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by snazz 6y ago
Yeah, this decision makes business sense for Amazon. Updating a Linux client is a nice gesture but affects a very small parentage of desktop users.
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by snazz 6y ago
Sounds like that wasn’t all that happened—see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24270421
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by snazz 6y ago
Do they put it in airplane mode to enforce that?
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by snazz 6y ago
Analytics connections are also trivial to block on a DNS level. Homebrew isn’t malware; it’s not going to circumvent a simple DNS block for analytics.
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by snazz 6y ago
As I understand it, MacPorts is a fair bit more limited in that regard. For my purposes, I haven't found a need for the ability to install third-party binaries and Mac App Store apps through my package manager, since every third-party
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by snazz 6y ago
I'm somewhat surprised that this guide recommends Homebrew. I agree that using a package manager is a good way to keep software updated from a central, trusted repository--always a good thing--but Homebrew makes a number of trade-offs
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My initial impressions of OpenCore for modern Hackintoshing(snazz.xyz)
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by snazz 6y ago
Hmm. I was using a surprisingly similar setup (Arch, Sway, and Firefox) and never had those issues, but I think I was using Firefox with XWayland instead of those environment variables. I'm glad it's not a huge pain for you.
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by snazz 6y ago
Why is your browser crashing every ten minutes? I can't tell you the last time that the desktop versions of Chrome, Firefox, or Safari crashed for me. That seems like a huge productivity issue if you have to restart the browser frequen
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by snazz 6y ago
It’s mostly for retail businesses that would otherwise write Wi-Fi passwords on signs.
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by snazz 6y ago
In my experience, it has worked pretty well on Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/moderations I think it helps that moderation transparency was one of the "founding goals" of that community. The dynamics there are also q
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by snazz 6y ago
uBlock Origin (with roughly default settings) has never tripped Reddit's new account security stuff for me. I could see how it would make financial sense for social networks to ban account creation from Tor and disposable emails given
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by snazz 6y ago
This is arguably a dupe, since Nim has been discussed on here in the last 12 months.
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by snazz 6y ago
From this perspective, I totally agree. If you enjoy learning new languages (at a surface level understanding) for the increase in perspective, you might find Julia worth learning.
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by snazz 6y ago
That's what https://dangitgit.com/en is for :)
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by snazz 6y ago
I highly doubt they’d do this in the first place, but even if they did, iOS developers would still be using Macs.
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by snazz 6y ago
I continue to love how this works out with security updates too. I usually get new browser and kernel versions after particularly bad CVEs within a few hours from the upstream release.
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by snazz 6y ago
I think it is possible to market privacy and security to casual users, but it's far more difficult to market anything to the privacy and security crowd. Apple has succeeded in their privacy marketing, I'd argue, because they alrea
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by snazz 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that Chrome does have a distinction between loaded and unloaded tabs (suspended tabs, maybe?), but it definitely manages tabs in a different way from Firefox and Safari. Both Chrome and Firefox can trivially handle 100
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by snazz 6y ago
The modifier key symbols are printed on most modern Apple keyboards. See the Magic Keyboard, for example. > They have more 2-handed / 3+ key shortcuts than any other OS despite lacking the ability to let you control every aspect of
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by snazz 6y ago
It required some tinkering for me and the upgrade to Catalina before I could get it to cooperate, but iMessage did eventually work and has continued to work since that initial upgrade.
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by snazz 6y ago
That 53% number meant that 53% of Snapchat's American users are 15-25, not that 53% of 15-25-year-olds in the US use Snapchat. Scroll down a little further to see that 78% of Internet users between 18 and 24 years old use Snapchat.
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by snazz 6y ago
As someone roughly in the target age and location audience for all of the things you mentioned, here's my take: - TikTok is somewhat mindless entertainment. Keep scrolling, watch funny or informative videos, and the algorithm will tail
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by snazz 6y ago
It could also be that they give more prominence to people's first or second posts to get them off the ground. That effect doesn't have to be caused by artificial like inflation.
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by snazz 6y ago
And the modern web-based incarnation Sandspiel, which was extremely popular on HN a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696291
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by snazz 6y ago
So long as the UI surrounding the SMS 2FA setup process makes it clear that strong passwords are as important as ever, I think it's still easily a net positive for the vast majority of people. Of course, the better solution is Google&#
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by snazz 6y ago
I think that’s very fair. If you’re able to have that kind of conversation with someone, hopefully it’s easy for them to see that Apple’s stellar marketing wasn’t the reason you bought an iPhone; there were logical reasons behind it as well
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by snazz 6y ago
Exactly. It can be difficult to explain to someone who used Android their whole life that iMessage (for example) is such a huge differentiating feature (at least in the US) when they see iPhone users as sheeple who buy purely based on marke
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by snazz 6y ago
Batteries last more like five years, in my experience, although it does depend on your usage patterns. I'm about 300 cycles in and still at 98% capacity on my iPhone 8.
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by snazz 6y ago
Yes, see this comment by the OP of this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24023607

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