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by swebs 6y ago
I know many people that loved Nokia phones, but I don't know a single person that wanted a Windows phone. Windows is a toxic anti-brand associated with viruses, instability, bloat, and forced restarts. Meanwhile iPhone is seen as the h
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by swebs 6y ago
Do you have a link to the original statement?
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by swebs 6y ago
Skip to the section at the bottom titled "It wasn’t all COVID-19"
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by swebs 6y ago
The land originally belonged to Germany, who made a vow to never expand their borders beyond a certain eastern point after reunification. So only Russia really had a claim to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_
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by swebs 6y ago
I've never had any issues with trackpads.
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by swebs 6y ago
You're not going to be banned for connecting your joy cons to your Linux PC. They only ban people for modding their Switch to play pirated games.
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by swebs 6y ago
Doesn't iTunes provide DRM-free music exports? You could migrate your media to some platform agnostic version like Nextcloud.
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by swebs 6y ago
I think Linux phones like the Phinephone are the way forward. They probably won't gain huge marketshare, but everyone that uses Linux on the desktop (probably half of HN) would enjoy them. The only complaint I have with my Pinephone is
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by swebs 6y ago
That doesn't make any sense since all development for Linux is already complete.
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>Also I shouldn't have to opt out Actually, the law says the tracking cookies have to be opt in, which is why the pop ups are so aggressive and undismissable in the first place.
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by swebs 6y ago
>Imagine paying 30% more for software on your computer I would argue that prices are already as high as the market can bear so that raising prices would not raise total revenue. Instead you would have to imagine publishers making much le
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by swebs 6y ago
How much goes to Uncle Sam?
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by swebs 6y ago
I can't really imagine the poor buying property just to leave it empty. That sounds more like the behaviour of rich real estate investors.
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Those buildings were abandoned. I don't know how increasing their liability would solve the problem.
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People use it all the time along with the Spurdo meme and ":D"
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by swebs 6y ago
Yes. I switched fully to Gitlab.
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by swebs 6y ago
I've been here for about 7 years now and I agree 100% with what he said.
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Did you read the top answer? Level 3 compliance doesn't sound trivial at all.
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by swebs 6y ago
Congrats, you probably don't live in a high crime area. The people opting in to these services definitely want them, and usually because they were victimized in the past.
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by swebs 6y ago
>I just can't think of anything else I've had this kind of relationship with - other tools, I either master, or I move on from. GIMP is an odd one. I feel the same about Latex
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by swebs 6y ago
I like Flash as an idea, its just the Adobe Flash Player that everyone had a problem with. It would have received a lot more love if there were alternate implementations available, especially open source ones. It's kind of similar to h
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by swebs 6y ago
Reminds me of a lot of custom Team Fortress 2 maps you can run into. I remember the pure craziness that was the Party Van server in the early 2010's.
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by swebs 6y ago
Why not just put the mp4 with every other static file and wrap it in a <video> tag on the page you want to embed it in?
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by swebs 6y ago
Don't forget that Google flat out just bought Youtube when they realized Google Video couldn't compete.
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by swebs 6y ago
Can't he give out his videos to subscribers in a torrent or something? That way you don't need any infrastructure to get it out there.
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by swebs 6y ago
>Be aware that Qt's widget library isn't exactly well-suited for mobile usage How so? It's my understanding that QT has been the industry standard for embedded systems.
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by swebs 6y ago
>why would you ever run tasks you don't trust on your computer at all Sometimes you have to use proprietary software for work. Or maybe you just really want to play a game.
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by swebs 6y ago
No, but it seems to be the direction those two companies are moving anyway. Just look at Windows 10 "S mode". I'm just glad we have Linux as an option on the desktop to get away from that nonsense.
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by swebs 6y ago
>Surely this is true for all developers, at any size? And also just about any product, or service, in any industry? No, this is very unique to Apple, and only on iOS. Its the reason why iPhone web browsers have to use Safari under the ho
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by swebs 6y ago
I remember it doing this as well. But I just tried it now and it doesn't anymore.

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