shantara

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by shantara 7d ago
Moved to Suunto, and I couldn't be happier. I had an Apple Watch series 7, which I had to charge twice a day now. I was on a fence between buying a new AW or switching to another brand, but Apple dropping the software support for my mo
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by shantara 3mo ago
My go to example (that unfortunately wasn’t mentioned in the article) is the removal of a game called Oxenfree from everyone who bought a permanent license for it on Itch.io. This is the most egregious example I’m aware of, as the game wasn
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by shantara 3mo ago
The original price should have been in $700-800 range, pre-RAM and storage pricing escalation, which would have changed the equation drastically. I even considered getting it as a mostly streaming box for a living room, intending to play on
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by shantara 4mo ago
Apple dropping 32-bit support resulted in me losing access to 3/4 of my Mac Steam library. Not every piece of software is built with an endless update treadmill in mind, no matter how much Apple would like to force the developers into
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by shantara 4mo ago
I gifted my mom a Xiaomi phone a few years ago. Even after removing all the unnecessary apps and permissions, disabling all the privacy invasive settings and replacing the launcher with the stock Android, I was shocked when I checked the Pi
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by shantara 4mo ago
>Try to set the lights to turn on 10 minutes before your alarm goes off I had a very similar use case: turn on my espresso machine (via smart plug) 20 minutes before I wake up. It should have been simple, as I already have a sleep schedu
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by shantara 4mo ago
The quality of Apple maps is highly dependent on where you live. Every time I check their release notes, I see “we’ve added a custom 3d model for this one landmark in a random US city”, which has zero impact on me or 99.99% of their users.
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by shantara 5mo ago
>Apple made SMB its primary file-sharing protocol in OS X 10.9 Mavericks, over 12 years ago… …and yet SMB support in macOS remains slow and buggy to this day. I tried all combinations of server-side settings and obscure plist tweaks to m
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by shantara 5mo ago
Not sure why would I preorder a laptop of all things. It looks interesting, but I’d rather wait until the reviews are out.
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by shantara 5mo ago
Interesting how different both the tone and the structure of the articles are compared to the modern texts. Take the article about Copenhagen as an example: https://britannica11.org/article/07-0111-copenhagen/copen
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by shantara 5mo ago
One of the worst cases happens immediately after logging into a fresh Mac, or after upgrading one. You’re instantly hit with a barrage of requests from all the installed apps and their various permissions. It makes for such a terrible initi
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by shantara 5mo ago
Sorry, the “recommended” was a bad wording on my part. The recommendation comes from the 404 Media article who did the expose on this incident, not Signal itself. I’ve checked the Signal documentation page, and there’s no mention of the pri
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by shantara 5mo ago
iOS stores the previously displayed notifications in an internal database, which was used to access the data. It’s outside of Signal’s control, they recommend disabling showing notification content in their settings to prevent this attack v
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by shantara 6mo ago
Partition Magic was among the first utilities recommended to me by my more experienced water I got my first PC. It served me well for many years since!
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by shantara 6mo ago
Connecting new AirPods to an iPhone for the first time now shows Apple Music subscription ad right on the pairing screen
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by shantara 6mo ago
With the widespread move to OLED across the TV and monitor manufacturers, this might not be the case for much longer. They look and perform great, but are ultimately a consumable product.
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by shantara 7mo ago
This is a topic that frequently comes up in our multicultural Danish company. In many countries people have adversarial relationship with their government, which is completely unlike Denmark. This mindset requires time and effort to change
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by shantara 7mo ago
I have experienced the same privacy culture shock in Denmark. Generally, I think the people’s trust in their government is the greatest social asset of the danish society, as well as their biggest blind spot.
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by shantara 7mo ago
Another example from Denmark: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/28/europe/us-embassy-copenha...
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by shantara 7mo ago
Was it Apple, or community driven projects?
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by shantara 7mo ago
I used Miranda. Beautiful app with lots of plugins, and lot of settings and themes to customize it for yourself.
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by shantara 7mo ago
FWIW Organic Maps are aware of this issue. In the poll on their mastodon account, lack of public transit information was voted as number one missing feature. As far as I’m aware, they are looking into integrating the public APIs for it wher
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by shantara 7mo ago
I still had Slashdot in my RSS feed, purely out of inertia. I don’t even interact with it much other than occasionally marking it as read. This was the push I needed to unsubscribe from it.
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by shantara 7mo ago
Already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949
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by shantara 7mo ago
That’s an interesting interpretation, but I’m not so sure how much of it was international, and how much it was a result of the developers calibrating the narrative flow for people who aren’t that familiar with sci-fi mind uploading tropes.
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by shantara 7mo ago
Eric Berger space coverage still remains Ars’ strong suit.
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by shantara 7mo ago
Babylon 5 was my childhood defining TV series, the one that left an impact for the rest of my life. TNG is “merely” a great show.
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by shantara 7mo ago
This was certainly the most annoying aspect of the game for me. The logic of mind uploading has been explained to the protagonist several times during the playthrough, yet he couldn’t understand or accept it until the very end.
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by shantara 7mo ago
Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation
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by shantara 7mo ago
Meanwhile Apple made a choice to leave iOS 18 vulnerable on the devices that receive updates to iOS 26. If you want security, be ready to sacrifice UI usability.

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