stalfosknight

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by stalfosknight 5y ago
I really dislike the whole "freemium" or "free-to-play" category of games and I refuse to touch that garbage. Software should have a fair upfront price. It's not complicated.
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
I don't think so. I'm sure I'm not the only one who really enjoys the convenience of managing all of my payments and subscriptions in one place in the Settings app. EDIT: You can downvote me all you like, but you need to deal
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Copy Cleaner – Clean URL Links(apps.apple.com)
1 points by stalfosknight 5y ago|0 comments
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Tech jobs have an image problem, and it's making the skills shortage worse(zdnet.com)
1 points by stalfosknight 5y ago|7 comments
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Why WebKit supports AVIF but Safari does not(coywolf.news)
2 points by stalfosknight 5y ago|0 comments
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Apple Card Ranked Top for Customer Satisfaction by J.D. Power(macrumors.com)
2 points by stalfosknight 5y ago|0 comments
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
It would be nice if Teams weren't yet another Electron disaster.
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Xiaomi releases tablet knockoff that literally has iPad Pro in the name(9to5mac.com)
4 points by stalfosknight 5y ago|1 comments
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
Works fine in the latest Safari.
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
What all these wistfulness for an earlier, simpler era of computing very thoroughly fails to address every time is the real world implications of allowing arbitrary code execution on mobile devices that are always connected to the internet.
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
Apple's privacy and security practices are much more than just "marginally" better.
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
HN won't let me edit the URL. :/
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Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS(arstechnica.com)
292 points by stalfosknight 5y ago|269 comments
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
This is why I stopped using TiVo. I had been a loyal customer who was very happy to pay a subscription and bought several generations of TiVo boxes until they started inserting ad banners whenever you paused whatever you were watching and t
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
This right here is why I just lurk on social media. There are too many examples of a forgotten offhand remark, a harmless off-color joke, or that one time you had a bad day and thought you were just venting to the handful of close friends w
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
The iPhone 12 starts at $699.
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Why We Hate HR(fastcompany.com)
4 points by stalfosknight 5y ago|0 comments
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
That’s like saying my landlord has a monopoly on collecting rent from every apartment in the building they own. Well duh! They built the damn thing from scratch. To make it about how Apple is somehow being abusive by setting the rules of th
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
This is exactly what I'm thinking. I'm kind of exasperated with all of these apps / developers who know what they're getting into when they create developer accounts with Apple, go through all of the hard work and expens
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
I am very interested in knowing what extension prevents right click hijacking. Please share what it's called.
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by stalfosknight 5y ago
Former Genius here. Apple's approach is to support hardware models up to 5 years old and anything past that is gravy but not guaranteed. You'll find that in most places (except where the law says otherwise) Apple stops stocking re
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Downloading Ubuntu via BitTorrent gets Comcast customer a DMCA warning(arstechnica.com)
48 points by stalfosknight 5y ago|4 comments
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Tile Unhappy with AirTag Launch, Plans to Tattle to Congress(macrumors.com)
3 points by stalfosknight 6y ago|0 comments
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Discord loosens NSFW server ban on iOS(theverge.com)
2 points by stalfosknight 6y ago|1 comments
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by stalfosknight 6y ago
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500004241422-... This is the real reason this is happening. Other apps have no problem with hiding NSFW content by default (i.e. Reddit, Twitter). Discord has a
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by stalfosknight 6y ago
Then why isn't this happening to the Android client? I'm pretty sure lots of teens have Android devices.
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Stop forcing your arbitrary password rules on me(ryanwinchester.ca)
1 points by stalfosknight 6y ago|0 comments
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by stalfosknight 6y ago
You could credibly accuse Apple of many things, and I say that as an unashamed Apple fanboy. But making it basically impossible to reach a real human being by phone via AppleCare, or in person at your local Genius Bar if you prefer, is not
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A Moment of Clarity Regarding the Raison D’Etre for the App Store(daringfireball.net)
37 points by stalfosknight 6y ago|6 comments