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by al_borland 15d ago
I probably should have said "everything was already enabled"... Opt-in/out was on the mind, and neither seemed like the right wording to convey that the choice was already made for me in the wrong direction.... I was opted in
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by al_borland 15d ago
I regret signing up for 98% of the sites I’ve signed up for over the years, if for no other reason than deleting those accounts (and the data attached) is difficult or impossible.
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by al_borland 16d ago
They say these features are opt-in and they reject dark patterns, but in my experience setting up LG TVs, everything was opt-in and I had to manually hunt through all the menus to turn this stuff off. Their statements don’t align with the r
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by al_borland 16d ago
I didn’t call anyone a “commie”. The push to allow illegal immigrants to stay, or to just give them citizenship unchecked, started well before any of the more recent ICE issues. Sanctuary cities existed before Trump’s current term. If citie
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by al_borland 16d ago
Illegal immigration. Preventing it, and correcting lax enforcement of the past is now labeled a maga issue, with democratic cities actively trying to work against ICE and people who support the left protesting against it. Here is a short cl
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by al_borland 16d ago
This is what I’m worried about. Not so much the time fixing it, as the “well, that’s good enough” even though it might have issue. Over time, those small errors that may have seemed trivial at the time could become more serious issues.
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by al_borland 16d ago
Positions that were mainstream in the Democratic Party 10-15 years ago are now being labeled as far right. There are a lot of normal people who haven’t changed their politics very much, but were left behind by the Democratic Party. The righ
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by al_borland 16d ago
I don’t see how maga is the logical conclusion of the mindset. Both sides do suck, and the answer isn’t blind tribalism, it’s common sense and reason. There is a lot of basic stuff that most of America would be on board with if they stopped
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by al_borland 17d ago
Yeah, I had this happen last time I went to the doctor… one of the last places I’d want it. At least with the Apple one they talked about how it works and it’s not some random product off Amazon doing god knows what. My dad is probably the
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by al_borland 17d ago
It’s to compete with all the failed AI wearables with the same features.
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by al_borland 17d ago
I wonder how long before we see how well these summaries hold up in court.
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by al_borland 17d ago
My hope is it’s off by default and most people choose to keep it that way. This featuring is undoubtedly to compete with, and crush, all of those stand-alone AI wearables that do the same thing. All those products failed, because people eit
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by al_borland 17d ago
If memory serves, it’s only on the ones with the wireless charging case. They get a few quality of life upgrades over the base AirPods, without stepping all the way up to the Pros.
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by al_borland 17d ago
I would venture to guess that the average user can’t tell. Most of the time, I’m just looking for some background noise, not a listening experience. The speaker on the iPhone is good enough for that. I have a pair of wired Seinheisers, and
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by al_borland 17d ago
I’ll definitely need to head to an Apple Store to see how it works for my hand before making any decisions on it.
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by al_borland 17d ago
The iPhone X was better than the 6-8, I think the screen filling the whole thing helped it out, but it was still too large for my liking. I moved to the mini when it came out to get a smaller phone. I found it interesting that the intro of
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by al_borland 17d ago
I think the iPhone 3G was peak iPhone design. It felt good to hold and was small. Later small models hand sharper edges and didn’t feel as good in the hand. The Duo’s folded size has the same screen size as the iPhone mini, so they did go o
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by al_borland 18d ago
I would need more information to comment on that. While I am pretty anti-Google and like to assume they are dragging their feet to collect more data, if we don’t assume the worst… I’m betting the changes to comply with new privacy laws requ
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by al_borland 18d ago
I stayed at an Airbnb in Shinjuku back in 2017. It seemed like it was already banned at that time. When I got to the room, there was a sign in the bathroom that said something to the effect of, “if anyone asks who you are, tell them you’re
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by al_borland 18d ago
And they do both. When I search for Lake Ontario in both Google and Apple Maps, I get to the right place. I’m not sure what the problem is.
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by al_borland 18d ago
According to the article, Australia’s government. I’d then need to hope companies added pagination globally to comply, or other countries hopped on board.
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by al_borland 18d ago
Google and Apple don’t name things. If the official name inside the US is Lake America, they are only hurting their users by delaying the change, as the map will no longer be in line with the reality the users are living in and things they
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by al_borland 18d ago
I’ve been scolding my LLM quite a bit lately for this. Instead of telling me what to do, it first tells me 3 ways that might technically work, but I probably shouldn’t use for various reasons. This is all a waste of my time, tokens, and san
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by al_borland 18d ago
One of my biggest pet peeves is a website with information I’m trying to get in the footer, but I can never get there, because the infinite scroll keeps loading more content. Never having this issue again would be a nice added bonus if they
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by al_borland 18d ago
I’m in the US, near the Canadian boarder, I see both names show up. Lake Ontario shows up larger and when zoomed out. Lake America shows up smaller as I zoom in. I suppose some of this could be a cacheing issue, hard to say. At the end of t
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by al_borland 18d ago
Performance was also a big issue for me the last time I tried running Jellyfin on the same hardware as my Plex server. I’m happy to see that has been their focus.
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by al_borland 19d ago
Every site requires enough people using it to make it worthwhile. This is especially hard outside of major cities. The more apps there are, the smaller the pool in each one. This is a problem for having too many app, and also a problem for
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by al_borland 20d ago
I wonder how many people would opt out after they’ve grown accustomed to endless feeds. I turned off my YouTube history about a month ago, which has the side effect of disabling all the recommended videos on the home page, so I just have my
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by al_borland 20d ago
Nothing, just The Match Group buying everything as soon as it becomes popular and incentivizing keeping people using the apps over successful long-term matches.
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by al_borland 21d ago
Funny enough, just this morning someone started telling me about a video they say on YouTube about tracing all the power lines in Red Dead Redemption 2, and I had also seen the video and was able to know exactly what he was talking about an

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