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by ocdtrekkie 5d ago
I mean obviously fees should either be included in the original price, or there should be a reason it might apply in some cases but not others. But I can also see someone just wanting to break out the costs as separate line items to highl
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by ocdtrekkie 5d ago
I think in general my preference is the other part of this story: Rather than choosing what fees can and can't be offered, require both brutal price transparency and prohibit advertising the unrealistic/lesser cost. A friend of mi
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by ocdtrekkie 7d ago
The MADA has been illegal for a long time, but you'll still find nobody willing to cross it. Samsung is indeed the only company with the power to actually escape Google and survive its penalties intact, which is why they are paid so la
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by ocdtrekkie 7d ago
Google will destroy any OEM which ships an Android fork out of the box. Google only permits alternative ROMs as long as they are niche and keep developers distracted from creating real competition.
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by ocdtrekkie 7d ago
If you are not working to destroy Android, you are supporting it. You might feel happy about your custom ROM nonsense and how it protects your privacy, but that just means you're selfish, because nearly everyone will still be trapped
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by ocdtrekkie 7d ago
Neither Wine nor Proton run on Windows. Building Android emulators for Linux: Worth your time. Building Android knockoffs which claim to remove the Google from Google's operating system? Foolishness.
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by ocdtrekkie 7d ago
The bigger problem is wasting developer effort contributing to Google's platform. The real secret behind Android being "open" (sorta) is that while almost nobody runs AOSP, Google has tricked a bunch of fools into working on
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by ocdtrekkie 10d ago
Rebooting is the first step: If it fixes it you don't have a problem. If it doesn't, you know more about the problem. It's a joke, but like, after nearly two decades of engineering I have something break on me, due to updates
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by ocdtrekkie 10d ago
I've dealt with a fiber cut, it wasn't nearly that bad. Fiber cuts impacting my SaaS providers were worse because there was nothing I could do about it.
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by ocdtrekkie 10d ago
> which belies deep misunderstanding I think you are missing the point. When I state my Exchange server is more reliable than Exchange Online, I don't think I'm a better engineer. I recognize Microsoft has harder problems to so
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by ocdtrekkie 10d ago
Open Web Advocacy's goal is Chrome on all platforms, which just means the Play Store problem gets even worse. The moment OWA wins, the open web dies. These are people with a truly bad astroturfy goal, clothed in charitable nonprofit st
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by ocdtrekkie 12d ago
Yeah the games I most want to play on VR aren't only old... the servers have been shut down.
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by ocdtrekkie 13d ago
This is it. The truth is Google's largest revenue sources are scams, fraud, and malware, and they wouldn't be in business without them. They're not going to remove all of their highest pay per click customers because it might
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by ocdtrekkie 14d ago
One of the wildest things to me: Kagi actually warns you before renewals so you can cancel first if you want. That's confidence in the product right there. I'd argue any subscription which won't do this is designed to exploit
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by ocdtrekkie 14d ago
Let the Google Ads account run dry, discover your Analytics never actually goes down. It was just donating to multibillionaires the whole time.
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by ocdtrekkie 14d ago
Considering the government routinely both decides Google is violating the law but is unwilling to do things to change it, like split apart their ad monopoly, suing them is most likely futile. Better ways to spend your money, like funding co
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by ocdtrekkie 16d ago
I think just running cmd still uses much less memory but Terminal is much, much faster than it was.
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by ocdtrekkie 16d ago
Yep, if Google lost money/owed damages every time someone got a fraudulent Google ad, you better believe those ads would be squeaky clean. Sergey's flotilla needs a new vessel this year though, so can't do that.
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by ocdtrekkie 17d ago
Same, I went from a base model iPhone 11 to a base model iPhone 16. Assuming the trend line holds up, I'm in for an iPhone 21 next!
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by ocdtrekkie 17d ago
Apple has almost never been first to anything, but usually goes for "best at it" once it enters the market. I'm assuming you'll see four times as many foldables next year as a bunch of people start to consider it no long
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by ocdtrekkie 17d ago
Considering only two major mobile platforms exist and both are proprietary locked down software ecosystems, I assume you have a PinePhone or something?
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by ocdtrekkie 20d ago
Our current work is in the dev branch, we are preparing for a new release soon.
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by ocdtrekkie 22d ago
City/state/US is logical, the problem is most other hierarchies confuse people. For instance k12 subdomains for schools couldn't use that nomenclature because school districts do not map cleanly to towns. And that's befo
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by ocdtrekkie 22d ago
The feature is about fifteen years too late for me, unfortunately. By this point I need this feature to let me "merge Google accounts". But then I barely use Google anything anymore anyways.
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by ocdtrekkie 22d ago
.us was primarily a hierarchy structure which in practice made confusing and hard to remember domain names, whereas .gov addresses hand out single domains which are generally easy to remember.
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by ocdtrekkie 24d ago
What an incredible miscarriage of justice. Make enough money and pay off enough politicians, and you can pretty much shoot people on the street in broad daylight.
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by ocdtrekkie 1mo ago
Disposable mail providers generate a ton of spam too, but CSAM is illegal to host , so it's pretty risky to allow them unmitigated.
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by ocdtrekkie 1mo ago
The reason it's toxic is because the Venn diagram between disposable email addresses and email addresses used for CSAM is a circle: If you accept disposable email and allow users to upload anything, you will have CSAM. Whereas a Fastma
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by ocdtrekkie 1mo ago
I wish there was a required limitation of once per day. Not only would it have avoided this incident, it'd made looking up flight tracking much easier.
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by ocdtrekkie 2mo ago
For what it's worth we (the community still working on Sandstorm) are also about to release an updated version of Sandstorm . But also as someone who definitely will still be running Sandstorm at home, some of the Cloudflare OS stuff

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