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by hbn 7mo ago
Pirating is honestly, by-far the least painful experience to watch things. I recently started watching a series, and I figured I'd check if it's on any streaming services I have access to. I found it on Prime Video, but when I cli
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by hbn 7mo ago
> nowadays an apple computer is more like an iphone - apple would prefer if everything was welded shut. Funny timing to say that https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-r...
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by hbn 7mo ago
The hardware teams have done a great job proving Apple cares about the Mac. It'd be nice if the people in charge of the software would get the message.
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by hbn 7mo ago
> these features are opt-in. If you don't want to use them, you don't have to. Using a language is more than just writing it with a pre-established knowledge of what subset of features you think is worth the tradeoffs. More key
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by hbn 7mo ago
This is just a product that offers access to a model, and they did as much as they could to make sure it didn't output anything non-kosher. Video gen is going nowhere, and there's already models out there with less safety measures
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by hbn 7mo ago
> Still, I am mystified by how rapidly Sora went from launch to shutdown I think if you had to foot the bill for generating a bajillion gigabytes of slop with no real utility, you wouldn't be too mystified. They showed off their tec
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by hbn 7mo ago
Also a lot of people got into the industry because they saw the salaries of programmers, but have no real passion for computers or software. They did the studying enough to pass the tests and write an algorithm to pass the interview and lan
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by hbn 7mo ago
I was gonna say he addressed Microsoft's rust library, but apparently that was something different? https://github.com/microsoft/windows-app-rs#this-repository-... I'd say it's confusing but I wouldn&#x2
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by hbn 7mo ago
Almost every update I'm skeptical at first and then after a while I see a screenshot of the old UI and think "how did I ever use that?" Tahoe I've been using since it came out and every time I see a screenshot of prior v
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by hbn 7mo ago
I recently managed to configure StartAllBack to make practically everything look like Windows 7, and it's improved the experience ten times over
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by hbn 7mo ago
> Plan an exit strategy now, before you need it later. The idea that we'll all be forced off of Windows one day sounds like a dream, but so far we continue to be in a state where myself and many other are long past the point of want
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by hbn 7mo ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong cause I don't recall where I got this understanding from, but I believe Windows 11 still has the Windows 10 taskbar, but a startup process basically hides it and replaces it with a brand new one the
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by hbn 7mo ago
I'm confused how you could create a norman door on your house. I thought a norman door could only be a door that doesn't latch shut. i.e. only the pull side should have a handle, cause you don't need a handle to push. But if
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by hbn 7mo ago
> People who are unwilling to figure out the risks just should not use smartphones and the internet. Sounds great in theory, but just today I was reminded how impossible this is when walking back from lunch, I noticed all the parking met
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by hbn 7mo ago
Scammers already will spend multiple days on a scam call. Watch some Kitboga videos, he'll strings them along for a week. "Google will call you again tomorrow to get you your refund." There, we've successfully circumvent
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by hbn 7mo ago
> ADB installs are not impacted by the waiting period, so that is an option if you need to install certain unregistered applications immediately. Someone is just going to make a nice GUI application for sideloading apks with a single dra
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by hbn 7mo ago
It's logistically a fact. Their paycheck comes from taxpayers. If you believe they're doing a bad job it's unrelated.
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by hbn 7mo ago
There's very valid reasons to have issues with Tahoe's changes. The dock being liquid glass is fine. But curving the windows to look like iPad apps, and not even adjusting the grab target appropriately for resizing the window is b
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by hbn 7mo ago
That's how they work. It's what the GP said.
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by hbn 7mo ago
An issue I haven’t seen anyone bring up: how are they going to keep the randomly generated sexy new AI face for the characters consistent between shots? A frame of the character shown 20 hours into the game doesn’t remember the random gener
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by hbn 7mo ago
“Controversial opinion” same take as every other comment
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by hbn 7mo ago
There's something to be said for having a standard, known SKU, both as something for developers to target if enough people own it, and for users to troubleshoot if they're e.g. having an issue running X game. This kind of already
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by hbn 7mo ago
I don't have any solid numbers on me, but I believe early 360s failing wasn't just widespread; it was straight up most of them dying within the first couple years. It's honestly insane they more or less got away with that. An
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by hbn 7mo ago
> Health conscious folks would definitely choose these over hamburgers Not sure what health-conscious people you know, but I'd hazard to guess that most would choose the patty made from a single natural ingredient that's been a
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by hbn 7mo ago
Not a decade, it was roughly a 4 year span - from the 2016 super thin chassis redesign with butterfly switches to when they started shipping Apple Silicon in 2020 (they also backtracked on the bad keyboards in 2019 with the i9 MBP I believe
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by hbn 7mo ago
Apple stuff lasts me longer than any other computers I've purchased in my life. The Mac had a bit of a dark age in the late 2010s but barring that, I think it's incorrect to say Apple products are unreliable. I bought a late-2013
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by hbn 7mo ago
You're kinda skipping over the 75% of my comment where I said I like everything else, including things Linux can't replicate.
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by hbn 7mo ago
I see the Vista comparison a lot but I'm not sure I agree with it. I never thought Vista was that ugly, I thought it was more most of the computer hardware people were buying at the time just wasn't capable of running those visual
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by hbn 7mo ago
Can't speak for GP but I got the feeling that after Apple embarrassed itself shipping almost none of the Apple Intelligence features announced at WWDC 2024, they scrambled to get something drastic out the door to show they're stil
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by hbn 7mo ago
We aren't given an option at my work, but if we were I'd still choose the Mac anyway. I love the Mac and that's why I care so much about this design regression. I like that it unlocks with my watch or fingerprint from a wirel

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