metasaval

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by metasaval 9mo ago
Hey! I guess I'll get some conversation started, this interests me too and I've been doing the same the last few years. I added a page to my site [0] to keep updated with all the tech I use so I'll do some copy-pasting of som
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by metasaval 1y ago
Every time a new iPhone comes up people on hacker news pine for a new mini, which I understand. But everytime someone has to bring back up that the 12 and 13 minis were the worst selling sku two gens in a row, with at one point the 13 mini
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by metasaval 1y ago
I'm no Google apologist (I use ecosia personally), but did you try using searching in quotes? That should force the search to only find specifically your query directly as spelled. Just curious if you did try it and there was still tha
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by metasaval 2y ago
I've kept TB Beta installed but still go back to FairEmail. But I'm not an email power user, I really only stick to it because the widgets are better. No dark mode for the K9/TB widget is a dealbreaker. And even then FairEmai
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by metasaval 2y ago
In this case I had completely missed the bad smell, so I appreciate the comment cause it prompted me to look up the whole situation. yikes. I was already planning on moving to another fork soon since I wasn't using most of floorp'
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by metasaval 2y ago
also just realized that waterfox does have an android version [1], if you want you use the same fork on desktop and android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.waterfox.a...
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by metasaval 2y ago
FYI, you can use a desktop fork and mobile Firefox with Firefox sync. source: I do that with floorp and Firefox for android.
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by metasaval 4y ago
nobody pays for premium so ads get worse.
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by metasaval 4y ago
Ignore the dissenters, I agree. people will pay $15 for Netflix and use it once a month but won't pay $11 for YouTube that they use every day. the insistence that YouTube should be a service that just houses all of our videos for free
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by metasaval 5y ago
I sorely wish this was the case. I have a W11 install now but always have an extra SSD for a Linux install (right now EndeavourOS with Cinnamon), but there's little things that keep me away from using it fulltime. The majority of them
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by metasaval 5y ago
I'm on W11 as well and enjoy it over W10 for a variety of reasons (mostly gaming and HDR related), but instead of adding to that noise I just wanted to point out that this change is in Windows 10 as well. From the link, last sentence i
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by metasaval 5y ago
The first thing I did when I got my ATV4K was change the TV button to go to the home screen instead of the TV app and have not used the app for anything. A far cry from ads being on the home screen itself.
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by metasaval 6y ago
It's a basic one, but learning an instrument! Namely, the drums. I've tried guitar and bass before, but neither stuck. I'd been thinking of getting a e-drum kit for a while now, and the quarantine gave me a good excuse. I&#x2
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by metasaval 7y ago
FYI, Credit Karma has their own tax filing tool [0], which I'm using this year after using TT the last two years, and I find it more understandable for my simple returns. Honestly, what I'm worried about is that CK's tool dis
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by metasaval 7y ago
I also use Google Fi, albeit the $10/gb plan, so my monthly bill is usually around $50-$60. The real reason I stick with it, even though I could get slightly cheaper plans elsewhere, is for international travel. I don't even trave
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by metasaval 7y ago
For me, personally, I just play way too many games to have running Linux as a daily driver a viable option. I've tried multiple times to move (Manjaro with Lutris was the closest I've gotten, but to be fair I haven't tried St
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by metasaval 7y ago
Unrelated question: what resources did you use to write your CHIP-8 emulator? I've also been wanting to write one in Python for educational purposes, but haven't found any great resources yet in Python. Granted there are a few in
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by metasaval 7y ago
Just fyi, unifying Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram is something they mentioned a while back [0], and is something that they're moving foward with now [1]. Although it's looking like they're just going to get the underlying
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by metasaval 8y ago
Just to add my two cents, I worked at a Best Buy Mobile (the ones that were in the mall) for 3 years during college, between 2014-2017. 1. I had no issues with not being allowed to leave on time. Of course we were incentivised to sell GSPs
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by metasaval 8y ago
My high school friends and I used it up until we switch to Discord last year (so ~2013-2017). We all had Mumble and TeamSpeak installed for when we needed it, but all through high school we had a Skype group chat that we always used. It was
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by metasaval 8y ago
I guess it's possible if Apple got a hold of pre-release materials on the Essential phone. But a company the size of Apple gets the design ready months, possibly a year, before release. The Essential Phone was officially shown off May
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by metasaval 8y ago
The issue, specifically, is that the display ribbon to connect it to the board needs to go somewhere [0]. For years, it was the bottom. So when it comes to removing a chin, you need to find a place for that ribbon. Apple achieved this by fo
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by metasaval 8y ago
They started pretty similar, and have traded in expensiveness depending on the year and which size phone you're comparing. These are all base storage size prices in USD, ordered from cheapest to most expensive. 2016: Pixel -> $649;
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by metasaval 8y ago
Correct. And since the time between the two phones was so short, there's no way Apple copied Essential here. It's just a case of two companies trying to tackle a new problem and coming up with similar solutions. But it would be fa
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by metasaval 8y ago
It does go into Objective-C later, but it starts with C. You can see that if you go to Disassembler Pt 1.
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by metasaval 8y ago
Was the item shipped and sold from Amazon? I admit they don't make this distinction very clear on their product page, and they make it way too easy to be a third-party seller on their site, but it makes a huge difference. Chances are y
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by metasaval 8y ago
GOG is trying to alleviate some of this with their Steam Connect stuff, where you can connect your Steam account and gain access to some of those games on GOG, but it'll never be 100%.
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by metasaval 8y ago
Activision has historically released their games on Steam, but their last PC release, Destiny 2, and their upcoming game Black Ops 4, are both only on Battle.net (Blizzard's client). Looks like they'll be releasing their games on
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by metasaval 8y ago
In instances like those, they'll refund you. I haven't had to do it myself, but I understand that to be the case. Since they sell a lot of old games, some of which they have to actually use cracks to disable the DRM on, they don&#
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by metasaval 8y ago
A few reasons: 1. Because it gets people on their system, who will then buy more games when the fad does eventually die out (which let's be clear won't be anytime soon). If someone playing Fortnite on PC asks their XBoX friends to

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