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bystevez67
2026 @12:50PM
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Attached to: Why It Is Difficult To Resize Windows on MacOS 26
I'm on 26.3 right now (developer beta) and I have used each iteration of 26 Tahoe along the way. I've had no problem resizing windows.
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bystevez67
2024 @02:36PM
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Attached to: OpenAI's Lead Over Other AI Companies Has Largely Vanished, 'State of AI' Report Finds
Kinda like the politicians we're saddled with
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bystevez67
2021 @10:37AM
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Attached to: Apple's $64 Billion-a-Year App Store Isn't Catching the Most Egregious Scams
Lots of "free" apps are trial period followed by automatic subscription renewal unless canceled. That's not a scam, it's failure on the part of the customer to actually read the terms of what they're downloading. Personally, I find the subscription cost of a lot of main-line software apps (Adobe, Micro$oft, etc.) to be exorbitant and they all auto-renew unless canceled, but they're not scams either.
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bystevez67
021 @01:21PM
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Attached to: User Says Apple Disabled His iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts After Payment To Apple Card Failed
The lesson here is to pay attention to your finances and update your payment information promptly when it changes. Why in the world would vendors continue to provide access or service more than 2 weeks after your payment failed and you made no attempt to update it?
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021 @01:17PM
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Attached to: User Says Apple Disabled His iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts After Payment To Apple Card Failed
I'm sure if your automatic payment fails to Epic, they'll disable your access as well.
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bystevez67
2021 @07:26AM
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Attached to: Dropping Nearly 20%, Bitcoin Suffers Worst Weekly Drop in a Year
Another story about the continuing saga of a digital pyramid scheme.
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bystevez67
2021 @02:23PM
(#61080526)
Attached to: Apple is Trying To Drag Valve Into its Ongoing Legal Battle with Epic Games, and Valve Wants Nothing To Do With It
Actually, Epic dragged Steam into the fray. Apple is retaliating, using Steam. Steam should direct it's angst toward Epic.
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bystevez67
16, 2020 @11:21AM
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Attached to: Developers Frustrated at Apple for Just One Day's Notice To Submit Apps Ahead of iOS 14 Release Today
" ... after not having released a new beta since the 25th of September!"
Today is Sept 15.
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bystevez67
2020 @01:36PM
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Attached to: Uber CEO Says Its Service Will Probably Shut Down Temporarily in California if It's Forced To Classify Drivers as Employees
After watching the "gig economy" for a few years I've come to the conclusion that it is just a pretty name slapped on traditional business models so they can pretend they're something new and inventive, under-pay employees, offer no benefits, scrape all the profits to the investors, and walk away when someone notices that they're a traditional business using semantics to try to avoid labor laws and legal responsibilities.
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bystevez67
0 @01:20PM
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Attached to: Emails Detail Amazon's Plan To Crush a Startup Rival With Price Cuts
Yea that works fine until the competition is gone and you find yourself paying twice the original price with no where else to turn to save money.
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bystevez67
020 @03:23PM
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Attached to: Apple Emails Reveal Internal Debate on Right to Repair
It's funny when people confuse "the manufacturer makes the device difficult to repair" with "the manufacturer make the device as compact and sturdy as possible." There's always the hint that a manufacturer goes out of their way to make devices difficult to repair.
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bystevez67
020 @01:44PM
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Attached to: Telegram Hits Out at Apple's App Store 'Tax' in Latest EU Antitrust Complaint
There is no change to paradigm; fees charged by tech companies is a fair, objective comparison. Any other basis of comparison would be subjective. And if a company wanted to make a computer that ran only proprietary software there's no law against that; the market sorts that out. As for “The OS is licensed and not sold therefore I don’t actually own anything I buy,” actually you own the device, even if it's little more than a paperweight without functioning software. And there's no law in the world that says someone who makes a device has to make it so it will run all software a user might want to use. The fact that an iPhone or a Pixel won't run a particular app doesn't equate to monopolistic practice; it's simply a limitation of the device.
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bystevez67
020 @11:21AM
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Attached to: Telegram Hits Out at Apple's App Store 'Tax' in Latest EU Antitrust Complaint
Apple's 30% fee on app developers is consistent with fees charged by other tech companies. Control of what's allowed (and not allowed) in a store is part of the store owner's right and responsibility. Delays to app updates due to app review processes are routine in the industry because reviews take time and developers don't always adequately address the store policies. An app store where developers could do as they please would be vastly more hostile to user privacy. Every store (digital or brick n mortar) gets full visibility of which products users are purchased as part of running a store.
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bystevez67
2020 @03:43PM
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Attached to: Federal Report Warns US is Unready For a Cyberattack
The administration hasn't prepared for much of anything that wasn't already prepared for by previous administrations, and has even degraded some preparedness (i.e. the pandemic preparedness). When everything bad that happens is a hoax, no preparations are made for anything.
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20 @04:10PM
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Attached to: Hack Turns Apple's iPhone Into An Android
Yes but they don't demand that Ford fix their GM-ified vehicle, or vice versa.
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