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by spanhandler 6y ago
... those aren't failed states, though? Failed state doesn't mean "shitty government" or "autocracy".
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I agree things are fairly bad in a lot of ways, and very bad in some ways, but "failed state" does have a specific meaning and applying it to the US is pretty hyperbolic. It's fuzzy like anything that describes human stuff, b
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> The OS shouldn't be permitting inappropriate behaviour by apps, regardless of where they came from. Sure, but they all do.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
If your DB is Postgres and you can do everything you need to fetch the data in SQL, Postgres can output JSON directly. It’s pretty fast at it. Usually it’s not too hard to do this on a few performance-sensitive endpoints in a framework web
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by spanhandler 6y ago
One of my favorite things is how it forces config and artifact locations to be explicit and consistent. No more "where the hell does this distro's package for this daemon store its data?" Don't care, it puts it wherever
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by spanhandler 6y ago
They became the villain when they started deliberately positioning the ads on their search results screen to trick people. Which I'm sure makes them lots and lots of money but is definitely evil.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Clicking the "what's new" was a great lesson in the difference between old-web and only-somewhat-old web: it took forever to load and I was like "huh, I didn't expect that, given how fast the index loaded and how it
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Deliberately getting Fortnite kicked off is political. Either Epic will win and this will all be moot or they'll lose and, because they don't hate giant piles of money, go back to providing an app-store-compliant game. Barring a m
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Huh. I believe you about the app thing—I assume there’s been a study or something—but I’m surprised. All the non-tech people in my life seem to choose their devices on two criteria: 1) price, 2) UX/familiarity. Mostly the former. If th
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I still think competition with the product they offer would be a better way to make them improve their product, than removing some of the properties that define the product they’re offering. FWIW I’m all for regulating the hell out of any
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I mean another App Store with its own captured platform where you have to play by the rules if you want to distribute software on it. The whole package. Not another App Store on iOS. I do not want that.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I’m totally cool with that provided it’s not easy enough that another App Store is able to become a de facto necessity via that install method. The current official side-loading methods are almost good enough to suit the case of power use
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I would be entirely thrilled to see another OS & platform with similarly-pro-user rules and restrictions and its own app store compete with Apple, tweaking those parts to fix the problems you call out (and others!), and either beat Appl
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I absolutely agree. Forcing developers to abide by their store & platform rules if they want to sell to iOS users, coupled with the fact that of course everyone does want to sell to iOS users, is definitely a big part of why I find
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> Why would a professional device for adults ship with the same locked down protections of a kindergarten computing device? Windows 10 ships with a firewall, schools enforce firewall rules on their PCs, therefore Surface ships with the s
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> A) Consumers want Apple's walled garden and Apple is meeting their needs, > and > B) The option to install apps from a 3rd party source would immediately mean that consumers all jump ship from Apple's official store and
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> Users who want Apple's version of safety and security can stick with the default configuration on their devices and install apps only from Apple's store, just like today. > while users who insisted on sticking with only Ap
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> I am sorry, I don't understand. Will you be suddenly forced to install all the shit from all the sources? Nobody is forcing you right? How does your position change with the new one? No, but it may mean some apps will use differen
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by spanhandler 6y ago
It is possible that some of those people would list "only one app store & gateway for digital payments" as a feature for which they bought devices based on that platform. I'd list lots of the things devs complain about
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> Fuck your security and fuck your walled gardens. Sigh. I guess we're going to remove a product category (the relatively safe, very consistent, managed platform you can use when you just want to use a computer and not also manag
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by spanhandler 6y ago
The times I've seen numbers on this from the business side, from biz-intel sorts of places (think, Gartner), the figures are crazy-unbalanced in favor of Apple. Way more spending per device (not tens of % more, but an integer multiple
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> Perhaps if running unsigned apps became more widespread, businesses will spring up in the space to offer secure, curated apps as third-party app stores. They should go ahead and do that, then make an OS and mobile devices built around
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Hell, from my perspective the app store is part of the competition. I buy i-devices over Android for a few reasons but high on the list is the set of restrictions Apple places on developers, including their payment restrictions. Those are
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> My main gripe is that they're behaving as if they're bringing value that the developers are riding on, when in reality nobody would buy iPhones if it weren't for the value that many developers are bringing to the platfor
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Palemoon looks pretty good. May give that a shot, thanks.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Great! Linux, I assume? goes looking OK yep, I'll enable it and start re-training myself on that, for when I'm not on mac. It's not quite as quick for most of the things I need frequently, but seems tolerable. Remaining que
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yeah, I get there are other reasons people choose Linux—I do too, as I find Win10 intolerable as a working environment so if I'm not on Apple hardware, Linux is my only realistic option for getting things done while still being able to
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I have a suspicion the supply side of this market equation is artificially constrained by people who have an interest (social and financial) in keeping it so, and that is part of why we've seen CEO pay go up so much in the last few dec
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> Curious about this, since as far as audio goes, as long as there's PulseAudio on the system, all others tend to have compatibility with it in mind. There are hold-out ALSA users (even Linux OSS users still around, I think) and I g
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Look up how you type: those • characters I used in my post, an m-dash (—), a c-cedilla (ç), a german double-S (ß), basic accented characters for various Western European languages (we have many, many loan words and phrases from those in Eng

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