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by throwaway472919 3y ago
There are other instances, none are 100% in my experience but some are better: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
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by throwaway472919 3y ago
Also all iOS users, who are more valuable, and probably harder to use bots/easier to permaban (compared to Android or web). On the other side, Apple will kill your app, maybe without warning, if you don't moderate strongly enough
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by throwaway472919 3y ago
But it had no apps, the analogy works, the iPhone did some things great (web browser:rewrite X in the style of y or whatever) and had some gotchas that seemed like a big deal at the time but were then resolved, or everyone realised it was s
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by throwaway472919 3y ago
You can't go to McDonalds and pay extra for table service, or less to cook the burger yourself. But you can pay more at a proper restaurant or less at the supermarket. Even if what you're offering is "fair", we can'
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by throwaway472919 3y ago
In theory the new ideas that come from competition outweigh the efficiency/brute force of state-backed monopolies. But this depends on them not simply copying the ideas as they come.
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by throwaway472919 4y ago
People get sued and the sites might be hard to find for some, but I don't think buggy ROMs are really a thing. Buggy emulators maybe, but even then not for Pokémon Crystal.
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by throwaway472919 4y ago
> Tech workers were lucky mercenaries to the elite for a short amount of time Exactly, and I don't think we can all claim blindness. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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by throwaway472919 4y ago
People who are into running/cycling use "K" a lot, personally I think it's because once someone starts talking in km, if you use miles your stats will look bad by comparison. I know trackers/apps probably had this a
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by throwaway472919 4y ago
Rarely do you pay based on actual cost, everything has price discrimination, loss leaders etc. Look at BMW's heated seat subscription, those who want them are subsidising the cost of fitting the unused parts for those who don't. B
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by throwaway472919 4y ago
The kind of infrastructure that can verify one can easily verify the other, check one and people will demand you check both, when really you'd rather check neither and keep making lots of money.
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by throwaway472919 4y ago
I guess what they meant is that third-party apps are much stricter on iOS (at least partly because Apple updates faster and for longer, probably). I was on Android 8 (2017) until recently without any issues, whereas iOS apps only seem to su
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by throwaway472919 4y ago
Was a bit surprised it got past the lawyers re:antitrust, it's very heavy on "You already use EVERYTHING Google"