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by fckgw 5mo ago
Then you're missing the point. The point was "talk to another human about shared experiences, whatever that may be".
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by fckgw 5mo ago
Because they want something they know that resembles the old Google Search which DDG provides.
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by fckgw 5mo ago
Using your phone on a train would be hopping from tower to tower. Going to be swapping IPs endlessly.
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by fckgw 5mo ago
That is incredibly weird, yes.
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by fckgw 5mo ago
It's a picture of a blind person. The type of person these features are for.
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by fckgw 5mo ago
Yeah if you look at the power tool industry as a whole, over the last 20 years has seen massive improvements in quality across the board. Cordless tools were a niche product, they could barely run an hour and they didn't have 1/
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by fckgw 5mo ago
3 verified failures out of 173 total cars is an extremely bad rate for the automotive industry.
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by fckgw 5mo ago
Costco derives the majority of their revenue from the membership fee, followed by services. They actually make very little on the products themselves as they have a hard cap on markups at like 11% or something around there. The membership i
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by fckgw 5mo ago
I was about to say, this type of automated domain purchasing and deployment is a godsend to scammers. They buy up a bunch of .top, .shop and .xyz domains for $1 each. They spam them out in in all those "USPS tracking" spam text an
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by fckgw 5mo ago
The money isn't going to Del Monte, it's going to their suppliers. The ones who lost money when Del Monte closed.
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by fckgw 6mo ago
> I don’t get it, do US citizens prefer being defrauded over what is perceived as a slight inconvenience? Do you think we are requesting to have less secure payment methods or something? No, we don't "prefer to get defrauded&qu
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by fckgw 6mo ago
They pretty much still only have a "Good -> Better -> Best" ladder for the majority of their products, with a handful of "niche" offerings sprinkled in. Complexity hasn't increased much from those days, they a
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by fckgw 6mo ago
Apple Maps is pretty fantastic
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by fckgw 6mo ago
> Few new products were launched, and those that were had mixed success. Tim oversaw the launch of the Apple Watch, Airpods, Airtags, Apple Pay, the Beats acquisition (which lead to Apple Music) and the launch of the M series chips. He&#
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by fckgw 6mo ago
Apple is obsessed with minimalism so much that they refuse to hire any CEOs with first names longer than a single syllable.
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by fckgw 6mo ago
Apple Watch and Airpods are two of the largest consumer product launches of the last 10 years and they're both post-Jobs.
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by fckgw 7mo ago
I mean yeah, the same way an iPhone is a rearranged Macbook in a smaller case with a smaller battery.
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by fckgw 7mo ago
People want a laptop that has - Great battery life - Solid build quality - A familiar interface (iPhone is the most popular OS in the US) - Good enough speed and snappiness for the tasks they can't do on their phone - Can walk into Cos
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by fckgw 7mo ago
The vast majority of red light tickets are people not coming to a complete stop behind the line on right turns on red.
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by fckgw 7mo ago
What part did they find "terrifying"?
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by fckgw 7mo ago
Do you have your adblocker on? The video is simply a small form of content that they can run video pre-roll ads on. There's like 3 or 4 total on the site, all many years old at this point. The only reason they exist is to fulfill a spe
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by fckgw 7mo ago
For people, new to the Mac (which make up half of all Mac sales), who don't go hunting for refurbs or want to buy used gear, and where a $1099 price point is cost prohibitive. Basically every regular computer user who shops at Amazon o
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by fckgw 8mo ago
Why is that confusing? The A chip is cheaper, hence is goes into their cheaper laptop. The more expensive laptops get the more expensive M chips.
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by fckgw 8mo ago
Exactly, every older person I've seen has the Plus model (RIP) with screen text turned up to 150%. A small screen for someone with poor eyesight sounds like torture.
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by fckgw 8mo ago
.online, .top, .xyz. info and .shop are some of the top TLDs that scammers use, precisely because of their rock bottom registrar fees that make them attractive for sites that have a shelf life of a few hours or a few days before being block
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by fckgw 8mo ago
Apple announced their Private Cloud Compute nodes in 2024 and started shipping them last October. https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/s
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by fckgw 8mo ago
No, it's been part of the power button since then.
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by fckgw 9mo ago
It triggers within a certain radius that you can change in the settings to be wider or narrower. It's not specifically when it loses contact with the device.
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by fckgw 9mo ago
Yeah, it's this. It's a hosting platform, not a social media platform. You see a ton of people who have short films, art projects, commercial portfolios and stuff like that hosted at Vimeo. They don't need/want comments,
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by fckgw 9mo ago
Mac Studio is still on M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips. I could see a press release refresh on that day to M5 chips.

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