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genericid··on Why You Should Build a Hackintosh
- You oppose the direction Mac OS is heading but still like the current version, or

- You like Mac OS after modifying it to counter its Iosification but don't want to support a company that makes you jump to those hoops, or

- You actually like Mac OS but oppose Apple's tendency to restrict their user's freedom on principle.

Using a hackintosh just because you don't like Apple would be pointless, of course.

genericid··on New StackOverflow code of conduct
There is also a difference between people who find it difficult to explain complex technical questions in a manner that is easy to understand and thos who probs dont care cuz thei r 2 lzay 2 write and its ur problem
genericid··on New StackOverflow code of conduct
XY treatments should just go into the comments IMO. They are always relevant to the question (even if you know you want Y -- remember that SO is not just about giving you an answer but also about building a knowledge base), but they never even try to answer the question asked.
genericid··on Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of guilt or threat
How would that even make a difference?
genericid··on User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers
"Das Keyboard" is grammaticaly correct, but useless when you need the letters i-z.
genericid··on EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB
Why would someone say something like "I love the lightning connector" if they aren't aware that they do? Please explain.
genericid··on Why You Should Build a Hackintosh
It means you don't give Apple money.
genericid··on Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It
> You know that 90% of Electron apps do not have any native function calls

That does not make sense. If they made no native function calls, they could not even display a window.

genericid··on EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB
> Maybe not consciously, but they absolutely do subconsciously.

This is not how talking works.

genericid··on EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB
> love and appreciate

Normal people don't talk like that about connector sockets.

genericid··on Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?
I'm not going to continue a discussion with someone that seems to guess instead of read what I write.
genericid··on Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?
Of course it is a question of legality. It is a question of whether a CEO -- who has no democratic legitimacy -- should be allowed to decide what can be (in a manner that other people will actually read) published. And as I said, that their censorship is not perfect does not make a difference.

> and it doesn’t involve a legally protected class.

All your saying is that the CEOs' censorship is legal because it's legal.

genericid··on Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?
That the CEOs' censorship does not work perfectly does not mean it does not exist.

> Since being a Nazi is not a legally protected category they’re free to not help Nazis.

What currently is legal is obviously irrelevant when the question is what should be legal.

genericid··on Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?
Everyone would do that.
genericid··on Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?
No. Facebook, YouTube and the like are more like newspaper vendors.
genericid··on Are Facebook and YouTube quasi-governmental actors?
Nazis or not: CEOs, who are not legitimated by any democratic election, have no right to decide what other people publish.
genericid··on EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB
It won't fly to tell its customers that they can't have it because Apple considers itself too special to simply follow standards and the law.
genericid··on EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing
> Otherwise, democracy devolves into two me's and a Jeff Bezos voting on who pays for my stuff.

Democracy does not "devolve" into that, that is what democracy is.

genericid··on EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB
6,999,999 to go.
genericid··on Rainway takes a game running on one system and streams it to another device
> Even Top 500 players suffer 80ms RTT to the server and they're still better than the other 30 million players.

...that also suffer 80ms RTT.

genericid··on Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable
But it's perfectly reasonable to expect the people tasked with evaluating voting systems to be experts on voting systems.
genericid··on EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning to USB
Everyone already has ten proprietary lightning cables? That's news to me.
genericid··on Macron Wants to Rein in Silicon Valley, from Brussels
Making it illegal still reduces it.
genericid··on Fortnite on Android will bypass Google Play
The EU generally considers 40% a dominant market share so even if there were a 50/50 split, it wouldn't matter.
genericid··on Fortnite on Android will bypass Google Play
Google allows basically everything on the Play Store. To not specifically restrict their competition would not be "bending over backwards" at all.
genericid··on Google Maps is no longer a flat map
> if you try

Please refrain from baseless accusations. Thank you.

genericid··on Can I use a non-monospaced font in either Vim or gVim?
Nonsense. Monospaced fonts do not give punctuation weight equal to words. Fonts that give punctuation weight equal to words do. See for example the Input font family:

http://input.fontbureau.com/

genericid··on Google Maps is no longer a flat map
Taxi driver?
genericid··on Google Maps is no longer a flat map
Then you'd have to special-case maps that include the equator itself.
genericid··on Google Maps is no longer a flat map
> compared to what the government is able to see.

That does not imply satellite maps.

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