quenix

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by quenix 6y ago
Apart from Catalina, I’ve been satisfied with macOS release quality.
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by quenix 6y ago
There is now a pretty functional file manager (since iOS 12 I think). It lets you download, upload, zip, unzip, do folder management, export, etc. What other file functionality do you need on a mobile phone?
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by quenix 6y ago
Ditto. This stuff seems good and is somewhat motivating at first. But it never works out in the long term.
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by quenix 6y ago
iOS has certainly opened up over the years. Perhaps apart from the lack of side loading capability, what kind of freedom do you seek?
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by quenix 6y ago
Wow, the essays are computer-graded? Please tell me more.
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by quenix 6y ago
How about “Maintainer forced to reject PR due to Israel-Iran conflict”?
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by quenix 6y ago
Musk's presentation style has been this way since forever — after watching a couple of his presentations, you kind of get used to it. He's not much of a showman.
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by quenix 6y ago
This seems cool, but somewhat unconstructive. Feels like receiving daily tweets about the continuous destruction of wildlife (but being able to do nothing about it personally) is a very negative overall experience, and doesn’t seem healthy.
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by quenix 6y ago
Articles like this don’t take into account the bigger perspective. They are all very anecdotal. In the same way, I can tell you that I know many people who got it and experienced none of these very unpleasant symptoms.
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by quenix 6y ago
Ditto. Twitter and Reddit both.
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by quenix 6y ago
It’s possible to provide WebView APIs without doing what MS did with their browser as a whole.
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by quenix 6y ago
Actually, you can do this. Disable System Integrity Protection, run ‘mount -uw /‘, and delete away.
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by quenix 6y ago
Precisely this. “I’m worried about fingerprinting because a malicious app on my machine might open such a website!” sounds slightly out of touch.
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by quenix 6y ago
I like Natural Scroll on the trackpad because my mind somewhat subconsciously maps the page onto the trackpad. Then, scrolling on the trackpad is like dragging the page up or down with my fingers. Mentally, the same mapping does not happen
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by quenix 6y ago
the funniest thing is that you can still simply enable airplane mode, screenshot, and delete the app this doesn't really do jack
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by quenix 6y ago
Ah, so virtually every idea known to humankind is able to be critiqued, yet religion—a fundamentally unproven, dogmatic discipline that sows conflict into the world by its very nature—is immune from such criticism. I don’t think so. There i
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by quenix 6y ago
Holy shit. That’s overkill for a texting app for high schoolers.
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by quenix 6y ago
At least capitalism actually exists.
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by quenix 6y ago
What? It is? Forgive my ignorance, but isn't it just bitmap rendering? E.g. rending a flat icon should take approx the same GPU toll as a skeumorphic icon