obarthelemy

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by obarthelemy 6y ago
Around me, ever fewer people are buying high-end phones. Our uses for smartphones haven't evolved in over 5 years, yet the hardware has progressed fast. Unless you're into AR/VR, competitive 3D gaming, or publishable photogr
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by obarthelemy 6y ago
Not a dev, just a user. I've got a 16GB, 7yo Core i5 desktop that was working fine for me. Then it started freezing up. Right after I installed the desktop Discord client. Yep, that thing can freeze it all for up to 2 mins. Also make i
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by obarthelemy 6y ago
No, and it's untrue: only Apple does that, Google doesn't.
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by obarthelemy 6y ago
Firefox/Android accept all desktop extensions.
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by obarthelemy 6y ago
I do most of my browsing from RSS. I've got a handful of sites in my browser's bookmarks, and about 40 in my RSS feed. I've got Feedly Pro, and use both the Windows Web client and a few different apps on Android (I'm tr
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by obarthelemy 6y ago
The Daring Fireball guy is very hurt hat someone is criticizing his beloved Apple, but there's at least a pinch of truth in the criticism: Apple and Google feel they're not only entitled, but own, the data they have on us. That th
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by obarthelemy 6y ago
It's an inflection point.
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by obarthelemy 6y ago
Reminds me of the the challenge: "Don't think of a cow !" What did you just think of ? A cow, of cowrse. If you want a shirt w/o stripes, just google "plain shirt" or "dress shirt -stripes.
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
RSS readers are a very specialized market. Around me, only techies and nerds have heard of it. Mobile Natives haven't and are using FB/I/Twitter instead (sad !). So this boils down to th enerd market on iOS and MacOS is the s
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
Actually, when Apple launched the Airbuds, I computed that it was very likely the AirBuds would generate more profit for Apple than Mac hardware. IIRC assuming 70% profit on the Airbuds and 30% on the Mac (because lots more R&D, lots mo
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
I'm not sure what this question means. TV as the brodcast platform ? ie OTA programs, with ads ? TV as the content format, ie scripted shows, unscripted shows, sports, news, .... TV as "video content on a screen" ? Looking at
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
I doesn't work for me, but that's probably very application-specific. I'm not a dev nor a graphic/video artist, my work is motly editing office docs. Why it didn't work for me: 1- OSes are rather bad at handling lar
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
First thing I did when I set them up w/ a PC years ago is send them an email from our President with obfuscated links to something absurd. These brought home the dual points if never trusting the sender's identity and never clicki
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
Yes. that's how I follow all the websites I find interesting. I haven't seen the homepage of some of those in years. Added benefit, on Android my reader simplifies the formatting and puts everything in Noght Mode.
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
I'm in the same situation, and have given up. There's a shop around the corner that will print PDFs at a nominal cost. Inkjets are especially bad. they print heads used to be in the cartridge, so thay got changed regularly; now t
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
With infrequent use, the issue is not refills or refill cost, but clogged printheads.
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
I'm old and French and used to live in Paris, so I call it "the corner Arab" which is a bit dated because such shops are no longer 100% owned+operated by Northern Africans. Mine still is though. I asked them if they found the
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
But then, I'm not calling others idiots for not liking the same topics as me, which is what OP is doing, so the pushback nis warranted in this instance.
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
where did my line breaks go ?
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
On the flip side, mu iBrother made the transisiton to Android about a year ago. His major pain points were: - no iMessage. It's not particularly good or different compared to whatsapp, Skype, Messenger... but it's not available on
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
- Widgets on the actual home screen, no swiping required. Every app has widgets (except Skype !), so you can have whichever info you need most right there - true browser, true addons. Unlike iOS, Android doesn't limit 3rd-party brows
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by obarthelemy 7y ago
Step 0: send them a fake email from their most trusted source (ask): president/their bank/Medicare... Rebound from that into the "no trust" talk, don't just start talking right away.
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by obarthelemy 15y ago
I think both the analog port and the hdmi port are available on both versions (model A and model B, shades of the BBC micro). THe only difference between the 2 is the amount of RAM (128 vs 256) and the IO (1 USB vs 2USB + Ethernet). Be awar
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by obarthelemy 15y ago
Actually I could never afford a C64 nor Apple II. ZX81 and Spectrum where the thing for me.