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naibafo | 5 years ago | on: What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)

Do you have an example or generally what kind of searches you are referring to? My experience with ddg has been "good enough" at least. The few times I don't find anything usable on ddg I ususally end up not finding anything on Google either

naibafo | 6 years ago | on: Apple is evaluating new keyboard mechanisms to make thinner MacBooks

Coming from the world of tiling window managers on linux, I do not use a touchpad at all. On the Macbook I have to use it occasionally, but I still stay on the keyboard as much as possible.

So having to remap ESC to Capslock and often hitting the wrong arrow key is a much too big drawback to a bigger touchpad

naibafo | 6 years ago | on: America's loneliness epidemic: A systemic risk to organizations

Maybe according to OPs perception, the reasons destroying the middle class and upward mobility are a combination of: competition pressure centered around places with strong "second place" (Job) opportunities, decades of civic mal-planning, treating symptoms (for some) rather than root causes (for all) and regressive tax/compensation structures

But I am not sure what that actually means. And I am not a native speaker.

naibafo | 7 years ago | on: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

It sounds like you were really unlucky. The last time I struggled with any of the issues mentioned by you is at least 4 or 5 years in the past.

> But you are ignoring the fact that installing software on Linux is still a mess of resolving all the dependencies and the package manager. Where in OS X, it is just a file move to App.

This is also highly dependent on specific experiences. I haven't had any issues with conflicting dependencies on Arch linux in the past few years. And personally I appreciate a system package manager for all software instead of having to download applications and doing drag and drop for installation

naibafo | 7 years ago | on: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

I didn't mean just managing 2 and 3.

OSX comes with some software such as git and python2 preinstalled. However they do not usually keep that software up to date and there is no way for you to change that, which means that community package managers need to be used to install more up to date software versions in parallel to the system ones

naibafo | 7 years ago | on: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

That is how my setup works in the terminal. MPD (music player daemon) runs from the start in the background and I can start ncmpcpp in the terminal to choose a album/playlist and then I can close it again or leave it on a different workspace.

Play Pause etc. just work without the terminal. The biggest advantage in comparison most graphical players for me is that there is no startup time. If I want to play a song I can do so immediately and even without leaving the terminal I am currently working in.

naibafo | 7 years ago | on: So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux

There are different issues with OSX though, that colleagues of mine had, that never occur with Linux. E.g. the chore of somehow managing different software versions such as the outdated default one and a second one installed with homebrew. Almost all my colleagues struggled with setting up python 2 und 3 correctly at some point, whereas this just worked for me on Linux.

Some struggled with font rendering between a 1080p monitor and their Retina displays as well.

naibafo | 7 years ago | on: Go 2, here we come

He probably would :)

But I just quoted the linked PDF a few comments above in the chain.

naibafo | 7 years ago | on: YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation financially impossible

No, Youtube takes a cut from the ads that are run on the videos of the creators. So they are directly profitting from the content. A print shop as metaphor would work if a creator would have to pay youtube to host his video, but all further proceeds would go solely to him.

If Youtube profits directly from whatever they are hosting it is not that farfetched to say that they might also be liable for what is shown

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