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by dmz73 5y ago
That seems like another symptom of the same problem. Apple locked me into their ecosystem...but that is their right, after all it is their platform. Apple sold me faulty hardware/software but I have to buy more Apple products (new hard
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by dmz73 5y ago
You have to start somewhere, the easiest way is to ban new sales as that is what you can enforce without too much expense (both financial and political). Then as old machines slowly fail, most people will buy new electric ones. And if there
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by dmz73 5y ago
I think you got it backwards. The main reason is to exclude 3rd party repairs and extra security is a side effect that can be used as justification. Follow the money.
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by dmz73 5y ago
Apple silicon has been in Apple phones for many years. Worldwide iPhone market share has not increased and it has not beaten the competition. Desktop users will be even harder to convert due to more legacy software and bigger OS differences
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by dmz73 5y ago
I am not form the U.S. I think the problem is not that average citizen managed to beat the career politician, that is (possibly?) the good part. In my view the problem is that this average citizen now has to deal with other career politicia
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by dmz73 5y ago
When you code for yourself, write what you want. If you write to collaborate then use English/ASCII. Imagine international aviation if they allowed the same BS that people in IT allow and now even try to promote - everyone talking the
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by dmz73 5y ago
But when you sell 1,000,000 TV units extra 180,000,000 profit is not insignificant.
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by dmz73 5y ago
I am not so sure about that...maybe you don't run updates in the background but some of the distros do and there are random strange problems until you reboot. Windows is definitely worse at that but Linux is not 100% safe either. Also
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by dmz73 5y ago
Interestingly I have the exact opposite experience. Apt has never failed for me in the last 15 years but pacman fails all the time in both Arch derivatives and specially in MSYS2. With pacman you HAVE to keep updating at least weekly. MSYS2
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by dmz73 5y ago
Facebook MAY sell your info for profit. But Apple never will. Google MAY use you info for profit but Apple never will. Apple removed all competition so they can charge me 5x the price and they will NEVER sell my info to profit, NEVER.
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by dmz73 5y ago
FF on android WAS a great browser. If it never existed before and you tried current version then it would be OK but lacking some important features and you could hope it would gain those features soon. Knowing what features have been remove
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by dmz73 5y ago
Your wording shows lack of understanding of GNU/Linux history since Linux is the kernel and all the distros just build around it. But even bigger tragedy is thinking that this is awesome. We had an amazing kernel/os called BeOS th
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by dmz73 5y ago
Windows 7 version of paint on the other hand is better than most paint like applications on Linux so if they made that version cross platform then we could finally have a decent simple paint program everywhere.
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by dmz73 5y ago
What I use on my NAS is 2 data disks that are backed up to on-demand mounted disk which keeps versioned backups of changed files. For my use case this gives me a copy of each file that I care about and in case of malware encryption, corrupt
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by dmz73 5y ago
I have no data or research supporting my opinion. What I think is happening is this: Rich countries now allow people to have an abundance of free time and an easy way to connect to like minded peers. This results in anyone in a "phase&
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by dmz73 5y ago
USB is faster and it is better when there is nothing saturating the USB with traffic and CPU can keep up. Most of the time there will be no noticeable difference using the USB mouse or PS/2 mouse. But if CPU is busy and USB bus is satu
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by dmz73 5y ago
USSR back then and all the currently "democratic" societies now are more than happy to support projects that show everyone how much better they are than the "other guys" but when it comes to actually improving the life o
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by dmz73 5y ago
I think both your and parent's analogy are somewhat off. IDE is like a big machine that can make a variety of parts to the exact spec very fast with minimal waste. This machine can help even inexperienced operator become productive in
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by dmz73 5y ago
There are two instances I can think of (I've done it myself) where the bug is important but user does not come back to check on the report after 1 or 2 weeks: 1) Trying out different environment and finding things that do not work. Rep
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by dmz73 5y ago
Well, to be honest, I would expect a = a + b and a += b to behave exactly the same regardless of the type they operate on. Most people use += as a shorthand for the longer version so having them behave differently is dangerous.
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by dmz73 5y ago
You can do two things: - fight : you will either join the establishment or have your life ruined but you won't change things - adapt : accept the things are the way they are and make the best of the situation In either case you can
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by dmz73 5y ago
US can "print" world reserve currency at will and borrow from itself without restriction. It isn't surprising that vaccines are so readily available in the US, at the cost of few 10s of billion, that US can just will into exi
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by dmz73 5y ago
I think Apple has always installed software on their users' devices with explicit intent to harm their customers. This instance just makes is a little bit more obvious what the harm is but not enough to harm Apple's bottom line. E
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by dmz73 5y ago
If you are using a command line tool for 10 years and don't consider yourself an expert then either you are not using the tool very often or the tool is not well designed. In case of git I would say it is the latter. I mostly use git v
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by dmz73 5y ago
I think there is a very easy fix to most HTML/CSS problems when building GUI on the web - use HTML5 canvas. HTML is not a good match for GUI and CSS is not a good match for...anything. HTML5 canvas brings you to where Windows/X w
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by dmz73 5y ago
The problem is not that billionaires are spending their money on space exploration. The problem is that we have many billionaires and millions (billions world wide) are barely surviving. Do you want our species to expand to other planets wi
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by dmz73 5y ago
Windows 9x had driver and stability issues but you could always kill an application if it stopped responding. Linux today is similar to OS/2 - the OS keeps working but UI is unresponsive so if you have another computer you can ssh in b
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by dmz73 5y ago
Python is a nicer language to use than C or C++ but that is not a very high bar to pass. The main reason VBA is horrible is because it allows dynamic typing by default and Python would not help there at all. VB syntax is actually nicer than
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by dmz73 5y ago
I think a lot (not all) of people will use C and C++ because they need good performance, compile time checks, portability across OS/CPU architectures and reasonable memory usage. Most of the people who use C and C++ are average program
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by dmz73 5y ago
China.

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