bubblewand

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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I've yet to see an amount of property crime that can get the cops to lift a finger. I've seen them ignore a low-six-figures-stolen string of after-hours break-ins at businesses, captured at multiple location on camera with clear s
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
MagSafe’s great because nobody in your house will run off with your cable to charge their phone or tablet or Switch controller or whatever.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
It’s great if you run max two “web apps” at a time. More, and it’s heading into “may be a problem” territory. I’ve seen a Gmail tab eat 2.5Gb of memory all on its own… just sitting there. And you need some headroom for content and file cach
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
What software do they need to compete with chromebooks? It has a browser (it could have several browsers, if you want). I personally prefer all their productivity software to Google’s or Microsoft’s, and it’s not a close race, but you can u
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I’m still on an M1 Air for my personal laptop and probably will be for another couple years. It doesn’t feel “slow” and I feel no urge to start browsing newer models. My understanding is this laptop matches or exceeds the M1 Air’s performan
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
1) Not for "self-funded"—many plans are managed by big insurance companies, but funded by employers. No restrictions there. 2) Not for plans that are (IIRC) two years old or newer. I'd be shocked if there aren't a bunc
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Vertical tabs in file names is where it’s at.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
There may be other problems but as someone who's somehow ended up integrating Git into a service twice in my career without even trying that hard to find a reason (it turns out it's weirdly handy in quite a few situations, god I
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
A carrier operating at sea on the other side of the world is a ton more expensive than a carrier in port at home. The Ford in particular would probably be in port now if not for these back-to-back expensive adventures, they’ve been deployed
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I agree that the core problem is that we’re simply spending far more than necessary for the level of care we receive, but the side effects like being a white-collar makework jobs program (the upscale counterpart to the military, sort of) an
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Well, right, a separate problem is that some notable amount of Google's revenue comes from fooling people into thinking that ads are "natural" search results. To include an extortion racket where you have to pay for ad placem
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Add to it that all our retirement accounts are invested in these companies, and it kinda looks indistinguishable from a really roundabout way to have a very-regressive redistributive retirement scheme that also has crazy-high fees (whatever
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
This is the right idea. Under-appreciated is that voting in the federal general elections is the point at which you have the least effect on anything. Earlier (primaries) and more local (all those elections way fewer people go to because
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Back when they were good at being a web search, yes.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Yeah, Google stopped even trying to usefully index most of the web around ‘08 or ‘09 or so. Was super obvious when it happened and it’s been that way ever since. Your GitHub is up there because it’s a blessed website, your personal site isn
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I agree with this, while also thinking it was basically physical-enough that the home button still served the same UI purpose about as well as before. But yes it was a step down from the real button.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Switzerland has a “public option”, price controls, and IIRC private insurers have to be non-profits (and possibly that designation means more in their system than the US, I dunno about that).
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
The jacket just looks like a variant of “morning dress”. It’s the equivalent of a tuxedo for the daytime (wearing either at the wrong time of day used to be considered incorrect; see the selectively-sartorially-fastidious Jack in 30 Rock re
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
The physical home button is, no bullshit, one of the greatest pieces of UI ever. No, I am not kidding, I really think that. It’s crazy to me that they abandoned it, the gestures that replace its functionality are overall-worse and clutterin
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Oh shit, I didn’t know they had the 12.9 in a lower spec config these days! That’ll be what I finally get when I replace my current old-ass pro. Never needed the power, just wanted the size.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Oh yeah one of those “memento mori” things for me is browsing shelves in flea markets with tons of 1890s-1930s popular fiction and appreciating how very many of the authors are now totally unknown. You can do something similar with bestsell
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
The Wizard of Oz (the one you know of) was a remake. The Thing (the one you know of—though the other had a longer title anyway) was a remake. The version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland (so, the one with that meme-a
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
The one thing Infuse gets me is support for one fairly major audio codec (I forget which one). Have to pay for a license, doubt the official client will ever have it. The UI is slightly janky out of the box but if you customize it it’s not
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Weird, mine’s usually good for a month at least if it’s got a decent charge. I just picked mine up off a table in front of me and it hasn’t been plugged in for at least two weeks, instantly on, 82% charge. It’s an earlier Pro 12.9” though,
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
It’s the vendors not supporting platform features. Usually, actively avoiding it because they think it’d dilute their brand or some shit. I solved this by just pirating everything and putting it in Jellyfin with Infuse on my AppleTV. Managi
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Maybe a minor thing, but the largest pro in landscape is just barely smaller than a two-page spread in a comic book, making it possibly the best way to read digital comics. Though, I personally don’t need all the horsepower and would get
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I’m guessing the main (technical) hang-up is that it messes really badly with one of the most distinctive things about iPads vs other devices, which is extremely low time-to-interactive from any sleep state. Device been sitting on your desk
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
From what I can tell the staying power seems to be in: 1) New players. More of ‘em born every year! And, 2) Competitive play, which is a huge thing (I hate playing most games with randos online, personally, but lots of people love it). Like
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I dunno. We got car insurance once that had a "put this spy device in your car for a couple weeks for a lower rate" deal and I felt like I was driving a lot less-safely when I was constantly worried about looking like I was driv
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Sitting here on the sidelines having never configured snippets or macros or any of that in any of my editors, which I could have done like 30 years ago but never bothered in all this time, doing quizzical-dog look at all these people thrill

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