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by hbn 2y ago
For twitter being supposedly a right wing social media platform, the only tweets I see break 100k likes are extremely left wing political takes (and Elon's tweets cause he's almost surely gotten him to be artificially pushed in th
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by hbn 2y ago
Exactly, Apple will put in all the work to implement cloud features in a way where you can swap out the backend just so Hacker News Guy, as the "techie" guy in the family, can set up his whole family with his own hacked together c
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by hbn 2y ago
I swear AirPods in general are just less reliable than they used to be too. I feel like I need to be doing incantations for them to work sometimes, whereas I recall them feeling like magic compared to BT headphones I've used in the pas
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by hbn 2y ago
Well I'm not sure what use you'd have out of Skype integration when Skype itself is being axed in a couple of months
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by hbn 2y ago
It's essential if you live in a place where it's essential. But there are plenty of places where everything hasn't gone all digital, which makes living without internet much easier than it is in e.g. America.
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by hbn 2y ago
The bag is secured
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by hbn 2y ago
I used Android for the better part of a decade, and once I switched to an iPhone I never really had any issues around not having a back button, considering the amount I hear complaining about it. Basically every app lets you swipe from the
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by hbn 2y ago
Apple cannot figure out how to do a search in settings for the life of them. It's been broken on iOS basically since it was added. Do any googling about iOS settings search and you'll only find people talk about it to rant about h
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by hbn 2y ago
This is actually a kind of important setting to turn on if you're doing web development. At my work the developers use MacBooks and it's not rare to get bug reports about double scrollbars and whatnot which are caused by certain n
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by hbn 2y ago
Desktop icons snapping to the grid has been broken forever too. Every once in a while I'll have a space in the "grid" that just won't accept anything to be placed in it. And god, don't even get me started on how the
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by hbn 2y ago
Apple Music on Mac definitely needs a ground-up rewrite, though I worry it'll lose uncommonly used features, like the ability to upload and stream your own music. I think a lot of Apple Music weirdness is from the fact that it's b
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by hbn 2y ago
It seems to me like the iPad in particular has the worst software quality. Not that iOS on the iPhone is perfect, but it really seems like their workflow is to build for the phone first, then hammer it in place to work on the iPad as an aft
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by hbn 2y ago
That was almost the Dr Doofenshmirtz "if I had a nickel" quote
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by hbn 2y ago
Do they not want to use a smartphone? FaceTime is about as seamless an experience as you can get, and it's basically like receiving a phone call because it's indeed a call on a phone!
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by hbn 2y ago
Hey, we may be spinning in circles, but at least the websites consistently get slower over the years
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by hbn 2y ago
That sentence wouldn't have made sense to me before I read the original article. I got into web dev after HTML5, I've never heard of <frameset>
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by hbn 2y ago
Yeah seems to me Valve almost entirely stopped being a game developer in the early 2010s after Dota 2. Which I suppose more or less coincides with when PC gaming became a real mainstream alternative to consoles in the gaming space, and it b
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by hbn 2y ago
"Is a good propaganda tool" doesn't keep a website up, engineers do. It's losing money because a bunch of major advertisers pulled out, not because there's not enough engineers to keep it online. I use it daily and
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by hbn 2y ago
I think your stats are way off when you consider how many kids are being babysat all day by YouTube videos on an iPad or the TV.
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by hbn 2y ago
I wouldn't say this is a sign of declining mobile usage, but rather that people have YouTube videos playing constantly on the TV while they're scrolling around on their phone.
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by hbn 2y ago
I've never cared for commas. I like cooking my family and my dog.
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by hbn 2y ago
As far as I understand, the "ET for Atari was so bad it killed the games industry" is kind of an exaggeration/misrepresentation. Which should probably be assumed from how simple the explanation is despite all the questions it
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by hbn 2y ago
It looks like 70% of the posts there are from bmonkey325 and most threads have no replies. I wouldn't call it active.
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by hbn 2y ago
What if you clicked no because you already own a Pebble?
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by hbn 2y ago
> The other, which they’ve recently introduced, is to disable Lock Screen scrubbing I was so happy I happened to read through their recent changelog and caught that. WAY too many times I accidentally swiped along the scrub bar and put my
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by hbn 2y ago
Yahtzee is one of my favorite writers. I need to get back into the last couple books of his I haven't read.
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by hbn 2y ago
Looks very nice. I see Windbreaker Podcast featured in those screenshots on the App Store listing. A Z̶e̶r̶o̶ ̶P̶u̶n̶c̶t̶u̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Fully Ramblomatic fan?
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by hbn 2y ago
> The caller's accent (wtf) You don't have to pretend to be confused. The industry of Indian scam call centers is not a crazy conspiracy invented by racists.
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by hbn 2y ago
It's confusing because I have to assume there's a sizeable amount of people using Xcode internally to develop Apple's own apps. I guess their voices aren't heard from the people dictating corporate priority.
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by hbn 2y ago
Not the GP but I use a simple wake up light alarm that was a game-changer for me in winters when a blaring alarm yanking me awake to a pitch-black room was not a great way to start the day, especially before going out into the -40° cold to

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