Lievelingsduif

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Comment · 4 years ago
Microsoft got attacked for Embrace, Extend and Extinguish.

Saying "for bundling an internet browser with their OS" is a massive understatement. They forced manufacturers to not only bundle their browser but would seize working with them if they bundled a competitors browser.

They also took deliberate steps to make sure their software didn't work on competitors machines. They acted like the competitors software was broken while it was simply a check to see if it was MS-DOS (see DR DOS).

Yes Apple should be slapped with an anti-trust case especially when iTunes was nearly the only place where you could buy music. But acting like Microsoft wasn't run by a bunch of anti-competitive pricks makes it look like we've already forgotten about the Halloween documents.

Comment · 5 years ago
The problem is that you're not a reviewer at apple, or an apple lawyer...
Comment · 5 years ago
Hackintoshes break the TOS last time I checked.

Some stuff can be built for Macs from Linux, stuff like the Godot game engine supports this.

It is however a guess if they're going to allow that build or not.

Comment · 6 years ago
Blender already has a solid and enthousiastic user base before the 2.7 UI update.

Blender was also the forerunner in having a kickstarter-like scheme to raise enough money to make it opensource.

There's an interesting interview between Ton Roosendaal and Blender Guru about the history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJEWOTZnFeg

The Blender guys were also a lot less hostile towards people trying to make improvements to stuff like UX.

One of the things that GIMP also desperately needs is a name change, while Blender is an odd choice it at least doesn't conjur up sexual images.

Comment · 6 years ago
Yet it's safe enough to send those 1,200 dollar stimulus cheques, right?
Comment · 7 years ago
Why not just use Youtube-dlg?

Does everything it needs to and doesn't require you to use electron.

Comment · 7 years ago
We're talking about 200 developers here.

If you truly have such a large corporation you would just host your own gitlab instance, right?

Comment · 8 years ago
I personally use keeanywhere to streamline my experience. It allows me to just log in and select my db
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Do you have a source for that? Because I can't really find a figure. Genuinely curious.
Comment · 8 years ago
Having used pages and word, please don't tell people to use Pages for everything.

It doesn't have the features you need when you're creating more complex documents. Last time I've used it it didn't even allow you to have different sections which allow you switch between the rotation of pages.

Comment · 8 years ago
I never really felt why I should log in to download free apps. I hate how software has to implement their own update mechanisms when there's a native alternative solution built in to the OS.

Which is a shame since I love using package managers on Linux.

Comment · 9 years ago
That's just plain old awesome. Thanks for this!
Comment · 9 years ago
I love the product you work on.

Partially hijacking your comment to say that an easy way to get the original assets in openrct 2 is to install the gog version through wine or play on Linux. Have played it a bit too much to say the least...

Comment · 9 years ago
If you go up the comment chain you can see a user saying

> I believe it requires Windows Media Play on all playback devices.

So in order to watch all the streams in your house you'd have to use WMP.

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