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by brimble 4y ago
> Safari is only good for Netflix for me. > It's inspector is just so different from the rest and you can't even have a custom font to be used! because, security... Yeah, it's far from perfect but it's really light
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by brimble 4y ago
> Safari annoys the heck out of me but I use it for the battery life I wish it had more and better extensions, but the battery life savings and general lighter feel/effect on overall system responsiveness is so large that I put up
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by brimble 4y ago
Notes is great. One time I was like "it'd be nice to put a PDF in this note. LOL, bet that won't work" but no, of course it did, embedded it exactly like I'd hoped it would. Drag & drop, there it is, can view it
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by brimble 4y ago
Sure, that's silly, agreed. BS about Apple being a "fashion company" isn't really helping, though.
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by brimble 4y ago
Heh, I was kinda bummed out when I got mine. I'd been developing on Linux for years. That turned around hard in a month or two. This was well before the super-shitty run they had where they went all-USB-C, Touch Bar (ugh), and ruined
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by brimble 4y ago
I felt the way you do for the entire decade of the '00s. Then I started a job that issued me a MacBook Pro. And got to see, use, and develop for, a shitload of Android and iOS devices, both phones and tablets. Turns out I'd just n
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by brimble 4y ago
The OS and first-party software are at least 50% of the reason I buy Mac hardware, personally. Safari (+20% battery life), Notes (missing a couple features I'd like, but has also never crashed or glitched on me in a decade of use, so..
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by brimble 4y ago
I think my whittled-down NES ROMs dir that included probably a dozen games that aren't very good but have strong nostalgia value for me, plus a couple Japanese games in unofficial translation, ended up being around 80 entries. I'd
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by brimble 4y ago
Apple has been good at quality, but the quantity's still really low. I keep meaning to cancel because I go months without watching anything on it. Unfortunately for them, it'd be an excellent one to start subbing just one month
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by brimble 4y ago
I have too many streaming services ("cancel Netflix" is on my todo, plus Amazon Prime) and HBO and Hulu both crush Netflix. They're the two no-brainer general-purpose streaming services (Disney+ might compete for one of tho
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by brimble 4y ago
To me, purely as far as the using-my-editor part of it goes, it's a lot like having practiced an instrument to an OK level of skill, but only ever playing it alone, then being asked to perform for others, who will make decisions about
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by brimble 4y ago
> I don’t know, I am a recent convert to Mac but OSX is much much more buggy than ios (I guess due to tech dept and backwards comp?) Agreed, but iOS is playing on easy mode: it sandboxes everything to a high degree, everything running on
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by brimble 4y ago
> Linux is an incredible family of operating systems. Every few years I will try downloading and installing a few distros. I always run into issues with GPUs, sound cards, and WiFi. Once I get past those, I run into different sets of iss
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by brimble 4y ago
> Macbooks may look pretty, but the software has been becoming increasingly garbage. I consider most of their "free" add-on software best-in-class or at least best-for-my-use case, with only a couple exceptions (including, yes,
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by brimble 4y ago
Apple stacked like 3 fuck-ups at once (going no-USB-C to only-USB-C in a single jump; the Touch Bar; the bad keyboards) but when I went looking for alternatives it seemed like I'd be cutting off my nose to spite my face (that is, they
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by brimble 4y ago
I find Marvel movies in particular are better if I watch them somewhere I can use my phone or chat with people whenever I like. They're worse in the theater where I don't have anything to do but pay attention the entire time. Th
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by brimble 4y ago
For my part, when someone's looking over my shoulder, I get too nervous to rely on basically any editor functionality except cut/copy/paste, undo, and save. I start second-guessing everything. So you may as well just give m
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by brimble 4y ago
That's could be part of it, but for AR, drawing or (hand) writing, reading long-form text, applications that involve putting your device where a piece of paper or a paper notebook might go (lecterns, music stands), anything that requir
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by brimble 4y ago
People've been saying that since I started using macOS around 2010, and I still don't know what they mean.
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by brimble 4y ago
A laptop can't do all the things an iPad can. Other things, it can, but it's worse for them. It's not as practical to add on hardware & software to make a laptop able to do those things, as it is to add a keyboard and poi
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by brimble 4y ago
Who have a desktop, or who'd like to try to drop to just one device for whatever reason (cost, easier traveling, minimalism, whatever)
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by brimble 4y ago
It saves you buying and/or carrying yet another device, if you have or are going to have an iPad anyway.
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by brimble 4y ago
Economies of scale and some sort of insufficient-competition market failure seem to sometimes make relatively-niche choices far more expensive than they "should" be, and TVs seem to be one of those cases—so you end up with manufac
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by brimble 4y ago
A huge part of "culture war", uh, discourse, seems to be driven by inability to agree on common terms and a complete ignorance of how labels relate to reality (so most participants don't even act like they know it's a pr
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by brimble 4y ago
In my part of the US, nicer private schools and daycares tend to act that way, but cheaper ones or public schools schedule less of that time to begin with and are quick to replace that with indoor activities if there's a light drizzle
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by brimble 4y ago
Just one hour a year at median individual hourly income lost to junkmail and you're, what, at least halfway to that cost? One important missed letter every few years can easily cause more harm than several years of that fee. Seems like
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by brimble 4y ago
It seems like you're mixing up the orientation of the country, as far as the cardinal directions go. It is indeed in the North-Eastern part.
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by brimble 4y ago
That should be what they call a deacon in the Church of Satan.
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by brimble 4y ago
I'd just assumed it was from that. Greek-tradition minor deities and helper spirits. Like "genius".
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by brimble 4y ago
> But USPS is underfunded and according to the source below they made $13.9B from marketing mail in 2020. I would happily pay ( napkin maths ) $40-50 more in taxes per person per year to make this fucking stop. Shit, it'd save my ci

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