ornornor

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by ornornor 2y ago
You’re asking for it to happen sooner because you don’t like your job. You’re not the only inhabitant of this planet, and it would be much better for the rest of us (and you!) if you found a job or career you can better tolerate. You’ll be
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by ornornor 2y ago
The rest of us would prefer that this doesn’t happen and that you find a more fulfilling job/career. Everybody wins then.
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by ornornor 2y ago
I should have added "considering". Many of my friends' TVs take 20, 30, sometimes even longer between pressing the "on" button (from standby) and actually showing an image/letting you navigate any menu because
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by ornornor 2y ago
I don’t know if they still sell Panasonic OLED in North America, but I can buy it easily in Europe. OLED is nice, I don’t regret my choice. But yes indeed if you only ever watch in a very bright room, you might not get most of the benefit f
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by ornornor 2y ago
I had to choose between a Panasonic OLED and a LG OLED when buying a TV. I went with Panasonic and don’t regret it for a second. The TV turns on in 10 seconds flat from standby to picture, there are no ads anywhere (it’s just not a thing Pa
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by ornornor 2y ago
Their website barely mentions they’re a bank, it says everywhere “ WIN MONEY!!!”… looks like one of these online casinos. And the About Us page is password protected.
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by ornornor 2y ago
> in America usually people who have a lot of knowledge and are innovative and work hard can succeed. Maybe in the olden days. Not so sure the American dream is alive anymore.
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by ornornor 2y ago
Yes, I’m not saying it’s impossible. I still need to travel to my residence country’s capital which is several hours away and not free to get to in order to cast my vote in person. That’s quite a hurdle and I’m not surprised that participat
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by ornornor 2y ago
I can only hope… but won’t hold my breath.
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by ornornor 2y ago
It’s already a difficult to convince people to use signal instead of WhatsApp, FB messenger, iMessage, etc… if it requires a new phone with sideloaded software etc, I won’t have many people to text anymore.
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by ornornor 2y ago
I wish they made it easier to vote in these EU elections. I live abroad. For me to cast my vote I’d have to physically travel to my country’s embassy which is several hours travel away return during the voting hours. Or give proxy to someon
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by ornornor 2y ago
Amazon comingled inventory would be the perfect vehicle for the perfect crime. They can’t even tell who shipped what, it’s basically like a cryptocurrency tumbler but for real world goods!
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by ornornor 2y ago
> It's odd there aren't more people questioning this. I’ve been questioning this for a long time. It’s not an enviable position: it’s isolating (very few people understand), it’s very hard to keep any kind of salaried position
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by ornornor 2y ago
Aren’t HOAs private entity? It was an HOA demand in this case, not a municipal one I think.
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by ornornor 2y ago
It’s 18–24k per year in perpetuity. You can have a decent living on this much in a sizeable part of the world. Not in SV though. But still, it’s nothing to sneeze at.
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by ornornor 2y ago
> Cloudflare is not "an extortionist firm". It is a large tech company, where occasionally teams employ shitty sales tactics to meet their numbers, but generally provides a valuable service and acts reasonably ethically. Nice.
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by ornornor 2y ago
FWIW, it's all on the Internet Archive (there are 34 DVDs!): https://archive.org/details/ws99dvd
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by ornornor 2y ago
Probably. I don’t think it’s much more than the cost of shrinking everything down and shaving 1/2 mm off your design or engineering a whole protocol, chips, and software to pair components together and implement “features” at the OS le
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by ornornor 2y ago
I tried many times to set this sound as my sms notification sound for nostalgia… and gave up every time. It sounded great on the computer but it’s very jarring and obnoxious on the phone when it runs out of nowhere. Unfortunate because nost
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by ornornor 2y ago
Didn’t even sonos end up walking that decision back and let people keep the devices and get the rebate rather than bricking the traded in speakers? But only after public outcry.
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by ornornor 2y ago
> 50 engineers 50?? Try 1600+ (from https://engineering.atspotify.com/opensource/ )
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by ornornor 2y ago
I suspect it’s just a matter of it being easier to tell people to bin it than going through the hurdles of opening it (legal, drm, engineering, getting a budget, publishing instructions…) Plus doing anything at all beyond pulling the plug s
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by ornornor 2y ago
> All official and licensed repair spots must replace _all_ components if they even replace one. Didn’t apple invent this one?
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by ornornor 2y ago
Everyone as well? Lower costs, better looking carbon footprint, longer lifecycles, better secondhand market, more efficient software (if you don’t assume everyone uses a new phone, you design your apps/web apps with a little more care
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by ornornor 2y ago
Especially if we’re talking about a phone that costs 800—1000+$ (as flagships are trending around)..!
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by ornornor 2y ago
Samsung makes terrible products anyway. Their phones are bloated with spyware to the gills, their customer service/repairs are poorly done (if at all), and their appliances are some of the least durables I know of. Their TVs are advert
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by ornornor 2y ago
Maybe a five year old phone isn’t good enough for you, but it might be for someone else. But if the screen can’t be repaired or the battery replaced, it will end up as ewaste somewhere in a poor country polluting the world’s air and soil&#x
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by ornornor 2y ago
Being straightforward about it would force us to question a lot of assumptions we have about animals and how we (mis)treat them. We can’t have that!
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by ornornor 2y ago
MS knows better than to run windows on their servers. They’ve famously been running Linux on their public web facing stuff for years, including when they were publicly discrediting Linux (because IIS and MS server were so good they couldn’t
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by ornornor 2y ago
Same. And in the same breath they also added “this is never used anyway, it’s just the template”. But “no it can’t be removed from the contract”

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