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by ksk 9y ago
>(particularly since they haven't invested in creating their own chips like Huawei and Samsung have) They can't really 'invest' in creating their own chips. Currently, all the countries that have semiconductor technol
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by ksk 9y ago
>Have you even tried to turn that stuff off in Chrome? Personally, I have made an effort to try to turn things off in Chrome, because I felt it to be a superior product to FF. I switched to FF purely because I realized that my interests
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by ksk 9y ago
Its great when you can use a service when the vendor is not interested in making an app for your platform, but browsers being so taxing (I'm assuming JS is the culprit here) is one of the reasons my battery doesn't last a full day
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by ksk 9y ago
We're clearly operating on seperate planes here. Your reasoning as far as I can tell, is your own belief, and not based on evidence that anyone can verify. My reasoning is based on Apples actions, their own comments, experiences of thi
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by ksk 9y ago
>They might "not even be that great", but they are where all the listeners and the money are. Thats true I think. Or maybe people just stopped buying music and Apple had to figure out another way to make money. It wouldn't
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by ksk 9y ago
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/iphone-replacement-displ... Can you explain this?
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by ksk 9y ago
What in the world are you on about? Sorry dude, I can make no sense of anything in your rambling comment.
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by ksk 9y ago
>This is entirely inaccurate. They just want there to be a clear distinction between Apple service and third-party service. False. This is getting tiring. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Consumer-watchdog-accuses-Appl...
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by ksk 9y ago
>Please show me a source where Apple sued someone (either an individual or a third-party repair center) simply for repairing their own device or a user's device on behalf of that user. You won't find it because that's not
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by ksk 9y ago
>Woah I didn't know you could read my mind! Oh, but you certainly are able to determine the skill level of people you don't know. Nice. Quoting you: >The reason why Apple doesn't want any Joe-schmoe just yanking and rep
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by ksk 9y ago
I worry they're going to come after us programmers next. Only "authorized" programmers will get the access code required to change anything. Microsoft, Apple, Dell, etc will control the access codes. "Programming is hard
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by ksk 9y ago
>The reason why Apple doesn't want any Joe-schmoe just yanking and replacing caps and other components is simple: quality control. I can barely count on two hands people I would be comfortable working on the innards of a PC, let alo
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by ksk 9y ago
Well, heres hoping it doesn't get canned. >This is my biggest complaint with the "Right to Repair" movement. They're constantly conflating what Apple is fighting against (counterfeit parts and being compelled to provi
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by ksk 9y ago
Nobody is actually doing that. You are confusing evidence against someone versus "I better make a copy of this for myself before it stops working".
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by ksk 9y ago
Yes, I am unable to use future information that I don't possess to form an opinion today. >Apple has done things like this in the past, and people screamed about screwing over compiler publishers and so on, and then suddenly the Mac
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by ksk 9y ago
Actually, they are not allowed to do whatever they want. Nobody is, but okay, believe that if you may. >A government somewhere telling Google what they have to do globally? If Google had individual companies in individual countries, with
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by ksk 9y ago
> That is not the same as censoring. That is just one case. There are other cases of youtube/google banning peoples accounts. In any case, the person I replied to was equating de-indexing with censoring.
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by ksk 9y ago
Google doesn't want that because not every subsidiary would be profitable, and they would have to pay local taxes in every country they have an office/employ people/generate revenue.
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by ksk 9y ago
Its interesting that Google is making a 'freedom of expression' argument when they themselves heavily censor YouTube content. Google controls the platform their users use, and the Government controls the 'platform' that
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by ksk 9y ago
>There’s nothing stopping you from keeping your machine running the same version of the OS you’re on now. You can say that about anything. Is there anything stopping you from writing your own OS? Take a programming course, Learn programm
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by ksk 9y ago
>Surely Apple is allowed to release updates to their OS that eventually break old software at some point. And I am not allowed to complain? >Or do you expect Mac software you bought in 1984 to continue run on the current OS? That is a
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by ksk 9y ago
>Could somebody point me to a technical explanation of why it's sometimes non trivial to just compile your app against x86-64 and call it a day? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/common-visual
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by ksk 9y ago
What is the point of an OS if not to run the software the user has purchased? I don't care, and more importantly don't want to care at all about the OS beyond it being a launcher for software that allows me to make money. Such a b
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by ksk 9y ago
>So if you just set out to make a Good Thing it gets lost, unless you also do other things that are seemingly unnecessary (like adding a silly face to your YouTube preview). Right, so you can boost the signal (curators, youtube face, cli
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by ksk 9y ago
I'm currently learning Japanese, and that is not a well defined goal IMHO. How do you "learn computers"? Alternate ideas.. I want to be able to: * Ask for directions in Japanese * Tell a joke in Japanese * Write
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Probably because people think that their current level is 'unnaturally low' and if only they 'did this one secret thing' it would get some kind of immediate boost. I've observed that tech people especially, are na
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by ksk 9y ago
> but too many people don't even think about it and just procreate because it's part of the Standard Life Script As is their right, and not to mention biological imperative. Ironically, people not wanting kids, will be marginal
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by ksk 9y ago
> it is either _fact_ or not and completely indisputable. Not really. You're all over the place. I don't know why you think engineering is some kind of special branch that is not susceptible to the model breaking down even afte
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by ksk 9y ago
A counter (somewhat) : http://yosefk.com/blog/fun-wont-get-it-done.html Its not important, but I happen to agree with most of it.. :)
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by ksk 9y ago
I have had mixed results with the Sigma MC-11 adapter. Some lenses worked OK, and some didn't. I don't have the setup or the resources to do a thorough analysis. I attributed them to the 'slop' in the system - From the f

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