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by evilduck 9mo ago
Can't say I agree with the sentiment. Miryoku's layout looks pretty arbitrary, as is any other <60% setup. I daily drive a Planck (4 more total keys, but very similar levels of layout restrictions) and my layer designs are wild
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by evilduck 10mo ago
I don't think this makes it much worse because that's hard to do, it's already terrible. Getting screwed by startup founders has been the status quo for at least 15 or 20 years now. If you're just a worker then demand fa
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by evilduck 10mo ago
You're describing a 15 second effort that is performed at most once per phone purchase, and at its least once in the owner's entire history of iOS backup/restore processes. Less total effort than our comments took to write. Y
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by evilduck 10mo ago
I would bet in most organizations you can find a copy-pasted version of the top SO answer for email regex in their language of choice, and if you chase down the original commit author they couldn't explain how it works.
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by evilduck 10mo ago
Why should anyone have to take action against it? Good products don't need to be forced upon users, an obnoxious ad in one of the dozen places Windows shows advertising would have sufficed. People even willingly fork over cash for Chat
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by evilduck 10mo ago
Why would the AI skeptics and curmudgeons today not continue to dismiss the "something stable" in the future?
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by evilduck 10mo ago
I sense that your claims and suggestions here strongly suggest that your school experience is not a recent one where you were issued a locked down Chromebook. I would encourage you to expand your lived experience here. Circumventing "a
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by evilduck 10mo ago
The smartphone wars were fought among tech giants, not capital intensive hardware startups. The problem with patents is that you need to already be financially successful enough to file them, able to pay to protect them in court, and can fl
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by evilduck 10mo ago
Right, many people have to treat their local computer as a thin-client and do everything through a WebEx session or similar means, which makes the local device irrelevant. Or if you're regulated but have to be specifically exempted and
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by evilduck 10mo ago
Your work Chromebook is completely incomparable to a school issued Chromebook. It's doubtful that your employer locks you out of literally everything that would allow you to develop software on-device. See my other comments in this thr
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by evilduck 10mo ago
Schools typically don't allow BYOD policies because of support costs and equitability between students. Assuming a school district even did allow this, they would only allow the student to use a managed Chrome profile and the school&#x
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by evilduck 10mo ago
You commented in context of digital education. The point is that your argument of Chromebooks comparing better to iPads doesn't apply in this situation. In fact they're often worse because schools deploy the cheapest, lowest commo
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by evilduck 10mo ago
Your personally owned Chromebook isn’t comparable to a school issued Chromebook at all. They’re more locked down and useless than a stock iPad. Kids cannot install Linux on them.
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by evilduck 10mo ago
But your solution costs money in addition to the phone they already own for other purposes. And multiple things can make loud noises in your environment besides babies; differentiating between a police siren going by outside and your baby
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by evilduck 10mo ago
Chrome borrowed their webdev tools from Webkit, who borrowed them from KHTML. Chrome launched with dev tools, but they didn't develop their own distinct version of them for many years after launching the browser.
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by evilduck 10mo ago
The immutable distros (Fedora Silverblue, Bazzite, etc) can be more challenging to customize, but that's kind of the point too.
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by evilduck 11mo ago
It's not any more expensive for the retailer, it's a small fraction paid by the card company. Walmart just wants to track everything about you.
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by evilduck 11mo ago
Netguard is amazing but I'm convinced the dev is mildly colorblind and unaware of it. The color choices and even optional themes are... something.
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by evilduck 11mo ago
Validation that cameras will never work and photographs aren't real.
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by evilduck 11mo ago
The used ones aren't that expensive on eBay, especially if you just want a functional one and not a pristine show piece. There's a few 3D print models available for them too, and honestly they are rudimentary technology, you could
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by evilduck 11mo ago
A 2TB 13" iPad with a Magic Keyboard is more expensive than a 2TB 14" MBP with double the RAM. They may sell a capable enough iPad but it doesn't make a lot of financial sense unless they closed all the gaps.
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by evilduck 11mo ago
I get it, I'm not saying it's bad, I just think it fills a small niche and its popularity and reception mirror that.
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by evilduck 11mo ago
Because it pretty much only makes sense for Samsung TVs and smart appliances since it scores 3% on the benchmarks vs V8. It's too big for most embedded devices, too slow for general computing, and if you can run something 25% the size
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by evilduck 11mo ago
Hard to swallow. Every day I sit down at a Mac for work and proceed to launch VS Code, Zed, Outlook, DBeaver, Excel, Teams, LogSeq, Syncthing, Chrome, Firefox, LM Studio and Docker. I prefer MacOS but basically all of my application workflo
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by evilduck 11mo ago
Makes me wonder if we're building towards another extinction/oxygen catastrophe type of event. Not one where the microplastics themselves are the primary driver, but because microplastics are not renewable in the environment wit
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by evilduck 11mo ago
What would be the point? If the outsourced devs are based in another country and the thin wrapper shell company selling outsourced devs as a service are based in another country, the expenses to either are likely be to reported to the IRS a
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by evilduck 11mo ago
Your school lab work is only valuable to yourself and other students who wish to plagiarize, there's not really a compelling reason to share that code. If you're writing other software beyond classwork that you wish to share, the
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by evilduck 11mo ago
The first civil engineering degree was minted less than 200 years ago even though we've been building civil infrastructure works for millennia. There were plenty of mishaps along the way for that field too. The creation of the first di
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by evilduck 11mo ago
If we're hypothesizing, then the thin wrapper organizations should or would bear those same taxation and penalty costs when outsourcing and their prices would also be going up.
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by evilduck 11mo ago
Spite implies intent. As an outside observer spitefulness and stupidity may appear the same, but the stupid person may have had good intentions and no ill-will towards those they harm.

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