Posts by just_some_dude

Re: mainstream

As I understand it, a lot of that has to do with major studios (as in traditional Hollywood ones, Netflix is a major itself now) refusing to license to Nexflix. Lots of people have come to prefer at home streaming over the theater experience, which doesn't really fit in to the major studios' desired business models. Now the studios want to you either go to a theater, purchase/rent streaming rights for movies individually, or subscribe to their own services.

Anyways, the outcome is the same: Netflix doesn't offer the titles you want. So, sure, by all means cancel them, but I don't expect you'll ever again see a reasonable priced streaming service that will allow all-you-can-watch content across a wide range of major studio productions. A large reason for that is the Hollywood studios themselves don't want you to have that.

Re: Good idea

I share your sentiment, but cynic in me reads this line to mean that all it will take is a few well-placed campaign contributions for big companies to get exemptions: "The DoL says it will decide what those wage levels are"

Re: Except that they didn't have anything to do with any of this

I believe the system in question is based on SGI tech, which was a pre-Cray acquisition.

Well, you could read the title a few ways. What they offered last year wasn't compelling enough to get you to upgrade so they come up with new models and marketing to try to convince you it is worth it to buy the this year's model. You could buy last year's model today but they'd of course rather you buy the latest and greatest hence the marketing event.

I think the the gist of the title is really that it is 2020 and for most people the latest wizbang smartphones just aren't that exciting anymore.

Re: is he still a US citizen ?

I think tax evasion became an end in and of itself for him. His hobby of sorts.

Re: A web browser based on Chrome by MS

I started using Bromite on Android given all the problems I've had with Firefox. I've been a long time Mozilla user, but a this point would have a hard time recommending Firefox to people. Sticking with FF for now on Windows and Linux, but I can't say a future switch is off the table. Honestly, my choice to use FF over Chromium is really just ideological.

Re: identity and encryption

You seem pretty fired up about this. Perhaps if it's really important to you and you think your proposal is air tight then you should share it with the Thunderbird devs rather than on an anonymous comment section:

https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/e2ee

Re: Too damn tall

Yeah, my tallish phone had that shrink feature. I didn't really care for it since it made the keyboard a bit too small. I'd rather the shrink feature just shrink the height but keep the width constant. Though, the change in aspect ratio would probaby require a re-layout of the UI and thus more lag when going in and out of said shrink mode.

I'm fine with tall phones being made for people who like them. My issue is the general tallification of all new phone models. Same goes for phone size in general. I just want more "small" phone options.

Re: eBay, PayPal and Amazon customer support

If PayPal broke the 1 to 10 scale you should check out Square's subsidiary Cash App. You literally can't get in touch with a real person for customer service. Their published phone number just plays a recording telling you to use the in app help function. The in app help function contains inaccurate information and does not provide any means to contact a real person at Cash App.