gman83

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   by gman83 5y ago

   Well I don't know what he was referring to, but at some point while I was at university I became totally addicted to the game "Football Manager". I would stay up entire nights playing that game. I had to completely quit playi
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   by gman83 5y ago

   I couldn't get through the cannibal part of Consider Phlebas, was soo weird.
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   by gman83 5y ago

   I use the Custom New Tab URL extension that's set to my Notion page where I organize my projects.
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   by gman83 5y ago

   Stadia has been great for me. I just love it.
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   by gman83 5y ago

   Wow, this is still being developed?
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   by gman83 5y ago

   It's true that it's a cynical interpretation, but at the same time I feel that as a society we shouldn't romanticize poor people working themselves to death as some kind of noble struggle. Same issue I had with the Nomadland
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   by gman83 5y ago

   I used to listen to podcasts all the time but since around 2018 I've switched mainly to audiobooks and personally I get way more out of that than podcasts.
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   by gman83 5y ago

   This isn't true imo. With AndroidX and before that the support library, most of the new features have been backwards compatible with older versions of Android.
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   by gman83 5y ago

   I have an iPhone and use almost every Google service available instead of the Apple one. Why? Not because the app is better, but because I'm also using Linux & Windows, as well as a Android tablet. With Google services at least I&#
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    by gman83 5y ago

    They're way better at PR. The Gates and Ballmer Microsoft sort of adopted the Slashdot evil Borg image, whereas Nadella has managed to somehow make Microsoft seem soft and fuzzy to the people that used to despise them. Even though thei
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    by gman83 5y ago

    Have they solved the motion sickness yet? I used an early Oculus (I think it was Oculus Rift DK2) and mainly used it for virtual desktop stuff try to see if I could replace my multiple monitor setup, but I'd feel really unwell after ab
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    by gman83 5y ago

    The day that adblockers stop working on Chrome is the day we'll see that mass-migration.
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    by gman83 5y ago

    But Google did pull out of China, did that improve the situation in China? Meanwhile Apple makes billions in China and barely anyone says anything. If you're Google you're looking at that like a raw deal.
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    by gman83 5y ago

    This is just a little bit bigger than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 phone. I'd consider getting that kind of form factor if it has iOS, because Android tablet apps aren't very good.
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    by gman83 5y ago

    I think the end game for Epic and their owner Tencent is to get a foot in the door on iOS and Android to open it up to Chinese app stores, especially in markets outside of the U.S. This could potentially be good for developers, but at the s
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    by gman83 5y ago

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee...
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    by gman83 5y ago

    Looks like the old MSN: https://web.archive.org/web/20010531123934/http://www.msn.co...
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    by gman83 5y ago

    How would Google switching their platform's kernel from Linux to Fuchsia "extinguish" Linux? I'm pretty sure we'll be fine without Google.
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    by gman83 5y ago

    I recommend Inoreader.
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    by gman83 5y ago

    Wait, this is something that American and Chinese companies do on a regular basis, but when European companies do it it would mean the end of the industry? I'm certainly not in favour of this, but I don't follow your logic.
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    by gman83 5y ago

    I actually like YouTube shorts. It seems to capture my interests more than TikTok does. With TikTok, I find myself watching inane stuff that my unconscious mind is compelled to watch, but as soon as I snap out of this dream state and realiz
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    by gman83 5y ago

    If you've ever tried playing old games in an emulator, and thought to yourself, wow this looks terrible, take a look at how much better these games could look on a CRT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9C_TfmPgYM
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    by gman83 5y ago

    If Google were to ditch Android for Fuchsia, I could see this Microsoft/Amazon alliance stepping in and saying they'll build Android moving forward.
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    by gman83 5y ago

    I have a feeling like it spiked a while ago. If I listen to my teenage daughters, they're all complaining that TikTok went downhill and it's full of creeps now.
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    by gman83 5y ago

    It hasn't been all that confusing to me. I was on Google Talk, then I switched to Hangouts, which I have been using with my family until about a month ago, we've since transitioned to the new Google Chat and it's been fine. I
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    by gman83 5y ago

    I heard that this hasn't been true for several years, but everyone keeps repeating it.
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    by gman83 5y ago

    I always find it odd that we worry so much about how much our browsers are tracking us, but almost nothing about what our ISPs are doing. Every time I've looked into it, it seems much worse. As far as I can tell, ISPs are legally allow
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    by gman83 5y ago

    I'm very ignorant about Bitcoin, but given El Salvador's big problem with crime, doesn't adopting Bitcoin give the cartels an extremely easy way to launder their money?
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    by gman83 5y ago

    I'm curious, with third-party cookies being fased out, and alternatives like FLoC being met with resistance, could this drastically cut the size of Google's revenue's down? If the ads can no longer be accurately targeted, I i
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    by gman83 5y ago

    In Europe at least, I'm very unhappy that neither Google or Apple has managed to create any form of standard communications platform, because now instead of one of those two, everyone uses WhatsApp from Facebook, which I personally hat