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Comment · 4 years ago
I don't think it's likely any time soon but forcing Apple etc to provide drivers would be a pretty natural extension of the 'right to repair' and other tech regulation demanding interoperability, to guarantee M1/M2/etc devices remain useful beyond their years of macOS support.
Comment · 4 years ago
Aside from utilities many games have lots of similar competing products where you can differentiate on permissions/ads/in-app purchases/etc: crossword puzzles, sudokus, games for younger kids like dress up or coloring in stuff.
Comment · 4 years ago
The permissions list allowed you to make a better-informed decision before you download the app, even though you can't change what permissions an app requires you could shop around for apps without specific permissions. This was never incompatible with ad-hoc approving or rejecting permissions either.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's unfortunate that regulators have largely overlooked privacy in smartphone apps amidst all the other concerns they have over such platforms.
Comment · 4 years ago
I like having hair but recently noticed mine is thinning now, it kind of sucks but we made it into our 40s so I think we got pretty lucky because at our age nobody is ever going to really care if we have hair or not. It doesn't even really disadvantage us, especially compared to the changes other people have to endure like obesity, amputation, heart attacks, strokes etc.
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Ugh. I really liked that "nutritional label" because the advance warning tells me upfront if the developer values my private data. I would prefer app stores be similar to health warnings on cigarette packets, because predatory data collection and billing practices are so entrenched.
Comment · 4 years ago
I have always loved this method of debugging because printing messages outputs a chronological summary spanning the entire execution, and only relevant information is included.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm looking forward to quitting the App Store once sideloading is allowed, once I can get my iPhone software from GitHub I won't go back to apps vacuuming up my data under Apple's oversight.
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I'm excited about this, I would love the IDE to move to the browser and have been a fan of the idea since the Cloud9 days. If browsers had a way to delegate their reserved keyboard shortcuts I would use web IDEs full time.
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Comment · 4 years ago
The lack of support for ePub is very annoying, when my 2013 Paperwhite finally breaks I'll definitely replace it with a non-Amazon ebook reader with better file support. Probably one with Android so it has proper browser support since there is a web frontend for Caliber and it might be nice to access Readarr directly too.

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