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bacchusracine
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  1. >I think you severely underestimate how powerful familiarity is in anchoring non-tech users to particular platforms.

    What familiarity? Microsoft has changed the look and feel of the OS to the point that it no longer retains that familiarity from version to version.

  2. Don’t forget about the BeOS being the Batmobile!
  3. As do people. Which ends up weakening copyright even further as it becomes a law everyone ignores, on the level of speeding or jaywalking. The same knock-on effects as Prohibition, we become a nation of scofflaws.

    People don't know copyright law. They think they do and are alright with the construct they made up in their heads. But they don't actually know what it says and does and means, otherwise they'd hate it much more.

  4. Shhhhhhhh....
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  6. Does it actually do anything?

    I'm seeing a lot of posts from people discussing everything and anything other than whether or not the application is fit for purpose and does what it's claiming it does.

  7. >there's a famous video of an interviewer asking people on the street ca. 1997 whether they would want a mobile phone. So not even a smartphone, just a mobile phone. The answer was overwhelmingly negative.

    So people didn't want to be walking around with a tether that allowed the whole world to call them where ever they were? Le Shock!

    Now if they'd asked people if they'd like a small portable computer they could keep in touch with friends and read books, play games, play music and movies on where ever they went which also made phone calls. I suspect the answer might have been different.

  8. I miss DrunkenBatman...

    I used to regularly check for years after he stopped posting, just in case...

    The last it was active was in 2019, then it disappeared forever.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20191007180901/http://www.drunke...

  9. Not sure it matters. It's still way too tied to the Apple ecosystem to be useful. I wanted to get a family subscription about a year ago and it was basically impossible to manage the subscription without an Apple device of some sort. Which sucks because I really thought it was worth the value at the time, just not the hassle.
  10. >Can you be more clear?

    How many times has ikey pulled this now? It's no longer a surprise at this point.

  11. Let's be honest. Is anyone surprised?
  12. I know I'm late to the discussion but can you comment on the hearing aid compatibility (HAC) of the phone? It's something that keeps me tethered to bigger name phones since most of the time smaller companies don't even know what that is...
  13. It literally doesn't work because the login is busted. I tried to email you to inform you of this but for some strange reason the email address listed doesn't work, thefirstname.thelastname.help@gmail.com

    Not sure what else to say.

    Access blocked: This app’s request is invalid

    You can’t sign in because this app sent an invalid request. You can try again later, or contact the developer about this issue. Learn more about this error If you are a developer of this app, see error details. Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatch

  14. It would be nice if I could at least look around before immediately being demanded to login.
  15. What do you have against people "more towards local business"?

    That's basically what is intended. Since people live in a pod, they'll eat out more often so that's more money extracted from them. Gotta keep the economy going, right?

  16. Is this another copycat, using backend reverse engineered APIs to generate music with Suno, using Suno to compete against itself?

    Why would I think this? Gee, I wonder what could cause me to think that....

    https://i.imgur.com/TXQVvAC.png

  17. I was going to say. Patents expire. Copyright effectively extends beyond human lifespan and doesn't, making them forever. Patents are more useful because the public gets access once they expire.

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