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19 @09:03AM
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Attached to: US Beekeepers Lost 40 Percent of Honeybee Colonies Over Past Year, Survey Finds
A German study in 2017 suggested that insect numbers have declined by 75% in the last 3 decades.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19...
I don't know about you, but I remember when you couldn't go out in summertime without encountering insects all the time, and you couldn't drive for an hour without getting your car splattered with bugs. It definitely seems to me like we have a lot fewer insects these days.
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019 @12:34PM
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Attached to: Microsoft Loses Control Over Windows Tiles Subdomain
hello.jpg on a million desktops
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bymetamatic
08, 2018 @09:41AM
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Attached to: Your Apple Products Are Getting More Expensive. Here's How They Get Away With It.
Motorola's handset update track record was spotty — my wife had one. Lenovo didn't sell their handsets in the US, or I'd have bought one, as I get discounts on Lenovo hardware.
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08, 2018 @08:56AM
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Attached to: Your Apple Products Are Getting More Expensive. Here's How They Get Away With It.
Android One wasnâ(TM)t around in the US until last year, and then only via Project Fi. Iâ(TM)d given up and switched by then. And Google still donâ(TM)t have anything like Android One for tablets.
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bymetamatic
2018 @11:32AM
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Attached to: Your Apple Products Are Getting More Expensive. Here's How They Get Away With It.
I use both on a regular basis, and Face ID is vastly more reliable than the fingerprint reader.
Dry skin from ambient weather? Sorry, your fingerprint isn't recognized. Damp skin from washing your hands? Sorry, your fingerprint isn't recognized. Got out of the pool less than an hour ago? Sorry, your fingerprint isn't recognized.
I thought Face ID was stupid until I used it.
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bymetamatic
2018 @10:40AM
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Attached to: Your Apple Products Are Getting More Expensive. Here's How They Get Away With It.
I was a happy Android user for 7+ years. But to reliably get OS updates and upgrades, and not have to put up with a botched Android UI and bloatware, that meant buying a Nexus phone and tablet. Which I did, every 2 years or so.
But then Google decided to give up on Android tablets entirely, and give up on mid-price phones. They jacked up their prices, and a Pixel 3 now starts at $799. Well, guess what, that's the same price as an iPhone XR. And Google's last Android tablet offering before they gave up was actually more expensive than an iPad. So I switched.
With computers, nobody else is even offering a good Unix-based computer. Linux isn't competitive -- I use it for work, but sound and video are still a dumpster fire and don't count on hibernation working as well as a Mac either. If I didn't need to edit 4K video and work on music, I'd probably buy a ChromeBook, and sales of ChromeBooks seem to suggest that indeed there's an underserved market there.
Basically, nobody is putting in the time and money to clean up Linux (or BSD) and offer systems where sound and video editing, hibernation, and all the other basic functionality of a Mac is right there and just works. If you want that, you either have to put up with Windows and its myriad deficiencies, or you have to buy a Mac.
I'm a little surprised that nobody's deliberately setting out to build laptops that have exactly the same hardware as a Mac and are perfectly suited to hackintosh use. Give me a laptop with a proper keyboard and hardware that all worked properly with macOS and I'd be very tempted.
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18 @03:39PM
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Attached to: Microsoft Re-Launches Its Classic 'IntelliMouse'
Kensington Expert Mouse.
Have been using them for 20 years.
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bymetamatic
2018 @11:27AM
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Attached to: Church Elder/'Jeopardy' Champion Charged With Computer Crimes
Is her husband's name Hugh?
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2018 @08:45PM
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Attached to: Google Rebrands All Its Payment Solutions As 'Google Pay'
They had an app which worked with others — Google Talk, using XMPP. They got rid of it, and eventually closed the XMPP gateway, at which point I stopped using their IM systems.
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bymetamatic
21, 2017 @02:04PM
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Attached to: Amazon Music Ending Cloud MP3 Storage, Streaming Option
Google Play Music is not integrated with Google Drive.
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bymetamatic
2017 @10:18AM
(#55701479)
Attached to: Apple Has Ruined Its Podcasts App
I tried Overcast for a while, but it didn't work for the way I listen to podcasts. I switched to Pocket Casts, which costs money but is awesome.
(No, I didn't write it.)
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30, 2017 @01:57PM
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Attached to: Wondering Why Your Internal<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.dev Web App Has Stopped Working?
And CERT has warned against using your own internal made-up top level domains...
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... ...which is why there's an RFC listing reserved top level domains you can safely use:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...
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2017 @11:04AM
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Attached to: Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C
He addressed that point. As you'd know if you'd read the fucking summary, let alone his article.
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2017 @07:13PM
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Attached to: Popular Firefox Bookmark Syncing Add-On Starts Losing... Bookmarks
XMarks kept duplicating my bookmarks and restoring old bookmarks I deleted. I eventually gave up on it and set up an instance of Shaarli to use.
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2017 @12:04PM
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Attached to: App.net is Shutting Down
Bingo. It was a closed proprietary system, just like Twitter, so nobody with any sense adopted it.
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