2xsaiko
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- Comment on After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS 1 week ago:
But look at the typical apple user. Do you think they’re going to be happy without the apple experience?
The Apple experience = locked down devices? If people (and Apple) stopped fearmongering about “security” or whatever, yeah they would, or at worst they wouldn’t care. I’d certainly welcome being able to publish apps on my terms, and being able to install what I want.
Some things are for you, other things are NOT for you. Letting both exist is an option.
That’s exactly the point. You don’t have to use the parts of a theoretical more open ecosystem if you don’t want to, you can keep using exclusively the official Apple stuff. But it creates more choice for the user if it exists.
- Comment on Apple TV+ is painful as fuck 1 week ago:
Apple is incompetent at writing software for anything but their own devices. iCloud Web is also a disaster for example, and the old iTunes for Windows is infamous for being a buggy mess. Though I have to say they did a good job with the new web Apple Maps.
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 1 week ago:
Sure. It paints a very vivid picture, I love it.
Never read anything by Dickens before except for A Christmas Carol (and that was for school) but this is now on my reading list :^)
- Comment on Anon hasn't given up hope 2 weeks ago:
It works pretty well for image editing as well, at least the type I do. I’ve started using it mainly for that instead of GIMP (mainly because GIMP’s Mac version doesn’t work nearly as well as on Linux and I want to use both)
The lack of green pepper brush is a big downside though.
- Comment on GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I did it exactly once, on vacation, while I didn’t have internet connection/didn’t want to waste the rest of my data, and wanted to import photos to my MacBook to edit them. It was fast enough on the Lightning connector.
This is a complete non-issue especially since faster hardware would probably be more expensive. Apple has enough actual issues that are more important such as repairs, RAM pricing, sideloading, …
- Comment on Chat is this real 3 weeks ago:
I asked Gemini and it said “A reddit user wrote, ‘Kill yourself.’” Sounds like a yes for me too!
- Comment on The Source 3 weeks ago:
“can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters”
- Comment on Rest in peace 3 weeks ago:
Holy shit. I need to start saying this
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered troubleshooting 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much only games that were made pre-permission restrictions on Program Files because they try to write to the install folder. I think that was added around XP/Vista. Anything remotely recent shouldn’t have this problem (especially if it’s the default install directory).
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 1 month ago:
Absolutely, I hate this shit. It feels incredibly fake and overbearing if it’s an automatic/“broadcast” message.
Sometimes it’s designed so that it’s actively dangerous too. I said “Siri, kill me” to my phone and it started calling emergency services. Are they trying to get people fined for abuse?
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 1 month ago:
It really doesn’t hurt to know a bit of the IPA, at least the characters for your own language… I see so many horrible phonetic “transcription” “systems” people use when describing how to pronounce a word, it’s crazy
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 1 month ago:
Since you mentioned Chinese, there’s also an interesting thing in languages that have Chinese characters as their writing system origin and use names based on it (Chinese languages of course, Japanese, Korean and I think also Vietnamese) where names of historical or important people are translated via their written form and not their pronunciation. For example, the Japanese prime minister Ishiba Shigeru 石破茂 is called 石破茂 (shí pò mào) in Mandarin, written with the same characters. (Been a while since I read about this so I forgot the examples where the name is pronounced significantly different and in all of these languages but this is a good enough example)
- Comment on What do you think are some strategies trumps Russian handlers use to get that bafoon to do what they want? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
8 points! 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20
- Comment on Why Titles Are Written Like This? 2 months ago:
It’s certainly not a universal thing either, no other language I know does it.
Once I asked on linguistics (or maybe English language) stackexchange about the origins of it, but it got deleted as duplicate of a related but definitely different question. Most satisfying stackexchange interaction
- Comment on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users 2 months ago:
It solves encrypted RCS being a Google extension. Hooray for standards.
- Comment on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users 2 months ago:
Hell yeah
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 2 months ago:
RIP bozo. I should play this soon before they get nuked legally, huh. I’ve heard it’s good.
- Comment on It works for anything 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 months ago:
You can install AdGuard on iOS, it will at least block ads in the browser.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 2 months ago:
The server list is still there fwiw. But yeah the matchmaking update was awful.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Swift is pretty close. I’ve been trying it out recently after writing years of Rust and it’s been great so far (and pretty much completely eliminates the big tooling complaints I have about Rust…).
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 3 months ago:
It’s slow but stagnation is a disingenuous way of putting it. www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
NAT brings no security, especially in this scenario. If you want to prevent malicious software from opening ports, you use a public facing firewall on your gateway. Which you should have for IPv4 as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I can speak a bit, I’ve been learning Russian for a bit more than a year at uni. I actually wanted to take it in high school already but they didn’t have it where I went, I had to take French.
Я немного говорю по-русски, учу язык немного более, чем год в универе. В гимназии на самом деле уже хотел принять класс, но там не был а вместо должен был принять класс о французском языке.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
All of the names containing “rus”/“русь”^1^ ultimately come from Русь from where Russia and Belarus both inherit their names.
So, the name of the country Belarus literally means “White Rus”, and it seems like the Dutch word I assume you’re talking about for the country (Wit-Rusland) was borrowed from the Russian word белоруссия and (incorrectly, I guess?) translated as white (бело) + Russia (руссия) despite the “руссия” also in this word referring to Rus and not Russia (spelled differently as Россия).
^1^ the word Россия, too, but from what I can find it is borrowed from Greek and the others including Русь from Arabic, hence the different vowel
- Comment on New social experiment 4 months ago:
Documents and Settings
- Comment on New social experiment 4 months ago:
nix
- Comment on New social experiment 4 months ago:
Macintosh HD
