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Even if you want to buy pay-up-front apps/games it's frequetly a bad idea, there's no guarantee they won't put ads later, that the app will still work in a couple years, or that it'll continue to be updated at all if it doesn't make enough money I think the Darkest Dungeon port came out like 2 years ago and it was randomly broken by iOS 14 and hasn't been fixed despite a 'premium' price
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Sassafras posted:My wife's still addicted to words with friends... I think nearly ten years ago I was telling her to suck up the $1-3 for no ads and she always refused. this should ONLY be legal if after the 7 days it turns off ads and you get to choose the $13 a month option, because it’s so widely known so much of the money those companies make are from people forgetting to unsubscribe, and apple knows this and allows it and is complicit in this deeply amoral arm of capitalism i wonder if there’s money to be made with a service that costs $1/mo and it automatically subscribes from everything the moment before it costs you some of those apps charge over $100 for a12 mo sub. i don’t care if it’s technically a persons fault for accepting those terms and forgetting, the practice should be illegal
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Oct 7, 2020 05:40
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I think some games have already left apple arcade, I’d guess they sign contracts for set lengths of time or with an option to stay on or leave
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Oct 7, 2020 05:41
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with all the draconian app store rules i am disappointed that they still allow free apps that actually require subscriptions look at this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/math-learner-learning-game/id1148728253 would you be able to tell a subscription is required?
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Oct 7, 2020 06:11
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:with all the draconian app store rules i am disappointed that they still allow free apps that actually require subscriptions if that means getting rid of Netflix, sure
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Oct 7, 2020 06:46
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:with all the draconian app store rules i am disappointed that they still allow free apps that actually require subscriptions  yeah I’m not quite sure, are you certain you linked to an app that has a subscription?
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Oct 7, 2020 09:31
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you’re not wrong you’re just an rear end in a top hat - the app
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President Beep posted:the david carradine sex color 
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Oct 7, 2020 11:30
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echinopsis posted:this should ONLY be legal if after the 7 days it turns off ads and you get to choose the $13 a month option, because it’s so widely known so much of the money those companies make are from people forgetting to unsubscribe, and apple knows this and allows it and is complicit in this deeply amoral arm of capitalism  apple's new services business model is dependent on this behavior too
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Oct 7, 2020 17:03
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Amethyst posted:absolutely not. ALso they still exist on window 10, where they remain to suck It's almost like phones and desktops have different usage patterns and thus different UI paradigms are more appropriate. As cringey and stupid as those ads were about being able to quickly check your phone while you were at a soccer game or whatever, they were right. Live tiles and the rest of win phone UI (including notifications) were designed for information consumption, both in easily telling you if you had new things to consume and getting you that info quickly. That's why "number of emails that have arrived since you last looked at your email program" is far superior to "number of unread emails" for a badge. It directly tells you the relevant thing, rather than forcing you to remember what the number was before so you can mentally check if it changed. Who needs to open the weather app when it's right there? Who needs to open calendar when your next meeting is right there on your home screen (or the lock screen so you don't even have to open your phone)? They were both more information dense and even better organized than whatever the hodge podges are that ios and android have now.
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i agree with havelock re: live tiles otoh, if your number of unread messages is sufficiently large that you can't tell at a glance if it's changed, it probably doesn't matter if it changed
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every mac with the t2 """""""security""""""" chip is now unfixibly hackable https://www.wired.com/story/apple-t2-chip-unfixable-flaw-jailbreak-mac/ apple is the worst at security and it isn't even close lol
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it need physical access, its pretty low on the scale of hack-ability
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Oct 7, 2020 21:56
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TOOT BOOT posted:I think the Darkest Dungeon port came out like 2 years ago and it was randomly broken by iOS 14 and hasn't been fixed despite a 'premium' price Apple's lovely backwards compatibility isn't anything new, and devs aren't obligated to maintain things forever for free. I know nobody was gaming on Mac OS, but now most of the old stuff that ran happily on integrated graphics can't run at all because there were never 64-bit binaries built.
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Oct 7, 2020 22:00
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yeah, t2 thing is not a huge deal, in that i think just about all secure enclaves have turned out to not be very.
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Oct 7, 2020 22:09
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Twerk from Home posted:Apple's lovely backwards compatibility isn't anything new, and devs aren't obligated to maintain things forever for free. They're not but the end result is that I basically stopped buying apps except maybe once a year, and I don't have any ad-supported apps either
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Oct 7, 2020 22:15
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TOOT BOOT posted:They're not but the end result is that I basically stopped buying apps except maybe once a year, and I don't have any ad-supported apps either web technologies for all
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Oct 7, 2020 22:27
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havelock posted:
do you think maybe its important to actually read emails sometimes. like, not having read them may cause consequences like 'losing your job', so its worth knowing how many emails you haven't looked at yet OTOH, a live tile or badge which showed both would be great - unread, new since you last unlocked your phone/looked at this tile (using magical eye tracking or w/e)
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Oct 7, 2020 23:16
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unless your org is giant and sends a bunch of irrelevant poo poo + transactional emails that never need to be read
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Oct 7, 2020 23:20
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Any email that doesn’t have your name on the To: line should go directly into the trash.
