jbombadil

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by jbombadil 21d ago
Would be nice to be able to enable these features as an adult (stop autoplay videos and no algorithmic feed). Also, I’m surprised by the lack of enforcement to remove infinite scrolling.
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by jbombadil 28d ago
This is very exciting. I have been an iPhone user for the last 8 years. I am entirely in Apple's ecosystem. I would legitimately change my phone (+watch +headphones) for a vertical foldable (like razr) phone running graphene OS. I don&
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by jbombadil 2mo ago
Another noteworthy annoyance is the increasing number of services that try to aggressively push you towards passkeys, without you ever asking. Every other time I open the Costco app (needed to walk in to the store, since I don't carry
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by jbombadil 2mo ago
I am generally not in favor of adding regulation, but this is a place where I would support it. Anything that you BUY needs to be your property. This means you must have the ability to: 1. Transfer ownership of it (either temporarily as a
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by jbombadil 5mo ago
I think there's a case for a corporate class action lawsuit against Neal for employee productivity loss every time every time a new game is published.
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by jbombadil 5mo ago
https://archive.is/yoLYM
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by jbombadil 5mo ago
I'm curious about the environmental argument here. At face value it makes sense, but is there some hard data that shows that there is a meaningful number of consumers that buy new phones only (or "mostly") because of battery
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by jbombadil 6mo ago
> [...]And because federal agencies were allowed to deploy the product during the review, GCC High spread across the government as well as the defense industry. By late 2024, FedRAMP reviewers concluded that they had little choice but to
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by jbombadil 8mo ago
I hope so too, but don't believe that's the ultimate intent here. The problem is that the tech independence is being pushed by government who want more control - not less. (Not speaking specifically of France and this instance, bu
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by jbombadil 10mo ago
100% agree. The level of tracking has gotten to absurd levels. I needed a couple of grocery items and happened to be next to an Amazon Fresh. Cool, let’s try it! Went in, found everything I needed and went to self checkout. When it was time
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by jbombadil 11mo ago
Looks like Microsoft is taking a page out of the cable companies' playbook. Next up, there will be "discounted" Copilot 365 or whatever: a 2 year contract with the "promotional price" locked in and a penalty fee for
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by jbombadil 1y ago
+1! Please Google let me have a normal TOTP authentication. No SMS, no "open the gmail app on this other device and tap this prompt", no mandatory Google Authenticator, etc.
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by jbombadil 1y ago
https://archive.is/3lllh
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by jbombadil 1y ago
https://archive.is/4iBzE
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by jbombadil 1y ago
There's still a "wow factor" associated with this. I live in a city that doesn't have Waymo. I recently had a work trip to a city that does. Waymo was 25% more expensive than Uber (~15 vs ~20). I still took Waymo becau
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by jbombadil 1y ago
I had issues with wired CarPlay in multiple cars (and consistently on my Crosstrek) Turned out to be a loose lightning port on my iPhone. A 15 minute visit to my local Apple Store fixed the problem.
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by jbombadil 1y ago
https://archive.is/1NMCR
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by jbombadil 2y ago
Thank you Peter! (not just for this answer, but for doing these AMAs in a regular basis!)
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by jbombadil 2y ago
Hey Peter. Is there any way to confirm whether a request to USCIS to bump a case from F2A to IR was recevied or acknowledged? We haven’t received any 797-C or any other confirmation. Thanks!
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by jbombadil 2y ago
I agree. This is empowering people to program in the most superficial level. It’s about volume, not quality. It’s the same vein in which social media “empowers” social relationships. It’s not that it won’t help anyone. But what will be the
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by jbombadil 2y ago
Not GP, but feel similarly. I'll offer my 2 cents: > but with the dial turned down a little. Exactly for this reason. Yes, HN is a social network. And if it follows the same enshittification path as the others, I will be gone from h
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by jbombadil 2y ago
https://archive.ph/3ZOa9
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by jbombadil 2y ago
My understanding is that the law doesn’t ban TikTok. The law gives the president the power to ban TikTok. So the president can elect not to use said power.
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by jbombadil 2y ago
https://archive.is/Iqaka
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by jbombadil 2y ago
https://archive.is/aaq82
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by jbombadil 2y ago
While I agree that people getting internet in this day and age is _basically_ a necessity (and thus the govt should interfere when needed to make that happen), doing it in this way is the worse possible implementation. Was it necessary in t
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by jbombadil 2y ago
They are on your desktop. Have you tried installing any game you bought through Steam lately? They all install a custom launcher / updater / stuff that ends up in startup.
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by jbombadil 2y ago
> If you don't want an unlocked bootloader, just don't unlock your bootloader. That kind of logic cuts both ways: "If you don't want a device with a locked boot loader, just don't buy a device with a locked bootl
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by jbombadil 2y ago
This is amazing news. I wonder if this means we’re going to see a TV/home console with Steam OS soon. I am currently borrowing a friend’s Steam Deck to try it out. It’s absolutely amazing, particularly around starting and stopping gami
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by jbombadil 2y ago
I understand that… As long as they rate limit their own video call service at the same rate as they do the competitions. Which I somehow doubt they’ll do (unless forced by law / regulation)

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