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by antonyh 7y ago
Fair point, I'd forgotten that. If only they'd released NetHack for PS3, it would have run in the background easily ;-)
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by antonyh 7y ago
1. Who knows what data Google is giving back in return? 2. Neither want a monopoly. A duopoly is far more resistant to regulation. 3. Many business will advertise on multiple channels. So long as they edge out the others it's fine by t
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by antonyh 7y ago
I'm an EU citizen in the EU, therefore it applies.
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by antonyh 7y ago
It wasn't great though - it didn't use spare cycles. It had to be started and run exclusively. If they baked it in to use cycles when games were paused for instance or made it switch to FAH instead of powering off, it could have b
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by antonyh 7y ago
FAANG is just a buzzword acronym, a hook to pull in investors. LinkedIn is Microsoft, which should also be included given it's scale. It should be FAMANG.
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by antonyh 7y ago
True with enough redundancy it's fine, and if they have special terms with SG such as free replacements and heavy discounts then it's little wonder they use so many. Myself though, for SoHo use, I'm willing to pay more for le
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by antonyh 7y ago
Seagate do an 'archive' HDD, but with only a 3-year warranty I wouldn't expect it to work as a long term solution.
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by antonyh 7y ago
I wonder if that's a characteristic of streaming a single file, consecutive blocks. That's be really strange behaviour though. Perhaps a thermal issue if the TV keeps it powered and spinning all the time? Certainly Xbox seems to k
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by antonyh 7y ago
If only there was a viable competitor phone. The choice is iPhone or some flavour of Android. Even if Android had E2E encrypted backups, it leaks is so many other unpleasant ways that it's not even a choice. For me it's a vote for
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by antonyh 7y ago
This. Vbox won’t run if Hyper-V is enabled, and Docker / WSL2 won’t work without Hyper-V. True for me on vbox 6.0.14, it just crashes the VM with a cryptic error. Workaround is not easy, hyper-v had a different feature set for network
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by antonyh 7y ago
What’s the obsession with maxing out? Anything can be made expensive. It’s just gold-plating. What about ranking price versus the recommended spec for a given task; this would give a better sense of value.
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by antonyh 7y ago
It makes web pages like HN dark (in FF). I don't get why it takes so long to do it though, so toggling it is frustrating, and the side effects are pretty horrific as it throws boxes around everything.
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by antonyh 7y ago
Instant 'dark mode' bookmarklet / scriptlet: javascript:(function(){body=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];body.style.backgroundColor='black';body.style.filter='invert(100%)';})(); If only
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by antonyh 7y ago
Dark mode turns laptops into mirrors, especially if they are glossy. Any office that has overhead tube lights is a poor match for dark mode apps. I even go with light terminal schemes in this case, and I have a strong preference towards dar
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by antonyh 7y ago
I wanted one of these when I first spotted it, but in hindsight it would be too dependent on software to work and I'd probably end up spending ages setting it up when the right thing to do would be to get blank key caps.
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by antonyh 7y ago
I have one device which is USB-C - a mouse. In what world is a mouse better with USB-C? As for CD drives, the world moved on to bluray and that has a licensing cost as well as not fitting with the iTunes strategy of rent-and-never-own. Appl
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by antonyh 7y ago
Also the SD-card reader. That was a deal breaker for me, I use these as much as USB keys. I use a laptop with a reader, the card is flush (not sticking out) and it's a great way of expanding storage. It's also the best way of gett
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by antonyh 7y ago
This is a solved problem now. It no longer does the restart thing (or hasn't for a long time). It gives a 7-day pause option too. The two things that break Windows are spaces-in-filenames, and max-filepath-length. Urgh. MacOS is broken
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by antonyh 7y ago
That's build 10162. It's now on build 18362. That's like comparing current MacOS with one from years ago which also has some weird UI things going on. In Windows, certainly some of these have been fixed but aside from being v
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by antonyh 8y ago
I dumped Chrome, stopping 'Googling' and moved to DuckDuckGo, installed uBlock Matrix so I could block as much of Google as possible (damn you reCaptcha), but it's gmail that's the tie-in. Changing email address is super
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by antonyh 15y ago
Interesting. I use my tablet landscape except if I'm reading an ebook. Maybe there's something more natural about landscape views, and I've been conditioned to read in portrait by printed material. On smaller devices I find portrait more na
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by antonyh 15y ago
Evil is as evil does. Or are you suggesting that it's possible to be evil without doing evil, or vice versa?
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by antonyh 15y ago
Neat. That might just work... :-)
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by antonyh 15y ago
The other aspect of design that needs to be taken into account is the size of the tap area - you don't have to make the buttons huge, but the responsive area should be larger for younger audiences and with more spacing between controls.
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by antonyh 15y ago
Also, which is better for kids - landscape or portrait? Has anyone seen a preference, or are all the apps landscape?
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by antonyh 15y ago
Is there a way of stopping accidental taps on the lower part of the screen? Android is bad for this, with back/home buttons in the corner. Perhaps some sort of elasticated non-capacitive fabric barrier wrapped around the device that can be
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by antonyh 15y ago
Use gift cards instead of registering a credit card. It's much easier to control the spend. I totally agree with 'ad-free experience'; if I can't tolerate adverts in apps then I wouldn't let children see them where they will distract from
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by antonyh 15y ago
Google won't have any problems then.
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by antonyh 15y ago
"Neo Technologies cites several customers, though none of them are household names." Really? Adobe? Cisco? Deutsche Telecom? I'd say these are.
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by antonyh 15y ago
Perhaps they mean WebKit. Oh wait, that's not just Android. They don't even spell the name of their own stats package right in the article: StartCounter? StatCounter? Also, anything called Phandroid is likely to be slightly biased.

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