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by pwinnski 4y ago
Correlation/causation question there. It is very plausible that people already in categories you consider weird are choosing diet soda because they agree with you and are trying to avoid making the issue more severe.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
When I make comments about other people, they need to grow thicker skin. When other people attack me personally, it's a deep and dangerous violation of social norms.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Contra some other responses, I do think that was the intended design. However, I think it was a bad design, because it forces the desired behavior, rather than encouraging it. Stick the charge port on the side, so that it's awkw
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by pwinnski 4y ago
One difference is that Twitter actively promotes trending topics in the sidebar, so it's as if someone noticed that multiple people in the town square were shouting about the same thing and circulated it throughout the town, not just t
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by pwinnski 4y ago
My point wasn't that people fled federated email to congregate at gmail. My point was that most people don't care one wet slap about federation, and will happily use whatever people point as easily usable (and free), whether Hotma
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by pwinnski 4y ago
And a huge percentage of people consume the web via centralized, non-federated platforms like Facebook! When the federation is invisible, people aren't bothered, but Mastodon hardly makes it invisible.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
People talk about email as the prime example of federation that we all use every day, but... gmail.com alone has a 30% market share, and 61% of 18-29 year olds[0]. The only reason that number isn't much higher is work emails, and a goo
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Not just Jobs! There is no end[0] to research[1] showing that many options is terrible[2], and "too many options" is terrible by definition. 0. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2018&#x2
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I don't care enough about twitter to actually solve the issue. I was just pointing out that people aren't lying or exaggerating.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Twitter literally interrupts the normal feed with content you haven't chosen. Here, I'll load https://twitter.com to see: 1. dog pic from someone I follow 2. ad ("Promoted") 3. Steve Martin playing a banjo wh
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Yes, indeed, every group under 50% is a minority group. In the scenario you outline, the group with 49% is the plurality, but no group has the majority, therefore all groups are minority groups.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That is, in fact, what "minority" means. When there is no 51%+ group, the largest group is a plurality. We do have words for these things.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I happen to believe that my current movie and tv collection already use sane and consistent filenames. Certainly they're sane enough for Plex (and most are set by the Scene). If you're suggesting a directory per movie, we disagree
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I hope synack-20 enjoys the affiliate fees in exchange for their work on this site. Well done!
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Car rentals and horseback rides are both transportation, but most people would say the difference is not trivial. Movies, tv, and video games are all visual entertainment, but video games are different enough that most people are generally
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I can't, because--and this is key--Spotify refuses to implement IAP! To implement IAP would drastically undermine their case, eliminating huge swathes of the linked page. Yes, it's dumb that they're not allowed to link to the
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The last one I tried was Emby, sometimes during the pandemic, and it just flat-out didn't come up with a number of movies that matched the number of movie files in the directly I pointed it at. It also seemed to mis-match or fail to ma
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Oh man, I'm sitting with an M1 Mac mini and an M1 Pro MacBook Pro on my desk, and until I read your comment, I'd completely forgotten that computers used to make noise!
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I've tried a few times with every alternative to Plex out there, but none of them seem to do a decent job handling the wide variety of video content in my Plex library. I've tried Emby, Jellyfin, and everything else. For someone s
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by pwinnski 4y ago
"IAP is easy and simple and secure and well-known, and should be used." Is that better? I will never use a purchase method on iOS that isn't IAP. Never, and I'm not alone.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Not GP, but I think the argument was: "IAP is easy and simple and secure and well-known, and should be used." Spotify is acting as if Apple is blocking them in many different ways, but all would be solved if Spotify would use IAP,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> Apple won't let them Not true at all. Apple's rules haven't changed in ages, they've defended them against Epic in court, and Spotify knew what they were when they started down this road, just like they knew the las
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You're talking about genres, which is a different scenario. This is more like Netflix raising prices for streaming subscribers to fund a new video-game studio. The fact that some people might enjoy both doesn't make them anythin
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by pwinnski 4y ago
As ctoth said in cousin comment, HTTP Basic Auth seems to work well for content like that: https://subscriber-id:subscriber-token@podcast.host/feed.rss It's open, no proprietary client required. I, for one, am not tota
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Oh, look, a huge company that pays artists a pittance[0] is pretending to be on the side of the artists (writers in this case) in their fight against mean old Apple. Is this like when they complained about Apple not letting them do Siri, bu
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That is not why Microsoft got smacked, they were given a lesser penalty than many believed they deserved, and still the result scared the antitrust enforcement division so much that it has taken decades for them to remember they have a job
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The question was: > Is there any legit reason Apple is hastening the drop of support for older computers when they can be upgraded just fine with the OpenCore Legacy Patcher? I gave multiple reasons.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Yeah, there's definitely an attempt at organization, but... here's the thing. Most of MacOS works the way my brain expects it to. Like, Pages was a revelation when it was released, as I was able to instantly find everything I want
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In the US, at least, the IRS frowns a bit at people over-using business deductions. "Any new gadget or widget" might be deductible if your business includes, say, reviewing new gadgets and widgets. If you're a software develo
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I hate System Preferences, have hated System Preferences for years and years. I cannot seem to get used to where things are, no matter how often I use it. The order doesn't make sense to me, the grouping doesn't make sense to me,

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