yyaakkqq

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by yyaakkqq 2mo ago
you have no idea how SLOW banks move. And how little say the tech teams have there. The companies selling you the devices make 1/3 (appl) to 3/4 (alphabet) of their entire revenue on Advertising. Owning the indentity layer ensures
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by yyaakkqq 2mo ago
completely missed the point, sorry. Pixels (barelly) running a binary-blob-heavy port of android is far from what is being discussed here. In fact, that is intended as a misdirection and you fell for it by bringing it in here.
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by yyaakkqq 2mo ago
I wish their deep tech teams moved as fast as the privacy violating ones.
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by yyaakkqq 2mo ago
some small company licensed the blackberry brand and sold really good devices with physical keyboard. They had support up until 2 or 3 years ago. Gone now.
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by yyaakkqq 2mo ago
> Very sad how it was allowed to happen so easily. says everyone, using chrome. sigh.
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by yyaakkqq 2mo ago
the people deciding this are the ones selling the devices
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by yyaakkqq 2mo ago
It would be a wild defense strategy to make the point that "apple is bad at locking doors for ex-employees" (the argument to save the employee) to save them from hiring one of those ex-employers just to use his key.
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by yyaakkqq 2mo ago
Ecclesiastes 1:1~11 (where that title is from) talks about futility, using only verses that are hopeful. (but that is lost on newer translations because the language was simplified. see legacy standard or Brenton's Septuagint for the e
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by yyaakkqq 2mo ago
his magnum opus Explode Eath and most of humanity, because of bureocracy apathy, in the first 10 pages. ...Oh I see now. nvm.
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by yyaakkqq 9mo ago
on KDE5-6, ironically, to have high-contrast windows and square borders, one must use something written because the author wanted round corners on older versions of kde :) https://github.com/matinlotfali/KDE-Rounded-Cor
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by yyaakkqq 9mo ago
"piping everything to sudo bash makes a home server easier and fun"
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by yyaakkqq 9mo ago
The only thing worth saving from windows8-10 is the windows border. it is a huge usability win. Clear borders. square (so it's also fast). clear colors showing which window has focus. It's also funny this show up now a day after