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by nehal3m 2y ago
If only Google was the one to make the browser that has to service the request, then they could take this extremely niche use case into account.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
The prospect of inserting a plausible bullshit generator owned by a tech megacorp between myself and the outside world seems more dystopian than making my life better.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
>I've been wondering for a long time now, at what point will so much innovation have already happened since the 90s-00s that there won't be enough actually useful features to tack on to the next release of X thing except ones t
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by nehal3m 2y ago
You can always sell them, they hold their value pretty well.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
The connection is these vendors are artificially restricting users from running the software they want on their own hardware.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
>because they are talented enough to have some level of choice That's doing a whole lot of work. I don't want to get into the myth of meritocracy, but you have to be extremely lucky to be able to invest the time and effort to e
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by nehal3m 2y ago
>This is one of the reason why I think that "dead jobs" is not necessarily a bad thing. It points to a much larger question of "why are we even doing this in the first place?" That's a wonderfully succinct way of
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by nehal3m 2y ago
>So it’s not that white collar workers (or even blue collar workers) try to find meaning in their work. Some do, some don’t. It’s that they SHOULD. Since blue collar work tends towards more tangible outcomes I would think finding meaning
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by nehal3m 2y ago
That is exactly my point. We have designed the economy with the expectation that anyone able should be investing that much time to make ends meet, when we could lower our expectations and output to ease that burden instead. But that is an e
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by nehal3m 2y ago
>Ultimately, work that’s too easy is no fun, and it’s not the basis of a rewarding career. All you’re doing is selling time, and as you get a little older you’ll come to realise that time is a non-renewable resource. There's this st
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by nehal3m 2y ago
Those are the effects of enshittification. Users and advertisers are stuck. Quoting Cory Doctorow: "I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a p
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by nehal3m 2y ago
>Saying it's a blackbox is true, but that doesn't mean you get to invent random things to worry about, without direct evidence it's connected to the specific device we're discussing. True, but the corollary is that yo
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by nehal3m 2y ago
>and you think the Qualcomm RTOS can do what exactly? Well that's the point, it's a black box so there's no telling what it can and can't do. There's what Qualcomm says it can do, and then there's what it ca
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by nehal3m 2y ago
Great point. Aside from the energy requirements that also makes you dependent on infrastructure availability. You seem kind of cynical about the tendency to simplify but we have to start somewhere and taking care of your own setup first see
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by nehal3m 2y ago
I agree. I flip between Apple's ecosystem and FOSS a few times a year. My wife recently dropped her cracked iPhone SE in the tub so it died. I gave her my 13 mini and decided to challenge myself to switch back to my Thinkpad and Fairph
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by nehal3m 2y ago
Wouldn't want to toast unauthorized bread.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
The larger point is that to use the mainstream apps you would buy a smartphone for, you are forced into a contract (or at least to agree to terms of service) with one of two third parties, Apple or Google.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
Okay guys, who welcomed Nosferatu onto HN? I’ll get the garlic…
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by nehal3m 2y ago
Some of the books on the kobo store come with DRM, but if that’s the case it says so in the description.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
Technically it's one step removed from doxxing, but I'll take your point.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
Assuming these marketplaces operate within the bounds of the law, would it break HN’s ToS to post them? I’d be interested in pursuing the same strategy.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
And how does this make the economy boom, exactly?
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by nehal3m 2y ago
If you ask me those are boxes yet to be ticked, but we’ll see.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
Whether or not you’ve been duly elected has nothing to do with whether or not you behave like a fascist afterwards. Most fascists were elected.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
You’re being downvoted but looking from the outside in, Gitmo being scaled up to house 30k people that the administration expects never to be able to repatriate, an unelected billionaire running around destroying institutions and a presiden
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by nehal3m 2y ago
That’s an art project by Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd and has nothing to do with governing.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
Ed Zitron did a nice podcast about the same subject. Did your plagiarism machine get plagiarized? Cry harder. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/...
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by nehal3m 2y ago
Same here. The most useful thing to me is it taps me awake instead of making a noise so my partner doesn't have to wake up when I do.
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by nehal3m 2y ago
I tend to avoid their office suite, is the online version mature yet? If so, then who cares which platform they support their native apps on?
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by nehal3m 2y ago
On the one hand you’re arguing that SpaceX is awesome for breaking monopolies. On the other you’re saying it’s awesome that “it’s over” and they own the market now. Perhaps you missed the irony.

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