donarb

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by donarb 6y ago
Not every free app has in-app purchases. My city, Seattle, has an app called Find-it, Fix-it where I can report potholes or abandoned cars. One Bus Away is an app that shows bus arrival times. I have grocery apps that show me what's on
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by donarb 6y ago
No, that's what the $99 a year pays for. You can create and upload a free app to the App Store and Apple gets nothing.
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by donarb 6y ago
Why is this arrogant? If they are asking about the Touch Bar, it's most likely because the developer mentioned adding some feature to the Touch Bar in the release notes and it is not apparent what that feature is. You can't advert
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by donarb 6y ago
Burning coal creates fly ash which needs to be stored somewhere, usually large ponds near the power plant. In Tennessee in 2008 a dike ruptured and released 1.1 billion gallons of coal fly ash slurry that flowed into nearby rivers that drai
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by donarb 6y ago
He actually requested the exemptions be made for Android developers. He cut/pasted his letter to Apple from his Google letter and forgot to change the platform. https://twitter.com/rsgnl/status/129690763995222
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by donarb 6y ago
If you remember Handbrake had a version of their app hacked and uploaded to a distribution server.
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by donarb 6y ago
Flours do contain some naturally occurring sugar, usually less than 1%.
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by donarb 6y ago
Washington State DMV has moved a lot of stuff online. Driver's licenses are renewed every 6 years, you can do that online, so you only have to go to the DMV every 12 years to have a new photo taken and an eye test.
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by donarb 6y ago
The joke was that Apple would add "beleaguered" to their name since most stories about them used that word.
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by donarb 6y ago
Sounds to me he violated the rules by offering free services to the guy WHILE he was in the Apple Store. Otherwise how would anyone else know about it and report it to his boss?
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by donarb 6y ago
Except games and Xbox: "The new fee structure excludes all games and any purchases on Xbox consoles."
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by donarb 6y ago
Microsoft can fire game developers from Xbox.
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by donarb 6y ago
Epic is suing Google as well, but not Sony or Microsoft. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368363/epic-google-fort...
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by donarb 6y ago
Apple provides a ton of services besides the credit card processing. - 24/7 worldwide availability, instant payment/app download - Easy re-install after deletion, you still own the app even if deleted - Region restriction
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by donarb 6y ago
Oregon has distributed 100 million ballots over the past 20 years in its vote by mail system. In that time there have been just 12 cases of voter fraud.
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by donarb 6y ago
Not overreach, it's solidarity. As was stated in the article, there is no government mandated minimum wage in Sweden as most jobs that would be covered under a minimum wage are negotiated union wages. Union members looking out for othe
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by donarb 6y ago
In the beginning there was a sort of hierarchy with the addition of modifier keys, it goes cmd, shift, option, control. Basic commands use the command key with a letter. Adding the shift key usually reverses the command, like cmd-Z in Finde
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by donarb 6y ago
If you cmd-drop a file icon into Terminal, it will automatically cd into the parent directory, it prefixes the path with cd and appends ; at the end and executes it. If the icon is a folder, it will automatically cd into that directory. If
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by donarb 6y ago
The Omni Group has had a free storage space app on the Mac for a long time called OmniDiskSweeper. https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnidisksweeper-catalina
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by donarb 6y ago
Note also that menus are treated like windows, so you can screenshot a menu as well.
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by donarb 6y ago
I've read that you can hover over the spot and it'll appear.
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by donarb 6y ago
Why is that?
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by donarb 6y ago
The other thing that bugs me when using apps that don't use Mac widgets is single line text fields. If your cursor is at or near the end of the line, pressing the up arrow moves the cursor to the beginning of the line. Same with the do
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by donarb 6y ago
Screenshots are cmd-shift 3 or 4 or 5. Cmd shift is a familiar enough chord in Mac OS keyboarding, it's used quite a lot. The differences between the 3 types of screen shorting is that Cmd-shift 3 immediately screenshots the whole scre
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by donarb 6y ago
> So basically - start the program again. It doesn't start the program again. Mac OS is smart enough to know if the program is already running and just switches to it.
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by donarb 6y ago
To restore a minimized window, cmd-tab to that app, then control-down arrow to show all the windows of the app, then use the arrow keys to select that window (minimized windows are smaller at the bottom), then return to open it.
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by donarb 6y ago
Halifax Harbor is completely encircled by the cities of Halifax and Dartmouth. The Beirut explosion occurred on the shore so half of the blast's shock wave essentially had no effect.
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by donarb 6y ago
It's right here in the App Store guidelines: 5.2.3 Audio/Video Downloading: Apps should not facilitate illegal file sharing or include the ability to save, convert, or download media from third-party sources (e.g. Apple Music, You
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by donarb 6y ago
The story has been updated, three people have now been charged, the teen, a man from Orlando and a man from the UK. https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349920/twitter-hack-arr...
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by donarb 6y ago
I use my chipped card frequently when going to the grocery store. Pretty much 20% of the time, it won't read the chip, reporting "Chip Malfunction". Even wiping any sort of gunk off the chip contacts doesn't fix it. So y

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