tjhart85

joined 2 years ago
[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

On Android you can install unapproved apps and even entire app stores. The barrier to having people install your app is a couple of taps (approximately as difficult as it'd be on Windows when you've got to approve UAC a time or two).

So, it is kind of ridiculous in comparison that they lost but Apple with an entire walled of ecosystem that you can't bypass without finding a zero day exploit won their case.

With that said, I know a lot of people who only buy Apple BECAUSE of that walled off ecosystem and conversely I know people that primarily buy Android for their relatively open system, so I'm in the minority where I think neither Google nor Apple should have to change in this particular regard. Both companies suck, but charging the same price they always have for their app store isn't the issue I'd fight them over.

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Blockbusters mail rental service was amazing since if you returned the movies to the store instead of mailing them they counted as a free in store rental coupon AND would flag the movie as returned and prep the next set to be sent to you. They were slower than Netflix but if you were willing to go into Blockbuster, it was crazy worth it.

I had Netflix and Blockbuster and a huge rotation of DVDs coming and going.

I didn't have time to actually watch anything I was ripping, lol, but it was fantastic to expand the collection.

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 59 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's the key needed to unencrypt a video DVD, it's how people were able to make duplicates of DVDs. This was technically illegal to use thanks to the DMCA, but not illegal to know, so people had fun with it and plastered it on T-shirts, mugs, etc...

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

FYI Kindles now support ePub natively and it's fixed a lot of the random issues that used to occur with the spacing and such with no need to convert into AZW3 first (they recently dropped support for AZW ... at the same time they added ePub). It helps that I get everything I can in ePub format or convert to it when I can't.

All in all though, as long as we're all happy with our workarounds, it's all good :-)

I kinda like that mine costs Amazon fractions of a penny in compute time though!

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Conversely, I use 'send to kindle' from Calibre all the time and absolutely love how easy it is to send a book to any of the 3 kindles in the house. I just send it and the book is there a few minutes later. The only time I've ever run into any issues with it is when I was loading up a Kindle for a kid with a TON of books and it wasn't happy about so many emails.

Overall though, I agree with your message: you're not really forced into using the Amazon ecosystem at all if you're willing to put in a tiny amount of work and the Kindle's are either sold at a loss or at such a small markup that it might as well be one that it's difficult for me to consider the competition since they cost so much more.

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I've got a 20 mile commute and that's basically at the edge of what I'd be willing to do on a daily basis at this point. Sure 50 miles is fine once a week or whatever, but fuck if I'm putting in anything more than 39.9999999 hours if you're expecting me to spend 2+ hours commuting every day (and 2 hours is basically assuming best case highway all the way scenario to come up with it only being 2 hours)!

I know this is the norm for a lot of people, but I'd have to be very desperate to do it again and people that were 100% WFH or worse yet hired to be WFH aren't going to be willing to do it for long.

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Good Lord, get back in your basement, tsonfeir

Or perhaps you're a troll that should get back under your bridge?

ETA since the comment is now gone ... tsonfeir had said Good Lord, get back in your box, Monica

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

A boost is effectively a retweet. The thing you boost gets re-shared from you to the people that follow you ... the stuff I boost with this account is gets added to my feed on my Mastodon account. You're basically saying "damn, I love this comment and want to make sure everyone else gets a chance to see it too!"

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I understood :-)

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Glad I could help, in a fun way!

Then/than and loose/lose mixups bother me every time I see them and it's "fun" to interpret them as written rather than as they intended!

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly! They've got it all planned out!

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 171 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I mean, their use of 'THEN' rather than 'THAN' indicates that they'll soon adopt the socialist agenda, so there's still hope!

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