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by emsy 5y ago
I can’t compare with the Garmin, but the Pebble experience was subpar. I stopped wearing mine after a few weeks and gifted them to my mother after a while (she loved the pebbles but had constant issues with connectivity on Android). On the
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by emsy 5y ago
The functionality. I can use it as a flashlight, call, dictate messages, listen to music without phone, control my phone camera, use it for 2FA, map navigation, notifications with images and control smart home stuff. And yes, much of this c
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by emsy 5y ago
The actual buttons on the pebble were terrible though but I do agree, it really sucks that this isn’t possible. I remember having a jailbreak tweak that allowed to use long presses on volume up/down to skip songs. Something like this c
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by emsy 5y ago
I had several pebbles (2 b/w and the colored one) and now have an apple watch. You don’t know what you’re talking about, the tech in the apple watch is years ahead. There’s much to criticize about the apple watch but it does the import
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by emsy 5y ago
Not easy? The internet basically runs on linux
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by emsy 5y ago
Maybe the German version of kurzgesagt or Technikfaultier for some tech reviews , other than that I don’t really sorry. The other German youtubers I occasionally watch all speak English in their videos (Sabine hossenfelder for example).
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by emsy 5y ago
Oh yeah, the niche channels are pretty good, but we don’t have personalities like Sam Harris, Joe Rogan etc. the closest that comes to mind is maiLab but she’s not exactly polarizing or unconventional.
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by emsy 5y ago
At least the US has personalities like this. In Germany we have all the YT clickbait BS and very few truly brilliant minds that go against the mainstream.
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by emsy 5y ago
I just don’t buy the argument that end customers will lose out. The Apple AppStore will still be the default and available. People that want alternatives can get them at their own peril (like responsible adults, can you imagine?). And what
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by emsy 5y ago
I stated that the same applies to Google and other companies. These networks hold immense power over our lives and for some reason we grant it to them unquestioned because "well they built it". Also, I wasn't talking about ho
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by emsy 5y ago
No, those two roads connect two mostly distinct group of people, since most people use either an Apple or a Google smartphone, not both, so I still think it’s a fitting analogy. And what is being argued for depends on who you ask. Some are
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by emsy 5y ago
>If you want third party stores, there’s the Android ecosystem. Keep your grubby mitts off the Apple ecosystem. Ah yes, because that's where you'll find customers that use iOS.
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by emsy 5y ago
I think you're right with the ancestral environment, however I don't know whether the types of contents you can find on the internet are in the same ballpark and whether or not they have a negative impact on a child's develop
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by emsy 5y ago
It's hard to reason about this, because in a way the app store situation is unprecedented. The best analogy I can come up with is a private road connecting half the people in the country: Of course you're happy that the private ro
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by emsy 5y ago
>If they want gamers to get more graphics cards then make so many graphics cards that everyone will be able to afford them. Don't try to artificially limit what the hardware can do. If there are poor people why don't they print
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by emsy 5y ago
I think your criticism is valid, but I don’t think it’s sensible to adhere to principles in a black and white way. For me, the minor restriction put in place by Nvidia is the lesser evil when you consider that they could just as well sell o
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by emsy 5y ago
If we didn’t have such a dire chip shortage I would be upset on principle, but I see this as a move that’s supposed to help long time customers get a hand at a Graphics card at a reasonable price. Once mining will ebb off, those customers
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by emsy 5y ago
The article is paywalled for me
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by emsy 5y ago
Apple should forbid this practice then. I have plenty of apps that I paid for that don’t work for various reasons. I don’t get to keep my purchases but Apple gets to keep their hefty 30% fee.
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by emsy 5y ago
I bought a game (Lumines) that downloaded all the necessary game files upon launching from a server. The server is now down. No way to play the game even after downloading it from the list. screw the app store.
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by emsy 5y ago
People looking for paying customers. Iphone users are much more lucrative. An iPhone is also a status marker which is why most apps start as ios exclusives. It’s much easier to develop for since there are fewer devices and you can expect a
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by emsy 5y ago
I can hardly wait for them to be available in the EU/Germany. This is pretty close to my ideal laptop: reasonable aspect ratio, repairability and a competitive price point.
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by emsy 5y ago
It’s not a do everything machine: I can’t use it as a tablet. On the other hand what’s holding my iPad back from becoming a do-everything machine is A) sandboxing, which they shouldn’t change or at best streamline to allow better app intero
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by emsy 5y ago
I downvoted you for several reasons: while I do agree with the basic idea (an iPad shouldn’t be a MacBook with touch), I think the way you argue for it lacks nuance and doesn’t hold up. First of all, there is no reason why you can’t have bo
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by emsy 5y ago
You're always asked if you want to enable notifications.
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by emsy 5y ago
There was a recent reveal in court documents where Apple tried together with Adobe to make it work but Adobe couldn't pull it off. Now, I think the point about Apple not being interested in PWAs still stands but I think this kind of th
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by emsy 5y ago
I don‘t even disagree it’s better. But the AppStore is still an embarrassment for the money it brings in. I guess comfort does make complacent.
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by emsy 5y ago
I‘m talking about the AppStore!
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by emsy 5y ago
For $210 million (that's only Epic's contribution), they could've created a first-class marketplace ecosystem. In reality, it's neither first-class nor worth whatever they're paying to actually run that department
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by emsy 5y ago
Having iOS as a first class citizen and accepting the fact that Android users exist and your paying customers don't have to bother with the fragmented messenger landscape. All while creating the de-facto standard for smartphone messagi

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