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by treesknees 6y ago
That's still not enough. Devices like iPads and iPhones aren't multi-user. So, if Mom or Dad are going to be using it, they're not going to set it up as a kids account.
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by treesknees 6y ago
It's not that difficult to understand. Some people really are unaware of the risks of handing their child an iPad to play a Sonic game. They're unaware of features like family accounts or app store controls to prevent payments. An
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by treesknees 6y ago
This reminds me of the write-up I saw about the Spyro games for Playstation. It has a similar result where a copied game would progressively become harder and impossible to beat. They had the same reasoning, most people pirating/patchi
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by treesknees 6y ago
Not sure when you studied at university, but you can take a calculator like a TI-83/84/89 and plug in a bunch of text onto a stored program, essentially a free notes field. It's tedious to do but doesn't take too long. A
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by treesknees 6y ago
Hospitals and other facilities still use pagers for oncall duties. It's quite common. They're robust and last days without a charge.
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by treesknees 6y ago
I specifically use Gsuite so that I don't have to deal with managing a spam filter or dealing with IP reputation issues. I'd be willing to self-host almost anything else.
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by treesknees 6y ago
The low price of $20 actually slows my impulse to buy it. Sure, it's not a lot of money, but how reliable or usable can it be for that price? It makes me think of a cheap knock-off device I'd find at a TJ Maxx store on clearance.
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by treesknees 6y ago
I made up the numbers as an example. It doesn't really matter, my point is that Apple's old devices, be it iPhone or Mac, still have value years later. So even when people are fishing the old stuff from the bargain bin sites, Appl
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by treesknees 6y ago
> I don't think it is actually reasonable to try to follow the fast paced dev of Linux That's not quite the reason why it's deprecated. Microsoft can emulate a stable kernel's ABI for a long time before needing to upd
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by treesknees 6y ago
>People always do this on HN You mean have opinions and open discussion? "I can only think of two things" doesn't mean "there are only two things exactly and everyone else is wrong". Welcome to the Internet, I se
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by treesknees 6y ago
>and since software doesn't rot like real equipment, this should be even more true I disagree with that to a degree. Sure the bits that make up your software don't "rot", the compute environment under which it operate
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by treesknees 6y ago
All you have to do is look at the success of the A-series chips for the iPhone/iPad and how they've progressed over the past 10 years. While year-over-year they don't necessarily add something big and shiny (a bump in specs,
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by treesknees 6y ago
It would be interesting to know how companies like Apple account for the market of older models and how that feeds into their services revenue. For example if you can go on Woot and purchase an iPhone 8 for $399, while Apple didn't mak
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by treesknees 6y ago
For what it's worth, you could have walked into an Apple store and bought the M1 Mini the same day. No need to wait 3 weeks.
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by treesknees 6y ago
We've seen some of this already, for example with Microsoft's SQ1/SQ2 SoC manufactured with Qualcomm for the Surface Pro X series of laptops. They already emulate x86 well enough to run apps compiled for 32bit x86, and they s
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by treesknees 6y ago
I can agree with corporate policy, however I don't need my banking app or my web browser (private browsing mode) deciding whether I know how to handle a screenshot securely on my own device. You certainly won't find these restrict
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by treesknees 6y ago
Except for Reader, Inbox, Cloud Print, the Nest API, Code, among many others I'm sure. It doesn't seem to matter whether they're successful or popular.
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by treesknees 6y ago
You can do this with Pi-Hole as well, after turning it on for my Samsung TV the number of blocked requests was pretty amazing.
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by treesknees 6y ago
What happens when Jared sells his home or has to move? Everyone has fiber wired into his basement for connectivity. Would the new homeowner be obligated to continue running this? Personally if I were a neighbor I'd still sign up with t
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by treesknees 6y ago
That's been the experience I've had as well. One company I worked for around 2015 had 5 or 6 mainframes (which they kept upgraded to the latest hardware on an IBM lease program every few years), and it was well understood that the
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by treesknees 6y ago
Heh, I'm in a similar boat here. I've been using Android since the original Motorola Droid, the first "Apple competitor" according to their marketing. The short support cycle, quality issues, and dropping the unlimited G
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by treesknees 6y ago
You can take your hands off the keyboard and mouse, dig your phone out of your pocket, unlock it, open the app drawer, scroll and find calculator, tap it and open it, under 3 seconds? I doubt that.
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by treesknees 7y ago
Our company does soak/longevity testing. Typically we'll take a build and let it run for a few weeks during development to find memory leaks. Then the final release enters our longevity lab where we put it under some amount of l
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by treesknees 7y ago
What you're describing (authentication/2FA) should be handled by a client application. VPN client software should handle authentication/authorization with the corporate VPN server. Once it's authenticated, it can exchan
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by treesknees 7y ago
I also do this, but with Linode. The only hangup I hit every once in a while is that some services will block access to VPS IP blocks due to spam/malicious traffic. E.g. occasionally I can't get Google search results while on VP
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by treesknees 7y ago
The problem I ran into is that my company will match employee contributions to registered non-profits. Wireguard doesn't seem to be a project under a registered non-profit. My company won't donate to a random Patreon or PayPal l