biogene

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by biogene 3y ago
That may be true, but the point was about empowering the end user. Making programing popular through the app store (arguable) is a separate (also important) topic. Empowering the end user to not look at the computer as a black box that they
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by biogene 3y ago
>The commenter said “Shit action is Ok, but boy that other company is worse” and that just doesn’t compute for me. If you're using quotes, you should be quoting something I actually said, rather than making stuff up. Don't worr
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by biogene 3y ago
I'm talking about component level repair, not recycle. Apple doesn't offer that service, and has never offered that service. They tell the customer to replace entire motherboards (costly + wasteful) which is so costly that its oft
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by biogene 3y ago
Thanks, but I want my beliefs to be based on more truths and fewer falsehoods as much I can, so your input doesn't really help me with my goals.
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by biogene 3y ago
Why would I give a theory when I don't even agree with your position. That is a bizarre request. I don't quite understand what point you're making except calling it a problem.
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by biogene 3y ago
> but the company that provides repair services up to 7 years and battery replacements for Macs up to 10 years is somehow worse than that because they refuse to provide access to parts to third party repair shops that don’t join their pr
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by biogene 3y ago
I agree with you, people are twisting your words and setting up a strawman.
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by biogene 3y ago
How does that change the decision of not letting the company's accountant comment on safety?
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by biogene 3y ago
IMO, you can take the dev word out, many productivity metrics are of dubious value, because corporate people love applying structures and systems to problems, only due to the fact that it is a structure rather than any inherent benefit. Per
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by biogene 3y ago
How many managers have you had? Seems like an odd generalization.
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by biogene 3y ago
Ideally you will have a different definition of repairability for each category of devices or even per-manufacturer. Policy wise, the problem is the specificity of the legal language/phrasing. To me the easier approach is to make exclu
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by biogene 3y ago
I think its OK if they can't fix it. The problem comes when companies like Apple (don't know about Google) block right-to-repair legislation, or block access to parts for third-party repair or generally spread FUD about third-part
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by biogene 3y ago
Is this peak or sustained? I can't imagine an SoC inside a water tight (IP68?) enclosure having better heat management.
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by biogene 3y ago
Yep. Regardless of whether it is positive or negative, you don't want your general employees commenting on the safety of the companies products. On such sensitive topics, you want to leave the floor open to SMEs and recognized industry
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by biogene 3y ago
Thanks for proving my point. Goodbye.
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by biogene 3y ago
Most elections are about electing the least-bad person. Bush started wars, Biden/Obama dropped bombs on civilians (even US citizens), tortured detainees, trump.. well we all know what trump did. Most voters either voted for biden or tr
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by biogene 3y ago
Sure, someone could have a bad take, could be simply wrong, or simply have a different opinion. Why do you assume that I cannot differentiate between them?
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by biogene 3y ago
If you express a reasonable opinion that is even mildly positive, or even ambivalent about musk or trump you get mass downvoted, and people assume you completely lack integrity. I have seen this exact behaviour on HN for years, and the mods
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by biogene 3y ago
I don't know to what extent this person goes to hide their legal name, but with public records, its fairly easy to find your residence if you own a home or some other property.
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by biogene 3y ago
Somehow, I can't imagine how HN is any better. Reasonable comments are mass-downvoted when people disagree with you on seemingly hot button topics - blm, vaccines, musk, trump, immigration, lgbtq etc. I know many people who had to crea
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by biogene 3y ago
>Whether they can legally do it is a currently pending issue (see Andino v. Apple) but the main point is that even if they could, it's still wrong. This is incorrect. There is absolutely no question at all about the legality of copy
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by biogene 3y ago
Oh yeah, I completely understand. I'm not necessarily in favor of forced bundling. All I'm saying is that sometimes there are benefits when there is a single vendor who can do tight integrations. Apple being the other obvious exam
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by biogene 3y ago
I agree about the contention, the counter point that I'm making is that nothing has changed or eroded. I believe that art works can have ownership claims, and that intellectual property is real. Assuming a work-for-hire type contract,
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by biogene 3y ago
Legally speaking, unless you have a work-for-hire type contract with the artist, you don't have an ownership claim. You purchased a digital 'ticket' that lets you view the artwork according to someone else's terms and co
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by biogene 3y ago
Digital media goods are more akin to buying tickets, rather than actual albums. We always had subscriptions for stuff like TV, so I don't know what the erosion is here. Even today, you have options for entertainment that don't inv
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by biogene 3y ago
That is a valid point, but is there a reason to not change the grid first? As it stands the EV campaign slogan of "environmentally friendly" is missing a "... eventually".
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by biogene 3y ago
Its often the case that when apps crash (on any OS) due to bugs, its the OS that gets blamed by the user. It is easy to say "blame Dell", but you'd have to be familiar with the code-base to know whose fault it was.
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by biogene 3y ago
I don't think Linux is as bad as people claim, but it isn't as good/easy to use as people claim either. One problem I see is that the distribution of software is tied to the package manager. If you install any complex (esp st
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by biogene 3y ago
Yes, I'm sure it is. But for me, so is Windows and OSX.
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by biogene 3y ago
Sure, nobody can say you "can't do" something with Linux. But the "can't" is more meant as "can't easily do". To give you an example - I have a small+fast SSD for my OS and a large+slow spinning

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