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simonklitj

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Creator of (exclugeo.com)[https://exclugeo.com]
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simonklitj··on Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
What if you have a model with ports only on the left-hand side? Does it crash it as well?
simonklitj··on iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
No worries. I’m sometimes thinking they ought to include a gesture tutorial when setting up the device!
simonklitj··on iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
I’m just really clumsy, honestly.
simonklitj··on iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
Trigger reachability by swiping down on the home bar at the bottom of the screen. Disable it by swiping up or tapping the emptiness at the top.
simonklitj··on Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)
I think the common lingo is that gender is what you identify as, and sex is what you biologically are (subject to change through sex-change operations).
simonklitj··on Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens
Probably money, but that doesn't exclude the obvious racism it created. In Denmark, we had Africans in cages displayed in the Tivoli amusement park in central Copenhagen, so people could look at the spectacle that was the black person (https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2017-03-31-de-sendte-bud-efte..., in Danish).

While this was not the intent of our colonization and slavery-business, it inevitably caused it, imo. Or, the racism caused the success of colonialism, because it justified it.

simonklitj··on Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens
We've got to ask ourselves why the media takes on the American talking points, then? Where is the searching of ones own culture and country, so that we might face-off with the unique problems we then have in our countries? Is this a problem of journalism, or is it because it is easier to adopt american problems, and thereby neglect our own, real problems?
simonklitj··on Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM
As much as I love small electric vehicles (I drive a third-party converted electric Citroen c1), I just can't imagine driving across the US at 40mph so the electric trikes can keep up.
simonklitj··on Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted after 30 days
Not a windows user. Is this directory automatically emptied on reboot or something?
simonklitj··on Check if your IP is exposing any ports. If you see 404 page, nothing is exposed
Got the same message.
simonklitj··on I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm
Easy now. I didn’t say it didn’t do it, I said it shouldn’t do it. You made it sound like you thought this was what was supposed to happen, and I just wanted to help you out.

Edit: Apologies if the last sentence in my first message seemed rude. Not my intention.

simonklitj··on I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm
It shouldn’t do this. You can go to Settings -> Phone -> Silence Unknown Callers, which will send callers not in your contacts to voicemail, but the silencer simply mutes audio. It still vibrates and receives calls. Or maybe there’s something I’m missing?
simonklitj··on iOS 14 is available today
Got it here on my phone 10 minutes ago. In Denmark.
simonklitj··on Nova by Panic
Buttery smooth on MBPRO 2019, Safari.
simonklitj··on Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
A little interested! What exactly are FIFO buffers?
simonklitj··on App Review process updates
Just bought you a coffee. I love this app!
simonklitj··on Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?
No, I mean, those are very reasonable things to be upset about, I definitely get it, and it shouldn’t be like that no matter the machine. If it’s ok’ed to run the version, it should run without a hitch.

It was pure curiosity on my part, because I haven’t really experienced any major bugs or problems.

simonklitj··on Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?
Could you elaborate on the issues you’ve been having? Been using Catalina since the beta and haven’t really had any major problems..
simonklitj··on The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
What's the possibility of buying a cheap data SIM-card in Bulgaria (or somewhere else) and using the EU-roaming laws to get cheap data in Greece?
simonklitj··on Zero G: Some German mobile users still waiting for a signal
Yessir, same thing in Denmark. Ordered Wi-Fi for my new apartment two weeks before I moved there, just so I knew it would be activated when I moved in. Ridiculous.

I do think some of the new fiber companies are same-day, though.

simonklitj··on Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports
What’s the best game you’ve ever played?
simonklitj··on Can't you just right click?
Should be possible to get around, no? I guess technically they could lock us out, but my naïve self is thinking that surely there would always be a way to disable it, like how we can disable SIP now, through Recovery-mode?
simonklitj··on As Epic attacks Apple and Google, it ignores the same problems on consoles
Hypothetically (and jokingly), in this scenario, Apple should limit Xcode to only be for developers publishing on App Store, and let the other guys work out their own tools.
simonklitj··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
I fail to see how this is a problem, honestly. A part of choosing to distribute to the iPhone platform is making sure all transactions related to the product you distribute go through Apple.

I don't see anybody complaining about Sony taking cuts and requiring transactions go through the PlayStation Network, even though purchasing things for Fortnite there does not in any way, shape or form need to involve the PlayStation Network to be properly facilitated.

Is there something I'm not seeing?

simonklitj··on Google Music shutdown starts this month, music deleted in December
Surprise, surprise, another Google service bites the dust!
simonklitj··on 27-inch iMac gets a major update
Curious about the bugs in Catalina that made it useless for you. Have been on it since the public beta, and haven't really had anything that has made it impossible to do things I used to do. Care to elaborate? (Edit: I did on 10.15.13 have a bug where I couldn't access files and folders on the desktop, and had to repeatedly reboot. Downgraded to 10.15.12 and went to 10.15.14 when that came out and fixed it. Will admit that this was incredibly frustrating!)
simonklitj··on Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle
(I have the Kindle Oasis 2)

I agree with almost all of the above, except for the touchscreen. I had the Kindle Non-Touch 4 and used it from 2012-2019, and having the touchscreen was an amazing improvement in usability and QOL when using the Kindle. Makes navigating, creating collections etc a lot faster. Other than that, I wish they would show the Kindle more love!

simonklitj··on Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
Primarily anecdotal, but my experience (as a Dane married to an American) is that Americans are more likely to both give to charitable organizations and volunteer their time, whereas Danes are less likely to do so. Seems to be slightly backed up by this article (at least the volunteering part): https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/sep/08/charit...

Also, I will add that when people on cash assistance in Denmark (kontanthjælp) do stupid things like spend all their money on alcohol, the general response seems not to be an offer of support but a "pull yourself together, you've got the means to do so". It definitely might just be the the circle I'm in, but thought I'd offer up my experience.

I think point 3 will be a real problem with UBI.

simonklitj··on Modern Android is pretty secure
Isn’t that the point though? Your phone works perfectly, shouldn’t it still receive OS updates?
simonklitj··on Big Sur on Unsupported Macs
Might have been planned obsolescence, but the reason Intel Core Duo was not supported by Lion was due to Finder being exclusively 64-bit, and thus the OS going 64-bit only. Only the early 2006 black MacBook was affected by this, as all the later ones used Intel Core 2 Duo.

That means the breaking update came five years after the release of the computer, but Snow Leopard still had another two years of security updates (AFAIK). Personally, I don't think that's unreasonable.

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