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by trinix912 9mo ago
> Look at the latest Xiaomi, Oppo and other Chinese manufacturers, Apple would love to have the hardware they are shipping right now. This is true, but their phones don't ship with Google services out of box (at least the last time
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Is it really Google's Android? I have the feeling it's mostly Chinese manufacturers with their own Android versions sans the Google services.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Until you have to do extra work to get them out of your way, wait for them to end, scroll more down/up and so on. They're also one more thing making UIs less deterministic which IMO is a lost art.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Because they're betting on the video finding its way onto people's feed, thus raising awareness among non-techy people. Hard to do that with a random website.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Except that with Telekom they answer to the German courts which might eventually force them to stop doing this but with Starlink you're at the mercy of some dudes halfway across the globe. If/when Starlink reaches the enshittifica
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Russia (or Putin, to be precise) has repeatedly threatened to invade EU members in the Baltics (rebuilding the SU/Russian Empire/etc), as well as threatened EU with stopping gas supply, which would've been a direct hit to the
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by trinix912 9mo ago
> Yet the West made absolutely no attempt to calm the Russians down and for some reason announced in 2008 plans to expand to Georgia and Ukraine, despite even Western experts warning about that being utterly provocative. It is the right
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by trinix912 9mo ago
The problem I have with names like BirdyChat is they're not easy to remember and even less easy to explain to someone whose first language isn't English. Like yeah, we know it's "Chat" and "Bird" combined
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by trinix912 9mo ago
IIRC a big part of Google’s coding guidelines is also about making it easy for people not heavily invested in a specific language to contribute safely. So not necessarily a project size but rather an organizational concern. They’d rather se
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Sometimes it’s useful to handle the exception somewhere near its origin so you can close related resources, lockfiles, etc. without needing a VB6 style “On Error GoTo X” global error handler that has to account for all different contexts un
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by trinix912 9mo ago
In theory yes, in practice the messages from your random domain way too often end up in spam for Gmail and Outlook users, if they get delivered at all.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Exactly. Most people are also not in the position to easily make $100/hr and be able to just burn money to "save time" with subscription apps. There's another competition, your average folks who end up using physical not
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Outside the US people use WhatsApp and other third party messengers so none of that is necessarily a big issue. As for teenagers they mostly use Snapchat and Instagram for groupchats nowadays.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
It’s been like that ever since Apple Music became a thing. I remember fiddling with this on an iPhone 6.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Put a sticky ad banner to the bottom instead of mixing it with the results?
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by trinix912 9mo ago
I know plenty of “regular” people saying “f this, it’s all ads, can’t even find anything anymore!”
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by trinix912 9mo ago
It’s still cheaper to buy the same $2, hell, $20 app again once the compatibility breaks than keeping all the subscriptions going on forever.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
I don't think it's doable with the current model of social media but: 1. prohibit all sorts of advertising, explicit and implicit, and actually ban users for it. The reason most people try to get big on SM is so they can land spon
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by trinix912 9mo ago
For the text chat, it's different in the way that it lets one make their own 'servers' without having to run the actual hardware server 24/7, free of charge, no need to battle with NATs and weird nonstandard ways of send
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by trinix912 9mo ago
What exactly is your current legal status in Amsterdam and the Netherlands/EU?
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by trinix912 9mo ago
It’s like that in many countries in Europe as well.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
In my country, citizens without a permanent address (which is very few people, those who have no place of theirs mostly register at someone elses for easier administration) can still sign up and vote, so that leaves us with just the people
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by trinix912 9mo ago
The ones who will “always be there” can get their papers for permanent residence done and vote. If they don’t want to (or can’t since they don’t have the legal grounds to even stay there for longer), then they shouldn’t have a say on decisi
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Yes, because they don’t legally permanently live in that place. Sorry not sorry. Why do you think anyone can just sign up for some local elections and vote for a town they’re not even legally permanently situated in??
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by trinix912 9mo ago
What do you think makes someone who’s pretty much just passing by entitled to push their opinions on the locals who’ve lived there their entire lives? Especially when that person likely won’t suffer the longterm consequences of it
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Have you ever actually seen these systems in person? It's usually a microcontroller which already rules out a ton of stuff you're talking about. Serious places will buy 2-3 of them at the time of installation to have some spares.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
You're saying that as if we never had Z80-based microcontrollers doing all this without problems. Complete with centralized control and all.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
The IT guy walks in and replaces/restarts the box instead of waiting for the gods of AWS to descent to earth and restart theirs. They have direct control vs. waiting for something magic to happen.
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Probably a Celeron-powered PC tower barely keeping up with Windows Server 2008 R2 in a closet of a public office ;)
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by trinix912 9mo ago
Word still has the option to save as HTML (and if I remember correctly even edit it), but you get MS Outlook-style HTML output.

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