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by pentae 5y ago
Theres literally a million sketchy ad companies out there that would be happy to buy that traffic
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by pentae 5y ago
Or how about a functioning government with minimal corruption for starters? clean water? a functional banking system? access to education? UBI is putting the cart before the horse
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by pentae 5y ago
You can wrap it in plastic and this is a non issue
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by pentae 5y ago
I have an 11 pro without a case on it and just tried replicating what you're describing and I can't do it. It pivots at most 1-2mm laterally to the left when i'm tapping hard on the left side of the screen which is barely not
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by pentae 5y ago
I can think of numerous websites i'd like notifications on. HN comment replies, for example. But let's keep limiting peoples choices
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by pentae 5y ago
So what about when its a charity or government funded anti smoking program thats trying to target them? I guess now with the bad PR from this they won't be able to. Great work guys
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by pentae 5y ago
When the average subscription to just about any online service is 3.3 months, the 15% after 12 months is simply PR. Nothing more. Apple crunched their numbers and knows exactly what they are doing. What's more amazing is that everyone,
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by pentae 5y ago
What you just described only happens for me with Chrome on my M1 MBA. Try loading Safari, its instant.
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by pentae 5y ago
This reminds me a bit of "The game of life" back in the 90s Optimizing life for filling the savings account as fast as possible at the expense of everything else has consequences and your game should reflect this. You should have
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by pentae 5y ago
This is one of those very rare events where the 1st generation product was actually a huge leap forward and the hype was totally justified. It's actually made a mockery of the ancient wisdom of "Always avoid 1st generation Apple p
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by pentae 5y ago
Especially considering the value of the userbase and the fact theres millions of PC's propping up 'marketshare' that aren't even being used as personal computing devices (retail displays/signage, corporate/gove
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by pentae 5y ago
Just because you're happy to pay it doesn't mean 500 million people are all happy to pay it
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by pentae 6y ago
In another lifetime ago, back when I was much younger, had a lot more hair, and phones weren't very smart; the cell phone store I was working at had a customer come in with his LG flip phone. The users primary complaint was that it was
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by pentae 6y ago
+1 for Peplink, Surprised more people haven't mentioned them
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by pentae 6y ago
Unfortunately, the only remedy to this i've found is to travel like james bond with two cell phones. I keep a second android phone with my 'back home' sim on the cheapest monthly plan possible and only turn it on to read sms
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by pentae 6y ago
Heh, most shophouses and plenty of standalone structures in SE Asia are 3 or 4 level structures built like this. Of course most are bigger, though I'm positive you'd find something thats smaller than this even just in Bangkok
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by pentae 6y ago
This is the only thing I still use Dropbox for after moving my files away a long time ago. Set up a password protected folder, send the link over email and SMS them the password or tell them over the phone. Easy peasy.
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by pentae 6y ago
Figma? Sketch?
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by pentae 6y ago
Would love to see this come to Apple Notes, it'd be great to be able to export just for backup purposes
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by pentae 6y ago
Consider that many travelers are using global roaming data rates on their sim card when arriving at their destination. They should be able to just open the app and it 'just works'. Your proposal isn't something a good product
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by pentae 6y ago
Makes you wonder if it's possible, and theres demand for it, why some Silicon Valley entrepreneur hasn't tried building a business for it? Especially with capital for EV being so hot right now
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by pentae 6y ago
How about don't tell me what device I can or can't use? I want to sideload on my iPhone.
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by pentae 6y ago
Yes, because there's no precedent of China blocking services for reasons of censorship and top down control whatsoever.
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by pentae 6y ago
70,000 people banned today
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by pentae 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification
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by pentae 6y ago
So what's stopping an abuser from generating tons of accounts and spamming their network with junk causing everyone to have to host lots of junk data?
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by pentae 6y ago
Have you actually watched Fox News lately? Right wingers are leaving it in droves because except for a few pundits (Tucker Carlson etc) They are too moderate. Most of the craziness is on social media these days and right wing news sites on
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by pentae 6y ago
And you can bet by the time that day comes we'll have a new USB-D / USB 6 connector to get new adapters for and Apple will bravely drop USB-C from their laptops in favor of this new standard.
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by pentae 6y ago
You mean, like the iMac?
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by pentae 6y ago
Great point, unless the new hardware is also a touchscreen for those iOS Apps - then we'll see a lot of people wishing they'd waited

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