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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
My personal papercut is with YouTube. It doesn’t care that: - my browser is in English - that I’m logged in and with English as my language - that my region is set to the U.S. - that I only used English keywords on the search box It still g
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
In Brazil the start model of the new iPhone SE starts at 4200 brl or 835 usd, according to google. The most famous apple joke in Brazil is that it's cheaper to go to US buy a top of the line iPhone, do some tourism and return to Brazil
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I have exactly the opposite issue. The fact that Apollo fixes all my reddit annoyances means that I use it way more than I should. If I was forced to use the official reddit app with it's ads and nonsense or the atrocious web page, my
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> Jobs + Wired + Gawker + Apple made an incredibly strong conceptual gravity well that makes conversation about this difficult. I never, ever, read the Jobs manifesto against flash. Never cared to read any article about flash back in the
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
And good luck buying any of these devices if you’re outside of the blessed distribution centers. Try buying any of those in Brazil or non US/UK/EU countries and you’re going to have tons of fun with import taxes and shipping. Sudd
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
You obviously never worked in a team where your boss wanted something impossible and everyone was afraid of loosing their jobs or whoever was not afraid already left/was let go.
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Whenever I ask online about linux gaming a lot of people say that they have better or equal performance on linux than on windows. My experience does not replicate that. My theory so far is that people that have better or equal performance o
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Not sure why, but I feel like there’s some difference between being blocked by these media outlets and being sent to prison for 15 years and/or experiencing a kafkaesque process where your whole life is in shambles.
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Every Linux package manager that I use have an option to hold one or more packages from upgrading. It’s common sense that one or more piece of software might break on update and the user should be able to hold it until a fix arrive. Even ar
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> I'd be surprised if anyone got a promotion based on their WinGet work. There has been no significant adoption of WinGet in the market. Because it's an terrible implementation of a package management. Don't get me wrong,
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> I think it's also affected by any ad blockers used by iOS Safari such as AdGuard, so there's very little disadvantage. It’s definitely not affected by AdGuard (as a content blocker) it’s only affected by AdGuard as a dns Adbl
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I’m not an expert by any means but I have a layman sense that keeping Windows safe is a way more gargantuan task than keeping an encrypted vault safe inside my computer (before 1password moved to this cloud nonsense to milk subscription mon
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> Brave is the spiritual successor to Firefox. Well if Brave is the spiritual successor to firefox I'm done with the web. This is not a jab on you or Brave. I'm simply completely disenfranchised by the whole browser / web
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Kinda off-topic: Can someone more knowledgeable than me on the inner workings of the web explain why Paul Graham website is one of the few(only?) website that I go where absolutely NO reader mode works? I've tried firefox, chrome, edge
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I recently tried wallabag on my home server. The web version is fine. Functional even. But the state of the iOS app is, well, not great. Clunky design, with odd syncing. Which is unfortunate as 99% of my use case is reading it on my phone w
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Can we crowdfund for the guys of ungoogled chromium to provide official reproducible binaries? I feel completely out of luck looking for alternatives to Firefox. Last time a looked ungoogled chromium was being served by whoever was willing
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> This probably also means people have to be willing to accept that they have to pay for more things. Someone has to foot the bill after all. Or decide that 95% of what we consume today is absolutely irrelevant and not worth to pay and d
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Are you sure? Just checked the link and the only arguments against 1blocker is the subscription model and paid upgrades. Nothing significant against adguard or wipr. The do not recommend list only have: -Adblock plus -Ublock -Adblock for sa
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I have this theory that without ads 90% of the web as we know it would end immediately. And nothing of value would be lost. Without all the noise created by the web supported by ads it would be way easier to find what really interests me on
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Safari + Adguard OR 1blocker OR wipr (it's not even close to ublock origin but it's the best you're gonna get on this damned walled garden) For ioswide adblock: nextdns dns profile is the best you're gonna get as well. W
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I just want New Pipe, firefox with ublock and emulators on my iPhone/iPad. Put the side loading toggle behind a thousand warning screens, make me run 3km in 12 min to prove that I’m worth it. But please allow it already or I’m out of t
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Jesus, I feel like she's just like any support assistant from official support forums that I ever interacted with: User: > Can we get support for using any search engine we want? This is my biggest annoyance with Safari. I use it ev
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> I understand that startups are scared that they won't be able to build up userbase from scratch but come on! Discord and Slack did it. I don’t use slack but the few times I tried to use discord it always said something suspicious
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> Maybe, but I'm not sure a working professional adult is an ad-clicker, and I'm not sure that the ads they click on can con them into doing something they wouldn't normally do very often. As a working professional adult,
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> I'd love to now see Google follow suit for Android You hope that google, an advertising company, will follow apple, a hardware/service company, to block trackers and diminishes the effectiveness of ads? Even if, by any chance
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> I would argue that a supernormal stimulus should be avoided at all costs. I don’t like these kinds of blanket statements I had friends that played WoW and were able to have a perfectly functioning life. They got great grades and had so
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Containers is amazing but is missing one key feature: addons isolation. My Profile A have only ublock + bitwarden installed (my most trusted extensions) My Profile B have random useful extensions for sites like reddit and youtube that I don
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> I really hope that if Apple is ever forced to open up their devices, that it takes the form of allowing other app stores and not allowing side-loading. > If side loading is allowed the amount of tech support I'll have to provid
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> Number of "technically inclined" people is actually in the millions. If you add up all the consumers of all third-party app stores in the Android ecosystem it would be easily >200 million. You’re probably right, but how ma
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
It seems like it’s only for those who purchased the windows(web?) app. If you purchased the iOS and/or android apps (like me) you’re out of luck. Doesn’t matter, I barely use pocket cast nowadays.

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