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by eertami 6y ago
> MacOS is actually very polished Anecdotal I know, but my experience differs. I'm fixing problems more frequently on OSX than Linux. I started using OSX in 2015 and honestly I now consciously fear the "System update available&
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by eertami 6y ago
The Google web suite apps work quite well, in contrast to the Calendar app which I've never managed to get working. I think the argument is more "How can a power user survive with something so flagrantly non-functional?"
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by eertami 6y ago
I disagree. The hardware and build quality of the XPS13 is notably better than my MBP, except for better CPU performance which I do not notice at all in daily usage (I know all ultrabook keyboards are terrible but the MBP is an a whole othe
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by eertami 6y ago
Understandable but looking at current progress, I seriously doubt the UK will have significant fiber roll-out within this century.
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by eertami 6y ago
>What web-based client will allow you to read email without an Internet connection in Safari? I understand why it might be a deal breaker for you, but browsing email offline is not a use case everyone has.
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by eertami 6y ago
>I really miss my 30 minute bike commute. I've seen this argument before, and I don't understand how working from home changes this honestly. Why not just start your day with a bike ride for leisure? Unbound by the location of
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by eertami 6y ago
Google doesn't make decisions based on data. Google makes decisions based on what gets someone a promotion.
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by eertami 6y ago
robots.txt is not a terms of service. Even if it was, it wouldn't be enforceable for a public website. You would need to prove that a web crawler is maliciously causing disruption to your service, and that is not easy.
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by eertami 6y ago
Spotify have announced "Spotify HiFi" (currently without an exact release date or pricing information) for 2021, which will offer lossless streaming[1]. Anecdotally though Spotify's "Very High" quality works well fo
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by eertami 6y ago
>sounds great at first until you need to make a call and it suddenly drops. Agreed, I had an N900 running maemo long ago. It was a novel idea to have a Linux device in my pocket, and being able to just drop in to a terminal or do some X1
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by eertami 6y ago
>Firefox as my main browser I tried last year, and honestly it isn't bad. But I use the Chrome "install this site as an App" functionality a lot and Firefox's "app tabs" didn't work nearly as well. Plus
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by eertami 6y ago
>someone flirting with someone who had a boyfriend who was at the conference and said she could do better I don't know what you think flirting is but that ain't it. Your man was being a creep and while I'd agree violence i
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by eertami 6y ago
Really? On a 13" display? I bet in a blind AB test at a normal viewing distance you wouldn't even be able to accurately tell me which is which.
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by eertami 6y ago
Going after the pensions is probably the single quickest way to find yourself unelected. Old people vote, and there are a lot of them. Also direct-to-consumer hardly absolves you from following tax law. I agree that sales tax is bad, but on
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by eertami 6y ago
I literally do not know a single person with a landline, so I cannot say if that is remotely true or not. I'll take your word for it. But what I am 100% sure of is that you could make any telephony noises you like down my phone and you
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by eertami 6y ago
>The XPS 13 is also limited to 16 GB of RAM This isn't true, I have an XPS 13 (9310) with 32 GB of RAM. You can also get the XPS 13 with a 4k screen, although I do not understand why you would. 1920x1200 is already much higher DPI t
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by eertami 6y ago
>My high end Dell XPS was $2600, and the M1 Air blows it away for half the price. Isn't "blowing it away" a little hyperbole? An XPS with 1185G7 has around ~10% worse single core and ~25% worse multi-core CPU performance t
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by eertami 6y ago
>If you think you're smart enough to not fall for that What? Seriously? There's nothing to fall for here. You should never trust an inbound call. If your bank calls you, you take their information, immediately hang up, find the
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by eertami 6y ago
Is it dismal to think that perhaps billionaires are not a net positive for society?
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by eertami 6y ago
>Imagine raising a bunch of cats instead of people like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezzos Elon Musk or Warren Buffet. Unironically this would probably be a better world to live in. I can certainly think a few more names worth adding as well.
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by eertami 6y ago
>I have not experienced winter in 10 years As someone who travels in order to get more winter, not less, I don't see this one as a benefit! But the rest makes sense.
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by eertami 6y ago
>like for example giving us enough leisure time to be able to read, have hobbies, do art or spend more time with loved ones. You say that like it is a universally accepted truth, yet the American worker allegedly takes less vacation time
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by eertami 6y ago
Anecdotal, but in SG I recently had to submit ~20 pages of documentation for a permit. Obviously I don't have a printer so this was annoying in itself. Once I took those printed pages to the Rathaus they just scanned all the documents
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by eertami 6y ago
Imagine if you had to print a paper form and mail or deliver it to the local Government for even the simplest of administrative tasks. Because that is life in Switzerland.
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by eertami 6y ago
Some of those tests are realistically testing RAM speed more than CPU power. Yet he has the 3900x configured with only 1600Mhz memory clock compared to 2133Mhz on the M1. The single core performance of these chips is very impressive, especi
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by eertami 6y ago
>I cannot understand why there are no reasonably priced 5K or 6K monitors of around 30-35 inch Because it's a niche market and unless they become more popular they won't be produced at enough scale to bring the retail price dow
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by eertami 6y ago
>some french regions still have countryside buses going regularly and for a cheap fare (1-2€) Better still, sometimes they are completely free, in villages with high tourism.
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by eertami 6y ago
In the UK at least you often are not allowed to take a bike during rush hour on the busy train lines.
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by eertami 6y ago
>Financial remuneration is surely the primary factor Personally, I wouldn't quit WFH even if someone offered to triple my salary to come work in an office.
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by eertami 6y ago
The things you mentioned aren't what make Switzerland a rich society. In my experience living here, it is the strong social security net (70% of your previous wage if unemployed), high minimum wage (up to 25$/hr in some areas), an

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