adesanmi

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by adesanmi 6mo ago
why is there need for an emotional reaction? It's just a tool. Philosophically, it's no different than using photoshop to touch up old photos. It's just a more "high-tech" version.
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by adesanmi 1y ago
These companies charge money for their services and have competitors. AWS’ entire business models is providing developer services, and if I don’t like their offerings I can go elsewhere. Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc. that have become hosti
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by adesanmi 2y ago
Thank you! And not just any website, a good mobile website, too.
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by adesanmi 2y ago
Same here: the default option is not to put your website on the App Store, I’m sorry but it isn’t. It’s 2024 and there have been so many advancements in web technology, I’m tired of people arguing that the web isn’t even an option for the v
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by adesanmi 2y ago
> because Patreon.com is not just a website, it is a complex web app I don’t agree with this as someone who uses Patreon relatively frequently. It’s actually quite a simple website, and the main thing I care about is the ability to manag
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by adesanmi 2y ago
No, you just don’t have an argument. Patreon has a perfectly working mobile application called Patreon.com that doesn’t have any gatekeepers. It’s fully mobile, responsive, and allows me to do everything I want to do right now. If the artic
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by adesanmi 2y ago
Again: you can literally go on Patreon.com on your iPhone right now and subscribe to any creator you want without paying Apple’s fees. The mobile web is literally a suitable alternative and competitor right now, but for some reason people o
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by adesanmi 2y ago
But they’re not stopping me from supporting creators. I can go to Patreon.com on my iPhone right now and subscribe to any creator without Apple’s fees. If they took their app off the App Store tomorrow I will continue to be able to have all
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by adesanmi 2y ago
If Patreon doesn’t like Apple’s rules, they should just take their app off the App Store. All these companies moaning about Apple yet aren’t doing the one thing they have the power to do which is just leave. If they refuse to leave, then th
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by adesanmi 2y ago
> There are also users who want to take the responsibility on themselves. They want the ability to host their own apps for free (or lower costs), faster update cycles, and just overall freedom. Those people don't want a highly curat
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by adesanmi 3y ago
Ctrl+click. I find it more intuitive than right clicking personally.
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by adesanmi 3y ago
Unlike Reddit, Apollo was stopping users from seeing ads and Reddit gaining ad revenue from them, so they went to charge the Reddit app devs for this loss in revenue. The YouTube embed API supports ads, and works perfectly with Premium so G
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by adesanmi 3y ago
Everyone who makes this kind of comment must not play video games online. The "money play" is a cut on digital sales, and balancing subscription fees with the cost of services rendered. I can't imagine how little they make on
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by adesanmi 3y ago
Look up Xim, it gives an unfair advantage to console players by allowing a mouse and keyboard input when the developer hasn’t intended so (official APIs exist if they do). Cronus is also especially bad. It also allows you to effectively nul
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by adesanmi 3y ago
Xim users destroying the integrity of multiplayer FPS causes this, unfortunately. The fact of the matter is if you’re allowed to plug in any peripheral into a game console, you can and will get prolific cheaters in a multiplayer environment
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by adesanmi 3y ago
So you go to purchase a device from a company who has been doing this since their very existence, is known for doing this, and has never pretended or tricked consumers into thinking they don’t do this. A closed ecosystem is Apple’s M.O. - a
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by adesanmi 3y ago
And a business has freedom to restrict their products to prevent what they believe isn’t the use case they want. And users have the freedom to put their money where their mouth is by purchasing alternatives on the market.
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by adesanmi 3y ago
She does replace it every couple of years (well, I do anyway) and she loves that fact. What confuses me about all this is the fact that anyone who wants an easily repairable phone has access to them on the market, as I’ve been saying, I sup
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by adesanmi 3y ago
FairPhone exists and is great, I recommend!
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by adesanmi 3y ago
I think inventing a new screw would be a design thing? In a perfect world a screw that is easily replaced and allows them the design they want would be used. However if that doesn’t exist, as an engineer, I am aware of the concept of tradeo
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by adesanmi 3y ago
Why would a consumer like my mum care about opening the phone up? You still haven’t explained how choosing to tradeoff design over repairability is anti-consumer when the consumer can buy a FairPhone right now (who, I can tell you, have a s
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by adesanmi 3y ago
I assumed the reason Apple’s phones are stolen for parts are that, unlike a lot of Android counterparts that can be reset, Find My is so bulletproof that (without phishing) iPhones are essentially expensive paperweights in terms of resellin
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by adesanmi 3y ago
I don’t understand how this is Anti Consumer in any way? I have an iPhone and a FairPhone. One’s niche is that it’s repairable, and the other is that it’s not. A consumer who wants a repairable would buy something like a FairPhone (modular
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by adesanmi 3y ago
Regarding your second point, I agree with the Find My praise, however Find My itself illustrates why every little thing done to make it “more of a ballache” to steal an iPhone, more costly for the thieves, is reducing the demand and these “
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by adesanmi 3y ago
I don’t know if there’s data to back this up. I’m simply assuming based on what I know. What I know comes from people I went to school with who have stolen phones before telling me at the pub. There is a price for the type of device you bri
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by adesanmi 3y ago
It’s an important conversation to have. My mums phone got stolen with Find My active. The police refused to do anything about it, they tried to phish her details, failed and I followed it to Shenzen. I’m not saying these changes would preve
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by adesanmi 3y ago
When people stop robbing phones for them to end up in Shenzen and stripped for parts, this will stop. This is a deterrent to make stealing iPhones less convenient and I’m all for it. People already have to try to phish people’s iCloud detai
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by adesanmi 3y ago
That's a very accurate representation of the battery life, however the reality is that it has the best battery life of any phone with that size + performance combo on the market for my usage - its just that more "regular" siz
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by adesanmi 3y ago
Best phone I ever owned. A small phone with a great camera, all the modern niceties (Face ID, fast processor), and a beautiful design. I'll keep this baby until its final legs.
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by adesanmi 3y ago
My understanding is that it’s the preferred way for a lot of frontend engineers to build their experiences. It gives a lot of freedom and reduces entire classes of bugs due to the type system. Edit: to elaborate; “a lot of freedom” means an

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