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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
My dream scenario would be Twitter and reddit effectively killing their api so we don’t have Apollo or Tweetbot anymore. These apps doesn’t help with addictive behavior because they absolutely remove everything wrong from these networks and
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> Play store have competition, btw: https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/get-appstore/android . Oh the illusion of choice. Nobody* is sideloading an appstore on their phone to have access to a new catalogue of app
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
People love to bash apple for their “expensive” products but I see it as I’m paying for support as well. My 3(?) years old iPhone XR works like new, receive regular updates and the battery still hold fine (never changed it). Whereas my and
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? Any similar stories? First: it’s defined not on daily basis. It’s on install or every blue moon update. Secondly: I vastly prefer dealing with this occasional browser change
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Where exactly is my pro pocket cast subscription? I bought the iOS app and, before that, the android app. And they still ask me to pay for the pro.
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I keep a personal txt file named "cemetery_of_paid_apps.txt" it's where I hold all the apps that I paid and latter became subscription based as a reminder of how stupid I was of paying for apps. So far the list: 1. Fantastica
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Well, I’m as far removed from a Ivy League education as one can be and I found this quite funny. But I’m also someone who uses Word since early 00s and can relate a lot to this text.
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> Can you really not think of any examples where VC capital has improved a company, product, or service? I honestly can’t, do you mind sharing a few examples to prove your point? I have a long list of “stopped using because went to shit
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> Recommendation algorithms really need to come with extensive UIs for tweaking, tuning and cleanup (less like this, more like this, don't include this, you're seeing this because of... etc...), maybe completely new 'explo
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I would be extremely surprised if 0.05% of Chrome users are aware that Firefox exist and/or that it should be an option instead of Edge. At this point a developed a love/hate relationship with Firefox. It’s the only browser I use,
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> When WhatsApp broke the encryption by allowing Facebook to detect forwarded messages, there was no uproar or sudden loss of trust. There was no mass migration away from WhatsApp. Well, you’re giving a not so great example there. I don’
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Funnily enough, if you walk on certain paths of computer nerdism you will find splurges of minimalism there as well. For instance: owning a 10 years old thinkpad running st and a window manager as your main computer signals very highly amon
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
The truth is: you’re not the customer that Dropbox wants. Not offering reasonable storage for a reasonable price is a way to keep users that they don’t want away from their service. Just like 1Password. They are extremely non subtle in push
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Yeap, everyone overexcited about Linux improvements either forget or ignore that many hardwares are completely messed up on Linux. My Laptop, for instance, have an issue where the kernel can’t recognize the keycode when the lid closes. I ha
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> Want to use Microsoft Office? There's Libre Office ready to go. Fan of Adobe Photoshop? GIMP is your new best friend. Theses are such terrible replacements that it’s hard to take his rose colored eye view seriously. No one that wo
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I feel that this is a first step to a complete power grab over telecoms from the phone manufactures. 1. Step one: Force everyone to use eSim 2. Step two: Bundle a internet plan through Apple One or wh
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Oh my god, I was just happy with myself for beating Sekiro a few hours ago and now I'm having my ass kicked by a 30 years old game. Great job!
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
English is not my first language but I feel fluent enough that the majority of my book reading nowadays are in English, I studied for some time in a English speaking country and I watch movies and tv shows without subtitles. So, although I’
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Windows 11 was an absolute downgrade to my Windows 10 experience. To the point that I went back to windows 10 in less than a day of Windows 11. 1. I can't ungroup the taskbar windows. So now I have to hoover the taskbar to see multiple
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> Random ad blockers are very dangerous, but there are ad blockers that everyone trusts, and you might not want to make it harder for them to maintain their projects. The answer to "Random ad blockers are dangerous" is not: Let
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> There are serious tradeoffs (no request time js makes it less flexible) but it's still very capable and easily can be used to block Google ads. Those serious "serious tradeoffs" made me completely stop using the web on m
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
Google has been on this crusade against piracy for awhile now. I first noticed when I tried to do this query a few months, years(?) ago: site:[famous non western tracker].com [insert music here] zero results. Same query, on duckduckgo: Ever
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> I have a 10,000 song collection that I sync to my iPhone. It's only about 60GB of music. How exactly do you sync to your phone? I've been using an iPhone for the last 3 or 4 years and I entirely gave up on the concept of havi
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
This link directs me to several bullet points and a truncated podcast. It seems like the real podcast is behind a paywall. I’m not sure what there’s to discuss about the content itself as I can’t listen to it. Am I doing something wrong?
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
No significant improvements in the last however many years. Yeap, it's a simple service but they constantly fail on the basics such as parsing the complete article. Over the years I had several instances of widely popular sites not bei
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
> Can you expand on what you like about it being integrated into firefox natively as opposed to an extension? Nowhere in my post I’ve said that I thought it was a good idea to integrate pocket to Firefox natively. I said that I loved poc
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I'm conflicted about this. For me, the best implementation of private alias is the Apple one: %randomwords%[at]icloud.com. It's way harder to wildcard block [at]icloud.com, as there are legit users of the icloud domain, than a wi
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I've just created a new Firefox profile here, let's record my experience: 1. Oh great, [x] sponsored shortcuts 2. How helpful, Mozilla ticked the following boxes for me: [x] Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
I feel like local accounts on windows is just like local vaults on 1Password. They kind of support it but will keep annoying and bullying the hell out of you to move to the cloud for “your own benefit”. Until you either leave or submit to t
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by arepublicadoceu 5y ago
How exactly do you know what my needs are? I don’t “need” to run Linux on it for the next 5 years as windows 10 will continue to be supported.

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