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by nirava 6mo ago
I just have a cheap second hand PC with a couple of good drives running LAN only Immich and a few other backup tools. This, in parallel to cloud backup, makes the setup both mobile and reasonably fault tolerant. I'm quite wary of using
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by nirava 6mo ago
There is a list of valid characters accepted for a passcode. That list was created, the characters debated, and a consensus reached by Apple engineers (I hope, for all our sakes. I don't want to imagine a world where this bare minimum
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by nirava 6mo ago
He famously shipped the original Macintosh with a keyboard without arrow keys to force buyers to use the mouse. His vision of perfection didn't always match common sense. There are quite a few examples of this. I always cringe a little
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by nirava 6mo ago
Ok that's fair ig. I used to be a fairly heavy user of the middle click scroll feature on windows like a decade ago. Made the switch to Debian w/ Awesome, and that habit just casually fell away. The switch is probably a 3 day anno
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by nirava 6mo ago
Depends on whether using someone else’s windows machine leaves you crazy annoyed. My windows machine is also “fine” for the most part because i turned off whatever I could and tried to mod whatever I could not. Even so, every once in a whil
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by nirava 6mo ago
So you switched something as fundamental as the OS, and were pissed that it was … different? You can fault Linux as the primary desktop environment for a few things, but that it’s different to MS is not one of those. Do you also rant about
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by nirava 7mo ago
being fined != physical, possibly fatal violence with body-cam turned off and irrevocable immunity
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by nirava 7mo ago
Outside corporate setting, it is also the fact that most windows systems you encounter are installed on cheap machines by people who just care that their word processor works a few times a month. And you were probably forced to fix it. At t
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by nirava 7mo ago
I think it's truer now than it was in 2019. Don't you think? This doesn't have to be a binary thing.
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by nirava 7mo ago
> did not care enough to make the experience good Part of that good experience is talking to a genuine human
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by nirava 7mo ago
While that's true, I also think these things tend to happen as a gradual build up to the tipping-point effect where the zeitgeist shifts so suddenly that a massive player is suddenly irrelevant. Microsoft is structurally incapable of m
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by nirava 7mo ago
LOL I had the exact same experience. Somehow it was a goddamned HP too (oh how I detest HP everything). And to think I'd explicitly mentioned to him that Apple would probably be releasing the kind of cheap beautiful laptop he was looki
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by nirava 7mo ago
> Even non-technical web browsing users will notice the sluggishness coming from that spec. I'm sorry but this line invalidates most of your comment, to the point of looking like satire. We have reviews and videos of people editing
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by nirava 7mo ago
:single_tear_frowning_emoji:
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by nirava 7mo ago
You're entitled to your preferences. In my opinion: Functional: - battery life - screen resolution (binary, <2k and >2k for laptops), brightness (binary: works in the sun or not), viewing angles (binary: good enough vs not), co
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by nirava 7mo ago
Even 50hz is fine. I'd go so far as to say, barring any medical or sensitivity issue, if any person prioritizes a 120hz screen they are a victim to habit or marketing. It adds zero value to the experience, and you're just looking
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by nirava 8mo ago
I agree. Coming from a neighboring country with similarly strict rules on outgoing dollars, I've had many situations where sending money outside of the country, even for business purposes required an insane amount of paperwork, bureauc
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by nirava 8mo ago
> These are very reasonable requirements Sure, but they weren't the original requirements under which he accepted the funds. He accepted the funds assuming GitHub was going to be the mediator. The new requirements require him to dis
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by nirava 8mo ago
It looks like the paperwork requirements are understandable, but it's also quite reasonable to not want to bother with it. I've also never had the impression that he really needed the money to continue maintaining Pocketbase. He&#
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by nirava 8mo ago
Anyone know of good alternatives to this? I’ve used Adobe Flash since it was still Macromedia Flash, and this is the software my brain kind of defaults to when thinking of creating little graphics and animations. Just as hobby for random ti
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by nirava 9mo ago
Great idea! I've found that HackerNews is the perfect amount of world news for me. Anything more is detrimental to my productivity.
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by nirava 9mo ago
that part looks to be a parody of bad ui. the burger icon, the dark mode switch, the snow thing all are purposely built to subvert common expectation.
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by nirava 9mo ago
It is kind of like coffee right? It's just bitter liquid that makes us feel good. But a good coffee is very enjoyable once in a while. The writing might not be innovative or groundbreaking, but it is a great and relaxing piece of text
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by nirava 9mo ago
Nah, every time some parody of this title comes up, it reminds me of the book and the movie. I like that :)
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by nirava 10mo ago
What is there to explain? Bathroom needs to be isolated. Do they also have to explain why there are walls around your bathroom and it's not just a commode next to a bed?
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by nirava 10mo ago
wow it is really fast!
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by nirava 11mo ago
Welcome to this argument which is about how easy/hard it might be for a company to implement this particular feature. The argument about whether they ought to is in some other thread I imagine, you might have lost your way. I don'
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by nirava 11mo ago
good god man, just accept that this is objectively an EXTREMELY easy thing to do for anyone. Yes theoretically there are things that are easier for OSS devs than large companies, THIS AIN'T ONE OF THEM. Ugh, trillion dollar market valu
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by nirava 11mo ago
bro i just want to be able to buy the v3. as opposed to downloading the free thing and waiting for it to get worse and worse and more things pushing me to get pro subscription. is that so hard to understand? we went from v1 -> v2 -> &
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by nirava 11mo ago
why are you redirecting the conversation to subscriptions? you know what would fix this? releasing a v3. that was the whole sell with affinity suite. that i could buy the new v3 for whatever price they set, it will contain all the new featu

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