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by mmcnl 1y ago
Trading one proprietary app that gives you ownership over your own data (WhatsApp) for another proprietary app that locks your data (Signal) is not an "ethical" replacement, it's merely a (worse) alternative.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
What I do with my data should be a choice made by ME, and no one else, and definitely not by some uncontrollable entity on the other side of the world.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
Signal doesn't provide any method to backup and restore my chats, at least on iOS. Imo this is a very important feature, I have chat history going back for years and it's basically a rich media diary of my life. It happens occasio
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by mmcnl 1y ago
No indeed it doesn't change anything about Framework the company. But I still fail to see why I would buy a Framework over a HP EliteBook, Lenovo ThinkPad or Dell Pro laptop. The only reason I can imagine is upgradability: you can upgr
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by mmcnl 1y ago
Ofcourse, but that's the whole point right? At similar power levels, Apple M-series is a lot faster. The only way for AMD and Intel to compete on performance is by providing more power, but this obviously has a negative effect on effic
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by mmcnl 1y ago
The HP EliteBook series are very easy to repair. Only 4 captive screws and you can access all the internals. Has been like that for years.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
They have laptops with soldered RAM but also a lot without. The classic 14" ThinkPad (now called T14) has non-soldered RAM. The EliteBook 8 G1 14" also non-soldered RAM if you get the non-Lunar Lake edition. Same for the Dell coun
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by mmcnl 1y ago
The consumer laptops are not built for easy repairability. EliteBooks are very servicable, only 4 or 5 captive screws and you can easily access all the internals.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
Yes we all use ANSI. Only difference with US keyboards are Alt Gr key instead of right Alt, and a € sign on the "5" key. I think both are not really dealbreakers.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
MacBook Air and MacBook Pro actually have very competitive pricing, even if you take into account the expensive upgrades. I'd buy the Windows/Linux equivalent at the same price in a heartbeat.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
In The Netherlands ANSI is the most common keyboard layout, so you might want to look there if you really want/need ANSI. Only Apple and Logitech are outliers and insist on ISO.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
You might not have noticed, but your single-core performance will take a serious hit if you disable turbo boost. For the AMD 7480u, turbo boost frequency is 5.1Ghz vs 3.3GHz base clock frequency. If you disable turbo boost you lose 36% sing
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by mmcnl 1y ago
You're linking to a multi-core benchmark. The story is a lot more in favor of Apple if you look at single-core efficiency, Apple is roughly 2-3x more efficient: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Lunar-Lake-CPU-analysi
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by mmcnl 1y ago
I don't really understand the repairability appeal of the Framework. Hasn't that already been a selling point for the business line laptops of HP, Lenovo and Dell for years? They all offer premium business laptops with removable R
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by mmcnl 1y ago
If they're too slow to your liking, then upgrade. But for many people the performance is acceptable.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
Very strange indeed. So much for sustainability and environmental friendly.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
Yes, it seems like it's actually a more refined implementation than what currently exists. Call me pleasantly surprised!
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by mmcnl 1y ago
My guess is Podman. They released native hypervisor support on macOS last year. https://devclass.com/2024/03/26/podman-5-0-released-with-nat...
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by mmcnl 1y ago
It's cool but also not as revolutionary as you make it sound. You can already install Podman, Orbstack or Colima right? Not sure which open-source framework they are using, but to me it seems like an OS-level integration of one of thes
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by mmcnl 1y ago
I think this is a good analysis but falls a little short. Sure, the price is not high for inference, but what about the cost? To be fair, the author already tries to answer this claim, but you could look more critically at this question. So
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by mmcnl 1y ago
Curious to why they (both Apple and Valve) are not serious about it. The MacBook Air could actually be a great gaming device. It has extremely capable hardware at a very low price point. And for Valve it would be an instant expansion of the
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by mmcnl 1y ago
To be fair this was 10 years ago and they have reversed course for a long time. Windows has ads now.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
Doing backups and validating backups is very error-prone and time consuming. To me this reads as: "If you do all the hard complex work yourself, what's making you nervous about it?" It's far easier to do backups and data
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by mmcnl 1y ago
> To use Recall you need to opt in to saving snapshots, which are screenshots of your activity https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace-your-ste...
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by mmcnl 1y ago
The solution to not using a framework is... building your own framework? What problem does that solve?
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by mmcnl 1y ago
Is UI state really a backend concern? I think this is a nice theory but anyone who has built a sizeable SPA (web application, not website), knows you'll be dealing with UI state complexity very soon.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
Yes, I can see why the feature would be valuable. But the blog post is an emotional rant against Recall. Signal is lacking a lot of valuable features, I doubt this is high on the list of most users, yet time and effort has been spent on it.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/ > Draws on your personal context without allowing anyone else to access your personal data — not even Apple. Personal context === privacy sensitive data. > Apple Intellig
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by mmcnl 1y ago
No, you can just turn Recall off. You don't need DRM for that.
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by mmcnl 1y ago
I think this is quite strange, imo this is just virtue signalling / activism and much less about privacy. I install Signal on the Windows operating system on the computer I trust. If I wouldn't trust Windows, why would I install S

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