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It's incredibly arrogant to assume that the only reason why people might come to a different conclusion from you is that they've been manipulated into thinking that way through marketing. It's simply impossible that the indoc
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> I don't see why the option to sideload stuff onto the iPhone you've bought would make the platform less secure, especially if it is disabled by default and requires explicit user consent to be turned on. You don't see ho
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I very much want Apple to allow proper sideloading on iOS and iPadOS without any sort of developer account requirements that they currently impose and without any sort of weird workarounds to refresh certificates like altstore [1]. I thin
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Yet this product is still coming to market despite that.
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The free market is allowing a company like this one to exist because they're banking on there being enough people that care about this sort of thing to buy into their device rather than buying from a well established brand. That assump
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> I'd make the trade off for more mm of thickness anyway. That's great, then you can buy this modular laptop or one of many laptops that still has user upgradeable ram. Turns out you don't have to make this compromise if y
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Musk's contribution to EVs isn't just that he brought them to market, but that he made them a highly desirable technology. That it's "cool" and "hip" to own an electric vehicle, something that everyone els
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The fact that NASA was defunded on the whim of the president is a strong indication that no, that money couldn't be spent much better on public research and space exploration because that money never got there. Obama's policies
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We haven't even entered the real "Space Age." Commoditization of space flight is an important step. Call it whatever you want, it might be frivolous for Bezos and Branson to be the ones going into space, but who cares? It
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I really hope that this market picks up steam (heh) and we get to see even more bigger names coming up with devices. The Aya Neo [1], OneXPlayer [2], and GPD Win3 [3] have all come out relatively close to each other with different ideas of
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I do think that have 2x2u keys would be better, though I don't think it's the main issue with the Planck as far as ergonomics go. Going with the assumptions that you want your elbows to be next to your body and that you want your
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Ortholinear (which is the straight row/columns like the planck) kind of fail to account for the fact that your fingers aren't equally long. They do feel more comfortable than a normal staggered layouts as far as moving from keys b
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> Is there any type of work that is NOT suitable on these keyboards? I feel that the UP and DOWN keys are kind of strain at least in the beginning. I'd say situations where you need more discrete buttons that are easily accessible.
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I've never personally used a Planck, but I've got plenty of experience using alternative keyboards. With regards to ergonomics, I don't think the Planck solves really any of the issues with a standard keyboard. While the stra
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I’m still waiting on one of these applications to actually have vim keybindings for their iPad app - there are quite a few applications that I think use code mirror which for whatever reason doesn’t seem to support it. At least I’m assuming
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That means that you made a choice of what matters most to you. In any buying decision unless you're manufacturing it exactly to your specifications (and even then), you're probably going to be compromising on something. In this ca
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I would assume it comes from disliking the taste of hops. I find hoppy beers taste like soap, personally but IPAs and other hoppy beers have become incredibly popular, so navigating the craft brew landscape can be a minefield for people tha
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Commoditization is almost always a big compromise to form factor, which, given that laptops are by their very nature a compromise of power for form factor, isn't exactly desirable by everyone. Stacking PCBs, which is exactly what you&#
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Woz also got into hacking about computers at an ideal time. Not long before then it would have been impossible to build a sophisticated computer in your garage. Years later, miniaturization has continued to progress and many things that wer
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After feedback from aforementioned firewall developers, changes were made to network extensions that allowed them to do what they wanted with their applications (for the most part, at least). I still think that it’s a worse in-practice syst
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It’s not a jab against FOSS and I apologize if it comes off that way. Nvidia is absolutely the problematic party here. In the end though I’m not going to use nouveau and am one hundred percent going to install the proprietary blobs Nvidia p
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I've set up Arch before and it's not fun to me. I don't want to change and write dozens of config files to get up and running. Some people find that sort of thing fun. I don't. Does that mean I'm conceding some cont
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PopOS feels like an extremely pragmatic operating system as far as linux distributions go. Yes, I do want my broadcom wifi card to just work. I do want my dedicated Nvidia graphics card to actually be useful. Anyone that disagrees with thos
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The Intelligence community wouldn't ever rely on something like strapping body cameras on to people to ensure they're not leaking information. There's a lot of processes involved to prevent untrustworthy people from ever ente
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That wouldn’t work if the person’s computer doesn’t support Windows 11, though, which is the entire argument the blog post is making. That because windows 11 won’t work people will just throw away their computers and create more electronic
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Yes, I suppose you absolutely can refute my point if you choose to discard the first half of my statement which specifies the scope. Words can have different meanings under different contexts, and I'm providing you that context, which
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Side loading is a term that in the context of Android applications is well understood to be installing android applications that are not on the Play Store. It is not a synonym for downloading files to your computer system nor is it a synony
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That's absolutely not the same thing. I can download APK files all day on just about any operating system I want. That isn't equivalent to "installing" them.
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If APKs were normal Windows executables I'd agree with you. But given that they're not, there's not really an expectation that they'd just work.
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There hasn't been a free market approach with regards to internet in the United States in any sense of the word. From municipal to federal government the market has been captured by regulations that results in many places in the United
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