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by spanhandler 6y ago
> This is the one major difference I'd say is not currently common on Linux. Could be easily solved by keeping package list databases in $HOME - the only reason root is required nowdays is because these are usually kept as 1 copy pe
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I benefit from competition between app providers in a variety of ways on the App Store, just not competition on payment methods. That competition is provided by Android—if that weren't around, and thriving, I'd worry a lot more ab
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by spanhandler 6y ago
• Nothing available that's as lightweight and good as Apple's "office"-type suite. • Nothing as all-around good as Preview (yes, seriously). • Worse battery life, partly due to worse OS optimizations and partly due to no
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by spanhandler 6y ago
It's nice to have one part of my life where I don't have to figure out who to ask for a refund if things go sideways, wonder how much of a hassle that'll be, and don't even have to think about whether a transaction is re
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by spanhandler 6y ago
You may not have worked at or know many people who work at sufficiently boring workplaces. It's the default at those, and that's... most workplaces, among the ones big enough to have this kind of thing. "Training" from H
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Oddly enough, my favorite package management experiences, by far, have been Homebrew on Mac and Portage on Gentoo. Talk about polar opposites. I do think, unfortunately, that the experience of a very stable base of macOS with Homebrew on to
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by spanhandler 6y ago
1) Rarely breaks. Worst I've seen is needing a permissions tweak after an OS upgrade, in many years of use. Back when I switched from Macports I switched because ordinary usage kept rendering Macports so goddamn broken that it was easi
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I admit I've not checked and have just assumed the package list is both ideologically- and mindshare-crippled, due to the GNU on the name and the seemingly low rate of use, respectively. Nb I think free software goals are great and all
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by spanhandler 6y ago
They keep spending effort/money on projects competing with something Red Hat's doing, then getting trounced by Red Hat—sometimes politically, sometimes technically, sometimes both—but continuing to spend effort/money long aft
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Pollute your mount list and make your software start way slower and take up more space. Also sometimes break or require intervention for basic operation due to security restrictions on it. The benefits are supposed to be that they're m
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by spanhandler 6y ago
As a user, I'm torn. I want to see enough pressure put on Apple that their app store cut is reduced, and ideally (though somewhat unrelated to this) the store experience for users improves. But I definitely don't want to see more
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by spanhandler 6y ago
This sorts of stuff is very often experienced by staff as lame box-ticking exercises they have to suffer through annually or quarterly, put together by people who spend most of the time keeping their chair from floating to the ceiling, an
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yes but would they be the right people? You know. The right ones. Who are friends with members of the board, and are therefore already rich enough and socialized such that they can be friends with members of the board.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I don't get why we decided at some point you need someone anointed with CEO Fairy Dust to be CEO. I 100% guarantee the job is not so damn hard, subtle, or complex that practically no-one on Earth can do it. There are probably 20 people
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by spanhandler 6y ago
It's a very "loud" piece of software. Messages about various things they want me to try (ads), tabs popping up with a fancy page telling me the browser updated (this might be OK if it happened like twice a year, but it's
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by spanhandler 6y ago
It’s pretty weird how the browser took off (and IMO was at its best) before most (all?) of these roles were involved, isn’t it?
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I don’t want to jump into this particular garbage fire, but the answer to your second question (and implicitly your first) is in the post you’re responding to.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Right, but the other 99.9% of people don’t go to a “good” college. Plenty of ones that are considered quite good by the Little Folk—the mere commoners—can be attended with grades far from a 4.0 and nothing special in the extracurriculars de
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Well I wrote not React Native for mobile dev, but I'm the wrong person to ask in any case. I learn best by starting a project with something I'm totally unfamiliar with and just... going. In fact I find learning other ways almos
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Sure? Is the objection just that you'd prefer laws to social pressure?
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Oh, yeah, just DDG'd it because I was curious whether Android had it now and all I could find were a bunch of "good news, now you can get live photos on your Android phone with a third party app!" hits. Cool that they have it
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yeah, I think Russell got this one wrong and Vonnegut got it right. Consuming-all, creating-none became normal because of mass media. Its availability drove down the social value of playing on an unremarkable, very-local sports team, or pla
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Heavily testified as a norm in early 20th century film, though of course that doesn't mean it was in reality.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Hell I've seen women this century hit guys pretty hard just to say "hello" or because they disagree about where the guy wants to go eat or something else entirely trivial. Similar is all over TV, so common it passes below the
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Overreach in what sense? What's... I dunno, standard-length reach for labor action?
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I live in the Midwest, in a heavily car-dependent city, and even here Home Depot and Lowes deliver. There's a fee but unless you're doing it like every week it's gonna be cheaper than owning a truck (this tends to be true of
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> They managed to design for a relatively uncommon use case (QWERTY typists who type in Spanish and French), and basically got it right the first time. Kinda, but you do need those to type fluently in English, too, which isn't an
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Parent here. I won't buy a phone that doesn't have a good camera and take "live photos". The camera is the only reason I've not looked into getting rid of my smart phone entirely. I'd have to find some way to k
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by spanhandler 6y ago
As an on-again-off again user (currently on-again but today here I am googling WebKit-based Linux browsers) who hasn't loved FF since 2.0, it looks like they're spending a shitload on UI fiddling and marketing/messaging of
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> Pardon my french but fuuuuuck. Ditto. If Mozilla were on fire and I had time to save one thing, my selfish but unhesitating choice would be MDN. I figured they'd shrink and, given their long-standing apparent mismanagement and baf

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