naravara

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by naravara 2y ago
After reading this Verge article about decapitating a MacBook ( https://www.theverge.com/22965732/macbook-decapitation-slabt... ) I couldn’t help but imagine how cool it would be if you could plug an iPad into a keyboard
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by naravara 2y ago
The EU is willing to force every user to go through an annoying browser ballot upon buying a new phone or computer, but can’t force the browser to include a DNT prompt up front if it’s that much of an issue? Plus it’s not as if these compan
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by naravara 2y ago
I’m amazed that nobody has eaten Disqus lunch yet by just making “Disqus, but stable.”
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by naravara 3y ago
We were closer to nuclear war in the 1960s and 1970s than we are today. Sure we don’t have it as good as they did in the ‘90s and 2000s but you wouldn’t know it from the depression and anxiety stats over time, which suggests that the geopol
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by naravara 3y ago
In the past people who were mostly disinterested in politics and news simply didn’t watch/read the news. Now the news finds them and they don’t have enough of an understanding of civics, economics, and history or the emotional coping m
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by naravara 3y ago
iOS at least offloads the seldom used apps, so it sort of automates the pruning. You’re basically left with a quick-link to redownload the thing.
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by naravara 3y ago
> D) episodic utilities (e.g. Airbnb, TripAdvisor) I sort of struggle to think of the utility of these being installed apps. I feel like just doing a better job of designing web pages to run on mobile would be fine for booking a hotel. N
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by naravara 3y ago
> What is very true is that most social media users don’t like to click on links. They read the headline, look at the included image (if any), and assume they understand the whole story from that context. They jump to the discussion to c
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by naravara 3y ago
Doesn’t Federation solve exactly that problem? Ignoring all the publication of content bits, I always felt like what the internet really needed to improve portability of accounts and data was just a federated user authentication standard.
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by naravara 3y ago
The technical side of it is a solved problem. Everything you look at is hosted on a web page. You get a URL that points to it. You send the URL to another person and they can reach it, maybe with some additional stuff for time-stamping and
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by naravara 3y ago
There are bad actors, like Facebook, who will prompt users to sideload so they can do bad things. If the bad actors were all shady fly-by-night looking companies it’d be one thing. But once the gates are opened, if it’s easy enough, you’ll
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by naravara 3y ago
> What software is Apple not allowing? I see competitors’ software available on their platform. The only issue is that these competitors want to avoid paying fees to Apple and argue under the guise of protecting consumer freedom. Porn ap
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by naravara 3y ago
> They want their device to be predictable, they want their app store to be curated, and they don't want to deal with dark patterns on a company by company basis. These customers choose Apple because it provides a tightly integrated
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by naravara 3y ago
It’s really only been in the past 3 years or so that I’ve started to see real pushback from Devs on Apple being overly pushy. Prior to that so many of the complaints were on the order of “Apple won’t allow me to do [insert insanely user-hos
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by naravara 3y ago
Many choices have already been stripped. My electric company’s payments portal only works in Chrome. When I called their helpdesk to say it doesn’t work in Safari, the person told me to use their iOS app instead of my phone’s browser. Whe
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by naravara 3y ago
I’m kind of over what Amazon has that passes for “selection.” It’s a lot of dropshipping crap from companies with names that are random, unpronounceable letters together making stuff of dubious quality. It’s tedious needing to scroll throug
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by naravara 3y ago
No a centralized store is definitely going to be more efficient than needing that logistics train doing last mile delivery for each and every home. They get returns to scale doing so, as well as the fact that they get orders in bulk, meanin
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by naravara 3y ago
> Also there's no way in any universe that the cost of getting an item to me physically via my car and a physical storefront is better for the environment than the Amazon or FedEx truck taking what would have been hundreds of trips
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by naravara 3y ago
Second cousins would be your cousin's cousins. It basically comes down to which level of grandparent you have in common. Grandparents = cousins, great-grandparents = second cousins, great-great-grandparents = third cousins. The "r
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by naravara 3y ago
Even wired that seems like it’d need a lot of copper. The power cable connector right now is pretty pliable. Most thunderbolts cables are not as much. And who knows if it would need to be even thicker than that.
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by naravara 3y ago
I assume there would be concerns about latency and throughput.
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by naravara 3y ago
The issues with drones is it takes energy to stay aloft and you’ll be introducing weight limits. It’ll also become a target for pet owners. Cats, in particular, will swat them down.
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by naravara 3y ago
My dog is my alarm for when the kid starts drawing on the walls or breaks something. He barks to let me know. It’s very convenient and I’m glad to have him. If it was practical to make a computer to do this I’m sure people would find it use
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by naravara 3y ago
The lights make some sense in that you may not want to walk to another corner of your house, or up and down stairs to be able to turn them on or off. Similar functions, like smart locks or blinds or ovens also let you have some peace of min
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by naravara 3y ago
I think they’re basically extinct on the high end. Your best option will be to get a smart TV and never set it up with a network connection. You’ll maybe want to do firmware updates now and then, but you can plug it in temporarily for those
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by naravara 3y ago
Mozilla probably cares more about the Chrome/Blink hegemony than Safari. If not for iOS requirements inflating Safari market share the browser market would be at least 90% Chrome or a Chrome derivative.
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by naravara 3y ago
> Want it for productivity? it can't run MacOS applications and if you want to use your actual Mac it can't do multiple monitors. I don’t know why, but while I feel multiple monitors helps my productivity a lot in Windows and L
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by naravara 3y ago
No. When it's plugged in it just passes the power through. The annoying Apple limitation is that you can't hot-swap the battery.
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by naravara 3y ago
Every parent I've talked to has found that pretty appealing. We're already looking at pictures and videos of our kids on the phone a lot of the time anyway. Which required us to be holding our phones in hand while playing with our
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by naravara 3y ago
> manslaughter I never understood what they thought was so funny.

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