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by slategruen 5y ago
I totally understand your point and I think it's one of the reasons why GNOME's goal to become the "perfectly intuitive desktop" is utterly misguided. However, one thing which separates the interface of Windows from MacO
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by slategruen 5y ago
Same sentiments but I have my reservations. I wish we just have enough Linux users to drive open standards. A lot of proprietary standards became proprietary because companies just doesn't care about a few Linux users.
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Philippine government makes anonymous SIM card ownership more difficult(newsinfo.inquirer.net)
2 points by slategruen 5y ago|2 comments
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by slategruen 5y ago
One of the few Asian countries where you can still purchase SIM cards without being logged, the right to privacy of Filipinos is under threat with a new bill mandating otherwise.
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by slategruen 5y ago
The article is rather confusing. Is the demand lower relative to the previous weeks/months since the release of iPhone 13, or is it relative to the demand for iPhone 12 from the previous year?
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Ask HN: Is it bad that smartphones are becoming our primary computing devices?
6 points by slategruen 5y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Why audio over WLAN is not a thing?
3 points by slategruen 5y ago|1 comments
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by slategruen 5y ago
But that's the thing. A lot of investors in NFT/crypto doesn't see that 1% reward/risk ratio. While I do agree that crypto has an appropriate place in our financial system, the way it's advertised now is just ridicu
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by slategruen 5y ago
I do not live in the US so credit card is not very common here but digital payments still failed to gain traction. Apple Pay and Google Pay are also not frequently used here even when paying for online transactions.
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by slategruen 5y ago
Mainstream media, at least in tech, have betted that digital payments will be disruptive because of the pandemic given how unsanitary cash payments are. I mean, it makes sense for people to use digital wallets instead of cash but as restric
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Ask HN: Why digital wallets failed to disrupt how we pay despite Covid-19?
1 points by slategruen 5y ago|13 comments
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Ask HN: Why does Apple lag behind fast charging technology?
3 points by slategruen 5y ago|1 comments
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by slategruen 5y ago
The most important iPhone for me for the last couple of years was iPhone X primarily because of Face ID
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Ask HN: Why did Apple take so long to implement OLED in iPhones?
2 points by slategruen 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What's with manufacturers selling laptops with BOTH SSD and HDD
1 points by slategruen 5y ago|5 comments
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by slategruen 5y ago
Is there any logical explanation on why they did this?
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by slategruen 5y ago
Excel, Adobe products, CAD/CAM programs Unless you use the products above professionally, you could easily make Linux as your daily driver. You don't need to be tech-savvy to install Linux distros nowadays since most of them alrea
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Ask HN: How did iPad corner the tablet market?
4 points by slategruen 5y ago|4 comments
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by slategruen 5y ago
> The touchpad is awful Have you tried it with Wayland?