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by nerdix 3y ago
Not gonna lie. Can't wait to run local AGI. First thing I'm going to task it with is producing paperclips.
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by nerdix 3y ago
It absolutely was a full scale invasion. It just failed.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Last I checked JetBlue isn't a monopoly either (quite the opposite, in fact). That suggests that there are other reasons to block a merger other than preventing a monopoly from from growing.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Its pretty funny because one of the only decent arguments against Beeper was that iMessage isn't actually free because it is a service that is funded by hardware sales so therefore Apple is under no obligation to provide it to non-cust
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by nerdix 3y ago
Google doesn't have "messaging things" anymore. The default messaging app supports SMS/RCS and that's it. They tried the unified SMS/proprietary message protocol approach with Hangouts but that was short lived.
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by nerdix 3y ago
And next time they'll just exclude you from the group chat altogether.
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by nerdix 3y ago
That probably does happen. But, also, some people are shamed for simply using Android as well. https://gizmodo.com/im-buying-an-iphone-because-im-ashamed-o... A lot has been written about the perception of "green bubbl
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by nerdix 3y ago
No one on Android really cares. It's actually iPhone users either complaining or excluding Android users from group chats. It's iPhone users creating the social pressure to use iMessage.
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by nerdix 3y ago
So Google should have never allowed competition to begin with like Apple. That doesn't seem like a great answer to me.
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by nerdix 3y ago
But they are the ones that allowed those companies to compete in the first place. And I'm not saying that they should have won. Both Apple and Google losing would have been the best outcome. However, Google losing and Apple winning
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by nerdix 3y ago
So Google is punished because they made their platform more open. Well, that certainly will bode well for the future.
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by nerdix 3y ago
You must have been very young in the 90s because AOL dominated the late 90s. And it carried over into the early 00s with AIM even as people started to drop AOL as an ISP. MSN was more of mid-00s thing. The 90s were all AOL though. I knew pe
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by nerdix 3y ago
It would have been encrypted by now (at least for hangout to hangout chats) had it hung around. And at least it was cross platform but overall I agree that mobile messaging should be standardized and open. So while the Google messaging stra
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by nerdix 3y ago
This is why I'm high on the metaverse long term. In ten years, there will be a $500 (or whatever the 2033 inflation adjusted value is) VR headset that blows the Apple Vision Pro out of the water in terms of optics, will run a highly op
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by nerdix 3y ago
No astroturfing needed. It's called the Apple Cult for a reason.
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by nerdix 3y ago
This is just factually not true. A lot of YouTubers eventually quit their jobs and become full time content creators. That's means they are able to create more content and the quality of their content can increase as they are able to s
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by nerdix 3y ago
I think he's in the minority because everyone I knew had unlimited SMS by the mid-00s before the iPhone was released.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Mobile messaging should be either be interoperable or cross platform. And any messaging platform that is tied to one mobile operating system is user hostile.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Yes, there is no way they give up Green vs Blue. I'm sure they'll make up some excuse why it makes sense to keep the distinction. But the reality is that the Millennial and Gen Z bubble culture has been a big driver behind their m
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by nerdix 3y ago
More important than being open source was the fact that it was Windows only for the first 15-ish years of its existence. Mono never got traction within the startup culture. In part, because it operated in a legal grey area for many years re
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by nerdix 3y ago
And even then they haven't been great at making games over the long term. To the extent that they have now pivoted to buying whole publishers with well established multi-billion dollar portfolios.
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by nerdix 3y ago
I'm not sure about the specific examples mentioned. But there used to be an adage about mixing religion and politics with business. That adage exists because there has always been the risk of ostracization when sharing political and re
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by nerdix 3y ago
Unfortunately, anti-cheat systems usually don't work well with proton so "competitive multiplayer games" are exactly the sort of games that you would be more likely to have problems with on Linux.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Except accidents happen. Unless they have a crystal ball and can tell you whether or not you will be involved in an accident leading to serious injury (and the nature of those injuries) then you still need health insurance. I know a guy who
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by nerdix 3y ago
Why wouldn't insurance have a reason to exist? Even the healthiest people need medical insurance because anyone can experience accidental injury requiring hospitalization and/or on going medical care.
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by nerdix 3y ago
This is excellent. Anyone can lose the genetic lottery (and everyone might lose it in some way). Even if you're considered fine by the genetic standards of the day, you can never be sure that your future kids or grandkids will be. Ever
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by nerdix 3y ago
Free browsers from for profit corporations always exists to serve some other business goal. Why does Safari exist? Why does Edge exists? Its not benevolence in either case.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Just because you can root and tinker with something doesn't mean you have to. Millions of people use Android phones without ever having touched a third party rom (or even have the knowledge that they exist). Additionally, Apple allowi
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by nerdix 3y ago
IIRC Galanakis uploaded the publicly available body cam footage and that's what he was sued for. Which makes it even more egregious.
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by nerdix 3y ago
What are you using for OCR?

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