deftturtle

Exactly what I’m wondering. It’s not even a real fight when you know it’ll be deleted.

The internet today vs 12 years ago seems heavily biased towards video content. Different landscape, where Facebook and Google/YouTube now account for a majority of all internet traffic. If YouTube manipulates people, they’ll lose support and maybe risk a lawsuit. I’m not very familiar with the specifics here, but YouTube is the dominant video platform. If Facebook cleaned up their design and embraced an open web with public links, they could probably destroy YouTube.

I would like Apple to sell e-ink or Qualcomm's mirasol displays, so we could swap them and save power. Would be amazing. I generally have enough ambient light to see my screen. And I don't want to use my phone at night anyway.

Everyone is whining about cost but ignoring the fact that someone is trying to innovate in this space. Who cares what it costs. They're pushing something out, and eventually if Apple and other major manufacturers offer low power displays, people will appreciate the option.

Apple doesn't fully support PWAs. If they embraced it enthusiastically, I think then we'd have a great experience.

For some context, I have been banned from taking photos at athletic events at my private college, but they have done so without following any legal or disciplinary procedures. And a separate issue is the NCAA's deliberate misinterpretation of its bylaws, which must be settled in a court.

> Essentially, if you believe in the rule of law and democracy, the government is simply ourselves, getting collectively together to fix something.

Rule of law being the key part. The U.S. has no rule of law, and our legal system doesn't punish those in power or those with money. For some relevant reading, I recommend Greenwald's book, With Liberty and Justice for Some.

People who come from DSLRs and then whine about Sony ergonomics should give film cameras a fair shake. I think it's a familiarity thing, and most people shoot zooms from what I've seen. After shooting film cameras predominantly for over a year, my transition to a Sony a7 has been amazing. It's so tiny that it fits in my jacket chest pocket. Small camera means I have it with me more often and can take more photos. In terms of size and balance, I find it similar to my film kits.

Try shooting prime lenses instead of zooms. By cutting down your lens, you have to change your image by walking around instead of zooming, and I find it to be a more pleasant experience. Besides, primes have a faster max aperture than zooms, so they are amazing in low light. Zooms are distracting, heavy, and obnoxious. Useful for sports and potentially some journalism, but for portraits, art, and street shooting, a few primes are my favorite way to go. 28mm, 40mm, and maybe up to an 85. But I tend to stick with 40mm and 57mm primes for a day out on the street. Quite compact, especially the 40mm.

You can trigger shutter via headphone button, so there's a way to also trigger a flash... would just be complicated. Or use slaves to detect the phone's built in flash, but cover it to dim the light. Then your off camera flashes will overpower the phone's flash.

Misleading title. Implication is that Romans don't clean their anus as thoroughly by not using toilet paper. But it turns out they use a brush to clean. Amazing.

Animals don't use toilet paper or bidets.

Apple willingly permits any application to subvert user control. You can't record your iPhone screen trough the lightning connection while using Netflix app. You can't send a fake GPS signal to apps, give fake contact files, or lie to your software. And you can't play background audio, because fundamentally Apple doesn't put user freedom first. I find it bizarre that an application on my phone could choose to not play my audio in the background.

If you can't lie to your software, then it controls you, and you have no power. Apple could do more in this aspect for control.

BRING BACK FIREFOX OS

I already suspected this due to getting more posts from my friends based on who I texted, and they were Android users. It's fucking annoying. Also, using the same wifi network leads to getting friend suggestions

waiting for a new site to spring up in response...

I've never used Zelle and was quite annoyed when they were injected into my banking data. Very shady nonsense from the big banks. I ended up closing my Bank of America account for other reasons, but suffice it to say BofA is horrible. All major banks are engagd in rampant thievery with their high fees and perverse incentives. The Wells Fargo scandal demonstrates that perfectly.

> too white

Many non-white people live in Portland. Educate yourself.

Is this something new? Or is it old news? If nothing has changed, it's unusable for much of the United States. I live in rural Oregon, and it could be a helpful service. Last I checked, it was restricted and not available.

is anyone actually surprised? LinkedIn is even more hostile than Facebook. scum of the earth.

This article was painful to read. Am I on the science side of Buzzfeed? /s

Page loads < 600ms on mobile are a non-issue. All of the RTT talk and TTFB is not worth the tradeoff. If we can have this paradise where all content is prefetched and served/encrypted from Google to only save a fraction of a second, it isn't worth the sacrifice of freedom.

I'll take 500ms page loads any day when the content comes from the true origin. I don't want 60ms responses from a Google server when I'm trying to use the internet.

Why not just make google the internet?? There's power and freedom to be had when publishers aren't tied to a tech behemoth.

From a cursory scan of the comments, it looks like people are frustrated about not having control over their devices. Right now, iOS and Android control the user, restricting freedom and choices. For example iOS won't let me record my screen while the Netflix application is running. Clearly this is to protect DRM interests, but the principle is that Apple has ultimate control over how my iPhone behaves. I cannot provide a false GPS location to apps. I can't lie about battery level. I can't lie about notification permissions or fool applications. We need to be able to lie to our devices to have freedom and control them.

So back to how this relates to an Android being tied to Google Play: you as the user don't have ultimate control over your device. And that means you don't fully own your device.

That's my perception of the main issues with control from Apple and Google. Lots of great software and hardware being produced, but we need to have more power over the operation of our gadgets.

I tried installing ML on my T5, but then it was stolen by roommates. How long have they supported T5i? It seemed to be a very convoluted process, and I had no luck, but also mine was T5, not T5i.

> how little sense it makes economically at this point.

Please elaborate.

Exactly

Exactly. I quit a job where I was paid minimum plus tips, but it's not enough. The restaurant should pay more than minimum wage.

Profits should be split, regardless of how tips are handled.

They try to keep the cost of food at 30%, as is common in business. COG around 1/3 or less.

So when we have a really busy night, there is excess profit relative to the amount of tips.

Assuming tips are a constant percentage of sales, the amount we earn extra is proportionate to sales.

But there is a certain minimum number of sales the owner must reach to break even. At a certain volume, profit accelerates further, but tips are still relatively constant.

So my desire would be for a restaurant to split excess revenues more equitably in addition to whatever baseline wage they set.

Oh deer, macaque.

I think they were just trying to contribute to the discussion. Why assume a hostile position towards the comment?

Not sure why you're being downvoted. I entirely agree with everything you've said.

For anyone not aware, Apple is extremely hostile to device longevity and 3rd party repair [1]. They have had issues with hinge design in MacBooks as well as the Bendgate crisis for the iPhone 6 series.

They bricked phones when people had other repair shops fix their home buttons (Touch ID sensors).

Apple wants to control everything, sell you a device with a short lifespan, and then force upgrades.

1 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=26cNHSilikI

Every week I have another reason to be thankful that I didn't upgrade to iOS 11. But those bastards keep downloading the update to my phone and then telling my that I'm running low on free space. Cannot stand the way Apple treats users.

Lol how in 2017 our yardstick of bad performance is fans kicking in. If even a 2013 can't handle code from today, that's way too complex and computationally demanding.