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by haswell 3y ago
I’m sorry you’re going through this, and what you’re describing sounds very much like me at some points in the process, and to be very honest, I’m still not immune; I still slip into depressive episodes. But the more I focus on doing “the w
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by haswell 3y ago
Not far afield at all. That’s another rabbit hole I’ve gone down pretty deeply, and I’ve found it an incredibly useful set of ideas for thinking (or not thinking) about the world. It cuts through a lot of the stuff we tend to get stuck in o
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by haswell 3y ago
If I recall correctly, some early techniques to unlock passcode-protected phones involved bypassing the user interface and trying passcodes at a point in the execution flow prior to the code that locks out the UI. I think modern devices hav
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by haswell 3y ago
> I can take the effort articulate these emotions into thoughts, and those thoughts may perhaps be negative / harmful But those thoughts are ultimately interpretations of the emotion, and those interpretations are built on a found
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by haswell 3y ago
I've been around the block with CBT and some other forms of therapy. My anxiety/depression is rooted in complex PTSD from complex childhood trauma, and over the many years I've gotten very intimate with the relationship betwe
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by haswell 3y ago
I should clarify that I meant "webmail" in general, and meant to answer the spirit of the broader question about why people prefer thick clients over web clients. Most web clients aren't great offline, but a "YMMV"
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by haswell 3y ago
Webmail requires an active Internet connection. A desktop client lets me work in more environments/situations, and acts as a kind of local backup/cache of my communications. It also makes focusing on email easier. I dislike having
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by haswell 3y ago
> The ad-free internet has already been here for a long time > Don't worry about sustainability. There was life before YouTube and Facebook and there will be life after Which is it? The point is that this version of the ad-fr
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by haswell 3y ago
I see what you mean; thanks for clarifying.
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by haswell 3y ago
> I think it's completely reasonable to say he has 7 days to download it. 7 days to download 200TB+ does not seem reasonable.
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by haswell 3y ago
> but does he seriously expect other people to believe he was naive enough to think Google would continue to store his data forever after they withdrew the unlimited service he was using? I doubt he expected Google to store his data fo
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by haswell 3y ago
> The people who decry the "nanny state" tend to oppose requirements for these, as well. I’m sure you can find some people who find safer crumple zones unreasonable, but I don’t think most people fit into this category. Autom
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by haswell 3y ago
It’s an oversimplification to conclude that the drop in deaths is just from “nannyifying” cars. There have been major improvements to vehicle frames, roll safety, crumple zones, etc that all play a major role in that graph. And adding safet
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by haswell 3y ago
While I use ublock and ad blocking DNS, this particular ad-free Internet isn’t sustainable. For better or worse, the business model behind many of these sites rely on the ad revenue to continue existing, and ad blocking only works as long a
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by haswell 3y ago
> I wouldn't categorize it as anti-consumer. Apple is not under any moral, legal, or ethical obligation to provide access to iMessage to users outside of their ecosystem. Apple is intentionally degrading the experience of sending
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by haswell 3y ago
As someone who has spent far too much time diving into old Slack threads to unearth what happened in the past, I can see incredible value in a capability like this. On the other hand, I think many companies would hesitate to create lasting
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by haswell 3y ago
I can only speak for the bubble I grew up in, but almost everyone in that circle came from some kind of traumatic background. Vietnam vets, victims of sexual assault and other forms of abuse, etc. These ultra religious groups provide a sens
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by haswell 3y ago
The religious beliefs that underlie these laws are the driving force. The people who hold these beliefs see the political system as a means to an end, and future losses do not matter if the goal is reached. I grew up in an ultra conservativ
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by haswell 3y ago
I would recommend finding a friend or looking up a YT video or whatever to see what the experience is like. Theres a reason this keeps hitting the front page, and it isn’t because the current experience is good.
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by haswell 3y ago
Any kind of multimedia is compressed behind recognition. Basic texts are fine. Send me an image, and it’ll look like it came from another era.
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by haswell 3y ago
> It’s Apples fault SMS is an archaic protocol? Wow, I truly learn something new every day. Why would this only be about SMS? RCS has existed for 15 years. It has its issues, but it’s not as if there hasn’t been an option. Apple will f
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by haswell 3y ago
It can be an interesting thought experiment to imagine a world where clocks didn’t exist and we hadn’t subdivided the years into named slices. We spend so much time reasoning relative to our understanding of time, which is seen through the
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by haswell 3y ago
The “How Beeper Mini Works” post from a few days ago doesn’t mention the serial number, so I don’t know. But whether this is happening or not is immaterial to the broader philosophical issues being raised. For sake of argument, let’s say th
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by haswell 3y ago
I think you and I are interpreting “riffraff” differently. I took it to mean the myriad of SMS scams and spam that is rampant outside of iMessage, not Android users broadly. My point was that Apple isn’t caring about their users by doing th
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by haswell 3y ago
It’s very clear that Apple does not want iMessage on Android. My point was that if they chose to give in and acquire something like Beeper (presumably due to bad press, concerns about regulatory action, etc), it does not follow that this in
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by haswell 3y ago
> It’s not broken. Apple devices have a low-friction “hot path” for communicating with other apple devices. That’s it. Want to use it? Get an apple device. As an Apple user who likes Apple products (I just really dislike this iMessage
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by haswell 3y ago
> But why is it Apple's responsibility to accept a non-legit/unknown serial #? I don’t think anyone is arguing that it’s Apple’s responsibility to accept fake serial numbers. The serial number is an implementation detail and
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by haswell 3y ago
> …because they're winning enough in the market(s) you care about is silly I disagree that what follows “because” is an accurate representation of what is happening, and reduces a more complex issue to an oversimplified notion of
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by haswell 3y ago
> You can add multiple e-mail or contacts accounts (even from different providers) and it'll seamlessly merge them in the system Mail/Contacts apps - why can't we have the same for messages? And on top of this, other voi
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by haswell 3y ago
> They are pro user - for Apple ecosystem users that is. And I’m good with that. I don’t really agree. The interoperability impact means that I’m affected as an iPhone user too. I’m only not impacted when I communicate with other iPhon

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