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aredditimmigrant

@ aredditimmigrant @endlesstalk.org

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  • What are you surprised that people pay for, when there are free alternatives in existence?

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  • That's why. My folks still have cable and pay for HBO. That's how me and my siblings are able to watch stuff we don't want to download on max :)

    My dad jokes that hes happy he knows how to turn on his phone ... Now his TV since that's "too complicated"

  • What are you surprised that people pay for, when there are free alternatives in existence?

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  • How technical is your dad?

    Also honestly. Sometimes it's a lot nicer to just push a button and have something come on.

    One of the main reasons I use Plex is their random feature. "Wanna watch a syndicated episodic show and don't care which ep? Press random" vs other streaming services you have to actually choose an episode.

  • What generation are you?

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  • Elder millennial here

  • What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing?

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  • Yeah. But she wanted to carry a really small purse that wouldn't be able to hold the foldable :(

  • What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing?

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  • After an impromptu upscale bar/lounge crawl with the wifey the other day.....

    A shoe that can easily go back and forth from high heel/wedge to comfortable flats w/o much, if any, tooling or carrying around extra parts. She also brought a clutch purse

    Wifey was dead the next day from foot pain of walking between places.

  • USA ADHDers. Anybody have luck getting their stimulants abroad?

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  • I'm not saying that. Just asking for myself. Haha

  • Is texting not a conversation, or is it just me?

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  • It's not just you. I hate texting in general unless it's for work. Usually if I'm running around on errands or a nice walk, I end up getting a text response to someone from an hour ago, and it boils my nerves that I feel I need to respond.

    I'd rather be on a phone call to get all information in/out at once. Especially with wireless headset/earbuds

    Though my therapist thinks I'm AuDHD. So that gives credence to your asd worry

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    aredditimmigrant @endlesstalk.org

    USA ADHDers. Anybody have luck getting their stimulants abroad?

  • What DID Apple innovate?

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  • There's an old saying in computing. "you improve usability by taking away options and features" apple didn't necessarily invent this mindset. But they perfected it.

    They took BSD, a security focused, but not very user friendly, offshoot of Linux/unix and made it "popular" by adding several layers of polish and doing a lot of the configuration work for you and made it osx. This was a time when Linux usability/management on the personal/newbie scale was garbage. If you wanted to install a certain distro of *nix, you better make sure you have supporting hardware and the right up to date tutorial, which is managed by an unknown volunteer, which was usually some person bored on the weekend a few months ago and never updated, they've made *nix installation and management a lot better though recently.

    They also did this with music. People used to have large collections of unorganized mp3s in the early 00s, unless you were really anal and had a lot of time in your hands, because you were likely downloading them from several different illegal places, and legally buying mp3s were all over the place. You could buy the album off this weird obscure website that you didn't want to trust with your CC information, because there were a lot of mom and pop music stores online. Then apple brought out iTunes and allowed both buying and managing (and eventually upgrading, traveling around with) music to be dead simple.

    For smartphones, they stole a LOT from BlackBerry, but they took it to the next level. Blackberry had email, a private messaging network, and mobile web scrolling waayyyy before anyone. And so many people loved it so much that even Obama famously didn't want to give his up when he took office. Then apple came out with the iPhone, and blew it away with a bigger screen and again, a lot more polish.

    Innovation happens in small steps over years. Apple didn't invent mobile phones, smart phones, tablets, or computing, they didn't invent security, encrypted audio/video calls, or music management. They've done a lot of crappy stuff, and they charge super high amounts of money for less than state of the art hardware. Their innovation could be summed up by this profound statement I remember a friend said to me once around 2003/4.

    "Osx, because making Linux pretty was easier than fixing Windows"

  • The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...

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  • Hmmmmm. Let's see here.

    People don't like cable, because it's too expensive and inconvenient

    People start pirating

    People like having 2-3 streaming services that show everything, without ads, for much cheaper even combined than cable. They stop pirating.

    People don't like having 20-30 streaming services that show only a little in each service, NOW WITH ADS!?!?! and that become MUCH more expensive than cable ever was.

    People start pirating again......

    I wonder what happened?!?!