metabagel

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by metabagel 8mo ago
What’s really disappointing is that Apple is making money hand over fist, and yet they seemingly make so little effort. Please Apple, for the love of all that is holy, fix cmd-tab, Ctrl-tab, and desktops on the Mac.
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by metabagel 8mo ago
Their hardware is world class. Software? Not so much.
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by metabagel 8mo ago
I switched to iPhone for battery life. Additionally, Apple isn’t an advertising company like Google. However, I agree that Apple should cooperate with Google on messaging. Signal is so much better, but it’s hard to get people to switch.
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by metabagel 8mo ago
It’s a joke, just like “Apple, if that’s really your real name”.
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by metabagel 8mo ago
Apple’s implementation of desktops/workspaces is maddening.
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by metabagel 8mo ago
Moom looks great! Is there a Mac app which enhances the functionality of desktops/workspaces?
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by metabagel 8mo ago
I can’t take any of it seriously.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
If you’re really studying film, there is a lot to pay attention to in every scene. If you’re just watching films to be entertained, then yes, older movies have a slower pace and can sometimes be boring. I think a film student would often be
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by metabagel 9mo ago
There's little assurance of safety or 'fitness for purpose' for apps in the App Store. Apple takes 30% for distribution, and you're basically on your own. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-betraye
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by metabagel 9mo ago
I think that spammers would happily pay that rate.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
Charlie Brown is a child.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
Yes, equanimity is a great quality to possess. It means that you never get too high or too low. When things are really going your way, you know that things can change for the worse. Yet you can be content. When things are not going your way
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by metabagel 9mo ago
> some people in tech companies will identify people like me and wring us out in ways that only benefit them Absolutely. They inevitably get promoted to managers, because they are able to parasitically get things done.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
How does this relate to the SOLID project? https://solidproject.org/
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by metabagel 9mo ago
Trump wants to acquire Greenland and rent it back to the Greenlanders.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
They’re not occupying forces. There is a status of forces agreement between the two countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_of_forces_agreement
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by metabagel 9mo ago
It’s not. It’s mocking.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
Stronger unions would help bring wages up.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
I think the lock picking lawyer's voice would drive me up the wall, not that I don't enjoy some of his content.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
> https://meetinghouse.cc - My site for helping twitter users find each other This would be nice for Bluesky. I deleted my account on Twitter after it turned into a hellscape.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
I get the frustration, since so many submissions link to a page which assumes prior knowledge, and without adding any explanatory comment. In this case, you could find out by clicking on "Why Orion?" to the left or the "Orion
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by metabagel 9mo ago
As I understand it, Orion was originally developed because Apple doesn't allow you to select Kagi as a search provider for Safari.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
I agree with you that it’s a genocide, but that is not universally accepted, so I think the scare quotes are OK. This article isn’t seeking to litigate the genocide in Gaza. Scare quotes don’t mean that it’s not true.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
Because Americans mostly don’t care about world events unless they involve us directly. Gaza is a welcome aberration.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531259
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by metabagel 9mo ago
It's a practice. There are benefits. It's not a cure-all. The goal is to be more in control and aware of your own thoughts and feelings. You achieve that by learning to turn off the "monkey mind" - the continuous stream
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by metabagel 9mo ago
There are claims and links to scientific studies in this article. https://www.skepticspath.org/blog/what-is-the-science-of-med...
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by metabagel 9mo ago
> How is 'guided' meditation when you're actively listening to someone else even the same thing? Generally speaking, meditation shouldn't be interrupted by too many instructions. Most common is no instructions during
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by metabagel 9mo ago
That’s the argument made by the article.
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by metabagel 9mo ago
I rather think that issuing patents was incentivized in various ways, leading to more bad patents being issued.

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