tomComb

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by tomComb 5y ago
I'm using it (in a browser tab) and I still find it very slow. This is the reason that I don't enjoy using it and have not expanded my use of it.
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by tomComb 5y ago
This. On privacy and even moreso on security, Android can be very good or it can be terrible and the first, and perhaps most important, determinant of this is your choice of brand.
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by tomComb 5y ago
It's not about the software, it's about the currency and the people who own it.
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by tomComb 5y ago
The only thing consistently better than that is insider info, which is very common and quite reliable.
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by tomComb 5y ago
There are plenty of companies in SV that are the opposite of cultish, eg. Google is known to try to be more like a university. (or it was at least, I think they are pulling back on that as their political problems mount.)
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by tomComb 5y ago
But we can take some action to make it economic to do so. For consumers, putting a price on carbon can make it simple and economic for them to chose greener options And for corporations, the EU has been working on various schemes to price c
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by tomComb 5y ago
You are right: I should have said sold, not 'bought and sold'. Thanks.
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by tomComb 5y ago
> I didn't refer you to independent parties. ? I think you're misunderstanding my comment- maybe you are going to fast. (I must admit that you've got energy.)
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by tomComb 5y ago
Yes, I'm quite familiar with your record - you sell it endlessly. Your getting in early at Mozilla doesn't make up for the damage you've done to the web with Brave.
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by tomComb 5y ago
I'm not stupid: I'm not going to discard my judgement based on careful examination of independent parties in favour of how you want me to judge it. (Even if I hadn't seen that you are not trustworthy and will aggressively at
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by tomComb 5y ago
Because I don't believe you. For example, I followed up on your claim about the second when it happened and it appeared clear to me that it was not a bug. I'm now familiar with how you aggressively and dishonestly attack people w
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by tomComb 5y ago
Yes, Mozilla is way better - the polar opposite really. Judge them on their record. Your not liking a company that is giving them money and Brave's actual record of being endlessly slimy and untrustworthy. Mozilla undermines Google at
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by tomComb 5y ago
> but lets remove the whole trust/ ad thing. Huh? Trust is what it all comes down to! You are trusting them with your data and access to your devices. Brave is the last browser company I would trust (based on their record) and to
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by tomComb 5y ago
I didn't think they did those anymore. True, though, they've tried endless very slimy business models - anything that works until they get caught or called out.
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by tomComb 5y ago
This issue of our data being bought and sold is a big issue, but nation states and some of the big tech companies don't do it. They simply have other objectives. It's the huge number of smaller companies (and your ISP probably) w
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by tomComb 5y ago
Not sure where you got the $800? The Boox has many different models so specifying a price without a model wouldn't make sense, so I assume you were referring to the RM2. The RM2 is US$400, which is expensive compared to e-readers, but
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by tomComb 5y ago
What about a 'remarkable'? A bit big for an eReader perhaps (10") but supports Epub and PDF, is a fairly open platform with lots of community activity and they are about to add the ability to sync with cloud services which I
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by tomComb 5y ago
"It's the same for the creators, though - they can't move off of YouTube entirely, because none of their viewers will go to a PeerTube instance just to watch that one creator." Is it so hard to be on both? Something I l
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by tomComb 5y ago
I have a common medical condition which is easily monitored via a common blood test. It seems to fluctuate quite a bit, and if I could get frequent readings I could figure out what is affecting it, and I could better understand it's ef
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by tomComb 5y ago
Not sure it's reasonable to ask a for-profit company to do more than make it easily and fully changeable. Neither Microsoft nor Apple come close to that.
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by tomComb 5y ago
But Mozilla is big in the same markets where iOS is big.
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by tomComb 5y ago
Not sure you can really blame android, when Android allows Firefox as a first class replacement for Chrome and with ease for the user, whereas iOS doesn't even allow the real Firefox. iOS is a very important platform for Firefox, so ap
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by tomComb 5y ago
And it's not just candy crush - there are many bloatware that it would let you uninstall and then silently reinstall them soon after. To me, that is a whole new level of slime. Even for Windows, that shocked me.
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by tomComb 5y ago
Given how long it took them to begin the process of creating an Android app one has to wonder whether they were after some sort of exclusivity.
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by tomComb 5y ago
I find it brutally slow. At first I was a big fan but over time I've mostly stopped using it because I just couldn't stand how slow it is (using it in browser on a laptop). I hang on in the hopes they will address the problem.
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by tomComb 5y ago
That's why the web is so important. When the proprietary platforms get the upper hand you get eg. Apple taking a 50% cut off revenue in their news app.
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by tomComb 5y ago
Yes, his writings are very interesting. I believe his two main sites are https://vividness.live/ https://meaningness.com/
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by tomComb 5y ago
I find numpad throws off the alignment of the keyboard relative to the touchpad and to the weight of the device. You clearly want a numpad, but I would suggest most users should avoid them, particularly if the will use the laptop on their
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by tomComb 5y ago
J. K. Rowling too, though not on quite the same scale: she would be a self-made billionaire, but she's given away enough that I don't think she's a billionaire anymore. To me, she seems like a really admirable public figure i
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by tomComb 5y ago
Great video, and they also published it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unl1jXFnzgo

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