ghusto

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by ghusto 1y ago
> Good to know that Slack is not company to choose for user experience and efficiency Did the product itself not give it away? ;)
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Blocked due to "procedural deficiencies". LoL
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For how this is going to play out, look at Japan where it's already started. For my part, I'm not convinced the issues will be insurmountable and terrible.
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The downward trend of birth rates applies to both developing and developed countries: https://www.gapminder.org/answers/how-did-babies-per-woman-c...
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Netflix is a pretty big deal.
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> Whether you like it or not, thanks to piracy and competition ... server authoritative video games that are eventually turned off is a legitimate business strategy The only people you're effecting are legitimate players. Pirates cr
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Silly that this is being downvoted, especially since the book industry comparison is an interesting one: There will always be people like myself who enjoy older (even outdated) books, but even we still buy new books because they are part of
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All the more reason to have games that don't have it then? We could have a modern Sensible Soccer for everyone else who only cares about the gameplay.
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This isn't relevant to your points, but thought I'd pipe in to your rhetorical question anyway: > You want games with real vehicles or licensed music? The answer is actually no.
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It's obvious enough if you buy on Steam. Any game that says it needs it's own DRM or an account with the publisher is a nope.
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I don't disagree, but this is just one symptom of what the video game industry has become. As someone who hadn't played video games since his youth back in the late 80s, 90s, I was astonished when I tried to get back into it a few
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The word you're looking for is "joke" not "meme", but that isn't hip enough, right?
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You don't have a good feel for the anti-American-corporation sentiment here. Politicians in fact pay lip-service to "data sovereignty", for the points it gets them.
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In my case it's because I'm using another of their products (my Mac) that is _not_ locked down like the iDevices. My laptop doesn't lock me into my phone, but buying a phone that they have locked out of my laptop's speci
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I think the AI argument is muddying the waters. I don't think I'm being arrogant in saying it's not that complicated a problem. Simply either read the surrounding text (possibly by additional instruction) or the URL. I can&#x
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> How do you imagine that working? By reading surrounding text or by reading the URL? Yes. If I had "Amaya!" as the link text to download something, I'd be not much better off and would reach for context too. What's t
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The argument was the slowness, not the name of the technology. He only mentioned named it because _we_ all know the relationship. > The real question is; has your girlfriend stopped using teams since finding out how slow it is? Don'
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> No (real) customer has ever, or will ever, care about this. Discord and Slack are pretty much case-in-points Worked at two companies full of "real" users who cared enough to look elsewhere. Yes I know it's easy to find e
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> The compact audio cassette was a marvellous invention, in its own way; but this technology struggled to provide audio fidelity that would satisfy discerning listeners. Its frequency response was limited, and the unavoidable background
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The house is set up for ring cameras and makes it either impossible or painful to use anything else. Not because of technical limitations, but in order to steer you away from competitors. Building something with it working in a particular w
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How about people who want a Mac (which is still "open" to the extent that it makes a difference), and therefore would also like an iPhone because of the propitiatory APIs Apple makes available solely to the iPhone? I don't pa
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Conversely, we can _not_ open up our bootloaders in Android because banking apps then refuse to run on an "insecure" OS. Of course we'd have to put aside the fact that our computers can access the same banking features throug
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It's really not as scary as you think it is. Whenever I want a subscription I want inside an app, I actually take the effort to go to their website and buy it from them directly, because it's cheaper (not that they're allowed
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Apple is not forced into doing business in Europe, because there are a multitude of other anticompetitive tolerant regions (much larger than Europe mind you) they can do business in. If Apple prefers anticompetitive practices, it can simply
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That's not how choice works.
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To an extent, yes. It's one thing to design and built an iKettle in such a way that every aspect from the water filter to the power cord is well thought out but propitiatory. It's another to refuse to plug in to another "infe
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That irked me too. "_Bleeding edge" consumer GPUs are ...", sure, but you wait 6 months and you have it at a fraction of the cost. It's like saying "cars are already prohibitively expensive" whilst looking a Fe
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They're called "pretextual laws", and are prevalent in places like Russia and China. They always require proof though, since the whole point is an easy case in court. I can't see an easy way to prove someone supplied an
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I don't think the people in support of such things are travelling very much.
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He didn't mention it, but I think he meant to extend it to "and how would they check/prove it?". The practice of creating pretextual laws is well established in places like Russia, but a necessary component is proof. In

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