ScottFree

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by ScottFree 6y ago
munches on popcorn
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by ScottFree 6y ago
It's not inevitable. It can be resisted. It takes a leader who can stand up to the pressure and say no. That's not a trivial thing. The pressure is considerable, especially these days.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
That reminds me of this webcomic from 2001. "Only once you can successfully wrestle a herd of monkeys will you truly be ready to manage your forum." https://megatokyo.com/strip/209
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> Well service depends on where you live. Tell me about it. I have to drive about 100 miles to the nearest Audi dealership to get my Audi fixed. The nearest Tesla service center is 180 miles away. I really want a Tesla, but I'd pret
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> Ten years from now no one will even remember or care that master/slave was a term in computing. I don't think it will take them that long to regret this change. Now that everyone knows linux will just roll over, they'll
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Did they ever fix that memory leak?
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> Talking to other Mac users, this seems to be common knowledge - I guess only Windows users moving to OSX should be wary. It's common knowledge because very single Mac OS X user has lost data due to this bug that Apple has refused
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Because it actually works, most of the time. The controller isn't horrible. The commonly used apps, like Twitch, Youtube, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc all work. I got so fed up with my Samsung SmartTV and it's horrible controller an
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Sysadmins do.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
It's not just Desktop OS's. Mobile, TV and Car OS's are mostly terrible as well. Are OS's really that hard to do well?
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Have you tried any other TV OS? FireTV is the best of a bad bunch.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
The gifs in the readme showing the functionality you want to highlight is a nice touch. I wish more projects did that.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Do you have any regrets with sticking with mercurial instead of hopping on the git bandwagon?
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by ScottFree 6y ago
I switched from Evernote to Notion 6 months ago. Their block-based editing system drives me up the wall. But, they really nailed their media integration in a way nobody else has, so I continue to use it.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
"we mainly use phabricator now at my day job (which I love love love)" What do you love about phabricator? It looks interesting, even if it is written in php. (just joking...)
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by ScottFree 6y ago
I'd buy an Intel mac from 2015. The modern ones all have their well-documented problems. The ARM based macs will almost certainly have a small period of instability and incompatibility when they first launch, just like the Intel macs d
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by ScottFree 6y ago
For the visually oriented, this description of UX in image form can't be beat: https://imgur.com/mAttwt6
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Your premise is flawed. Yellow shirts don't kill people. Not wearing a mask does not kill people. Letting a TSA officer fondle your groin doesn't save people's lives. It's all security theater. "Those who would give
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by ScottFree 6y ago
I'm extremely disappointed your icon isn't a picture of Lemmy from Motorhead.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> I am finishing "a proper missing, a dream File Manager" for Mac OS Can I sign up to be notified when it's released? :)
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by ScottFree 6y ago
If the CPUs on your macbook pros are dying, you're doing something very wrong. If they're not, then you're creating an issue where none exists.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> I don't think that's terribly useful. The entire overclocking community would disagree with you.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> A combination of good cooling + a tweaked power management profile to accommodate the better thermals should give a substantial performance increase. Give it a try and report back. edit: Wow, HN has changed. There was a time when exper
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Watch the whole video. They managed to keep the laptop ice cold with a custom heatsink, but even then only managed to eek out a 12% performance improvement. As it turns out, Apple actually knows what they're doing.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
Crop dusting is still a thing. I live in the middle of nowhere and there are several strips of flat grassland that are landing strips for crop dusters.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
By that rationale, walking is deadly. Breathing is deadly. Sleeping is deadly. This is not a valid argument supporting the stance that wifi is deadly.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
If that were the case, there would be no African tribes left alive.
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by ScottFree 6y ago
It doesn't. That's not the point. It never was. "A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." -Anthony Daniels
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by ScottFree 6y ago
I'm talking exclusively about the US. Different markets have different market shares. Different countries have different monopoly and antitrust laws. Limiting it to the biggest market, and the one most germane to HN, is what makes it p
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by ScottFree 6y ago
> Isn't this extremely obvious? Yes and no. The obvious answer is to make your own device with your own OS and make it better than iOS or android. That used to be difficult, but the quality of iOS and android has been declining for

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