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961.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
I never said that I am in any way representing a majority. You incredulously ask: Are you going to X? I say: yes, I am going to X. I’m not sure what your anecdotes are purporting to say. Clearly neither of us has done the research, I made a
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Yes, if I think or conclude the smart in smart tvs sucks and I can’t buy a non-smart tv because they simply are not for sale, I will not use the smart in the smart tv and replace it with another, better solution.
963.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
I’m not sure how references that show that smart TVs contain smart software support the claim that set top boxes are declining in popularity.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Everybody hates it when Facebook is policing their content. But everybody is also quick to raise the torches and pitchforks when they have demands for Facebook to police others for ‘disinformation’. It’s just the other edge of that sword, g
965.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Firstly, spying on remote employees is the result of being able to spy on remote employees. If it were impossible or illegal it wouldn’t be so necessary.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Set top boxes and chromecasts are selling pretty well so obviously people are using them, but I guess there’s quite some people content with using a mediocre implementation, for as long as the api that’s used is supported by YouTube and Net
967.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
People like the smart in smart tvs when they just bought it but 6 months in almost nobody uses it because 9 out of 10 times it just stinks. They use a chromecast, Apple TV or some other set top box.
968.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
So, should he be nice and quiet, like a good citizen should?
969.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Also on the other side the ISPs are salivating at that kind of money and trying to force the large companies into paying more for the bandwidth the end users are already paying for.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
If it doesn’t work with ‘this Debian nonsense’, you’re doing it wrong and you’re contributing to a bad faux dependency on bash as /bin/sh. The Unix world is better off if there is the option of using another shell that isn’t bug f
971.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Or perhaps the researchers are just looking for vulnerabilities similar to the last one found.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
I’m fine with showing ID but if I’m traveling I of course do not have a local ID and if it’s online it’s basically impossible to properly check ids.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
A typical feature of these cloud drives is automatic uploading of pictures from the camera roll, that’s the legitimate use case for demanding access to all pictures. Who knows when Google whoops! accidentally makes that the default. You k
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Or use any of the hundreds of alternatives.. it’s not like a cloud drive is a distinguishing feature.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
If the phone is available the watch will just ask the phone for its location and not waste its own small battery.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Can you actually get a European sim without showing ID? That would kind of surprise me, there has been a big push to get rid of anonymous phone numbers.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
It is much better but v1 is simply so terrible ‘much better’ is very far from good enough.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
You can actually weaken Face ID so it works with masks.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
You’d think, if they wanted telemetry so badly they are prepared to deal with the fallout, they’d be on top of the information collected by that telemetry.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
It’s also a complaint of with as much detail as ‘it doesn’t work’ and even ‘don’t tell me what to do, I already have done everything correctly’. What does he expect to happen if he just mails in a complaint without even mentioning the addre
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Even though I am sure I am perfectly capable of figuring out the command line incantations to make these containers work, I still really appreciate the convenience of the Proxmox environment where it’s something I don’t have to think about.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
It’s resizable by dragging the top of the drawer.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
If it doesn’t cost then anything, why would they care?
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
“The failsafe feature failed the safe way!”
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
The simple fact is that humans are omnivores so they are inclined to eat both plants and meat.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
You don’t have to use a Microsoft account if you’re installing Windows 10 and it doesn’t have an internet connection when you run the wizard.
987.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
And, newly, a licensing hassle.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Being a good Christian is all about trust! Just trust that Facebook won’t store your password and that Fortify will eventually fix this!
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Of course the HackerNews hive mind can’t stand for this! But when someone pops up to complain about his essential social network account being banned on some flimsy pretext everyone agrees that that shouldn’t be legally possible!
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
The article does not actually claim this is a problem, it states the author thinks it will probably be a problem. I doubt this actually will be a problem for 99% of all apps, the ‘but what about this essential software from 50 years ago’ pr

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