axelthegerman

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Comment · 5 days ago
Hard for me to get excited about these anymore.

Apple software is getting worse every day and while they're not Google or Microsoft they're getting more user hostile at every turn as well.

The lengths they go through to prevent you from doing what you want on their (not your) devices is astonishing.

Very happy with my framework running fedora for many years now... Sure it's not an M1000 but it's almost as good and properly mine

Comment · 15 days ago
Sure except that I got a defective product and could only return it or exchange for something different... What a joke.

Besides Amazon's own faults the rest of the return process is actually good.

Still all paid for by high prices on EVERY purchase

Comment · 22 days ago
> where I live there were only 2 ways for achieving a diet satisfying simultaneously 3 criteria without including meat

If you want the same price or cheaper than meat, why not eat meat then?

I'm celiac, I cannot eat gluten and a GF diet can be up to 600% the price of a gluten diet - too bad for me (but not just because of the price)

Comment · 22 days ago
Thank you for linking this, the price increase was indeed communicated to me directly via email but not very clearly

> The price is updating to $1.65/month, billed annually.

Followed by a 25% discount for this reveal only.

Have to go back to my old invoice to see it was $10/y and now the new one $19.80/y

I never liked that I needed to pay premium just for 2FA but this abuse of trust is definitely the end of it.

Too bad I won't get a refund for my Oct 1st renewal but I'll happily cancel as soon as I get vaultwarden hosted.

Comment · 1 month ago
Or maybe the majority of people buying a new damn phone every other week just prefer it'd be a tablet
Comment · 2 months ago
We really don't. If that finally does happen, people are quick to adapt to change it will use one of the many alternatives, maybe even one that's interoperable or open so we're not in the same mess five years later
Comment · 4 months ago
Unfortunately for the foreseeable future you'd need a cheap Android or iOS device for those apps and whatever you want as daily driver.

I don't think you NEED to open your online banking on your phone every day. Just use cash and cards.

2FA should be easily available on any OS

Comment · 5 months ago
Also should have been easy to design an OAuth like flow where the government that seems to care so damn much about age verification to attest someone's age in a privacy respecting way - only yes/no if the person is of the desired age.

But then again if it was to protect children, better support for voluntary age control would be so much more useful as most minors use devices managed/owned by their parents.

But then similar to cookie banners it is just about enabling surveillance

Comment · 6 months ago
Try writing your own code like it's 2025
Comment · 6 months ago
Great explanation, very reasonable.

Except that before they did and then they didn't without any proper notification (release notes don't count for significant changes like this).

They should have just added a pop up or at least email or both, given a heads-up and then again when the change actually kicked in

Comment · 6 months ago
Works so great on new devices like smartphones. Except not.

And so easy to set up on a home computer. Except it's not always on and doesn't come with backups.

I'm not saying S3 is where it's at but might need a bit more than just Samba. Or maybe you don't but people who need Dropbox do.

Comment · 7 months ago
And most folks getting stuff done with Rails ain't be filling out surveys to boost their stack - or maybe that's just me.

So everyone just stop worrying what everyone else thinks or seems to think and just use the right tools for you and get on with it

Comment · 8 months ago
I hope they'll execute this one well.

Have been waiting for a wallet product from Stripe for a while, but maybe less juicy margins than on top of credit card fees?

Comment · 8 months ago
And how great it will be to troubleshoot any issues because everyone is basically running a distinct piece of software

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