mrgordon

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by mrgordon 6y ago
Do you really want to allow a myriad of extensions access to your web browser data? I can understand if you have a couple you like but personally I find extensions only make Chrome slower and I don’t trust most of them because of the deep a
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Yeah I’m amazed how many Mac users use Chrome when it’s such a resource hog. Safari has better privacy and battery life as well. Maybe people use Chrome syncing or something and that’s why I don’t understand but it seems like they went out
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by mrgordon 6y ago
For example, doing a system upgrade and not being able to boot afterwards. Never happened to me on a Mac in over 20 years of having one. Windows will update at terrible times while I'm in the middle of something but will do it successf
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Well it’s the one often pointed to as “user friendly” even though it’s not my favorite. I would never choose it over say Debian but I also wouldn’t recommend Debian to my family
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by mrgordon 6y ago
For what it’s worth, I find the servers reliable but the desktop experience to be unreliable (especially Ubuntu)
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by mrgordon 6y ago
DirectX was the smartest thing they ever did. If MacBooks had acceptable gaming performance on most new titles, Windows would be largely dead
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by mrgordon 6y ago
As much as I hate Windows, I’ve had some really terrible experiences with Ubuntu. One of the system upgrades broke startup of the OS and it was a major nightmare. Not saying Windows should be the alternative, but Linux is definitely not rea
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Hmm did you set Double Tap to "Accessibility Shortcut"?
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by mrgordon 6y ago
I often end up spending more for distinctly worse food in other American cities. It is sometimes hard to swallow paying premium prices for food and then immediately realizing after the first bite that the ingredients are subpar or there is
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by mrgordon 6y ago
I see how to set up Back Tap but none of the options seem to function as a "back" button. Which option did you set it to?
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by mrgordon 6y ago
You're making the CEO extremely rich and he's donating more money than you'll probably ever make to what many consider to be the enemy, so its pretty reasonable you might not want to work for the company or the CEO anymore
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Often they don't, or they offer support like Wordpress. Drupal, etc,
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by mrgordon 6y ago
The other poster explained well why mega cities in fact make a ton of sense for the health of the planet and the ability to plan public transportation and other services. Europe has done significantly better with the pandemic so your point
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by mrgordon 6y ago
I live in Florida without a car. Where there is a will there is a way. The truth is the lack of proper urban planning due to over reliance on the automobile is why European cities always feel so much nicer than cities in the states you ment
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Isn’t this how the IRS treats it so that’s how Coinbase has to treat it? If one buys a bagel with Bitcoin, then one needs to treat it as a sale of Bitcoin to US Dollars
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by mrgordon 6y ago
In much of the world, everyone doesn't just move to the suburbs when they age. Look at Japan where the trend has been towards urbanization with immense benefits for society and the environment.
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by mrgordon 6y ago
You're ignoring that most people spend much more money on commuting, clothes for work, and lunch near work then they would spend doing a one time upgrade of their desk and probably eating lunch at home most of the time in t-shirts. Iro
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by mrgordon 6y ago
My ISP (Hotwire) randomly added a $1 monthly fee for mailing a statement and took multiple months to stop charging the fee after I complained and they kept promising to refund the most recent month or two but I'd have to call back and
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Now you can move somewhere with a bigger apartment with cheap Internet. In-person networking is definitely convenient but, as the other poster says, there are significant virtual communities for software especially that are far better than
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by mrgordon 6y ago
I've been on the fence about buying one and was leaning against it because of this kind of stuff. In the few weeks since I started following it this kind of stuff has already started coming up. No thanks. FB loses a customer again.
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by mrgordon 6y ago
MacsHeadroom responded well so I don't have a lot to add but I will clarify that its not that I'm against any negotiation as obviously some people have special needs / desires and don't want things other people want. The
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Look I think they’d sell more copies and it’d be good for everyone to have the content more widely available but it’s not always feasible to require it. A PlayStation game doesn’t just automatically work on PC and it probably takes numerous
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Exactly. There is a narrow focus on what is fair at the corporate level and less focus on what is actually good for society as a whole like in other countries.
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by mrgordon 6y ago
It sounds great in theory until you realize it leads to paying women and minorities less for the same work. Meanwhile it means those in positions of power can arrange for myriad benefits (I’ll need a private helicopter between meetings and
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by mrgordon 6y ago
I wasn’t aware of a Minimum Advertised Price rule for Steam but such rules are extremely common across industries even if I agree they generally don’t help the consumer. This is why when you go to buy an Apple laptop or a GoPro or whatever
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by mrgordon 6y ago
You’re exactly right. Epic charges the same for games as Steam usually even if their cut is a bit smaller. Plus they still take a cut so the difference would be about 20% instead of 30%. For larger developers Steam only takes 20% so the dif
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Epic charges a fee too so I’m not sure why you think the price of the game is going to change drastically to the end user. Epic doesn’t charge less for Civilization 6 than Steam does, the developer just gets a bit more of the sale.
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by mrgordon 6y ago
No one expects Steam to put their own titles in a rival store. You don’t buy Halo on Mac
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Well not everyone wants to have to have ten game stores with ten custom launchers if they only have ten games installed Also Epic may control the release in some ways. For example, Civ 6 on Epic is PC only but on Steam it’s PC & Mac. So
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Don’t they charge the same 30% for Oculus apps?

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