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by bsharitt 7y ago
> Also Windows Defender is fairly non-intrusive Microsoft and antivirus vendors have very different goals. Microsoft wants to quietly protect your computer without making a big deal out of viruses, while antivirus vendors always want to
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by bsharitt 7y ago
My delivery status with Amazon is frequently something along the lines of "left in the mail room". I live in a free standing single family home in a neighborhood where every one has their own mail boxes.
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by bsharitt 7y ago
First of all Be was purchased by Palm several years before webOS ever came out. WebOS didn't even exist in the same company. After Palm split into palmSource(software) and palmOne(hardware), the BeOs stuff(along side the old PalmOS stu
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by bsharitt 7y ago
I spent a few years as a DoD contractor, and both companies I worked for were the bigger company on the contract, but the lead contractor what some small company that fit a specific category. I'll admit that I considered starting my ow
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by bsharitt 7y ago
I'm in the process of trying to move to Jellyfin from Plex, especially as Plex tries to shove in more "features". Right now the only thing that's holding me back is the state of the Roku and iOS apps, which are still pre
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by bsharitt 7y ago
I loved my Pre, but I didn't keep it, like you said the hardware wasn't very good. Also at release, while the software was good and showed a lot or promise, it did feel a little beta quality, and that would have been easier to ove
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by bsharitt 7y ago
Not terribly surprised to see Microsoft win given the Trump administration's feelings toward Amazon and the DoD coziness towards Microsoft. I'm just happy those poor bastards in the DoD don't have to deal with Oracle. I know
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by bsharitt 7y ago
Don't know about the regular Kindle, but on even ad support Fire tablets, the ads are disabled while a kids profile is active, though that wasn't always the case.
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by bsharitt 7y ago
I disagree, there's often no "full version" of these free to play games to buy. There are a few developers that do the in app purchases to unlock the full version, and it seemed to a more popular business model in the early d
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by bsharitt 7y ago
Judging from all the comments, the Sansa Clip+ was a popular option. I used to have one to and loved it, but eventually my use of a standalone mp3 players faded when I had a phone on me at all times and the last time I pulled it out of a dr
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by bsharitt 7y ago
I think Cleveland plays NYC a big for the Marvel movies.
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by bsharitt 7y ago
Not just taxes, but being "beer" allows it to be sold in grocery stores and corner stores where a drink made from distilled spirits(even if watered down to the 5% alcohol) would have to be sold in a liquor stores in many states.
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by bsharitt 7y ago
I've not cancelled Netflix yet, but I'm looking to pare down my streaming services, and Netflix is the top of the list to go. Amazon and Hulu seem to be getting better for non-original content than Netflix. Rising prices and and a
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by bsharitt 7y ago
While I try to buy non-DRM books when I can, I'm still willing to buy DRM'd books as long as the DRM is pretty breakable(and I back them up immediately most of the time). If the books on Amazon, Google, B&N, etc were to sudden
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by bsharitt 7y ago
> If you need to travel into a major city, that can easily be 45 mins each way. 5 days a week, it pretty much adds up to an extra day each week. Doing the math on my commute time and realizing how much time I was giving up was a big push
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by bsharitt 7y ago
I also work remotely and being able to work remote will definitely be a major factor in taking any other jobs in the future. For me it comes do to avoiding a terrible commute and the open office trend has made it more and more difficult act
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by bsharitt 7y ago
Some how my wife got them to stop doing USPS on her account and she gets either UPS(which I rarely get from Amazon) or Amazon's own delivery. For a while she was getting quoted less next day and Sunday delivery dates since she was UPS
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by bsharitt 7y ago
This is the price point I've been missing and I've go one ordered already. Sure Nokia has been pretty good in this range, even with updates I think, but Verizon is the better carrier option in my area, so they're a no go. I l
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by bsharitt 8y ago
The Google News recommendations algorithm seems to have lots in common with the equally terrible YouTube recommendations algorithm. God forbid I watch one movie trailer in six months, now my recommendations are filled with terrible movie th
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by bsharitt 8y ago
I didn't realize that. That is very useful to know. Thanks!
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by bsharitt 8y ago
That’s what use and consider to be the best reddit mobile experience. The regular reddit mobile site doesn’t seem to render on iOS Safari properly most of the time, probably by design.
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by bsharitt 8y ago
Recently I've found myself at Best Buy a few times after not having been in years. There's a few reasons. For big ticket items like TVs, Amazon usually isn't much cheaper if they are at all like it seemed to be a few years ag
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by bsharitt 8y ago
>4) Users who are tech savvy take to social media or use personal networks to get special dispensations (see: every time someone posts on HN about a problem with their Google account and gets special intervention). The only reason I main
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by bsharitt 8y ago
Google buys GitHub. 6 months later it launches a new different code hosting site that is tightly tied with Google services. 3 years later new site and GitHub both shut down.
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by bsharitt 8y ago
That was my impression as well. While hurricane prone areas are highlighted well, once you move out of those areas, the map seems to start correlating to population to a large degree. Granted there are some cities missing and and some rural
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by bsharitt 8y ago
They specifically mention that Google Play Music subscribers will be getting access to YouTube Music, so I would take that to mean not YouTube Premium(i.e. renamed Red).
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by bsharitt 8y ago
>If you are a subscriber to Google Play Music, good news, you get a YouTube Music Premium membership as part of your subscription each month. And if you use Google Play Music, nothing will change Right now I get YouTube Red with my Googl
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by bsharitt 8y ago
I have this, but recently "local" spam callers have been getting through a lot more. I don't know if they're spoofing or buying up blocks of numbers but most of them have "valid" caller ids in Hiya.
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by bsharitt 8y ago
Google's problem is launching products to to compete with something that's just there. I would guess there's a very large chunk of iPhone users, perhaps a majority, that are completely unaware they're using an Apple mess
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by bsharitt 9y ago
Uh, yes that was indeed the point of my comment, thank you for restating that. If video was the only important thing, 16:9 across the board would be important. But going the other way to 4:3 is a vast over correction as it would make the sc

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