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by iasay 4y ago
Have you dealt with an Asus RMA before? I have. I was being kind with the 2 months...
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by iasay 4y ago
My kids, even the 9 year old, organise with their friends via iMessage, so YMMV on that... Teach them it's a tool and guide them on how to use it responsibly.
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by iasay 4y ago
Some parenting advice: if your toddler loses their marbles, do not pacify them with a reward. That's a seriously bad idea. I found the best low stress and low effort solution was to be a larger drama than they are. This culminated in m
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by iasay 4y ago
It's a tool. Another creative outlet. I bought my kids ipads and apple pencils and they love them. My eldest, now at university bought a new iPad Pro recently and uses that exclusively as her work computer. What you're doing is en
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by iasay 4y ago
LOL I read the first comment about Asus and quality and expected to read this. Can confirm. Absolutely the worst company on the planet.
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by iasay 4y ago
Please note that my point is that they sell better quality laptops than the competitors, not the best quality they could be. Although I have precisely zero complaints with my 14" MBP.
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by iasay 4y ago
If it breaks every month and takes them two months to repair it each time then it's a problem.
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by iasay 4y ago
The Yogas are ass end landfill built to a price point. You get what you pay for.
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by iasay 4y ago
That figure doesn't make sense other than from a marketing perspective. It is missing all the important engineering questions... How many did they test? What's the standard deviation? What does the bell curve look like? What are t
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by iasay 4y ago
Actually iPadOS is very much designed to use a keyboard. A mouse too. Not a lot of people seem to realise that...
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by iasay 4y ago
The reason that there is no non-Apple alternatives to the MacBook Pro is because everyone is too focused on blue sky innovation rather than actually doing the best job of stuff that already exists. Quality is the feature that apple sell.
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by iasay 4y ago
That's a terrible straw man. There is universal dislike for bad engineering. Butterfly keyboards and touch bar for example...
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by iasay 4y ago
Only if you buy bottom end crap and beat it around. Lenovo / Apple hinges are pretty good. Foldable displays have several million times more parts being folded...
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by iasay 4y ago
I bought a keyboard for my iPad too. I'm not sure what your point is?
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by iasay 4y ago
Expensive luxury land fill like all foldable displays currently are. This takes it to the extreme. I am not impressed. We should be building for sustainability at this stage of our existence and this is exactly the opposite of it. Plus it r
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by iasay 4y ago
You waste it on Excel or you waste it on subscriptions, opex and consultants. Or you hire someone who can shape the business processes towards efficiency with the tools you already have...
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by iasay 4y ago
Avoiding any custom software development and purchasing is the number one priority for small to medium businesses that want to survive if you ask me. I've seen a couple of them killed by software. At this point I'd rather work for
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by iasay 4y ago
I would agree. I'm an Apple Numbers user now but I have yet to find something even remotely as useful as the spreadsheet abstraction. I use them for everything from solving engineering problems, forecasting, statistics, decision analys
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by iasay 4y ago
Many posts aggregated in my case. I'll probably get shot for this but I use HN to avoid the costly ramp up of jumping on tech industry marketing fads and false promises. About 50% of the products and ideas out there burn quickly. 25% o
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by iasay 4y ago
To be fair they tend to do that quite a lot. It's only the really large things we get to see and the shooting of ones own toes off.
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by iasay 4y ago
We get intelligence feeds from various companies. I can't name them as we are under NDA but it's an aggregation of news, real data, analytics to build credible views of things that are going on and where they are likely to go. We
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by iasay 4y ago
It doesn't work like that. There was public intelligence mid summer last year and we were running transports full of weapons to Ukraine back in December. This was all over paid up commercial intelligence feeds that investment companies
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by iasay 4y ago
Back in the old days we had qualified second sources for all parts that went into engineering. In fact it was part of the design specification not to rely on one vendor. That put some limitations on what was possible as it pushed the tech
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by iasay 4y ago
That is at least 40dB over my level of insanity.
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by iasay 4y ago
These things are pretty much just bike shedding though in the scale of the problems with Windows. They are very easy to market as improvements though and MSFT is entirely driven by marketing now rather than quality and engineering.
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by iasay 4y ago
What the fuck
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by iasay 4y ago
Great job here. But what about the rest of the platform? It's knee deep in layers of crap accumulated over 20 years due to schizophrenic product management. Nothing is finished. Everything is broken or limping or painful to use. Every
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by iasay 4y ago
They wouldn't find a solution because all the good answers were moderated away into oblivion :D
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by iasay 4y ago
Well the trick is not getting found out which isn’t particularly difficult.
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by iasay 4y ago
Correct. Most of them appear to have been feasting on me this week. Grr.

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