PurestGuava

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Show HN: A free, no-ad, no-account, no-server iOS calorie budgeting/diet app(apps.apple.com)
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
For AI, NVidia does have better tech, but on Linux at least the driver situation with AMD is infinitely better.
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
> If it followed the USPS model there would be a retention fee for the uploader and a transfer fee for the downloader, both based on size. The problem here is that we're already only having this debate because people refuse to pay
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
OK, but we're very specifically discussing YouTube here, which as discussed, you don't have to pay for; but if you do, you don't see ads.
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
Most things are a sneeze compared to the budget of the federal government of the US, that doesn't mean that's a reasonable expectation for the US government (or any government) to run them.
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
There are no ads on Premium. Source: I have Premium and have adblock disabled on YouTube - no ads.
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
YT Premium revenue goes to the same creators you watch otherwise but they get compensated more for your views than they do for any other person's views. e.g. Linus Tech Tips posted up their share of revenue from AdSense in 2024; YT Pre
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
You pay to make the content. You would have to "pay" to make the content no matter where you hosted it. You don't pay YouTube to host it. That's a silly argument. You seem to ignore that you would probably have no audi
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
There's a difference between letting an ad play and you simply ignoring it, and using technical means from preventing that ad playing at all. Principally - the latter actually affects the compensation given to the creator of whatever v
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
> 21st century nation states can better solve video scale delivery without middle parasites like Google. If it's that easy, why has nobody done it? (Hint: governments don't want to run YouTube, probably shouldn't run YouTu
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
Making any profit at all on a service that hosts and streams 4K video from everyone to everyone over the Internet while also compensating the creators of that video is no mean feat.
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
> If people don’t think there’s enough value in YT, then don’t pay and don’t use it. The most common throughline of all pro-piracy discourse is that there's a lot of people who feel completely entitled to free entertainment, and the
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
You're trading your attention for entertainment you don't otherwise have to pay for.
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
People can and have.
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by PurestGuava 1y ago
They have somewhere near 10% share of the laptop market and the new Apple Silicon stuff absolutely cooks. For an afterthought, they're an exceptionally well-built and well-loved one that people enjoy using.
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
> (In my experience as an app developer, getting any traction and/or money from your app can be much more difficult than actually building it.) This. The app I built has maybe 50 downloads despite me trying quite hard to promote it.
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
> Nope. Not even that is 100% safe because you can be falsely convicted of a crime you never even committed. That's so exceptionally unlikely as to be something you can discount as a possibility, providing you don't actually
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
I tried watching it again recently thinking "lol this movie ain't shit it's been five years this won't fuck me up". NOPE. Nightmares. Horrible film. Important film, but horrible.
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
They do that because shipping things that have (potentially) faulty lithium-ion batteries is generally frowned upon, so in lieu of returning them some (potentially explosive) e-waste, they have you destroy it to ensure that you're not
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
It's astonishing how few people actually seem to realise this.
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
I don’t, but it’s still unpleasant to see. Not everything has to be perfectly rational.
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
> It's funny being old because the thing that confuses me is why people have reactions to reactions, ex. people saying "based, why should they have to apologize anyway, it wasn't offensive"...it clearly wasn't of
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
Steve Jobs would have probably fired whoever suggested this ad, at best. He always saw the Mac as an enabler of and conduit for peoples' creativity, not a replacement for other forms of it. Jobs' death is truly tragic in the conte
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
It's the needless destruction that really gets to me. I have a fairly visceral reaction to seeing things that someone put time, effort and scarce resources into making get destroyed for no reason, and Apple's ad hit so many nerves
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
> If you want to be the next Apple, stop to think about the tasks you envision normies doing with your thing and build around those tasks, making them stupidly easy, at the expense of a cohesive general system design. I like your point,
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
> This is exactly what they don't want. This costs money. That sort of experience is why I don't begrudge people paying "extra" for Apple products (and do so myself). Apple put the legwork in to actually try and docum
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
Apple gets a lot of shit, but the one thing that they do exceptionally well is making things discoverable, putting their UIs in plain language (so e.g. something irreversibly destructive is specifically and clearly called out as such) and h
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
So long as it has contactless, it's fine.
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
I mean, the "ethical practice" is the alternative that Facebook offers to consenting to targeted ads, which is where you don't get targeted ads but you have to pay for the service instead. Turns out that that isn't accep
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by PurestGuava 2y ago
I switched back to iPhone recently from Android and I do miss being able to silence, specifically, marketing push notifications when they arrive. iOS is either all or nothing unless the app itself lets you selectively turn off marketing pus

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