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by smoldesu 3y ago
KDE's defaults feel great on Magic Trackpad 2 as well, I prefer it with acceleration disabled. That said I'm using GNOME right now and it handles great on a multitouch trackpad.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
In particular, Linux has been in the middle of a decade-long transition to a new display server that has split efforts for a while. The incumbant Xorg had a few attempts at Windows-style gesture libraries, but those were clunky and not at a
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by smoldesu 3y ago
A hydrogen pump just got installed in my county last month, actually. > regulation was heavily stopping any car startup, and the catch-22 problem of not being able to charge because nobody had electric cars existed. Now we have electric
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I have, and I didn't hear one of them complain when USB-C iPhones were released worldwide.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The Ryzen Thinkpads are the thing to beat for the 2020s. I don't want a $1,800 glass art installation that requires a warranty to reliably fix. I want a good laptop, and you can "fix" the majority of a Thinkpad's problem
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592984 Nobody seems to have replied. Do you want the honors of telling me there's no glass trackpad?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> for someone with a bunch of devices and online all the time it sounds great when the EU forces USBC through for example Have you never met an Apple user that carried around both Lightning and USB-C cables? This sort of sentiment confou
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by smoldesu 3y ago
No. But a shareholder, for them hope springs eternal...
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Like you said, the US helped Carnegie stage actual massacres before the case was made that they were a monopoly. It's entirely feasible that Apple has and abuses monopoly power, but the politics of implicating them don't align yet
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> note how conspicuously people making that claim are unable to identify specific equivalent hardware At this rate, if you show someone a laptop that's genuinely better than a Macbook they'll complain that it's missing a n
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> because Google is extremely lax with what kinds of things they allow on the Play Store And Apple is known for being just so diligent with their App Store reviews, huh? https://www.pcmag.com/news/beware-theres-a-f
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Well put. It's a hard pill to swallow in the VC/startup area, but Open Source software owes you nothing. If Open Source software makes you money, it's your job to ensure that it stays a stable part of your supply chain. Nobod
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by smoldesu 3y ago
To say nothing of the event itself, apparently the terms of Project Nimbus "contractually forbid Amazon and Google from halting services due to boycott pressure." Interesting that one would draft that as a clause in the first plac
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by smoldesu 3y ago
They also didn't refute anything the parent said. "Dubious claims from biased sources" isn't denying that Uighur exploitation happens, it's a strawman that diverts the criticism to the media. Same goes for the CIA&#
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Dubious claims from biased sources. What makes the Human Rights Watch a dubious source, in your opinion? Who should we trust instead? https://www.hrw.org/tag/uyghurs > there's a good chance one of their em
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Taiwan wouldn't be: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-would-destroy-taiwan-semi...
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Even Dropbox didn't succeed at being the next Dropbox.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
As a dissenting example, I got a 14" Lenovo Ideapad with a Ryzen 7 for $250 on Ebay. It's got a nice 1440p HDR display, a great iGPU for gaming at low-power, and an 8-core CPU. If you want an ultrabook experience, get ultrabook ha
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Statements such as "Stating the simple fact [...]" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. That statement is just a fact. Normal people are not being offended by calls to regulate Apple, most of them don't even realize u
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> But I also do not discount the possibilities that, sometimes, the regulators are wrong. On which grounds? Wrong as-in, you disagree with their interpretation of the law, or as-in disagree with their punishment? Or do you have evidence
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I mean, platform interoperability has also enabled a great deal of 21st century advancements. The internet, telecommunications, commercial aviation, standardized power and serial data delivery et. al have all pushed their prior iterations
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> by the way I think are in bad taste, I'm sincerely sorry if I offended any Apple employees in the process. Otherwise I'm not really sure what "bad taste" you could be referring to. Maybe I scared off a few $AAPL sha
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> The core issue here is whether governments should control how iOS is designed and which part of iOS. That's Apple's core issue, maybe. Now, look at it from the perspective of a sovereign market. Their core issue (a-la Un
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The other response is right; Apple is the one who lost sight of boundaries. They thought they were smart fighting Dutch regulators and French tax authorities right up until their regulators played hardball with the market. Now Tim Cook is
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Yes, the free tier comes with advertisements. That’s a very common pricing model. But like, built into your OS? That's a new low that was reserved only for Microsoft for a while. I agree with the parent comment - this sort of firs
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If this is Apple's most straightforward defense then it's a terrible day to be a shareholder.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Game consoles defend their software ecosystem because they don't have hardware margins (unlike Apple). Apple could try to use the console manufacturer defense, but they'd have to abandon their biggest cash cow to make it work. &
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> What does it mean to "use a PWA in their browser"? That's the opposite of what the PWA experience is supposed to be. What does it mean to use a PWA without a browser? It's impossible to operate without an HTML eng
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Apple themselves distributed software as a binary before they had an App Store. If there was some other "norm" to speak of, it didn't exist when the Apple IIc hit shelves.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> But in practice, users in the EU will lose the choice to solely remain on the App Store and keep all of Apple’s industry-leading protections, even if that is what they would prefer. Sounds like an implementation issue. Android users ha

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