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by eredengrin 3y ago
> Who ever argued it was? I think lots of lobbyists were making such arguments about the DMA in Europe. > That’s a bogus argument from Beeper. Why would Apple trust them? This has little to do with beeper's client. The point is,
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by eredengrin 3y ago
Beeper has been around since 2020 and its primary product (now called beeper cloud) is an all-in-one chat application which supports many protocols from the same client, not just imessage. Even if imessage/beeper mini is the product ge
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by eredengrin 3y ago
Last commit 2 weeks ago? Doesn't look dead. Perhaps not actively developed by original author but seems they're still acting as a maintainer and willing to take PRs.
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by eredengrin 3y ago
> Beeper is charging people who haven't purchased devices Do you have numbers for that? Sure, some of the users haven't purchased devices, but many of them have an apple device or two and just want access to the network across
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by eredengrin 3y ago
> For Matrix to be a success, we need to design it such that there can be contributions from others than New Vector. What exactly do you think is stopping such contributions? It seems to me there is plenty of room for community involveme
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by eredengrin 3y ago
1. Used in on my desktop for approx 8 years but migrated away a year or two back when I ran into one too many things that doesn't work well for desktop experience. Now it's only running on my nas. 2. I still use it on my nas becau
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by eredengrin 3y ago
How do you know that the 24/96 and 16/44 came from the same masters? If this isn't controlled for then of course the result might be different.[0] Also, what is xm1000w3s? I can't find any record of this so I'm gues
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by eredengrin 3y ago
As far as standard checking/savings/credit card accounts go, I haven't had one that didn't have a csv export option yet. Some of them are very buried and much harder to find and use than I wish, but they are there at lea
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by eredengrin 3y ago
There is a middle ground I think - all my banks/credit cards (7 or 8 accounts spread across 4-5 providers) offer csv downloads of transactions. I haven't tried to automate downloading the csv, but once the csv exists locally autom
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by eredengrin 3y ago
At least you can avoid bolero pretty easily. The real disaster is canon in d...
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by eredengrin 3y ago
I mean there's degrees of temptation. I don't think that simply being in the ring's presence was generally portrayed to be an insurmountable temptation. Some situations were specifically mentioned as causing the ring's p
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by eredengrin 3y ago
Fair enough, I exaggerated a bit there, I was mainly getting at the fact that in the book Faramir's compassionate/gentler/selfless nature was kind of a direct contrast with the power-seeking nature of his older brother and fa
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by eredengrin 3y ago
I actually don't consider that a major gripe. It's certainly a very weird decision and I'd prefer the original version, but it doesn't ultimately affect all that much imo, it mostly just means the humans did a bit less o
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by eredengrin 3y ago
The treatment of Sam (and the Sam/Frodo friendship) in Return of the King movie, and the treatment of Faramir as a character. I kind of get what they were going for, it just went way too far overboard imo and probably shouldn't ha
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by eredengrin 3y ago
I too love the books, I've read the trilogy at least 16 times and the Silmarillion at least 3 or 4 at this point (haven't gotten into the others yet but hope to one day). Yes, the tv series can be entirely forgotten. So can the ho
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by eredengrin 3y ago
The only game mechanic I want to see Nintendo patent is brawl tripping. Probably not necessary as it seems other fighting games haven't seen the brilliance of such a mechanic, but may as well play it safe in case others become enlighte
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by eredengrin 3y ago
How long have you used Here WeGo? It used to be my primary maps application but a couple years back they updated it and broke everything (offline address search stopped working, no route choices anymore, I think they removed the TTS options
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by eredengrin 3y ago
You are correct, the government cannot default on its debts (assuming they were legally authorized). Justin Amash recently wrote a very helpful blog post [0] about the debt and this is his interpretation of the amendment. Recommend reading
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by eredengrin 3y ago
Not sure I buy that. [0] has some data to suggest that light decreases crime, and there's also common sense. If you can see a potentially sketchy situation a block down, it gives you the chance to take a little detour and perhaps avoid
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by eredengrin 3y ago
I'd say split it half and half, 6 months LA to learn the pain of the wrong way, then 6 months in a place with proper transit like Amsterdam or Seoul, then they come back with a vision of what could be.
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by eredengrin 3y ago
> seeing their original massive OSS project now only achieve what's 'required' and nothing more If they were only doing "what's required" they would have ditched their upstream first approach to fixes and th
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by eredengrin 3y ago
> In fact it's basically a love letter to the uninformed viewer Absolutely, and it shows in how many people I've recommended this video to who know nothing about sm64 who absolutely love it. (I also know nothing about sm64 and
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by eredengrin 3y ago
> It's obtuse jargon for the sake of it. Not really. The speedrun is to optimize for fewest total A-button presses. This metric is known from the controller's perspective in the sense that if you sniffed the communications betw
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by eredengrin 3y ago
[1] is about speedrunning peach's break the target test in smash bros melee which involves some craziness (including rng considerations), very good watch. AsumSaus also has tons of breakdowns of weird mechanics in melee, very hard to c
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by eredengrin 3y ago
GrapheneOS has features that allow this to various extents, for example storage scopes which trick the app into believing it has all the storage permissions it requested, or contact scopes which give an app access to whatever subset of cont
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by eredengrin 3y ago
This reads to me like wanting to learn sports, and then disliking that your soccer instructor didn't teach you how to throw a ball. There's a lot you can learn about music in the classical framework, but the focus there is certain
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by eredengrin 3y ago
I haven't read much about lxd until just now but based on that link, the differentiating feature between lxd and podman seems to be that lxd can manage full virtual machines (using qemu as backend, according to [1] which was linked els
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by eredengrin 3y ago
I think you're probably overestimating how much most people know or care to worry about setting custom do not disturb settings, although that's just my anecdotal guess based on interactions with friends outside the tech space. Als
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by eredengrin 3y ago
Same, I distro hopped for a while across various ubuntu and ubuntu derivatives, always ran into weird issues, stability problems, etc (and still do at work where we use ubuntu). Installed fedora eventually and have been using it ever since,
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by eredengrin 3y ago
Are you aware the amount that Red Hat contributes to the kernel? Red Hat has more contributions to the upstream linux kernel (which every distro benefits from, RHEL or not) than just about any other corporation. The amount of testing and

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