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by freeAgent 1y ago
It is literally in beta, so it feeling like a beta product isn’t surprising. It does work with the extensions I need and it’s my primary browser on iOS, but I still find it too buggy and crash-prone on the desktop. That seems to be improvin
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by freeAgent 1y ago
It’s relatively easy to own Apple hardware when one lives outside the EU, but basically impossible to use that hardware to run their own browser engine on iPhones or iPads.
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by freeAgent 1y ago
It’s similar in some ways, like being de-Googled, more private than Google’s Android OS by default, etc. Both are based on AOSP. They are “similar.”
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by freeAgent 1y ago
What do you need that doesn’t work?
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by freeAgent 1y ago
I mean that they figured out how to support (most) browser extensions on iOS in their browser, unlike Firefox. They haven’t figured everything out, but I do daily drive Orion on iOS. I still prefer Firefox on desktop due to stability (and O
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by freeAgent 1y ago
Somewhat ironically, you can install and use the Firefox uBO extension on Orion for iOS. Orion/Kagi figured out how to do it before Firefox/Mozilla.
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by freeAgent 1y ago
Yeah, and that cliff is why they put this change into the 2017 tax reform. It'll goose federal tax revenue for 5 years in the back half of the CBO's 10-year projections to make the changes appear revenue neutral overall. In any ca
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by freeAgent 1y ago
I don't understand why this article is written as though amortization of R&D spending's costs is the same as completely eliminating their tax benefit. It seems that this essentially causes a large spike in tax revenue in year
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by freeAgent 1y ago
Yes, and to be clear about where they were hiding, they started out as a treatment for diabetes.
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by freeAgent 1y ago
I doubt having lawyers review your usage is more expensive than spending hundreds of hours of dev time to migrate.
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by freeAgent 1y ago
The announcement just happened. I don’t know that we know the results yet.
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by freeAgent 1y ago
I’ve never had a problem working with CSVs in Excel, but I’ll take your word for it. For text operations, I frequently find myself using Notepad++ anyway.
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by freeAgent 1y ago
It’s not an Excel alternative?
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by freeAgent 1y ago
You are vastly underestimating the number of people who use pivot tables and even more “advanced” Excel functionality like Power Pivot/Query.
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by freeAgent 1y ago
The alternatives are honestly not as good.
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by freeAgent 1y ago
Toys R Us also sold stuff like video games and collectible/trading cards…and bikes, etc., I think, at least when I was a kid. I’m sure their product mix would have continued to evolve, but if you do have children, you probably know tha
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by freeAgent 1y ago
The thing is, that more professional market would never make the mistake of putting SMR drives in a RAID array anyway and they are also (I hope) good enough at doing their own research to filter out reviews from uneducated retail consumers.
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by freeAgent 1y ago
I’d argue that anyone who is buying a NAS for personal use probably does enough research to figure out that NAS-focused/appropriate drives are a thing-though. And if they contact Synology support, it should be very easy for them to ide
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by freeAgent 1y ago
Yeah, I assume most home users these days are never pushing a NAS beyond 1Gbe, and 99% of people who have faster networks are still probably just doing 2.5Gbe (still just talking about home use). This wouldn’t make that PCIe bandwidth sweat
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by freeAgent 1y ago
Nobody blamed Synology when that WD SMR issue happened. Come on, let’s get real here. Locking the devices down so they only work with drives bearing Synology branding is about Synology’s profits.
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by freeAgent 1y ago
As far as lists of drives to avoid, Synology could certainly do that, but we also already have Backblaze’s reports on their own failure rates. Synology also uses multiple vendors to produce “Synology” branded drives, so as the article state
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by freeAgent 1y ago
I’m going to let my dentist know this next time they claim that the stains on my teeth may have been caused by coffee or tea.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
I believe Calibre (very) recently added a feature to make conversion to kepub automatic when transferring to a Kobo, so things may have changed on the ease of use front.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
Perhaps she thought that she would be able to wiggle out of it or reach a private settlement that saved JPM some embarrassment or something. Still, that was obviously a very stupid decision.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
That sounds a lot like much of Big Tech, too.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
I now live in a suburb and it’s plenty social. We baked cookies and took them to every house up and down the block when we moved in and we greet new neighbors with treats when there’s turnover. We also exchange holiday cards and cookies eve
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by freeAgent 2y ago
I’m not sure whether you’re familiar with the Register or not, but they definitely get it and aren’t being nice. They’re being sarcastic.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
Just yesterday I started paying for a Tailscale subscription even though I don’t even fully utilize what they provide for free. I just find it valuable and am glad I have the option and ability to support them. I don’t think most people do
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by freeAgent 2y ago
I totally get that the network effect makes it difficult to leave abusive platforms, but if one cares enough, it is possible to make that sacrifice. I deleted my Facebook account, for example, and now I can’t keep up with numerous people an
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by freeAgent 2y ago
I get that, but in that case it also makes sense to avoid YouTube altogether since you simply being there continues to deprive other services of the opportunity to compete. These days I think YouTube’s biggest competition is stuff like TikT

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