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Oct 7, 2020 23:24
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:yeah, t2 thing is not a huge deal, in that i think just about all secure enclaves have turned out to not be very. really this just means you can run arbitrary unsigned code without downgrading the security first. Still no access the secrets, still no FileVault keys (unless you slipped in in a keystroke logger).
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Oct 7, 2020 23:39
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lol why would I get work emails to my phone
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Oct 7, 2020 23:39
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Twerk from Home posted:Apple's lovely backwards compatibility isn't anything new, and devs aren't obligated to maintain things forever for free. I own a copy of Duskers I can’t play currently because it’s 32-bit (though why someone was making a 32-bit game in 2016 I don’t know. Though the same could be said of Apple dropping 32 bit support). No chance for an update because the dev team broke up right after release. TOOT BOOT posted:They're not but the end result is that I basically stopped buying apps except maybe once a year, and I don't have any ad-supported apps either Same. I would even pay for a new version but what usually happens is the app is just abandoned. e.g. Editorial which hasn’t been updated in forever.
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infernal machines posted:i agree with havelock re: live tiles yeah it does. i get loads of crap i dont care about and im never gonna read and plenty of stuff i am gonna read.
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Oct 8, 2020 00:42
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TOOT BOOT posted:They're not but the end result is that I basically stopped buying apps except maybe once a year, and I don't have any ad-supported apps either the app store has been dead for like 6 years now
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Oct 8, 2020 00:50
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Gentle Autist posted:do you think maybe its important to actually read emails sometimes. like, not having read them may cause consequences like 'losing your job', so its worth knowing how many emails you haven't looked at yet even if this is true, I morally object to it, and live my life according to my values
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Oct 8, 2020 00:54
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the worst thing about live tiles is that they make the home screen visually different. This is terrible becuase the main point of the home screen is to select what you actually want. having to mentally re-orient when you look at it is fundamentally bad
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Oct 8, 2020 01:13
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Twerk from Home posted:I know nobody was gaming on Mac OS, but now most of the old stuff that ran happily on integrated graphics can't run at all because there were never 64-bit binaries built. Apple has had 64 bit computers for like seventeen years. since before the intel transition.
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Endless Mike posted:lol why would I get work emails to my phone i can't imagine having work email on my phone let alone an unread count or notifications the only time you should even consider that work email exists is when you're in front of your work computer getting paid to touch it
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Last Chance posted:unless your org is giant and sends a bunch of irrelevant poo poo + transactional emails that never need to be read then leave them unread and just trash them it's actually easier than it sounds!
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Oct 8, 2020 02:08
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Oct 8, 2020 02:10
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why would ever not do mail filtering
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rjmccall posted:why would ever not do mail filtering It's the "programming the clock on the VCR" of younger millennials and beyond.
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lol if you read emails if anything in there actually matters, they’ll let you know. this very rarely happens
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lol seriously, children, learn to use mail rules. make mailboxes for things, then have your awesomely powerful computer apply blindingly simple rules to move things into those mailboxes automatically. it is shocking how much better your life will be. people will sign you up for terrible mailing lists full of things you don’t give a poo poo about, and you will unsheathe your katana and spend a minute adding a new rule and then completely forget about it forever. every time you find yourself getting annoyed by email, it’s because you haven’t added new mail rules recently
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Shaggar posted:i think the core problem is the way apple handles notifications and encourages others developers to handle notifications is completely loving stupid. In ios every notification stays with you forever until you manually remove it from your notification list. their idiotic design philosophy is that nothing should ever be missed even if the notification was only relevant for 15 seconds 2 weeks ago. this is hilariously wrong, even considering how much ios sucks. i did the transfer from Wunderlist to Microsoft To-Do, because i had no choice since microsoft bought Wunderlist on the To-Do app, the loving notification disappears at 12:00 AM. i have never, ever in my life see an app do that before. that means someone like me that works a lot of rotating shifts, if I have a reminder at 11:45 PM to get milk on my way home, the reminder literally loving disappears 15 minutes later. i would have had to have been looking at my phone in that EXACT 15 minute window to know i needed to pick up milk. reminders are there to REMIND you to do poo poo. gently caress this "simplification" or "digital detox" stupid feel-good bullshit. reminders/notifications should be right in your loving face because that's the entire goddamn purpose of them. otherwise take every sticky note you ever put on your fridge, even ones with reminders you haven't gotten to yet, and put them all in an envelope and on a shelf on your basement instead if microsoft's method is so loving fantastic gently caress microsoft To-Do. what a piece of poo poo. thank loving god they aren't making phone OSes. Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Oct 8, 2020 |
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more like blunder pissed
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The Management posted:Apple has had 64 bit computers for like seventeen years. since before the intel transition. the fact that everyone spent a decade targeting 32-bit osx even though 32-bit intel mac hardware effectively didn't exist is the most baffling thing
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