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by crossroadsguy 11d ago
There are users, there are rabid fans, and then there are blissful corporation groupies. Apple has a company that severely lacks the first kind – because if it did, it would have either fixed its act or gone into the ground.
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by crossroadsguy 11d ago
i think that was sarcastic or should have been sarcastic :D
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by crossroadsguy 11d ago
Isn't OMP sort of Claude in Pi's clothing? I tried it and it seemed like I was using Claude. But if tweaking is needed there then why not stick to Pi and add/strip as needed? > Anthropic forbids its use on their subscripti
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by crossroadsguy 11d ago
Pretty sure their decade old iCloud Tabs bug, that leaves phantom tabs from other devices stuck, isn’t fixed. They also allow an app to start backing up their data in your iCloud quota without your explicit apoorval or enabling. In fact whe
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by crossroadsguy 12d ago
Not only that. I also question how they pick new features to implement. For example usernames - I am not going to trust another "private" IM app username feature same as what Telegram and WhatsApp questionably chose. Compromise on
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by crossroadsguy 12d ago
Even reddit bans any netlify.app url in messages or posts (at least for me). Never checked for comments.
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by crossroadsguy 13d ago
> in a form the non-technical public can use. That happens when public uses it, en masse, in the first place. And as it is today the "public" has no reason/incentive in switching to it and that naturally keeps the "n
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by crossroadsguy 13d ago
I am seeing a clear divide where people see their livelihood being adversely affected by AI.
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by crossroadsguy 13d ago
Also when they start dealing with payments there might be regulatory requirements like record keeping for a certain period.
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by crossroadsguy 13d ago
And apparently, just like Telegram, just like WhatsApp, they readily merge the username with your number if numbers are already saved.
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by crossroadsguy 15d ago
I don't know what you tried but I tried to do something in Pi what I'd have usually done in Claude and it devoured tokens (much more than Claude) and I wasn't even close to finishing the task. Mostly because the barebones Pi
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by crossroadsguy 15d ago
The trick to use Pi is you use it in N ways if you have N use-cases. You need N set of shortcuts/plugins/aliases etc for that. Can get tiring at times. So I keep Pi for just one case - when I have to easily strip everything out fo
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by crossroadsguy 15d ago
This looks like such a nice cli/tui talking/chat harness - an agent with which I can work on non-coding tasks (where it literally doesn't need any tool - maybe a read tool for few files in that folder, or not even that) - wri
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by crossroadsguy 16d ago
Few of the biggest reasons for "migration" to the likes of React Native, and web-views et cetera, were "lack of talent", and not getting that talent fast, and for cheap, et cetera, while of course terming that as innovat
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by crossroadsguy 16d ago
Well, good for Apple — at this point if they released an actual brick (I mean an actual clay brick), wrote a few Applesque things on it, showed it on stage, said stuff like "First Ever Apple Brick™," and priced it at, say, $399 (t
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by crossroadsguy 16d ago
> A phone that fits in the hand for those Right. I must revisit the "What It Means For Something to Fit In a Hand" chapter from my UG's Common Sense 101. It's been a decade.. more actually.
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by crossroadsguy 16d ago
Wouldn't a more traditionally appropriate question be: "but are those Apple"?
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by crossroadsguy 16d ago
Yup. They just works . So satisfying. Now, Apple, shut up and take my money! Actually that is satisfying part. And please make sure I need to pay that money again in a year or two. Thank you. Happy to be an Apple user. Best company.
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by crossroadsguy 16d ago
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/how-credit-car... probably this Pix, UPI, and a few more
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by crossroadsguy 16d ago
Phablets are still bad, and yes, I am aware that a lot of phones today are just phablets. Everyone uses them, doesn't mean they're not bad.
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by crossroadsguy 17d ago
True. Also heard one guy in gym was thinking of Apple releasing devices with things like replaceable batteries. He got a heart attack next day. It's very unhealthy what PC is suggesting and yes I agree with you.
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by crossroadsguy 17d ago
That might send wrong signals that Apple has started following standard/common specs.
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by crossroadsguy 17d ago
But is that an Apple? If not, then how is that good?
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by crossroadsguy 17d ago
Something like this: same.. > nurse is able to oversee and accomplish more .. and work with more patients in the same shift. > She can spend more time talking with patients .. we mean the talking will be through the "ClaudeMedTal
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by crossroadsguy 18d ago
Is Holland that good at containing this "there's a huge problem with makeshift bombs" news pieces coming out in the open?
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by crossroadsguy 19d ago
That's what I was wondering - how does one even read a book on that tiny X3. X4 looks like the perfect size though, proper pocketbook size.
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by crossroadsguy 19d ago
The average person, on either end of political or cultural spectrum, or anywhere on anything for that matter, is fine with wherever they are. Also, the last thing they want is an overtly opinionated and often increasingly hostile population
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by crossroadsguy 20d ago
> making self-hosting accessible to everyone This happens with making many small to medium level resource hungary apps, for personal usage, run on one VPS which is not a heady duty machine costing heavy duty money. I have tried this on s
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by crossroadsguy 22d ago
Keeping the good, bad, and evil aside for a moment, is it possible that the very reason this company makes billions consistently is because they ruthlessly (or stupidly as per "us") drop things they don't want to do, don&#x27
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by crossroadsguy 22d ago
Sometimes I feel it's a blessing that for even a minor change my banks make me visit the branch and ask for my real Govt issued IDs (often more than one) while also make me do the online auth (Govt ID; needs OTP and biometric) and stil

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