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by alaricus 4y ago
China did not spend 20 years murdering people in the Middle East, resulting in the death and displacement of millions.
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by alaricus 4y ago
> it's the same awful suburban sprawl as most North American cities That's why I don't live there anymore. The Earth is bigger than North America.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Raytheon shareholders are counting on you!
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by alaricus 4y ago
You mean how Americans are despised for their murders in the Middle East?
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by alaricus 4y ago
> I get that “China bad” is a popular position America needs a new bogeyman now that Muslims are not scary anymore.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Non-American here: I lived in the Bay Area for a few years and hated it. There are no cities, just one big blob of suburbia.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is why centralized services are a bad idea.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I don't like that Patreon takes a cut. So I just sent the developer a bank transfer.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I hate modern apps. They are bloated, slow, buggy and not at all customizable. Something went wrong in the last 10 years.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Today's services are indeed much more sophisticated, but not necessarily better. This is because better and cheaper hardware made people sloppy, not because we have much better services.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Technology is making us more productive. If your metric tells you it isn't so, then your metric is wrong.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I love these apps, they are great. I donated to the developer and really recommend doing the same.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Wasn't the Turkish Bayraktar drone also involved in the sinking of Moskva? Not to rain on the "feel-good" parade, but Moskva was laid down in 1976 and launched in 1979. It was older than most people on HackerNews. Don'
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by alaricus 4y ago
I never understood why Netflix is assumed to be more convenient. There are illegal streaming websites with better UI and user experience than Netflix.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is also my experience. Pipewire is better than Android or Mac.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Care to back that up with data? The link above is demonstrating the opposite.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is really great news. Pipewire made great progress in the last few years. It solves a lot of problems I had with Bluetooth headsets in PulseAudio.
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by alaricus 4y ago
It works mostly for me, except that my bank doesn't provide apps through fdroid or an apk through the website.
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by alaricus 4y ago
true. but fdroid has the better track record.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I trust FDroid more than I trush Google.
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by alaricus 4y ago
If this statistics is true, then Google is removing lots and lots of legitimate apps. This is exactly why a monopoly is bad. 90% is nowhere close enough accuracy for such a system.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I'm sideloading apps. So I care about it. Apple won't get a single cent from me unless they allow sideloading.
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by alaricus 4y ago
The stuff about APIs is nonsense. The app works fine. It's better and more secure that Google's own email client. The problem is Google has no place making these decisions. This is textbook anticompetitive behaviour. The devel
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by alaricus 4y ago
I call bullshit on this. Google should not get to decide this. As I consumer I want this app.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Apple is worse. You can't even sideload there.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Google's monopoly on Android is pure evil.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is exactly where you need regulation. EU can force Google to to create sane policies for removal, or even fine Google when they do stuff like this.
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by alaricus 4y ago
In Android one can at least sideload apps. You can't do that with Apple. I have almost as many apps sideloaded in my phone as apps from Google's play store.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is textbook anti-competitive behaviour.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Google doesn't give a f. That's what is happening. This is what happens when you are a monopoly and there are no competitiors in your space. To simply stop caring about being good.

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