You've clearly never had the displeasure of filing a Radar report.
It's about as effective to write the report on paper and light it on fire - the chance of it getting actually addressed is about the same.
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nikkigrace at nikkigrace dot ca
It's about as effective to write the report on paper and light it on fire - the chance of it getting actually addressed is about the same.
I’ve had COVID; and it was certainly a significantly less hellish experience than what these poor folks are going through. :(
Here in Toronto I find Apple Maps much more reliable for the TTC (public transit in Toronto) than Google Maps, and have for a couple years.
Google Maps is quite dumb on what routes to take me on, and oblivious to the existence of certain buses on routes where Apple Maps gives me pretty much my best route - first time, every time.
Guess your experience is different. I’m personally grateful there’s a better option.
Assuming you buy them new, the cheapest iPhone is $399 vs. the $199 iPod Touch. Buying used is often a mixed bag. An iPad Mini is $499!
This is basically just a kick in the pants to parents who bought these for their kids.
Guess those parents are going to go off and buy another brand and type of product now, since Apple refuses to offer a price-equivalent product for kids like this. I don't think it would've hurt Apple to keep producing this product...
Until then, if you want to use it as an 'iPod', it's just another expense on top of the iPhone you already have that's your 'iPod'.
Apple cancelling the iPod line completely is frankly dumb. I know at least a dozen parents who use these for their kids.
Also, what's with all the people suggesting parents just buy an iPhone with no sim? Y'all realize that the cheapest iPhone is twice as much as the $199 iPod Touch? :/
Either way - she hasn’t installed it and it’s worked fine. It’s possible you had a dud unit?
She had issues with these two particular tenants who seemed to have an obsession with fighting over the temperature dial.
It cost her a whole ton in either heating or A/C every month, and would leave the whole place either ridiculously freezing or way too hot all the time.
(She lives in the basement herself, so this affected her as well.)
She bought a Nest, put a password on it, left it there, and has likely already saved around what the Nest cost within a year or so just from stopping these idiots and future potential idiots from constantly messing with the thing.
She’s never had an issue with it.
Essentially - it really depends on what you want a product for, and how you intend to use it.
I’m aware there are other, cheaper; less convenient solutions such as a lockbox, but honestly the Nest has been a wonderful solution for her.
AppleCare is so much better than it ‘officially’ says it is.
It was until I hid from everyone that I was suicidal, refused all help from the broken and abhorrent ‘mental health care system’, stopped seeking treatment - and finally realized that the system is there to put you away and stop bothering people (family, etc.) rather than to fix any of the actual underlying issues in your life - that I stopped being suicidal.
Continuing to be forced into this kind of ‘treatment’ - one more hospital visit - would’ve been what killed me, for sure.
I have never experienced such a deep-seated feeling of not just wanting - but needing, to die - outside of a mental health hospital.
I cannot effectively describe the utter helplessness of already feeling totally hopeless - only to then be strapped to a table and restrained; while bright fluorescent lights pierce at you from overhead, completely alone and isolated - until you wish you’d just taken your life already - so you wouldn’t have to be experiencing…this.
I’ve had maybe half a dozen friends who have been suicidal and gone through this hospital bullshit that worsens the situation rather than getting basic therapy and a shift in lifestyle that they need.
This ER bullshit doesn’t help anyone. Everyone on the inside, when allowed to talk to each other - often talks about how we are working out our lies to tell our doctors so we can get the hell out of there. There’s no genuine desire for healing. It’s a prison.
And all anyone who is forcefully admitted into that prison just wants out.
I’m not suicidal anymore - because I chose to keep it completely inside - not tell anyone, and work on myself.
I realized opening up about suicidal feelings, if you have them - is literally the worst thing you can do.
You’ll end up in one of these institutions; the hell of a lot worse off than you were beforehand.
The best you can do if you need therapy - is to make a call to a help line through a VoIP on a proxy, though a generated phone number on an application like TextPlus.
Comparing this to Canvas is almost like comparing assembly to C. I'm honestly very surprised.
X-Treme artist and developer, Chris Senn and Chris Coffin, became so ill during the development process, living under desks at SEGA Technical Institute and treated more like robots than humans.
Doctors said Coffin would be ‘dead in 6 weeks’ if he continued development, X-Treme was cancelled - and SEGA’s flagship mid 90’s Saturn console never got a mainline exclusive Sonic title.
The hell game developers often go through actually caused me to stray from my initial teenage ambitions of being a game dev. I’m so, so glad I chose mobile instead.
Really? I shouldn't have to explain this, but that it's my choice makes all the difference?
Furthermore, if you'd read my comment - it said that I myself am not concerned with disclosing my orientation/gender online - but I am deathly concerned for my fellow queer folk for whom that is not the case.
Are. You. Fucking. Kidding me?
Grindr must’ve been started by the gay community, yeah? Why the hell are we doing this to ourselves?!
It’s not just niche, like a Christian dating app.
