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by bsimpson 1y ago
My dad had his phone stolen a couple months ago. He bought a used one of Craigslist to replace it. I'm curious if the new shinies will make him want to upgrade. If it was just iPhone 14, revision 4, I doubt he would care.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I have an Anker battery and a Peak Design case. The wireless battery just slows the drain unless my phone is totally idle while charging. I really don't think wireless charging is very effective, at least it hasn't been with my 3y
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by bsimpson 1y ago
iPhone Cup is coming out next year, pre-curved.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Killer whales have a particular significance to Portuguese sailors. There's a group of whales off the coast of Portugal who have a lot of fun fucking up boats. They'll knock the rudder off a boat, potentially sinking it, for spor
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Reminds me of World of Goo. I played it on Wii, but you can play it on your phone or computer too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/22000/World_of_Goo/
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by bsimpson 1y ago
The "Signal should exist" part of me is happy to donate $2/mo to help them keep the lights on, but I really did expect that to be an option alongside Drive/Dropbox/et al, not the only option.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
My friends and family chats are on Signal because they're seamlessly cross platform. Not feeding Facebook is just a bonus.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
When we were kids, my dad felt like he was always the last one to buy into the stock market. He would buy, it would peak, and then it would crater. I was gonna buy in when the tariff shock hit, but it started to rebound before I got in. T
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by bsimpson 1y ago
> started requiring appointments I fear we're headed this way generally. There's a kind of person who likes to plan everything ahead of time. As we hit capacity limits (e.g. overtourism), those planners are going to book all
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by bsimpson 1y ago
As a lifelong Mac user, that's my mental model of that key. It's still the layout Apple uses in the US: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MXK83LL/A/magic-keyboard-...
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Here's a photo of that keyboard: https://www.instructables.com/Apple-M0110-Keyboard-Crossover...
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Alexis's mom had cancer. He wanted her so see him succeed, so they sold it in the first year to Conde Nast (the published of Wired magazine). Conde had a popular blog called Webmonkey, and there was a reddit feed in the sidebar. Earl
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by bsimpson 1y ago
For those who don't know the specifics of intellectual property law: Copyright is unwavering. The law says that the author/owner gets exclusive use of that content for a really fucking long time (something like life + a century, t
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Honestly, I'm tempted to see if Gemini can write a Sublime Text plugin that implements this protocol. Feels like a lot of mindshare has shifted towards VSCode, so that's where the tooling investment goes. I don't want to be f
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Working with open source software is definitely a strength of AI. Makes Nix a lot more approachable too, since just about every use of their language ever is on GitHub.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Sublime Text doesn't by default.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
15 years ago, I was using EC2 at work, and realized it was surprisingly easy to SSH into it in a way where all my traffic went through EC2. I could watch local Netflix when traveling. It was a de facto VPN. Details are not at the top of my
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Fair question. I think he wants to be Steam. He wants to grow to be a foundational pillar of the market. He is to a certain degree with Unreal Engine, but that's split with Unity. He wants Epic to be the top player. Might be ego&#x
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Tim Sweeney's backbone is in whatever shape makes him the most money. He's an opportunist (and probably a narcissist), not a freedom fighter.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Good catch! Didn't realize he wasn't OP.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
The whole party is corrupt. Lindsey Graham was loudly anti-Trump until Trump won, and now he's just as loudly a Trump sycophant. The establishment cares about its own power more than it cares about doing what's right. (That ind
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by bsimpson 1y ago
When I clicked the "Already an owner" link, it sent me to the Romanian page when I'm in the US on a desktop device that has never been abroad: https://frame.work/ro/en/marketplace?compatibility%5B%5D
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Granted: - Bazzite takes community contributions; whereas, SteamOS is packaged and distributed by Valve, and - Bazzite is based on Fedora, so the work to support Fedora should bubble over to Bazzite. I'm curious though, is there a big
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Apparently the AMD RZ717 is a rebranded Mediatek MT7925. It's strange that the prose uses the AMD name, but the photo uses Mediatek's.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
That's high praise - props to the people who worked on that rewrite!
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Conflating the people in charge with Republicans as a whole, and writing them collectively off, is a disservice to society and by extension, yourself. The tl;dr of the current conundrum is that we have two corrupt political parties, and a s
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Framework selling first GPU-upgradable laptop, with Nvidia's blessing(theverge.com)
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I've never used a browser reading mode until just now. As I understand, they're meant to hide all the cruft so you can see the content. I did it for some paragraph breaks, because that site is formatted as legibly as one big run-o
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Before they rebased onto UNIX, Mac files had two parts: a data fork and a resource fork. Data had the binary. Resource had strings, images, and other assets that the binary needed. It was great for local portability: you could put the file
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by bsimpson 1y ago
My dad went to school near Cupertino and got a student prerelease of the first Mac in '84. I've been in this ecosystem as long as I've been alive. As many others have said elsewhere in these comments, Apple has been stagnati

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