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by falcolas 3y ago
You’re right. But this is wholly tangential to the discussion; an alternative storefront will not change MTX practices.
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by falcolas 3y ago
https://www.apple.com/icloud/find-my/ “You can even find devices that are offline or powered off.“ There’s some technical details there. The key words are “Find My Network”
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by falcolas 3y ago
iPhones do communicate with others over Bluetooth; they explicitly warn you of this when turning your phone off. As a side note, confirming no connections with cell towers is not “fairly easy to verify”, it requires a fair bit of semi-speci
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by falcolas 3y ago
> two sides wanting/not wanting children to read particular books. No. One group of people don’t want any children reading certain books. The rest leaves the choice of reading the books in question up to the children (and/or th
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by falcolas 3y ago
My take is slightly more nuanced - if you're paying a company to access their content, it shouldn't matter how you're accessing that content. More concretely, as a (former) subscriber to Reddit Premium, I should continue to g
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by falcolas 3y ago
Using batteries which don't fail in a self-perpetuating fire (like lead-acid) is a good first step towards a safe DIY battery solution.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Google's recency bias in search results hurts them too. There are many older resources which are still valid out there, but you won't find them (easily) via Google Search. Instead, you get the SEO spam which doesn't match the
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by falcolas 3y ago
As a customer, I'm a fan of Anker products. I haven't had to return one yet, and I have a few of their batteries and a ton more cords/hubs/etc. I look forward to seeing the price for these home-scale battery packs.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Not all apps have subscriptions. Narwhal for example.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Another choice quote from the same investor call: "We own Lord of the Rings, and we know we need to be exploiting Lord of the Rings in a very significant fashion and turning that into one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world&q
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Embracer's M&A era is ending with job cuts and game cancellations(gamedeveloper.com)
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by falcolas 3y ago
Fair enough. Mind sharing your fountain pen wishlist?
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by falcolas 3y ago
> the ink in it evaporates really quickly I wonder, what kind of ink? Noodler inks last forever in my pens, and I've also been having good luck with some of the india inks. That said, some of the older style pigment inks do tend to
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by falcolas 3y ago
They're crack dealers, to be sure. But they offer a lot of stationary supplies you can't get even in dedicated office supply stores. Like .3mm gel pens. And automatic rotating/advancing mechanical pencils.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> And then of course you get into inks. Shimmering inks (inks with glitter suspended in them). You will probably need to use dip pens (I like glass ones), but the results are stunning. Not something you'd ever expect to see out of a
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by falcolas 3y ago
I agree, for under $100, they'll probably last under a year of solid use. And I agree that they're not generally worth getting serviced (though, if you want a new hobby...), the lack of good jewels on the pivot points will kill yo
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by falcolas 3y ago
https://www.jetpens.com/Pilot-Varsity-Disposable-Fountain-Pe... And they're $3.20, sorry... EDIT: Amazon also offers them, but at a markup ($5). I've also seen them in Staples' pen isle.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I'm going to do all of you a solid and introduce you to my crack, err, fountain pen/ink dealer (as well as all the other styles of pens). Jet pens: https://www.jetpens.com/ Also, consider trying out glass dip pens
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by falcolas 3y ago
I love that you can get mechanical watches for between $50 an $100 now. They don't keep great time (loose/gain a few seconds a day), but there's something mesmerizing about watching that second hand sweep.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> they run out of ink quickly, they dry out quickly, the ink smudges until it dries, the ink will run or be erased if the paper gets wet, they are very sensitive to the quality of paper, they can leak easily in your pocket, etc. Wut? It
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by falcolas 3y ago
Those are some good gel pens. I like them too, but I in turn prefer my fountain pens over gels or rollerballs.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Those sound more like dip pens with some old iron gall inks. Modern nibs are able to be used in pretty much any orientation, and they use modern inks which don't dry out, if you keep a cap on them. I have several pens with caps that si
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by falcolas 3y ago
Signatures are more line art than cursive. They're intended to be roughly unique and roughly repeatable, not legible.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> There are some very good pens for under $30 Pilot Varsity: $3 High quality nibs, no fuss, and I've had a few sitting around for years and they all still work perfectly fine. Great entry point into the addiction.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Get a $3 Pilot Varsity, and use it however you want. It works slightly better if you keep the flat metal part on the top, but I've used one in every orientation. No special way to use it, disposable, and cheap if you don't like it
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by falcolas 3y ago
I'm apparently stupid. I can't understand how that can be even remotely legal.
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by falcolas 3y ago
FWIW, also selling. As an example, a company called Dataminr sells views of Twitter to a bunch of government entities. Those views include things like fires, flash mobs, explosions, riots, etc.
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by falcolas 3y ago
The internet forgets too quickly. And so long as Reddit can present a "everything's awesome" front, their IPO will likely take off. Having /r/Pics down permanently because of a protest would be a problem, but a poor
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by falcolas 3y ago
> What does that really accomplish? To borrow from another comment buried below: I think the company cares more about the appearance of "business as usual" in the face of an IPO than the opinions of the users. In their eyes, th
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by falcolas 3y ago
They don't have to be good mods. There's precedent for a handful of mods to moderate a huge swath of subreddits.

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