moolcool

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by moolcool 6d ago
Predictions and prescriptions are different things. E.g. they said that recorded music would cause fewer people to sing and perform in their own homes. This happened, but we're all largely just fine with it.
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by moolcool 6d ago
To be fair, many of the old anti-technology arguments were correct. We lived with the consequences, but life also went on.
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by moolcool 10d ago
Anyone remember back in the day when every platform had RSS feeds, and you could aggregate your Facebook and Twitter on sites like FriendFeed? “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”
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by moolcool 3mo ago
I admire the restraint the CarPlay designers have in adding features. E.g. in music apps, you can't click-through to an artist page from a song page. Annoying on the surface, but it actually naturally restricts your mucking about in me
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by moolcool 3mo ago
I’m trying to not be snarky here, but it is difficult to have an optimistic take about an advertising company working on mind reading technology. At some point we have to call a spade a spade, I think.
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by moolcool 3mo ago
It'll be a cold day in hell before Meta gets access to my brainwaves. Good heavens, can you imagine?
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by moolcool 4mo ago
OpenClaw just seems so broken and insecure by-design. I feel like you'd have to be crazy to use it.
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by moolcool 4mo ago
> Tall in this context are rich and influential people This is a double edged sword. Lots of "thought leaders" on twitter have outed themselves as lacking in both thought, and leadership.
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by moolcool 5mo ago
This is way too close to the Simpsons joke about the periodic tables provided by Oscar Mayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pohXWbMrXZI
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by moolcool 5mo ago
> The Donut media guys Actually the speeeed guys, now. They left because Donut went to shit after getting purchased by Private Equity. Surprise, surprise.
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by moolcool 6mo ago
Aren't they incentive to treat bot impressions as real?
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by moolcool 7mo ago
I think it's taken for granted just how good flash was. It gets hated on a lot because it was proprietary and insecure, but it's really impressive that they had a system where teenagers could make genuinely good games and animatio
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by moolcool 7mo ago
> and to never do anything that other people than the owner want Windows 11 is full of ads, telemetry, and AI slop, much of which is impossible to disable. Very few owners want this.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
I would personally take a MacBook Neo over literally any laptop Acer makes, anywhere in their lineup, any day of the week.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
I agree that it's gone downhill, but have you been on a Windows 11 machine? It's just a cacophony of ads, jank, and slop. The computing equivalent of sitting on a lawn chair in Times Square
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by moolcool 7mo ago
Assuming nothing really bad comes out of the reviews, this looks like the best computer for like 99% of users. I really can't imagine buying some plastic-fantastic Acer unit when this is on the market.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
You can now officially get a device with mutli-user support for only $100 more than the base model iPad. They've really got to throw us a bone with what the iPad is capable of.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
Something about this metaphor made me queasy.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
TouchID. I’d I tap, I get to see my stuff. If my wife does, her profile comes up.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
The point is that I only want one iPad.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
It's not the end user's problem whose fault it is.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
And especially more silly, since they'll soon launch a cheap A-series chipped MacBook. Why can I have multiple users on a $700 MacBook, but not a $1500 iPad Pro?
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by moolcool 7mo ago
My library gives free Libby and PressReader, so it would let me read The New Yorker more comfortably than I can on my laptop of phone.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
As a developer myself, I respect and understand that it's not their fault that profiles are useless As a consumer, I don't care whose fault it is that profiles are useless.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
> Shared iPad requires a device management service and Managed Apple Accounts that an organization issues and owns I don't want to have to do a bunch of sysadmin just so my wife and I can both see our own YouTube subscriptions on an
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by moolcool 7mo ago
I could excuse it if the iPad was a $200 novelty like the Amazon Fire tablets, but they're putting M-series chips in them and marketing (and pricing) them like PC replacements.
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by moolcool 7mo ago
Profiles don't work well on Apple TVs at all though. You choose a profile on the device, and then you still have to choose a profile whenever you launch any given streaming app as well. I don't know what changing profiles on an Ap
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by moolcool 7mo ago
The iPad would go from a never-buy to a buy-right-away for me, if they added user profiles. It'd be a nice thing to have on your coffee table, where anyone in the household can pick it up and be logged into all of their stuff. Windows
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by moolcool 7mo ago
Like Ken Jennings said about this: "you have wonder if the problem was 'world,' 'facts,' or 'books'"
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by moolcool 7mo ago
Take a step back and look at what you’re defending, man.

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