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by trinsic2 3y ago
Same here, that was in 2018 and I was using the Editorial app. Great app for its time BTW. Although, once I got to the publishing part, I found it lacking and switched to my Windows(At the time) now I use PopOS. But that was before Obsidian
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by trinsic2 3y ago
For consumer products though? Can you point to which organizations request these features?
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by trinsic2 3y ago
I wonder how many people an organizations would be interested in starting some kind of initiative to compel OEM providers to stop adding features that clearly are designed to take control away from the consumers? or are there any out there
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by trinsic2 3y ago
Recently, I received a consumer grade dell desktop in for a computer upgrade that appears to prevent me from disabling secure boot. When I disabled secure boot from BIOS and saved changes, it rebooted and the boot process asked me twice to
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Deceptive Design in Recent Computers and Laptops(scottrlarson.com)
4 points by trinsic2 3y ago|4 comments
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by trinsic2 3y ago
Being truthful is an action, the best kind of action. It develops trust with people over time.
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by trinsic2 3y ago
It means a lot to me. Thats the first thing I look for in a company/concept. releasing code to the public is an act of social responsibility. I means quite a bit to the public good. The public good still exists no matter what people in
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by trinsic2 3y ago
> Ghosts towns are not unusual in China, where an estimated 65 million homes are left empty. For decades, the country’s economy was driven by real estate, so much so that the government often encouraged large-scale developments. But an a
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by trinsic2 3y ago
Speaking of the HTML it would be great to have a way to increase the text size for mobile devices. The Hacker News layout doesn't look to great in reader view.
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by trinsic2 3y ago
> In the past, I’ve been effusive of my praise of CNET, a news outlet that (along with Wired) pioneered digital journalism, I'm sorry, I can't take anyone that thinks CNET and Wired is a bastion of digital journalism seriously.
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by trinsic2 3y ago
Step 1: Never use Sandisk products. There cheaply made and the company has a history of not really caring about its products. Step 2: never store data you don't want to lose on a SSD. Use SSD's for system operations and caching, b
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by trinsic2 3y ago
LOL Exactly, the blow back is a win-win for people, and both look like idiots in the short and hopefully long term.
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by trinsic2 3y ago
I definitely want to be in ownership of the things I purchase. With streaming services your content can be taken away from you. No thanks.
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by trinsic2 3y ago
If I was a browser developer and that law passes, I would just block France from downloading our browser. Solve that problem right there. Maybe they would stop Microsoft's ridiculous strategy to integrate their browser into the operati
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by trinsic2 3y ago
Good points. I haven't used wearable tech like this and always thought it would a pain for the wearer. I didn't consider what it would be like for the person on the either end. Who wants to interact with a person that is distracte
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Ask HN: CarPlay Charging an iPhone14
1 points by trinsic2 3y ago|0 comments
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by trinsic2 3y ago
That's not going to happen. Our finial system depends on centralization (not that I agree with that) and if your talking about crypto that's just another level of control we can't quite see yet.
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by trinsic2 3y ago
Where's the documentation? I get page not found eror
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by trinsic2 3y ago
I reject the idea of crypto currencies in its current form because it only offers an illusion of freedom from a corrupt fractional reserve financial system. The systems that are built on top of of this infrastructure, at its roots, attempts
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by trinsic2 3y ago
This is why I stopped buying games from Ubisoft and EA. The kind of shit they pull on their online gaming platforms and the way they treat there employees is a crime against humanity. Now I stick with independent game companies, they actual
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by trinsic2 3y ago
And if non-smart devices get completely replaced with smart appliances, we"re screwed.
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House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Right to Repair [video](youtube.com)
3 points by trinsic2 3y ago|2 comments
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by trinsic2 3y ago
A hearing on changing laws that prevent repairs of all kinds of products. Its a good look at where we are at right now from a few different perspectives.
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by trinsic2 3y ago
I see that this could go bad for Valve, but the principled side of me thinks this sets a bad precedent for Value and the gaming community at large to be asking for permission from publishers/developers to green light a tool that helps
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by trinsic2 3y ago
To get back on topic, I can see both sides of the spectrum on this. On the one hand, they will be dirty cops that use this to their advantage, but on the other hand, I see the possible scenarios of people getting too close and interfering w
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by trinsic2 3y ago
Thanks for this. I am going to use it in my area of California. There is a lot of people here that believe that people dont want to pay rent and its really about cost inflation due to house flipping and ect.
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by trinsic2 3y ago
> Or to put it another way, a 'leak' of a private work shouldn't be a free pass for the rest of the world to share and monetize that breach of privacy. I half-agree with you on this. On the one had when you share informati
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Ask HN: Archiving Solutions for a Cloud-Based Large File Repository
1 points by trinsic2 3y ago|1 comments
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by trinsic2 3y ago
Their technical achievements are not my domain. But I know behavior patterns, since Facebook's platform was built to harm peoples ability to choose for themselves, I consider it a blight on humanity. I doubt they have any interest in s
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by trinsic2 3y ago
I know next to zero about rendering capabilities. But when I saw Meta | Release | Graphics Library. Given Facebook's history with data collection and the proprietary nature of their VR headset. I doubt they have any interest in open st

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