thoroughburro

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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
When you like something and want it to succeed, it’s discouraging to see that thing waste its resources. Especially if you contributed those resources. I never understood how this very simple position flies over certain heads.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
> I watch ten creators. I divide $10 per month between them evenly. They each get $1 per month. No, they don’t. How are you magically sending them this money? They all signed up for that method? And it doesn’t charge a minimum transfer f
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
Why do you think this?
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
> Am I using Apple TV? No. Is it really true that they removed the truncation indicator? Yes.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
> I have zero experience with these Then please realise your advice is completely unneeded and unhelpful.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
Orion
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
Yes, but that leaves almost everything anyone cares about. Everything except rendering.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
It doesn’t lose the tabs at the end of the tab list, for you? Tabs just disappearing after being opened is a daily issue, for me.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
> they've been powering through the five stages of grief in coming to terms with that If only! They trashed their reputation by lashing out at their own misapprehensions.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
It’s my experience that humans are far, far, far more trustworthy about their limitations than LLMs. Obviously, this varies by human.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
> Typst seems to be a cloud based solution with monthly fees? In the exact same way that git is: it isn’t, but one easy way to use it is.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
I’m surprised your projects aren’t plagued by massive waves of scraping traffic like the rest of us. Count yourself lucky, not superior.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
> inappropriately dressed How do you think Anubis should dress?
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
The author’s arguments explicitly don’t dispute plausibility. It accurately states that mere plausibility is a misleading basis for this report, but that the report provides nothing but plausibility, and thus is of low quality and dubious
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
Wikipedia is fine for that. My point is that “encyclopaedic information” is low-quality by necessity: there is no shortcut to truly expert information on a topic. Too many have convinced themselves they can find expertise without joining an
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
My appreciation of Wikipedia has decreased as my own expertise has increased. A long way before I’m anywhere near an expert on a topic, I begin to spot misleading inaccuracies in its Wikipedia articles. Most often, information that is decad
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
Your heuristic isn’t just coarse — it’s misleading.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
> I thought xbox was doing well? It very much isn’t.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
In the future, this majority who love the artificial pampering will vastly out-vote and out-influence us. I hope it won’t suck as bad as I predict it will for actual individuals.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
Do you think it’s risible to avoid pulling the wings off flies?
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
Or if you just pass through a US Walmart! Tony’s is everywhere, now.
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
> That's just a manner of speaking in former British colonies, or at least the subcontinent. Which is still a good example of when you shouldn't use passive voice. Clarifying where “optimising language to evade a responsibility
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by thoroughburro 10mo ago
> How much mundane (ie, non-suicidal) coercion of this nature is happening every day, but does not make the news because nothing interesting happened as a consequence? A lot. Have you never heard of the advertising industry?
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by thoroughburro 11mo ago
It doesn’t work well enough for the people who use it; false assumption. I use it, and it’s a cludge that I resent every time I have no other option.
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by thoroughburro 11mo ago
> as a Plex server Well, Jellyfin. Plex pulled a Slymology long ago.
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by thoroughburro 11mo ago
Synology has equivalent competition. Apple doesn’t.
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by thoroughburro 11mo ago
So, they’re at the phase of clawing back customer value to increase their profits. Enshittification is a bold strategy when you have solid competition.
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by thoroughburro 11mo ago
> If you have to power it down to swap out a drive there is a chance that your small problem becomes a larger one. What are you thinking of, here? Just a scary feeling?
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by thoroughburro 11mo ago
The curious child takes apart an animal and learns surgery. The animal, however, is nonetheless killed.
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by thoroughburro 11mo ago
They are referring to the bacteria we animals need to survive.

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