rStar

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by rStar 6y ago
mac seems to unfortunately be on the path to selling iphones, ipads and chromebook type devices running ios. i really wish steve jobs had believed in modern medicine. if he had, i believe we’d have much better machines.
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by rStar 6y ago
so i should use a dumpster fire of an OS because the flames are a few feet lower than they were 15 years ago?
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by rStar 6y ago
but if you get away with it 90% of the time....
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by rStar 6y ago
amazon could stop this easily if that was the decision that they made. instead, through their basics program, amazon decided to become “the best of” these types of scammers. or at least the largest scale.
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by rStar 6y ago
one basket, too many eggs
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by rStar 6y ago
due to user expectations, no doubt
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by rStar 6y ago
that's reasonable. patreon is the closest we've come to the richard stallman "press a button send a dollar directly" that I know of, and I really believe in that concept. However, and this is my autism not being able to
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by rStar 6y ago
“ It's an article that makes a simple observation” - it’s an article that plays games with language to mislead its audience. to reiterate read the definition of true fan. are you that big of a fan of literally anyone? the true fan bar
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by rStar 6y ago
i changed my last post to remove the word essentially, since at the time there wasn’t a reply button below your reply and I thought you had blocked me from replying or something. not trying to make you look bad and change specifically what
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by rStar 6y ago
an article whos title translates to, in the mind if most readers, you can be successful with 1000 fans, and then suggests with the definition of the specific type of fan that you may need 100000 to have a thousand of the kind described, is
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by rStar 6y ago
the following is a quote from the article. the article is a bait and switch. in the title, it tries to get you to believe that, hey, something you thought you had almost no chance of achieving is actually within your reach, but then with th
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by rStar 6y ago
it’s based on the size of a codebase you feel comfortable managing. for me personally, due to my emotional regulation problems, it was also based on the point in time about 1000 hours in when I stopped getting really frustrated with a probl
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by rStar 6y ago
powerless unless you get an extension for you browser and then never be pestered again.
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by rStar 6y ago
i like the idea in general, but the title is misleading. to have 1000 fans buy everything you put out, paperback and hardcover, you need somewhere between 10k-50k fans total, a small percentage of whom will be the die hards written about in
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by rStar 6y ago
sign. me. up. especially if they go core boot or similar.
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by rStar 6y ago
they don’t care. i’d love for someone to defend the idea that for all these years, microsoft has really wanted us to have first class touchpad experiences on their laptops, but they just couldn’t figure it out. A problem too hard, a bridge
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by rStar 6y ago
while i don’t think many of us are used to thinking at scale, any percentage of apple’s customers making literally any choice about something that purchase from apple, is a f-ton of money.
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by rStar 6y ago
clearly these machines are a few months old at most. we clearly have a lot to learn about how they work and what’s likely to break. If they’re anything like the last time apple made a big new hardware change, if you want a functional co
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by rStar 6y ago
I’m gonna have to disagree with the negative comments above concerning Igors tone. He made his point with clear respectful language that I would be happy to entertain at work, at the bar, at worship or while on a (previous to covid) group r
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by rStar 6y ago
I appreciate the work you did and I hope it enriched your life in some meaningful way. I had family support for 1 year of undergraduate, and 4 years without that support. If I could find an english language foreign market edition of a text
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by rStar 6y ago
was it available in hard copy as well? that you were paid in addition to the $1500 you got for pdf sales?
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by rStar 6y ago
<$25,000 cost of getting the speaker in to talk to your audience. 25,000<x<100,000 -> case by case >$100,000 -> legalized bribery, pay for play etc.
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by rStar 6y ago
@Kranar exactly. the actions of the gme swarm are reasonable given the positions and the patterns of actions we all recognize from short sellers. until now, short sellers have pretty much been playing a game of poker where no one ever calle
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by rStar 6y ago
so the answer is: yes this reduces security over signal for both myself and whomever i’m chatting with. due to this, seems like a questionable choice to include signal.
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by rStar 6y ago
"We cannot afford to lose faith in the election process. Period." Half the country doesn't vote, because they've lost faith in the election process.
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by rStar 6y ago
how is this a sale , exactly? uber seems to be giving away their self driving division and $400 for the right to be a privileged Aurora customer in the future.
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by rStar 6y ago
no, locked machines are stripped or sold for parts. there’s no reason for this other than institutional control of users, while furthering apples overall corporate mantra of planned obsolescence.
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by rStar 6y ago
apple is a cell phone company now. in the same way that users in the US hate Verizon, ATT etc for rubbing our noses in the fact that we have no choice but to use their service, which frees them up to treat us, the customer, like trash, that
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by rStar 6y ago
further, apple no longer get’s to portray themselves as a privacy focused company. if I don’t have control over whether or not I can turn my computer on, I have no right to privacy on an apple computer and I have no data security on an appl
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by rStar 6y ago
apple no longer makes general purpose computers. they make iphones, and iphones with keyboards. unfortunately, the processor tech seems spectacular from all accounts.

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