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by nerdix 3y ago
I remember third party IE toolbars being bundled (and that practice pre-dated Chrome, IIRC). But I don't remember the full Chrome browser being bundled (I do remember the Google Toolbar). I was a Chrome user from basically the day it w
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by nerdix 3y ago
What software was Chrome bundled with? I don't recall ever seeing that.
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That's not malpractice. Chrome's main competitors (except Firefox) literally ship their browsers with their OS and put in place hoops to make changing the OS default browser harder. If anything the ads just help neutralize the mas
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by nerdix 3y ago
Firefox was slowly chipping away at IE market share before Chrome because IE sucked. But Chrome was just better than Firefox when it launched so it accelerated the IE decline.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Exactly. It's been a while and so a lot people either don't remember or were too young to really remember. I was a Firefox user at the time (was using it when it was Firebird). People were already starting to shift away from IE to
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by nerdix 3y ago
How so? People with an already functioning browser that ships with their OS have to make a conscious decision to download and install Chrome. Most people would not do that if the default browser of their OS was serviceable. Chrome gained tr
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by nerdix 3y ago
I use hyprland too. macOS's full screen mode is like the experience of using hyprland. It is vastly inferior. Yes, it hides window decorations and that is good. But its lacking shortcuts to switch directly to a particular workspace
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by nerdix 3y ago
I think it's aimed at other social networks. TikTok has 1 billion monthly active users for instance
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by nerdix 3y ago
Sounds like some folks were finding ways around the new API rules/pricing and Elon decided to put an end to that with a machete instead of a scalpel.
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The "next generation" after N64 was Xbox/PS2. In my previous comment, I pointed out that FPSes on consoles became viable during that time. There were FPSes on consoles even prior to Golden Eye/Perfect Dark. For instance,
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by nerdix 3y ago
The PC gaming market is actually bigger now than it was back then. The difference is that consoles didn't really start to become viable for the FPS genre until the Xbox/PS2 generation (and even then it was really just Halo). So an
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by nerdix 3y ago
Would be nice but remastering 10+ year old games is very profitable these days so I'd imagine that the industry would lobby very hard against it.
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by nerdix 3y ago
I must be missing something fundamental because from where I'm standing, it's worse than forums in every way possible.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Do they actually provide hooks and APIs though? My understanding is that a lot of these third party app use accessibility hacks which seems like a work around and not something Apple intended.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Some people don't like that its electron. And its fairly crappy on Linux if you use Wayland.
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Thats why I argue that the boycott should be user driven and not mod driven. Let each user individually decide if they want to boycott rather than trying to force everyone into a boycott but shutting down entire subs.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Ironically, discord doesn't support use of third party clients and you risk an account ban if you use one of the many unofficial clients.
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by nerdix 3y ago
But you can add other repos or install software through other means so it is not a walled garden.
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by nerdix 3y ago
Its getting to the point now where I'm never going to buy an iPhone simply because getting excluded over a green bubble seems like a good way to filter stupid people out of your life.
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by nerdix 3y ago
A couple years back, my $3000 MBP randomly died. It was around a year old. I had to take it to the Apple Store. They couldn't fix it. They had to ship it some place else for repair. I was out $600 and a week with no work computer.
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by nerdix 3y ago
It won't be an arbitrary rule. It will because the mods are inactive which is a well established rule that existed before the current outrage. There are instances where reddit has given other users control of a sub because the mods wer
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by nerdix 3y ago
Half the battle of a popular sub is getting a good name. A sub like /r/startrek is going to be popular by default. That's why people are squatting on subs like /r/ps8 right now even though a PlayStation 8 is probabl
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by nerdix 3y ago
I think there should be some sort of election for mods. Voted on by the community. Maybe have a minimum level of activity in a sub required to cast a vote. I also don't think mods should be able to turn /r subs private. The priva
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by nerdix 3y ago
I came in here to say exactly this. The mods don't own the subreddit. Reddit isn't just going to go "well, guess we can't have a Startrek sub with the most obvious name for one because the mods of /r/startrek d
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by nerdix 3y ago
Thats different from what OP said though. Every tech company complies with lawful requests by the government for user data. As an example, Apple complied with 90% of government requests for user data: https://www.businessinsider.
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by nerdix 3y ago
It does not. OP asks if the increase in speed makes up for the limited quantity. They are asking for people's real world experience with the tradeoff.
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by nerdix 3y ago
What do you mean by now? Nixon was using push polls in the 40s. And Lee Atwater mastered it in the 80s and 90s. The main difference between this and a push poll is that this particular tactic is not trying to conceal the conspiracy under th
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by nerdix 3y ago
There are a number of things that are possible today that would have blown people's mind in 1998. Streaming music - I remember downloading my very first mp3 (maybe around 96-ish) and my computer not being able to decode it in real-life
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by nerdix 3y ago
There was an issue where you couldn't accept accept an updated iCloud TOS without an iPhone. You could dismiss the prompt but it would keep nagging you whenever you turned the device on. I think it's fixed now. In general, using t
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by nerdix 3y ago
That's still a bad comparison. You should be comparing a comparably priced stand alone device to the AppleTV. The built-in OS is never as good as decent stand alone devices even on $3000 TVs.

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