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by pfranz 6y ago
As a counterpoint, I imagine the amount of money the US government already spends on MS Office could fund development of something as good or better than Office, while giving it away free to the rest of society improving productivity. Altho
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by pfranz 6y ago
The only reason I remember that use is because it sounded out of place to me. This posting [1] puts the usage change from around 1880-1930. I've always taken the modern usage to mean unusually fine/magnificent. [1] https:/&#
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by pfranz 6y ago
I always think of the famous Hindenburg crash tape. "it's a terrific crash" 1937 for those, like me, that weren't sure of the decade. https://genius.com/Herbert-morrison-hindenburg-disaster-broa...
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by pfranz 6y ago
Once is generally enough. I did it awhile back and have tried to reference LFS for major changes that have been adopted since I last did it like EFI and LUKS. I'm glad to see it getting updates.
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think a bit of masochism is the point. I did it once to fill in all of the gaps and cement all the dependencies when putting together a system. That kind of knowledge helps when you're trying to do server maintenance but try and keep
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by pfranz 6y ago
"Jobs later said that Apple had begun developing the iPad before the iPhone.[27][28]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad#History
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by pfranz 6y ago
I delivered for Pizza Hut a dozen+ years ago. The store I was at only did delivery and take out. We didn't have routing software, but it was really easy to divvy up and group orders looking at a map. I'm sure it would be more diff
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by pfranz 6y ago
I understand the motivation (it doesn't encourage discussion about the topic at hand), but like to see these criticisms both as a warning before visiting the site and to know more about what things really bug other users and sites that
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think AppleCare+ is one of the rare insurances that can sometimes be a good value, but after looking over the numbers for phones I scratch my head. Looking at a broken screen: $80 upfront and $30 per incident -> $110 [1] $129 out of wa
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by pfranz 6y ago
That's true, but that's an argument about the iPhone and not Photos. On the iPhone, there's literally a switch to instead save as jpg/h.264...which do have their own patent problems (there have been various successful p
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by pfranz 6y ago
But this wasn't "allowed" or endorsed by Apple. It was a third-party company doing something underhanded. Is there some reason Dropbox would be more trustworthy on Linux? I think the "lame overreach" hurts the credi
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by pfranz 6y ago
> In MacOS and iOS, the procedure for converting images from the Photos format[1] to a free format is so tedious and time-consuming that users just give up if they have a lot of them. [1] https://support.apple.com/guide&
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think another part is that subtle and mild flavors are harder to get clean and consistent. Bold flavors can mask variances and problems.
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by pfranz 6y ago
What are your use-cases for image search? Mine are pretty straightforward; find a higher quality/uncropped version or to find the source (article, recipe, or photo set). Use case #1 I click through save and exit. Use case #2 I engage l
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by pfranz 6y ago
I haven't followed the specifics, either, but it looks like it was introduced back in March. When I reached out to my Senators and Reps back then I got a reply from my House Rep (who I believe was supportive of the bill). The bill is c
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by pfranz 6y ago
Ah! That's the first explanation that sounds plausible (outside of the wear and tear of using it while plugged in).
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by pfranz 6y ago
I do all those things. From past discussions I gather the trick is using the phone while charging causes the problem. I tend not to and haven't had issues.
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by pfranz 6y ago
Reading up on this years ago, some people will cash their paychecks at payday loans. I suspected some of my friends did and I think I tried once and was aghast at the fees and went elsewhere. My understanding is many people don't have
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think the problem is Finder long ago move away from spacial interface to a browser interface. Since the move wasn't very clear-cut it's now just bad at remembering position and layout. Not to mention those things aren't ver
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by pfranz 6y ago
That battle was lost long ago and the answer is generally "no." Classic MacOS used Resource Forks. That's where file type was stored instead of using extensions. I believe icons were stored there, as well as other things like
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by pfranz 6y ago
I believe as part of the App Clip announcement they were showing Yelp creating/managing apps for restaurants. So they're specifically trying to improve this type of app.
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think a lot of UI changes are for the sake of change. The arguments I've heard for the recent font changes and some of the UI changes are a critical mass of retina screens. They've also added other screen/monitor tech like
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think even in the tech community it's uncommon...especially if you mainly use a laptop. Thankfully, laptop options have expanded quite a bit. However, a few years ago a Steam update had potential to erase a bunch of data[1]. Is there
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by pfranz 6y ago
You may want to run a hardware check, look around online for people with similar issues and hardware as you...or just take it to the Genius Bar. In my experience kernel panics in macOS in the past 10+ years has come from bad hardware, badly
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by pfranz 6y ago
I've remapped Caps Lock to Control, which turned out to be very useful in various Remote Desktop and VirtualBox scenarios since it requires a left-Control key, which Mac laptop keyboards are missing.
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by pfranz 6y ago
My beef is that ESC in macOS is the universal non-destructive dismiss button. I'm glad they went back to making it a physical key.
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by pfranz 6y ago
"0 new features" was marketing that seems to have worked quite well. I can't remember where, but I swear I remember hearing that later from people at Apple. The major thing is they didn't do a big UI refresh. In Snow Leo
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by pfranz 6y ago
Another common issue is the lack of scroll bars or other UI hints like shadows means it's often impossible to know when/if you can scroll.
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by pfranz 6y ago
Apple has already done this a few times before. I'm sure internally they've decided whether they need buy-in from a critical-mass of apps like Word and Photoshop (or maybe they feel they don't anymore). I'm pretty sure t
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by pfranz 6y ago
I don't think that's quite a given. I don't think Apple has changed as much as you're implying. When OSX was first released, even though it was Unix-based, most people were pretty confident it wouldn't ship with a T

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