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by slantyyz 6y ago
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when that decision was made. "Let's add friction to all of our users so that the small percentage of those users who do want to sign up to our cloud gaming service won't have any fri
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by slantyyz 6y ago
The bigger question though is why do you need to login in the first place? For the longest time the GeForce Experience application didn't need a login. A lot of users (like me) have that application just to do the automatic driver upda
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I do the same, sometimes with more than 2 devices depending on the importance of the alarm. Every time I read about an alarm bug, it makes me think about the iPhone New Year's Day alarm bug that caused a couple to miss their fertility
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I have checked out Doro in the past and gotten him a similar "seniors" phone (that worked with local carriers here), and it didn't really take. I've tried having him use a "simplified" home screen on one of my
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by slantyyz 6y ago
He already has a Nokia feature phone. The problem is that a feature phone has more features than he needs, and sometimes requires navigation to perform a task. Also, some of the physical controls are rockers, which he doesn't seem to g
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Most feature phones available right now are pretty much the same, and they rely on rocker buttons and arrow keys for navigation, which he can't or won't pick up. Right now he has a Nokia feature phone (which has virtually the same
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by slantyyz 6y ago
I'm in the age group that was one of the first cohorts who only learned Metric in school in the 1970s. While we do use Imperial for stuff here, I would still say the conversion was successful in that everyone in my cohort and later kno
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Does anyone know if you can heavily customize the user interface of the PinePhone? The reason why I'm asking is that I have yet to find a feature phone or smartphone that my father (in his 80s) can use. He basically doesn't want t
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Yeah, I did similar research as you and found that none of them were sticky enough for my uses. WikiJS came the closest, but it didn't feel 100% baked yet. I'm currently using Dropbox Paper as my pseudo-wiki, which is... OK until
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Not just from when, but type of processor as well. U? H? HQ?
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Sorry for the confusion, by "save as", I didn't mean export. LokiJS has multiple persistence options, with JSON files in the filesystem being just one of them. Alternatively, you could also just use it in-memory or with Index
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by slantyyz 6y ago
It's probably useful for single-user scenarios (like an Electron app) where you only need to save a minimal amount of user data.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
This reminds me a lot of LokiJS[1], which, if I recall correctly, could optionally save the data as JSON file(s). [1] https://github.com/techfort/LokiJS
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> I find it sad that the sentiment is that a computer without a modern web browser is not useful for daily work. Maybe, but when there is a dearth of application support like there is with Haiku OS, the role of the modern browser becomes
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by slantyyz 6y ago
"Web surfing" might seem easy to dismiss, but look at the original iPhone. Sure, it had a nice form factor, etc., but the thing that made the iPhone a game changer was mobile Safari, a modern web browser. Remember when Apple'
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> Jims review on Ars was a bit unfair, considering the enormous difference in man power involved with the Haiku community and the commercial support most other OS’s have I get that context matters, but if you're going to write a rev
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> it seemed like “not choosing Plan Be” was going to have disastrous consequences Can you even imagine what that alternate reality would be like? Given how Be did not come with Steve Jobs, the entire tech landscape could have been very
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by slantyyz 6y ago
People today shoot and chimp, which was impossible back in the day. If you wanted a preview, you needed to have a polaroid around. Film and processing cost money, and took from an hour or to days to get back, so people would set the apertur
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by slantyyz 6y ago
IIRC, if you get an OM-D EM 1 or 5 model with a lens adapter, you can get decent performance from your old lenses.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
>> For regular folks, m4/3 is too expensive. This is a huge misconception. From my perspective, any camera (including M43) made after 2014 is more than good enough for most "regular folks" looking to level up from a sma
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Have you had a look at the Nikon 1 AW series? I think there are only two lens options, but apparently they are very good, and should be pretty cheap now, since they were a niche offshoot of an already niche (and discontinued) product line.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
IIRC, right around the time Oly switched from Panny to Sony sensors, they made an agreement to share tech/patents, which I think included Oly's multi-axis IBIS.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> my understanding is that Panasonic made the better video bodies. I love the stills output (esp the colors) from Oly cameras, but for some reason I don't quite like the handling/ergonomics. I don't know if it's becau
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> How can you work with just a thousand lines? The answer is super simple. Because I'm not you . Which means I'm not sensitized to the same things that you are sensitized to. For example, I can't stand working in a room t
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> What Olympus brought was in-body image stabilisation. I think Olympus and Sony did some cross-licensing deal on their patents, which I believe resulted in Sony's IBIS gaining the 5-axis stuff. I had a Sony DSLR back in the Alpha d
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by slantyyz 6y ago
It was expensive initially, but prices shot way down when I got my first N1 camera, a J1. I still have a V1 and a J5 in addition to my M43 gear. The tech was pretty good right down to the end of the line. The J5 is a pretty fantastic camera
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by slantyyz 6y ago
The Nikon 1 line, with exception of the J5 (which used Sony's sensor), used sensors made by Aptina. Aptina's sensors were pretty spectacular from an AF perspective in that they had phase-shift AF on-sensor in 2011. The AF was as c
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Ah, ok, I wasn't sure if you were and oldster like me or a youngling who grew up in the digital FF era.
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by slantyyz 6y ago
> I wish I could have my Nikon lenses on my Sony (with no compromise) I don't follow that stuff, but does Metabones make a Nikon F -> Sony E speed booster? > Nikon made some of the great smaller-sensor size lenses that you can
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by slantyyz 6y ago
>> I was a kid and everyone was shooting "full frame" Ok, this is a little vague, because are you referring to digital or analog? When I was a kid, everyone was shooting full frame, because, well 35mm was the de-facto standa

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