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by dpkonofa 3y ago
I'm in this crowd. I initially resented them but now love Steam and HL2 was what got me to install it. I have a 7-digit steam ID but my account is still 20 years old (it might be 19, I'm not sure).
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
I disagree wholeheartedly here. The Steam client has its problems but it's not shit. I use Big Picture mode exclusively on my gaming PC that's hooked up to my TV and I never have problems with Steam unless some other garbage launc
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
You get a special badge now too. I waited a month or 2 from release to install Steam because I only cared about Half-Life 2 and that was the first game from Valve that required Steam. You didn't even get a CD in the box, just a Steam
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
Oh god! Fileplanet. That also reminds me of "Download managers". They were literally apps that would search for the same file from multiple places so that it could try to part the download up and then combine the file at the end.
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
This was it 100%. I lived through this and that was exactly why Steam continued to be used in our LAN groups. Even for LAN parties, it made it super easy for everyone to make sure they were on the same version of everything. Extending that
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
It makes me sad to think about what will happen when the guiding lights at Valve grow dim and have to be replaced. I hope that they can continue this culture that you're describing. Their games are my favorites, the Steam Deck is incre
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
Yes, that's my point. The article had to use a once-in-a-lifetime/millenium global pandemic to make its point.
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
This is a great take because I suspect that the airline industry is exactly the reason why all these companies are now in the "death by a thousand cuts" stage of their strategies. Literally no one prefers the airlines today and
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
That's not walking back. That's taking a step back. The runtime fees still exist.
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
I think it does, to an extent. Reddit is still alive, for example. It's just nowhere near the community and content it used to be and, in my mind, it won't ever be that way again. Reddit's biggest benefit was that most of the
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
No, most Unity developers. Unity the company definitely wants into that market but, unfortunately for them, that's not the majority of their customers.
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
Louis Rossman is also a dishonest person who makes money off the whole controversy. He purposely does things to make the situations seem worse and has even been called out for outright lying (I stopped following after he claimed there was a
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
So then the parent is right. If disassembling it took 13 minutes, then they’d have 7 minutes left to reassemble and that wouldn’t involve any actual repair.
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
For yourself? Of course. For a hospital or anyone that would realistically be buying that for use? Absolutely not.
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
In nearly every case this has been claimed, it’s a part that has some security functionality or a part like a display or battery that requires some kind of calibration. Maybe they should put more effort into making that calibration easier b
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
I’m glad that the nerd porn exists because I do care about sustainability but operating on Apple’s scale means those devices are a fantasy for the majority of people. Apple’s approach seems more sustainable considering how many claims they
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
You act like there wasn’t a full decade and more of history where 3rd party repair existed en masse for electronics and the situation that he’s describing was exactly the result. There’s no scam here. Most of us find the official repair stu
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
That’s fine. It’s not the Apple Reusing Program. It’s the Apple Recycling Program. Why are they complaining about reuse when the market for reuse would be a drop in the bucket. Recycling and making new phones that people actually want to bu
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
The logistics of doing that are nearly impossible. Old phones are old phones. No one wants them.
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
Ever since the mobile ad-first approach that's been a result of their buyout/merger/whatever it was, I think most Unity developers are bouncing. No one in their right might would leave their potential income in the hands of t
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
This is it, in a nutshell. People don't want the apology. They want to know that a decision like this doesn't have a chance of happening because the people in charge know it's a bad idea before it leaves the door. No one want
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
Tragic and entirely misleading. Medical devices are regulated beyond belief. You don’t want some random repair tech cobbling together pirate boxes for them. How would anyone know if they’re compromised?
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
This is only slightly comical to me because the article actually mentions ventilators and how evil they were that they could only be serviced by the OEM due to the “VIN” on the parts. I would not want to be the person strapped to a medical
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
The whole article is bad faith. It links to a Vice article claiming that Apple is lying about its environmental stances because it doesn’t reuse old iPhones and MacBooks. Then, they breeze over the fact that Apple literally breaks these dev
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
It seems conspiratorial but consider that the companies making the standards and manufacturing the cables have an incentive to get people to buy as many cables as possible and to do so regularly. It’s the same complaint that people leverage
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
I feel like you’ve very succinctly identified the exact problems I have with every tech site when it comes to Apple news.
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
That would be amazing. If that worked regardless of network, though, I can see people setting up a node and accidentally taking it to work or some other public network by mistake. I’m not sure if that’s better or worse than using it in a pe
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
It’s not a survey of the general public, though. That’s why the OP article is nonsense. This is most-likely a NetPromoter survey. It is a survey of verified iPhone purchasers/owners just after the 14 day return window who decided to ke
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by dpkonofa 3y ago
Yeah, especially when you consider that Apple likely uses NetPromoter as its primary metric for customer satisfaction. NetPromoter only sends out surveys to verified purchasers and the question is a 1-10 scale for satisfaction. Anything 8-1
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by dpkonofa 4y ago
No... not at all. If that was true, then why didn't FOX News, Breitbart, or any of the other right-wing media outlets show evidence of these supposed crimes? Why would FOX News bury the story to not affect Biden's chances of being

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