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adarioble

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About adarioble

Pretend manager, IT junkie.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #26765720

    What would be the benefit of using this over NextDNS? Simplicity due to non existing config?

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    Comment #24703016

    At the moment, only through Airplay and iPhone. But the new update is apparently bringing a possibility to set default music app to other apps (similar to email now) which should a…

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    Comment #24644088

    NPS originally came from car manufactures and industries that produce products that are easy comparable, I.e. how happy are you with the car? Would you recommend BMW to friends? I …

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    Comment #24487399

    I believe the strongest points for Fitbit are its looks of a discrete non fancy fitness tracker with long battery. My mum didn’t even want to hear about Apple Watch, she just wante…

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    Comment #24163362

    In the UK, Starling is worth a shot, although Monzo is constantly being mentioned as a good bank in my circles.

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    Comment #23764368

    While I dislike “subscription everywhere” model, I suspect this could work miracles for second hand market, allowing consumers to add options to their purchase. I wouldn’t be surpr…

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    Comment #23606733

    It’s better, but still drives me crazy. Microsoft has come long way but still got heaps of work to do (I.e. no way to customise ribbon in Outlook)

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    Comment #23578566

    Linux on desktop is one of those things where reputation precedes reality. It runs fine most of the time, but many remember or have read the nightmare stories about non-functioning…

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    Comment #23533024

    The UK has implemented Open Banking [1] and PSD2 directive since late 2018. It allows apps to interconnect and pull data - I can use a single banking app to check balances across a…

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    Comment #23532827

    I share the same memory. I remember being very impressed how it run on my Dell laptops Pentium 233 MMX and 64 MB RAM. It even had the driver support for 3Com 14.4k PCMCIA modem... …

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    Comment #23504483

    I have seen a fair amount of successful transitions. My company develops open source software and our development team is on Linux/Mac. Works a treat. Sales/Marketing/etc - Windows…

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    Comment #23504456

    With the slight difference that any of these boundaries pushers (never did) cost $75. Not now not then.

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    Comment #23503559

    With Windows practically giving licenses away, Apple coming with MacOS, cheap chromebooks coming with chromeOS, I really don’t get this “Linux on a desktop move”, especially when i…

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    Comment #23344224

    If you quit before your home office is amortised, would you have to ship it back to google? :) While most of us used to (some level of) WFH and already have monitors, printers, etc…

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    Comment #23305045

    My thoughts exactly. Unless you have a stable place to work, it’s mostly pain and stress and being reactive rather than super productive. My company gives out 12” little cute Think…

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    Comment #23265162

    In a sense that is a default go to platform for many people when searching for (video) content.

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    Comment #20619622

    This is not particularly new concept, but the internet is a huge market so the cake is big enough I guess. His project reminds me of Marina Abramovic “The artist is present” she he…

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    Comment #20397313

    After having the Touch Bar model I almost wish they kept the “Touchbar Escape” model. At least the choice is easier now - Apple NoChoice.