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- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 week ago:
Oh I don’t disagree, it is worth it. I ended up paying for it myself before I switched to Joplin. I just went down a rabbit hole of realizing I technically could self host the backend, stubbornly trying to make it work well well beyond what was good sense. 😅
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 1 week ago:
Sounds to me like Amazon is reducing the value proposition of their product. For me, additional roadblocks to being able to enjoy something they way I want when I have paid for it reduces the value of the product itself.
For example, if a DRM free book in an standards compatible format costs $20, then the DRM version I can still download for offline viewing is worth $10. The DRM version I can’t download is now worth more like $1-$5 depending on how badly I would want to read it while still supporting the author.
And yes, ebooks from the major sellers aren’t worth much to me and I rarely rent (because you’re not really buying) them.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 week ago:
It is a really good app. But was a pain in the ass to keep the archive in sync using multiple different platforms without paying for their sync addon in my experience. You can roll your own sync with stuff like Syncthing, cloud storage, etc. But the archive had a bad habit of seemingly finding ways to get out of sync.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 2 weeks ago:
Because X is owned by a pro-hitler probably Holocaust-denying shit heal.
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 2 weeks ago:
How quickly most companies have walked back all of the “moral” stances they have taken over the last few years, all within just a few weeks of the political winds changing, should be a lesson to everyone that there is no such thing as an ethical publicly traded company.
They will do what they think will make the most money from the shareholders, no matter what. If you want them too “pay”, the only choice is to stop giving them money.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 2 weeks ago:
There is a better chance that user reporting for this will be disabled more so than it is that this would make a difference. You know that right?
If this latest drama with Apple Maps (and Google Maps) is what pushes someone over the edge to looking for more user respecting options then the people further gone than I would really be comfortable getting used to. Both companies regularly do much more than should do more to turn you off.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
There might be things that are better these days in the technical sense. But there is always value in having something “good enough” that is freely available to use to keep those technically better yet more expensive options in check.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if this is still the case, but with Steam if you didn’t put the client into “offline mode” ahead of time the client wouldn’t open, let alone launch a game once the connection was lost.
- Comment on What do you use for notes? 4 weeks ago:
I use Joplin. They have a sync server you can host for yourself.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 1 month ago:
I couldn’t care less about 8k since I can’t even see streaming 4k content without using a platform infested with DRM.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 months ago:
But once its on why would you ever turn it off? /s
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 3 months ago:
I am less surprised that the information is out there than I am that the bodyguards of such people are allowed to either bring along their personal devices or install random crap from the public app stores on their work devices.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 4 months ago:
I never understand how people are surprised with this sort of thing happens.
They did something on company property that the company probably would not approve of and got let go for it. And it sounds like they seem to think they company should be providing space to do it.
People really should learn to keep their political opinions out of the office where your opinions might run counter to the person that controls your ability to pay your bills.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 months ago:
Phones are becoming less and less interesting by the day.
Once they get to the point were all of the options that don’t require incredibly inconvenient sacrifices in functionality to maintain the interesting stuff like a video game console then that will kill interest in the market for me.
If I can’t do anything besides basic smart phone crap I might as well just buy whatever has a good camera once every half decade or so and be done with it. So whatever top end thing Samsung or Apple are putting out.
I’m not sure Google has fully thought through what it means to just be a worse version of what Apple puts out, but with more ads.
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 4 months ago:
Interoperability is how we “seize the means of computation.”
Good luck with that. If the success of the iPhone has taught me anything it is that the average person loves them some incompatible with anything but itself vertical integration.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 4 months ago:
Anything related to healthcare has no business being any closer to the whims of “the market” than the public roads.
It would be unheard of for a government to stop maintaining a public road because whomever was supplying some ingredient of the asphalt said that particular mix is “to old and the new mix is not compatible with the roads created using the old mix”.
They don’t want to do it anymore, fine, then provide whatever is needed for someone else to maintain it for the cost of the materials to print/email/upload to GitHub the technical documents. It should not be legal to get someone hooked on your life altering medical device then rug pull them like this.
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- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 4 months ago:
Once ads are allowed into a platform they will ultimately be what destroys it eventually.
Might take a week or a decade. But the lust of that easy ad money will ruin the thing they were put there to fund in the end.
- Comment on Tony Hawk teases a new game: “there will be a future.” – WGB 4 months ago:
Tony Hawk pro wheelchairs
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 4 months ago:
I wonder how much longer it will be before Reddit has to start paying people to moderate the subreddits since no one will want to do it for free anymore.
Who am I kidding, there are so many people that are already taking their payment in the HOA like authority being a mod gives them that will never happen.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 5 months ago:
I honestly don’t see an issue with the people going back to the office because they want to work from there. I just want others to stop trying to force me to do the same.
This sort of thing seems to have always been a plague with a set of the extroverted sort. They seem to feel the whole world should for whatever reason cater to what makes them happy and us introverted types that do not like the social activities that they do should should be made to enjoy it. For our own good.
The older I get the less patience I have for those sorts of games. Which could become an issue for me professionally I suppose.
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 5 months ago:
There is something society could learn about itself if we spent anytime thinking honestly about how much of a dead end it is politically speaking to increase our use of nuclear power as a means of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Yet, when big corporate interests want it for their own reasons, it is no big thing and almost no politician will speak ill of it. Even though if some kind of disaster comes about because of it they will be left holding the bag of public opinion since that industry is so heavily regulated.
- Comment on Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals 5 months ago:
I watched a Hugh Jeffrey’s teardown video yesterday where he showed using a 9 volt battery to remove the iPhones battery. I have to say, that is pretty neat.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 5 months ago:
Youtube will not change until people stop using it, And people do not want to put up with the inconvenience of not having a Youtube type service again for the amount of time it would take for Youtube to change or a viable competitor to take their place, it really is that simple.
Is youtube and Google terrible? For sure, but it only got this way because the only backstop to holding them accountable, the consumer, has proven that they will choose putting up with shitty products and services in the name of convenience 9 times out of 10.
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 5 months ago:
Given how obviously impressionable and just not “on top of things” the politicians are in the US these days, I’m not sure someone could come up with a argument that convinced me that alien life with the ability to do interplanetary travel would waste their time trying to communicate with our leaders.
Within a day they would just decide to kill all of us for the safety of the galaxy.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 5 months ago:
Sounds like they are just pissed that he found a way to beat them at their own game.
- Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs 5 months ago:
Naturally the price for the cheapest model will also be going to up several orders of magnitude more than the cost of materials, labor, and healthy profit margin to account for that as well I’m sure.
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated 6 months ago:
Someone found something that still depends on the control panel that will not be easily moved or done away with I bet.
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 6 months ago:
Musk is learning the lesson Google and Youtube learned years ago with the “adpocalypse”. If the whole house of cards depends on ad dollars you have to keep them happy.
Unless Musk is going to take X (Twitter) completely subscription only, or fund it exclusively out of his own pocket, he is not going to get that “anything I want goes” utopia is is crowing about.
- Comment on Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
That stance will change if they ever get acquired. Might even get the chance to see James Cuda try and walk back this stance in a few years.