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by endemic 9y ago
It’s just super annoying that Apple labels these laptops as “pro” when it seems their focus is thinness/lightness. I don’t begrudge this on the consumer models, but the new MBP’s are so philosophically different from my older machine (
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by endemic 9y ago
I'm very tempted to go down this route, but it seems to fail the "easy to install and use" bit.
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by endemic 9y ago
What about folks who continue to use older hardware? This is a problem with the manufacturer, that doesn’t backport security fixes to older OS versions.
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by endemic 9y ago
> That's just bad design. It's _terrible_ design IMO. Of course all of Apple's promotional photography show the beautiful hardware, sans case. But in reality, the phones have glass backs, and are not designed to withstand
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by endemic 9y ago
You do miss the security updates. The trade-off is you have a device that isn’t dog slow. Today I tried using an an old iPad 2 that was upgraded to iOS 7. It was literally unusable.
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Sailfish for Sony Xperia X(jolla.com)
2 points by endemic 9y ago|0 comments
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by endemic 9y ago
> Nexus 6p is a Huawei phone That's definitely not how it was marketed.
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by endemic 9y ago
The flip side of that is that Apple continues to provide software updates to super-old hardware. How many Android phones get updates for 4 years? However, I agree that if you do install that final OS update, it tends to make performance ter
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by endemic 9y ago
Right, no one would care about telemetry if you could turn it off. MS could have it turned on by default, even. I'm sure the amount of data they would miss would be minuscule in comparison to the amount of negative press they've r
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by endemic 9y ago
Samsung also has their own OS, Tizen, which seems like a hedge against Google. I'd be curious to know what it would take for them to pull the trigger and make it the default OS in the Galaxy line.
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by endemic 9y ago
Paying means that the provider doesn't have to mine your email for keywords in order to display targeted ads (yeah, I know Google theoretically stopped doing this recently). So perhaps "your own" in the sense that another ent
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by endemic 9y ago
Yeah, some bizarre asymmetry there. I'd have preferred they just shrink the top/bottom bezels, similar to the Galaxy S8 or LG's V30. I can't see "the cutout" aging gracefully.
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by endemic 9y ago
In the immortal words of Jason Scott: "Itsa me, cease and desist" https://mobile.twitter.com/textfiles/status/7396378033450516...
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by endemic 9y ago
Or "envision a future" where they "sell more stuff."
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by endemic 9y ago
> Remove it in the prior version to get all of that discussion over and done with. When the next iPhone comes out, there'll no longer be outrage about it missing a headphone jack. Seems reasonable, but if the next iPhone is the mass
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by endemic 9y ago
AirPods seem nice, but the whole "10x cost" thing has me questioning Apple's "courage." I'll consider a phone without a headphone jack when Bluetooth earbud prices aren't insane.
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by endemic 9y ago
Love the compact theme. Glad it made its way into the release channel.
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by endemic 9y ago
Yeah, the smoke is considerable, and smells delicious. Definitely an outdoor activity (or be near an open window w/ a fan).
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by endemic 9y ago
I did a double-take, as one of the article co-authors is named Yuji Nakamura. Not to be confused with Yuji Naka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji_Naka
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by endemic 9y ago
I think a great example of this is Derek Yu's "Spelunky." He made a quick 'n dirty freeware version, which turned out to be massively popular, then remade a polished commercial version. It was easier for him to pitch the
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by endemic 9y ago
The layout in the screenshot looks pretty similar to what's already there... just the header branding and a few fonts are different. Comparison: http://imgur.com/a/81cYg
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by endemic 9y ago
Obligatory link to a "kill sticky headers" bookmarklet: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ This has saved me a great deal of annoyance, especially on my smaller-screened mobile phone.
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by endemic 9y ago
Maybe try the "Tolkien Edit?" Although even cut down to four hours, I still couldn't stomach it. https://tolkieneditor.wordpress.com/
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by endemic 9y ago
Really frustrating that newer versions of iOS inevitably run more slowly on aging hardware, Apple incessantly prompts you to update, and there's no way to roll back. Sure, I miss security fixes if I don't update, but at the point
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by endemic 9y ago
Hah, after skimming a page or two (love the vim-inspired navigation keys, btw) I remembered why I stopped going: tons of random nudity. Nothing like browsing design inspiration at work and having NSFW content show up.
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by endemic 10y ago
What advantages does the user receive for running the Slack Electron app, as opposed to having the site open in a browser tab?
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by endemic 10y ago
Apple did not delete files from his hard drive.
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by endemic 10y ago
Exactly the reason why Samsung is maintaining software that duplicates functionality already offered by Google.
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by endemic 10y ago
I wasn't familiar with HTML imports, and after searching around it looks like Firefox will never support ( https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/12/mozilla-and-web-components... ). Any plans for polyfills, etc.?
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by endemic 10y ago
> at the very end of its lifecycle This might not be a bad thing. Plenty of quality software already released that you can obtain cheaply. I skipped the Wii U, but am going to pick one up so that I can actually play Zelda, as well as exp

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