truly glorious! They really love it. They wer
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by WWLink 6y ago
Yep, and pandering to the lowest common denominator means that complex things are probably impossible. Making a complex thing simple is the goal we should strive for. Edit: I forgot where I was going. Here it is: I don't understand why
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by WWLink 6y ago
> The number of websites for which I want notifications isn't zero. It is zero for me! I consider notifications the greatest annoyance a computer can give me. Like, I hate it when a computer complains to me when I unplug a USB devic
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by WWLink 6y ago
There are ways to block those things at an OS level. However, I've given up on the idea of using an iPhone like a computer. Mine gets used for phone calls, text messages, checking my email, and when I need to look something up on a web
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by WWLink 6y ago
>I'd much rather use it as a desktop dev environment than Linux Yikes! I use Windows on my desktop at home because I like to play games on my computer that tend to not run well in WINE. I cannot program in Windows. I just can't
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by WWLink 6y ago
I had to turn off notifications in my browser because every page would pop the question. Like. NO! Notifications are evil.
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by WWLink 6y ago
Oh man, some web stores are like that! It's sooooooo nice. Like, you place your order as a guest and at the end it's like "hey if you give us a password we'll make an account for you!" THOSE ARE THE BEST!
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by WWLink 6y ago
IIRC the amcrest indoor cameras I use are POE compatible and they were like $50. Is that what you meant about a hefty price premium?
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by WWLink 6y ago
Yeah, Apple is the opposite of a company that would bother with focus groups and surveys. The butterfly keyboard was a good example of that. The "You don't know what you want" model. It worked out really well for them for a w
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by WWLink 6y ago
I agree!
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by WWLink 6y ago
How about a point where Apple doesn't expect a kickback from every transaction that occurs on an apple device?
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by WWLink 6y ago
It'd be neat if it worked like the ruler at the top of an MS word window (or textedit/wordpad), where you can drag in the margins!
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by WWLink 6y ago
> when paragraphs are that wide they become harder to read I hope I don't sound like a jerk saying this, but resizing the browser window is the key. I dunno why some people maximize everything on their computer - that's a reall
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by WWLink 6y ago
I will note that they sold 134 tickets. I'm guessing they only sold window seats! WHICH IS REALLY COOL! Likewise, since I doubt any luggage or cargo will be aboard the plane, it's probably going to fly pretty light compared to a n
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by WWLink 6y ago
Word. I live by a small airport right now and the plane noises don't bother me at all. Large airport flight paths can have different sounds though.
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by WWLink 6y ago
>Fuck you productivity freaks. You try to make me feel bad because I woke up “only” at 6AM. What's so terrible about getting up sometime between 8 and 9am? :o
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by WWLink 6y ago
I wonder if it was a bug in the way Windows handles "libraries". Like going to "documents" instead of going to c:\users\blah\documents. In fact I bet that's what it was. Maybe it thinks a USB stick is part of the &q
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by WWLink 6y ago
> the insistence that remote work is uniformly better for all people is just so exhausting The insistence that we need to force everyone back into the office makes me quite upset.
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by WWLink 6y ago
Half of your problem sounds like infrastructure issues and possibly not having a good workspace setup. I am super lucky and have fiber internet at home and we have an awesome VPN at work, so I can get <10ms ping to almost everything lol.
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by WWLink 6y ago
https://bgr.com/2020/09/03/ios-14-privacy-feature-apps-track...
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by WWLink 6y ago
> All of the other news, like hampering advertisers, is good for users but bad for companies and developers who like to prey on users. I think it's all a mixed bag, and it might be naive of users to assume Apple is always going to p
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by WWLink 6y ago
I've only worked for small companies. The one company that gave me a bad impression about how it treated its employees is the only one that ended up bankrupt.
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by WWLink 6y ago
Yes it is. They should hire another person.
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by WWLink 6y ago
Yeah that's the "they have x, why don't i?" attitude that causes a lot of problems. It should be an "everyone should have x!" attitude instead. At the end of the day, everyone's human, so there should be a
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by WWLink 6y ago
It would be nice if the browser knew how big the gifs were before it downloaded them, and thus didn't download anything over a certain size.
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by WWLink 6y ago
> Are American tech companies so fragile that you can't lose staff for more than two weeks at a time? Almost everything in the US is understaffed to the point that one person missing will ruin someone's day.
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by WWLink 6y ago
There isn't really anything stopping people from making simple HTML/CSS/JS code, and I think it'd be nice if more people did that. Instead of thinking about how one could grow something, it'd be nice to think about
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by WWLink 6y ago
I use a magic trackpad and a logitech g502 myself. While I do like the idea of moving a mouse around with my fingers, I have small hands and found the magic mouse way too dang heavy for such use lol. Something like those little logitechs te
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by WWLink 6y ago
Out here Target went hardcore on self checkout a while ago. Now you'll see like 2 registers open, kinda sucks if you have a lot of items.
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by WWLink 6y ago
I dunno about where your parents live, but out here where I live, Target kinda took Walmart's place. There are very few Walmarts, and so the Targets are about as bad as Walmart is in other places I've lived in the past lol. It&#x2

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