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by radley 4mo ago
> I live in California, cancelled about five years ago, and they forced me to talk to a person who demanded a reason for my cancellation, and then argued with me about wanting to cancel. That was 5 years ago. California's "clic
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by radley 4mo ago
Re-licensing music is a two-fold challenge. Sometimes it's much more efficient to use substitute music, instead of negotiating for new rights. First, licensing arrangements for "all marketing channels" only account for the ch
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by radley 4mo ago
> When can I download my movie onto my Linux laptop and play it through an HDMI cable? Probably because the Linux market is too small to support an iTunes for Linux. By my understanding, the Linux market prefers free, open source, commun
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by radley 4mo ago
IF you tell your doc, they can adjust their interpretation of the test. Edit: see comment below (i.e. better to stop taking creatine at least a week before a test).
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by radley 4mo ago
Are you using a Studio Monitor? Lock screen videos are incompatible with Settings > Displays > Refresh rate > Adaptive. You have to use a fixed frame rate (60 or 120 Hz).
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by radley 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure enshittification applies to other methods. Adding ads to smart devices after purchase is a very common example.
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by radley 4mo ago
If you only need to manage online passwords, only use Firefox, and aren't using an iOS device, then it's probably fine. But most people may also need to use native apps, other browsers, and iOS devices.
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by radley 5mo ago
> A cafeteria worker in some suburban admin office likely has no inside information they are going to trade on. Until they do...
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by radley 5mo ago
Same game, different approaches: Sometimes you just want to button-mash through, rushing about carefree. Other times, you want to go entirely stealth, wandering around, trying to find the best path, wasting an hour or more on a level you co
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by radley 5mo ago
No. Please, no. For the love of everything no. But it'll happen. ChatGPT for sure.
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by radley 5mo ago
> If you stood on the street corner and asked every passerby what they would change about their phone, I think you would be there all day before someone said "I wish I could replace the battery". But what if you asked the right
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by radley 5mo ago
Or perhaps "to compel someone to act against their will or to break through resistance." But knowing this administration, "an energy field created by all living things that surrounds, penetrates, and binds the galaxy together
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by radley 5mo ago
Might as well pick it up. I was essentially "forced" to update to get my new XDR display running and I've learned to live with Tahoe. Tahoe is buggier than Sequoia, but Sequoia was rather buggy already. You'll see a lot
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by radley 6mo ago
First laptop was a Powerbook 100. First computer was Atari 800. Currently use an MX Master 4 mouse. I totally get the irony.
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by radley 6mo ago
My iPad is mounted next to my Macs. I use it as a media player, checking deliveries, personal messages when I'm on my work laptop, and such. All of that is done via touch. When I need to flip over to my Mac to do the same thing, I have
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by radley 6mo ago
This reevaluation postulates that the participants didn't deviate by mistake, but deliberately. The participant could have waited for the respondent to be in a state in which they could answer. (Reminder: the exercise was officially ab
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by radley 6mo ago
It just feels ancient and weird now that I can tap every screen I own, except my Mac. I don't want to replace the Mac's keyboard & mouse with a touchscreen, I would simply like it to support touch. (This also made me realize t
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by radley 6mo ago
Figma has demonstrated that kind of aggressive lock-in many times. For example, they couldn't get enough companies to subscribe to FigJam and Slides, so they simply increased Figma's subscription price by that amount, and then sai
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by radley 6mo ago
Oh, I completely agree. But they can get away with it because we depend on the platform more than the individual apps. And yes, Tahoe is shiny hot garbage piled on top of so much broken software, just to push an effect trick. I'm not s
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by radley 6mo ago
Ah, that timeframe is helpful to know. I had to replace the keyboard in my 2012 MBP twice, and was able to do it myself both times. Since then, I always use keyboard skins.
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by radley 6mo ago
I've never worried about AppleCare for my Apple products, until this year when I signed up for AppleCare One. I bought a few new devices, including the Studio Monitor XDR. For the XDR alone it's worth it, since replacing the scree
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by radley 6mo ago
> If you want a repairable machine, buy one. They exist. Others have already mentioned Framework But that means Windows or Linux, not macOS. There's serious trade-offs that you're dismissing because you personally don't ne
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by radley 6mo ago
Actually... their MCP reflects more than just supporting AI. It demonstrates the future of closed, walled garden MCPs. While Figma advertises that their official MCP "can now write directly to your Figma files", in reality it is r
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by radley 6mo ago
People will drink poor quality champagne after they've had one or two good glasses, so the analogy may be appropriate to modern software development.
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by radley 6mo ago
I agree. I always have to do it, except at the rare restaurants. Not just splinters, but rough edges too.
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by radley 6mo ago
I live in Oakland, and the Easy Bay has had its share of random outages without incident. The last outage was just a split-second blip, but it broke a $1k computer monitor.
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by radley 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure it comes down to radio vs interactive music licensing. A general radio license doesn't allow users to pick the track they want to hear. They only get a shuffled playback and face other limitations like "can&#x
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by radley 7mo ago
5x Max is the plan I use because the Pro plan limits out so quickly. I don't use Claude full-time, but I do need Claude Code, and I do prefer to use Opus for everything because it's focused and less chatty.
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by radley 7mo ago
> you still can't Sign in with Apple on the website. Apple forces developers to offer Sign in with Apple on iOS devices if any other sign in service is used. Apple can't force them to do it on non-Apple platforms.
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The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART(nytimes.com)
3 points by radley 7mo ago|0 comments

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