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by noirbot 5y ago
I don't know, but whatever they did has made for a decidedly worse laptop, and I assume they didn't set out to make a laptop that had an essentially unusable battery. I'm assuming good intent on their part that this is the be
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by noirbot 5y ago
As someone who bought a Framework to try to support a better model, my #1 complaint about it by far is that the battery is essentially worthless. It maybe gets 3 hours of use on a full charge, and 9 hours while closed and hibernated. I retu
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by noirbot 5y ago
I'm sure it depends on the games you want to play - competitive games where anti-cheat is a thing, sure, but if you're ideologically against having kernel level anti-cheat then that's not that Linux gaming is bad, it's j
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by noirbot 5y ago
This is also just a complete misread of the original Inbox Zero talk, and something Merlin Mann complains about every time he tries a new email app that does confetti when you hit "inbox zero". He himself is a deep GTD/David
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by noirbot 5y ago
Exactly. "It's all for the money" is a generally useless thing to point out. It's the table stakes of living in the modern world unless you want to join a commune somewhere. Most folks on here generally expect corporatio
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by noirbot 5y ago
I'm not saying that Valve should be above complaint. I'm also annoyed when people show up in threads about WSL or VS Code or whatever else that Microsoft does just to be like "Stop liking this, Microsoft is evil". I&#x27
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by noirbot 5y ago
I don't think anyone is implying they did it for any other reason. Only a bunch of people jumping on to a seemingly good thing a company did to be a killjoy about it. Yes, they're clearly doing this to help the Steam Deck and othe
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by noirbot 5y ago
Work hard, not smart, I guess...
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by noirbot 5y ago
There was a comment I saw the other day along the lines of "Science will tell you what the numbers are, but doesn't make a judgement of how big that number should be." You can get a pretty good estimate of how many lives woul
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by noirbot 5y ago
Sure, but I'd be surprised if Crashplan was operating their home offering at a profit beforehand and just went "eh, we don't need money". 1Password seems to have a totally viable consumer market that's making them m
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by noirbot 5y ago
I'm not sure this is true. If anything, they're the perfect example of how to do it right though, which is to have products that are business OR personal focused, and not generally both. The Mac Pro and the new monitors are both v
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by noirbot 5y ago
I mean... that seems fine? Taking a consumer product and making a business version of it feels like a totally ok way to grow a company that already has a stable product that people like. Them making new features you don't use doesn&#x2
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by noirbot 5y ago
That also seems to ignore that people can be drinking to enjoy the taste or sensation of the drink itself. I find plenty of joy in having experimented with a cocktail that worked out to be an improvement, or having a wine or beer that just
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by noirbot 5y ago
Really? I had most of Battlenet stuff running fine in Wine a few years ago with no major issues. Big games like that seem to generally have great support in the community.
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by noirbot 5y ago
I get what you're saying, but as someone who spends probably too much time, money, and mental stress avoiding buying from Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Nestle, Walmart, etc. I feel like someone who's second job is just trying to do th
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by noirbot 5y ago
I'm not claiming that I can back up that statistic, just pointing out that the state of something being an issue in the status quo doesn't mean it couldn't have been a net advantage over what it replaced.
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by noirbot 5y ago
Two things - First, this article isn't what I'd call "a casual discussion". It's fairly harsh in general. Second, if anything the issue is that many of us aren't ignorant at all. We're deeply aware of the
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by noirbot 5y ago
It doesn't matter in the context of how much I want to have that conversation with them in the moment. Having someone take the mention of a news event or unrelated conversation topic and turn it into "have you considered how that
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by noirbot 5y ago
It's weird? TFA is literally "look at how capitalism has enabled surveillance capitalism as evidenced by all of these companies." It's "complaining about very specific entities exhibiting very specific behaviors and
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by noirbot 5y ago
Sure, but if it's 70% of the remaining smaller pie of violence, that's still an improvement. If money wasn't a thing, you wouldn't be like "Relationships cause 70% of violence. Relationships are the root of all evil
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by noirbot 5y ago
Maybe the better analogy is your friend who somehow has to make everything about how either capitalism or communism is behind everything wrong about the world. It doesn't really matter if they're right or wrong, as some point you
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by noirbot 5y ago
But isn't the question also "will your team/manager/obligations allow you to change your approach?" Or, if you want to have more integration with your team, how does that work if they live in another country/st
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by noirbot 5y ago
The one difficulty with this, and one I've had trouble with before, is when this strays into me, as a team member, being unsure if we're intentionally trying to look dumb/make something look harder than it is to another party
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by noirbot 5y ago
I don't want "the utmost privacy". I want something better than raw SMS. I'm not an international secret agent. I encrypt things out of principal more than because I really care if some government force reads them. If a
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by noirbot 5y ago
Sure, but it's not just the construction. The concern is the long-term damage of moving freight over the line and the potential for accidents later, just like oil spills. There's plenty of hazardous freight that could be a problem
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by noirbot 5y ago
But isn't that the issue? The people you see as having more power than you still don't have the power to accomplish what you want done more than they already are. You being disappointed in me and other people on HN is exactly as i
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by noirbot 5y ago
I appreciate the honesty - I guess from my side of this, I have an similar annoyance of people who have lengthy rants against corporations that boil down to "why won't someone else do something about this". Which isn't t
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by noirbot 5y ago
Sure - there's answers to a lot of it, but you're still talking about having to acquire a ton of land that's likely in the middle of nowhere and putting in a big construction project. It's not too dissimilar to the sort
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by noirbot 5y ago
What power do you think American software developers have here that they're not exercising? They should all quit their jobs and move into hardware design so they could band together and start a non-profit chip manufacturer to support s
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by noirbot 5y ago
Isn't the problem with rail that it's nearly impossible to build new rail lines? Especially in a way that isn't destructive to the environment? I'm all for rail in general, but it feels like the same environmentalist pus

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