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by weikju 11mo ago
A few hours ago, [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46127400
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by weikju 11mo ago
Use AI as power source to power the industry!!! Let them live in a virtual world
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by weikju 11mo ago
He understands how to hype and increase the value of his shares. Everything else is insignificant
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by weikju 11mo ago
I think the only perk I ever got from paying for Orion+ in the past was a special badge on my profile on their support forum...
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by weikju 11mo ago
This news seems to be about the macOS version of Orion reaching 1.0...
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by weikju 11mo ago
Good on them then! But it's still poopooing on the users.
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by weikju 11mo ago
So? People sharing their experiences is good. Not everything is a scientific study.
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by weikju 11mo ago
> Anyway you can't exactly pull a longer lasting battery out of thin air I don’t know if intentional but I enjoyed the pun about the iPhone Air, here.
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by weikju 11mo ago
> moving over to MacBooks Ok but > not wanting to upgrade hardware to get a minor OS change. Bit of contradiction both in the immediate “need a whole new machine“ and the well known deprecation of 7 year old Macs wrt new OS releases.
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by weikju 11mo ago
Picking nits. It's a distinction without meaning compared to the original statement and response (buying from carriers vs buying directly from Apple)
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by weikju 1y ago
You have files and editors for your files, eg emacs or vim or vscode. Your editor is also directly connected to your running application and can compile individual functions or pieces of code to update the application without a full edit&#x
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by weikju 1y ago
> Generally, even the most internet-savvy age group, are vastly ill-equipped. It’s a losing battle when even the tools (web browsers hiding URLs by default, heck even Firefox on iOS does it now!) and companies (making posters with nothin
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by weikju 1y ago
“Arbitrary” is the word people often should reach for instead of “random”.
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by weikju 1y ago
I do trade in with Apple, or resell it.
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by weikju 1y ago
I pay full price, and use cheap MVNOs for phone service. Ends up being much cheaper and no mobile carrier shenanigans polluting my phones, sim lock, etc.
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by weikju 1y ago
No, that browser does not support extensions.
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by weikju 1y ago
s/if/when/
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by weikju 1y ago
Sorry, not available where I live and not the bank I can use for what I need. I won't give personal details but my options were limited for multiple reasons.
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by weikju 1y ago
Sometimes it’s more complicated than that. And the other banks aren’t any less “stupid”.
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by weikju 1y ago
> That's because they're stupid or doing something suspicious, probably both Small comfort for whoever needs to use that bank. This is the disconnect geeks and Free Software needs to bridge to make any headway.
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by weikju 1y ago
It means “please we need some of that sweet AI VC money”
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by weikju 1y ago
The problem is the protection against malware is rolled in with protection against the end user. This leads down a dark path and it seems we collectively have decided end users are less important than the corporate profits and protection ag
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by weikju 1y ago
The phones haven’t been sold for years, either, so not much we can expect. There’s no small phone revival or phenomenon from Japan
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by weikju 1y ago
Is not sold anymore, was a 2020 phone lineup.
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by weikju 1y ago
Paul Thomas Anderson, not parents-teachers association. Had to read a bit till that became obvious
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by weikju 1y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Unfortunate indeed that Google would be the sole arbiter of that “DNS”, but that explanation was pretty good
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by weikju 1y ago
> Same as github, then. Same as photoshop. Same as any SAAS. You can get stuff done without these.
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by weikju 1y ago
This is addressed in the article as well, and while there's no technical reason they couldn't do this, it would break the licensing of the apps as well as the dangers of centralizations mentioned by a sibling reply. > The F-Dro
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by weikju 1y ago
> hasn't made me slower without it > > cannot make progress without AI. When I use up my Pro account limits, I'm done for the day Aside from the contradictory statements, I did address your points in my edit. I get the tr
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by weikju 1y ago
> I could not have created this without AI, cannot make progress without AI. When I use up my Pro account limits, I'm done for the day - I'm too slow without it for continuing to make sense. And this is why untold billions are

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