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Microsoft hits out at Apple with its new Windows app store policies(theverge.com)
3 points by slipheen 6y ago|3 comments
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by slipheen 6y ago
I think it also has an unused NVMe SSD Slot, which would be the equivalent of replacing the HDD in previous versions.
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Windows on ARM is about to get lots of apps thanks to new x64 emulation(theverge.com)
17 points by slipheen 6y ago|11 comments
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by slipheen 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're familiar with the extent to which people altered things, such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep
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by slipheen 6y ago
The files were encrypted, Mozilla didn't have access to the contents.
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by slipheen 6y ago
fwiw, this (Material Shell) feels very similar to that. I can have a tab for Thunderbird, Slack, and Jira in my "Communication" workspace, and Meta-A/Meta-D to swap between them. Each has a little tab in the top bar that high
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by slipheen 6y ago
I use Startpage for certain escalated queries as well. Irrespective of Startpage's motives, using them provides a layer of indirection between me and Google associating every search with a Google account.
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by slipheen 6y ago
Any sufficiently large and centralized infrastructure (like Cloudflare is becoming) has an incentive to engage in user-hostile behaviors. So far, I personally think most people would say they've been mostly benevolent. But they are a p
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by slipheen 6y ago
Huh? It can run other apps inside of it, You can @people inside a group message, pin people to the top, etc.. You may not care for the app, but they update it relatively frequently!
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by slipheen 6y ago
For what it's worth, I don't think the grandfathering applies. "All future unreleased Oculus devices will require a Facebook account, even if you already have an Oculus account." https://www.oculus.com/bl
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by slipheen 6y ago
This also involves agreeing to the Facebook ToS.
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by slipheen 6y ago
I don't want or need a Facebook account, and I don't want their software running on my machine. They've shown to be bad actors in the past with harvesting as much data as possible, even on people who don't have accounts.
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by slipheen 6y ago
My parents (who are both pensioners) switched over from Macs to Thinkpads with Linux. The only help I gave them was recommending compatible hardware. They've been using them full-time for the last year, and have been really happy with
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by slipheen 6y ago
None whatsoever. They have a license from the Newton days which allows them to do whatever they want perpetually.
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by slipheen 6y ago
That really does seem like whataboutism. No one is claiming Apple is perfect, but this is a marked improvement of apps requiring tracking to function.
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by slipheen 6y ago
Governments ought to be the place for this level of regulation, absolutely - But right now, governments aren't regulating. In the mean time, I'm glad Apple is. If Apple wasn't doing this, no one would be.
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by slipheen 6y ago
Personally, I would like to be able to use the new streaming gaming apps, such as Microsoft xcloud, Google stadia, PlayStation now, etc.
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by slipheen 6y ago
Not OP, but in SteamVR room-scale is typically used to indicate you can move around within a play area, and your avatar/camera moves as you do. Its the way the setting is named in Steam, and in SteamVR games. Example: https:/&#x2
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by slipheen 6y ago
Under US federal law auto makers in particular aren't allowed to deny warranty coverage to a car due to aftermarket modifications unless they can prove that those specific modifications caused the problem. https://en.m.wikip
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by slipheen 6y ago
I hope the entire advertising targeting business goes bankrupt, and anything that depends on it goes with it. Any computer I own (including a phone) is supposed to represent its users interests; It is not supposed to be some compromise bet
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by slipheen 6y ago
Consider for example, that many pages use remotely loaded resources. I would think things like Facebook/Twitter like buttons or Google Fonts might make it to assemble this history. Sites like FB are said to maintain "Shadow Profil
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by slipheen 6y ago
I love reading physical books too, the user experience of them is so much nicer. I also like to go back to re-read books. With non-fiction I'll often want to go back to reference or quote something, and with fiction I love reimmersing
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by slipheen 6y ago
I don't think that's correct. They were threatening to block Epic's developer account, which would make future engine releases difficult.
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by slipheen 6y ago
Regardless of what you think about the trade-offs to security, at the end of the day the purpose of the computer is to serve it's user, and do what they instruct. It's not Microsoft's machine, and they oughtn't try to ov
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by slipheen 6y ago
For example, you can add a MicroSD card, and enable it in the Kernel :)
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by slipheen 6y ago
You can typically find a guide to where any given modem is and manually remove it, but it's increasingly difficult to do so and causes functionally downgrades.
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by slipheen 6y ago
I use both in conjunction. There are Ansible modules to run terraform, for example. The biggest issue for me is that Terraform is still pretty bad at looping and handling dependencies sometimes. They have ways to try to work around it, but
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by slipheen 6y ago
That's a really harmful outlook. If company A decides that they are going to pay their workers (say) $3/hr, and illegally bypass the minimum wage, it _DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL_ if they can find workers willing to work for that a
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by slipheen 6y ago
Them shutting down is a perfectly acceptable outcome. California has essentially told them "You're doing an illegal thing". They're response is essentially "Oh yeah? Well then, we'll stop doing the illegal thin
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by slipheen 6y ago
In my view, that's exactly right. They should either treat their drivers like FT employees, pivot to a new (legal) service, or shut down entirely (and disband the company). If they can't treat their drivers decently and follow the

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