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by shaan7 5y ago
And that is why pretty much any American movie you want to watch is not available on Netflix India :P
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by shaan7 5y ago
Ah well, you are basically replying to a limited world view by another limited one. Notice how you say "Curiosity *can be* about design, ..." but then the tone of your comment reads like you mean "Curiosity *should only be* a
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by shaan7 5y ago
> Tabs have been redesigned to look like buttons Exactly! The tabs are no longer "attached" to the page, my brain sees them as two different things now -.-
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by shaan7 5y ago
Ha, one time I was debugging an issue that only happened to a particular user. Lazy as I was, I hardcoded his auth token in the code "just to test". Having found the bug quickly, I was excited and did not realize I checked-in the
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by shaan7 5y ago
> A lot changes between times, too. Decades ago, those of us who did computer "stuff" in places like the Bay Area were typically nerdy science/math lovers who were an unfashionable segment of society with hobbies like ham
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by shaan7 5y ago
> it is far more interesting than 90% of the stuff a lot of your FAANG companies are spending R&D dollars on Yup. “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”
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by shaan7 5y ago
One example is linking QtWebEngine (basically Chromium) which can sometimes take upwards of 64 GB of RAM.
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by shaan7 5y ago
> I think these big news companies need to form a federation or something where you buy access at one and get rights to read over multiple different magazines. Exactly! I tried coil.com for a while and it would be amazing if you could pa
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by shaan7 6y ago
Not sure, I have not used Syncthing yet.
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by shaan7 6y ago
On XPS 13 (2017) I watched this break due to a firmware update from Dell (something to do with sleep states) Before the update: Windows sleep was strange, it would sleep but drain battery like crazy. Linux sleep was perfect, I could have th
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by shaan7 6y ago
I second this. I use FolderSync Pro to sync with Nextcloud. Straightforward setup and quite reliable.
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by shaan7 6y ago
Fair enough, by "far fewer" you basically mean the same thing I meant by "some". The point was not to have an exhaustive list of the exact reasons behind people cooking. > It's common for people to delude themsel
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by shaan7 6y ago
Well that is only if you look at software/ops as a 100% commercial undertaking. It is not. One way to understand why people self-host is to understand why people self-cook their food. It takes significantly longer to prepare food (get
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by shaan7 6y ago
My guess is that this is the compromise they strike to reduce the "number of options" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by shaan7 6y ago
Yeah thats the other thing I found fascinating about macOS, a bunch of useful features are very hard to discover. Mostly because you won't see any menu entries, but some sort of drag-and-drop will / alt+click will activate a very
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by shaan7 6y ago
Interesting. Apart from the per-display scaling (which is basically a Xorg limitation as you said) I had the opposite experience on my XPS 13. At the end I did not want a 4K display but Dell did not offer me the option. So I just used 1080p
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by shaan7 6y ago
Interesting. My wife got a X1 Carbon in 2016, that worked out-of-the-box too. Wonder what they screwed up in 2019.
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by shaan7 6y ago
Oh and one day Xcode will suddenly stop updating. Why? Because I lost my credit card yesterday and blocked it, so now App Store will not update a free app. Whaa?
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by shaan7 6y ago
> 2. I need to authorize dock (Lenovo's thunderbolt dock) after every reboot. If you're still facing this, there is UI for remembering the authorization https://christian.kellner.me/2018/04/23/the
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by shaan7 6y ago
> Either provide a list so people know exactly what to buy, or all complaints are valid. Sure, these are two devices I have recently used with Linux that work out of the box: Dell XPS 13 ThinkPad T14s Or more generally, you can extend th
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by shaan7 6y ago
> You are literally the first person I find who agrees with me. Hi there! :) And I'd like to say the same to both of you! I wonder why the idea is not more popular though :(
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by shaan7 6y ago
Reminds me of " Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of foo
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by shaan7 6y ago
Code generation only solved part of the problem - saving the trouble of having to write repetitive code. It does not solve the maintainability problem because if something needs to change then you need to manually change all the generated c
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by shaan7 6y ago
[for simplicity, I'm using the term "computer" as a desktop/laptop computer] > Phones never were open They certainly were more open than today. It was much easier to fiddle around with the software with smartphones th
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by shaan7 6y ago
> But phones? I just can't be bothered to care about them. Can I make calls and check some maps? It's great! I understand where you are coming from, and it makes 100% sense if you own a PC/laptop as well. But guess what? I
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by shaan7 6y ago
> Massive Market Opportunity Ah boy do I wish reading an article like this few years back. This point is exactly what we missed when offering a Freemium plan to users. It doesn't work for products that, by design, are built only for
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by shaan7 6y ago
You are assuming that such a tier exists (remember, my comment was not specific to telemetry)
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by shaan7 6y ago
> This is not an option most software users have Yes, but the good thing is that more and more people are learning how to program so I am hopeful that things will get better :)
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by shaan7 6y ago
> Boycott it. If enough users cease to buy the OS So I have to convince thousands (for Windows maybe a million) of people that the thing that irritates me should be removed. Nope, that seldom happens. I find better luck in FOSS where the
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by shaan7 6y ago
You know what is surprising? A lot of people will easily accept those face scanners too :/

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