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by jimmies 10y ago
Oh man, oh man, this is so close to my experience. I went lo-fi since the beginning of 2017. Real testimonials of a drug/facebook/internet addict who has the problem out of control here. I killed my Facebook account 3 months ago,
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by jimmies 10y ago
Haha, maybe I'm out of date. I know that Microsoft has stepped up on their game, but I figure I can share my anecdotal experience. One year ago I was trying to get Windows 10 or something going on my computer as a backup system. So I w
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by jimmies 10y ago
Although having performance is nice, I don't think people buy Mac computers for performance. It's known that Mac computers are a couple of times more expensive than PCs running Windows for the same performance. I can understand th
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by jimmies 10y ago
It's the PixelQi display. I was impressed with the OLPC screen when I first saw it in person in 2009 or so. Just a year or two ago I decided to get a netbook and install one of them. It turned out to be not impressive at all, the scree
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by jimmies 10y ago
This is an awesome idea. The only thing I log in to my account is to literally run this in my head a couple of times a month. I usually have a couple of active credit cards with different due dates on them so this is at least annoying to ke
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by jimmies 10y ago
The telco companies cannot be more pathetic. AT&T still charges and still counts one RCS message as one MMS/SMS, on top of the standard data rate. Why is something like this, which relies completely on data, is still a technically
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by jimmies 10y ago
You are at the point of 2002-2004 of Desktop OS - if you want to use a mobile OSS OS, you're just have to deal with lots of inconveniences. It depends on what are you looking for and what you find tolerable. I have been annoyed with th
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by jimmies 10y ago
I don't mind the principles of it -- and I don't mind it in macOS. At least the menu is always there, the problem with unity is that it is hidden and will slowly appear when you hover the mouse on top. It's really hard to aim
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by jimmies 10y ago
I cannot wait for Unity to die, and now it does. I was not very happy when they decided to make Unity mac-like by moving the menu to the top bar. It has to be the most idiotic decision around for anyone who has multiple monitors. Even with
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by jimmies 10y ago
The last one is a very important paragraph to see the big picture. Without that, my comment might just be an isolated case and fear mongering. It is important to see although this door lock/car control/whatever problem is new, the
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by jimmies 10y ago
Your device has stopped working because your internet meme/karma points are too low. You need to give us a 5 stars review and a like on facebook and stop being an asshole before this lock will function again. They certainly _can_ do t
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by jimmies 10y ago
I don't know why many comments about "the customer is clearly an asshole, therefore he deserves the lock not working/the company has the legal rights to do so blah blah" are modded so high right now. Even when the custom
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by jimmies 10y ago
The whole amino-acids thing that the author talked about made me cringe a little bit. "Amino-acids" is just basically the fancy word for "proteins" (I know there are amino-acids that aren't proteins, but let's
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by jimmies 10y ago
While this is undoubtedly very impressive, I think it's just another logical step to what we've been seeing so far: - In the past, you needed to have a pianist at home to perform you a song, with the music box and then the phonogr
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by jimmies 10y ago
There is a huge misunderstanding here in the comments. From my understanding, this change just means that hangouts can no longer be used as an app that sends and receives SMS from the carrier. They used to think it is a good idea to have ev
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by jimmies 10y ago
Having to worry about safety (electric shocks, leaks, fires, short circuiting) when something breaks, hauling big heavy appliances in and out of the house, selecting new ones,... those are costs you have to factor in when choosing to go wit
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by jimmies 10y ago
>jackets I used to buy a nice looking faux-leather jacket from Zara three years ago. The faux leather layer started discoloring making it look like shit after a year and completely peeling off after a year. Worst shit ever. I learned tha
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by jimmies 10y ago
I think having to provide a scanned ID and driver's license, and being reminded "you can't afford it?" and "have some self respect" is far from requesting the person just "being a legit student." It i
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by jimmies 10y ago
I think it's more like (utility - list price cost) < (utility - finding a crack cost) Finding and using a crack is does not cost nothing, it takes time and effort. In the past it might have been easier, nowadays it's very hard
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by jimmies 10y ago
I don't know about you and how you set up your page, but I think how you approach those people matter too. I have seen Parted Magic's author, Patrick, being a pain in the ass about offering a free student version [1]. So in that c
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by jimmies 10y ago
If you don't want them as your customers in the first place, then why bother setting up the honeypot to trap them and convince them to pay?
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by jimmies 10y ago
Or maybe when they searched for a crack and found your smug page, they get pissed because they were trapped, and some get even more pissed when they were instructed to beg for a license. I wonder if you see a difference if you just put out
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by jimmies 10y ago
> If the 'customer' has gone as far to search cracked version, they obviously do see the value in the software. I'm sure everybody sees the value of Microsoft Windows, but there are certain parts of the world where nobody
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by jimmies 10y ago
>If they're taking the time to pirate the app and use it then it's presumably worth something to them. There is no dispute that they see the value in being able to use the software. The question is at what cost? In economics te
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by jimmies 10y ago
Companies selling stuff much more expensive for the early adopters because they know the customers are willing to pay for it. As long as you're making profit, you should sell to everyone at the maximum price they're willing to pay
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by jimmies 10y ago
When searching for the crack, it means someone thinks that the software isn't worth the value being asked (or they might not have any way to pay). The honeypot page doesn't provide anything useful to the question. I think scaring
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by jimmies 10y ago
2012 was a very different time. Stuff sucked so much back then, especially wireless. It doesn't help, also, that most people don't buy hardware for Linux but expect it to run on a random machine that they spared. Buy good hardware
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by jimmies 10y ago
If you use Nvidia, then the open driver sucks. It is like GIMP sucks, and that's a very real problem. But the open drivers don't brick my hardware, GIMP doesn't go and send my shit to the cloud without me knowing it, and won&
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by jimmies 10y ago
Coconut_crab, holy shit... I recognized your nickname from the VnOSS forum 10 years ago, so before I saw your answer, I already knew it. It's amazing you're still around. Hope you're still doing well.
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by jimmies 10y ago
Sure -- MS made it impossible to review the code given to them by the manufacturer. It's a Windows', or in other words, proprietary software problem. Do we have that problem with Linux?

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