Brkdncr
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- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
They literally couldn’t pay the devs. Netflix for instance flat out refused to have blackberry pay for 2 full time devs to maintain an app.
Netflix looked at the market share and determined that there was 0 benefit. The people that were on blackberry devices already had a Netflix account.
Additionally Blackberry store apps were compelling for devs. Dev feedback included ease of development and more importantly they made a lot more money on the blackberry store than on iOS/android, both because the cut was better and they could jack the prices up because the customers were not nearly as frugal.
To get into mobile would require a massive overhaul of windows apps to get them mobile-friendly
Oh look, that’s exactly what they did and now we have PWAs for lots of apps. Maybe MS is getting ready to take a stab at mobile again.
- Comment on Drug mimics exercise in mice, raises metabolism, increases endurance, burns fat 1 year ago:
Why is science trying to make gym-bro mice?
- Comment on Part of why internet search sucks is that many gave up trying in the face of Google. 1 year ago:
Did you sleep through the search engine wars? Not a single search engine was good. There were sites dedicated to sending your search to all of the search engines at once.
Google showed up and it was game over. Their ad sales took off, and then they came out with gmail with 1gb of free storage and everyone went nuts for it since trying to stay under 15mb for your local isp was a pain in the ass.
Google disrupted very hard and continued to do so in many ways for a long time.
- Comment on Is it possible to have privacy in a modern car? 1 year ago:
Not yet, but as modern cars break down and people figure out how to strip it to a working chassis and drivetrain without dependence on other components, you’ll see some neat things.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years 1 year ago:
I get it. MS has a “free” rich text editor, it’s Word online. You can easily install any other simple rich text editor (is abiword still a thing?) on Windows. Wordpad probably has minimal usage.
- Comment on How did we come to say something courteous to someone after they’ve sneezed 1 year ago:
Sneezing was a symptom of plague.
- Comment on Is there something wrong my AC? It’s a 1 year old unit and it can’t seem to keep up. For reference it is a high of 92 F today 1 year ago:
You can’t “run the heat pump and a/c at the same time” because it’s a single unit. There’s a valve that slides when powered to switch the hot side with the cold side. That’s literally the only difference between a/c and a heat pump.
- Comment on Is there something wrong my AC? It’s a 1 year old unit and it can’t seem to keep up. For reference it is a high of 92 F today 1 year ago:
While correct, you usually see only a 20 degree difference, that’s between the intake and exhaust. Since it’s recirculating the air that should be able to bring the cooled air down further.
- Comment on Disabling Intel’s backdoors on modern laptops 1 year ago:
Enterprise. Intel has a tool that lets you use it but other management services like SCCM and landesk have methods to use amt/vpro.
- Comment on Slack Vs Microsoft Teams — Which App Is Better For Your Privacy & Security? [Mozilla Foundation] 1 year ago:
At the enterprise level with teams you can bring your own key. If you want to remove MS’s access to your data you just remove the key and it’s effectively gone.
Does slack have something like this?
- Comment on “We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge 1 year ago:
3tb of unprotected data? And it’s the 2nd time it’s happened? Raid1 has existed for a few years and seems pretty reliable.
- Comment on Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users 1 year ago:
Can someone normalize facebooks active use chart over the same time range?