If I am a Christian - frankly - living in North America - I’ve got nothing to hide to anyone, mostly.
I probably came from a Christian family, and - if I didn’t - being Christian isn’t something that frankly carries the stigma that being gay/trans/lesbian/bi/etc, does.
I would know, because I happen to be Christian, transgender, and lesbian. :P
There’s an argument that with privacy ‘if you have nothing to hide, why do you care?’ - and being on the LGTBQ+ spectrum nukes that argument, just as being a stoner in a weed-hating state might.
Selling the orientation of individuals for profit is an abomination of capitalism, such a risk to the queer community, and such a fundamental and brutal rape or privacy, that I frankly hope to see a class action lawsuit over this.
Grindr shutting down completely would not be good enough; here. This is beyond felonious. This is a human rights violation of the utmost degree.
Not for myself - because I’m out - but because the fact that I am out would potentially be for sale, and - for instance - my primary partner - isn’t.
She comes from such a traditional family, and her home country is so anti-queer - that if they somehow found out her parents would literally likely commit suicide - the exact same thing happened to a friend of hers, and it’s unfortunately a very real concern.
This marks the official crossing of the line from any potential ‘if you don’t have anything to hide, why do you care’ bullshit excuse that fucking idiots use to push privacy issues aside.
If you are not out - it is not okay for ANYONE you don’t know to know you’re gay/lesbian/bi/whatever.
This is a brutal fucking outrage. I’m frankly fuming, like - on the verge of an anxiety attack - over this.
Lawsuits had better fucking ensue.
Frankly, this makes me want to preemptively leave HER (the lesbian equivalent of Grindr) - before I find out the same shit is happening.
Die, Grindr. Fucking die.
As a queer person this may be the single greatest abomination I’ve seen a corporation claiming to support the LGTBQ+ community commit.
I’d lose access to 20 or so years of musical projects, and I’d have to get used to some completely new DAW, none of which appeal to me.
I also do iOS and WatchOS development as my main source of income, meaning I’m completely stuck on MacOS. I make a lot of money doing it and it’s kept me solidly employed for a decade.
So - while I personally can’t jump over to any alternative OS without shooting myself in the foot - maybe I can suggest these to friends who possibly could, or are thinking about alternatives to MacOS. :)
There’s a total of 8 samples, they’re all just nature samples - it’s a basic subtractive synth, it did work ‘out of the box’ in Logic; that’s kinda my whole review. It’s nothing I could see using for anything, unfortunately - though it is small, so I don’t see myself removing it.
And am I the only one who thinks the website makes it look like a hardware synth? It took me a while to even get it was a VST.
I even run my own webmail suite.
I even have about half a dozen friends who also use it on the regular.
Not sure what's stopping you or anyone else?
I think it kinda works the way Opera Mini does or something, if that makes sense?
It does totally solve the HTTPS issue. You could easily access HN using this method through even Netscape.
There is also - I want to say - again pardon me if I’m wrong here, but I believe it’s called ‘Classzilla’?
This is for - AFAIK - at least MacOS 9 (you might be screwed for 8, though) and does old.Reddit.com pretty okay for me as long as I have enough RAM in the unit, so it should also handle HN totally fine.
I actually think it - along with, unfortunately; an absolutely incredible modern Firefox port for PPC Macs running 10.4/10.5 called ‘TenFourFox’, are now abandoned - but very much still available.
It was a pretty big hit to the (admittedly small) PPC Mac community when it happened.
I personally still use TenFourFox almost every day as I use my PPC Mac collection often for various tasks, especially my quad G5 that has 16GB(!) RAM.
(Yeah, a PPC Mac with I believe 2 processors/4 G5 cores at 2.5(?)ghz, 2 512 GB SSD’s and 16GB of RAM. There is literally no better way to experience the heights of the PPC Mac days. So cool.)
But I am almost existentially disappointed by the opening sentence - ‘For reasons I won’t get into’…
It’s like - why?
The reasons we drive ourselves to do these frankly insane hacking experiments are almost always as interesting as the process itself for me.
The reason for that is - in this case - there are literally thousands of sampler synths with frankly a shitton more features than even what OP has implemented - why use this particular one?
The turntablist community - for instance - vastly prefers a frankly ancient and specific model of turntable (Technical SL-1200 or equivalent) - therefore the community to mod and update this decades-old hardware is dedicated and does similarly amazing things.
The SL-1200 is preferred for its build quality, it’s amazing motor, it’s weight; and it’s reliability.
It however lacks some frankly essential features from newer turntables - reverse, ultrapitch, pitch lock, USB support - but it’s still the most highly sought after and standard unit for the craft.
What makes this particular synthesizer the same - so valuable, so irreplaceable to OP’s craft - that drove them to such an insane level of deconstructing and reflashing the software? I, like - must know…XD
I mean - cool flex - but why?
That's actually the largest reason I can't invest in Google's ecosystem, but that's mostly from a tech stack end.