Konryan

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by Konryan 6y ago
I've had the opposite experience - both my 2008 plastic Macbook and my 2011 Macbook Pro had enough quality issues in their first 3 or so years that I switched to other manufacturers.
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by Konryan 6y ago
Do you have any recommendations for books about Game Architecture?
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by Konryan 7y ago
As someone who lives in Italy, a lot of what seems to be considered "Italian" in the US sometimes feels like little more than a caricature. It does trouble me slightly, because it feels like an impersonation of Italian culture. On
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by Konryan 7y ago
That's not exactly true. Parliament can petition the Commission to legislate on something, and citizens can put forward proposal through the ECI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens'_Initiative
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by Konryan 8y ago
I don't know if it's true, but I often think the only real solution for weight loss is eating less, and that exercise is more of a way to improve general fitness rather than losing weight.
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by Konryan 8y ago
I wonder whether they're building it from scratch or leveraging some of the work put into other stores\app centers like Gnome's or Elementary's.
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by Konryan 8y ago
This map doesn't work for me. Completely blank.
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by Konryan 8y ago
What's their issue with it?
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by Konryan 8y ago
I think there's another factor at play that isn't often mentioned: Google uses the dominant position of its services, as well as the strength of their brands, to promote Chrome as the better browser, in not-so-subtle ways. One is
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by Konryan 8y ago
This is interesting, though the environmentalist in me can't help but think about how much plastic that is...
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by Konryan 8y ago
Those examples make me very, very glad all the websites 'look the same'.
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by Konryan 8y ago
Here are more details on the process following this vote from the EDRi: https://edri.org/press-release-eu-parliament-flip-flops-back...
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Website cookies and third-party content in decline post-GDPR(reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk)
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by Konryan 8y ago
It's not like they didn't have MacBooks with serious design flaws when Steve Jobs was around...
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by Konryan 8y ago
People hate Microsoft for "being Microsoft" BECAUSE of what Microsoft is, does and has done. I'm sure you will find most people who voice those opinions have their own reasons, based on history, to be distrustful of Microsoft
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by Konryan 8y ago
This is Apple's modus operandi. The same thing happened with the early 2011 MBPros, which GPUs kept failing systematically, even after costly repairs. It took a class action lawsuit for them to start refunding repairs and provide an ac
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by Konryan 8y ago
This needs some visual feedback when you try turning the knobs.
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by Konryan 8y ago
I'm not sure - from my experience it seems they've been going further and further along the road of planned obsolescence.