Is anyone else excited to see how this will run on Linux?
Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
What was your gmail alternative? I tried to switch everything to Lavabit, but then a month later the Snowden thing happened...that didn't last (and I'm still out all that money)
I'm going through the same process, and am currently enjoying ProtonMail.
Ah yes, this is the encrypted email provider I saw on HN a while back (I mentioned in another comment of mine, but at the time forgot the name of ProtonMail).
When it's time for email renewal, 1 or 2 yrs down the line, I'll be looking at ProtonMail :)
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#183I hate this trend of dumbing down product specifications. I don't know who started it (probably Apple?), but everyone does it now. Like what fucking i5 or i7 processor ? Is the storage soldered even for the nvme option ? It doesn't help that Intel keeps playing tricks with their naming either. i7 used to be quad core, then it became dual core for thin laptops. Now they are back to low freq quad core in some SKUs. For…
Get used to it. No one cares about which i5 or i7 beyond a small niche (which is likely concentrated on HN). There are probably technical specs someone, or you can wait for a teardown, to get the hard core specifications but the target market for those is so tiny no one is catering to them anymore.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Previously everything of mine went through Google. Email, phone, phone number, search, etc. I've migrated everything away (except Google Voice) for this very reason. My life would have came to a grinding halt if they banned me, and I couldn't even email them about it.
Could you share your email transition strategy? Any tips? Do you still end up checking the account?
You can easily set up email forwarding in Gmail to forward all messages to your new address. After that it's just a matter of switching everything over to email your new address directly.
Re: Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook
#185I hate this trend of dumbing down product specifications. I don't know who started it (probably Apple?), but everyone does it now. Like what fucking i5 or i7 processor ? Is the storage soldered even for the nvme option ? It doesn't help that Intel keeps playing tricks with their naming either. i7 used to be quad core, then it became dual core for thin laptops. Now they are back to low freq quad core in some SKUs. For…
> Is the storage soldered even for the nvme option?
Leaving that out isn't "dumbing down of product specs".
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#186When will google learn. I don't want a search button in place of caps lock. idiots.
Um, there's a config option for that. You can set it to be Ctrl instead. Like God intended.
Or you can turn it into escape, if you're that sort of person.
Or... I suppose you could make it lock...
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#187I think a major issue is what happens if Google locks your account for some reason. There have been instances in the past where Google has locked the account of a user for some TOS violations. http://m.gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/google-pixel-reseller... http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/1/jordan-b-peters... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-prof... Given that Google has a propensity…
I uploaded full seasons of a very old 90s cartoon and my account is disabled. I cannot even purchase YouTube TV to try it out. Of course, reaching out to support is moot - their RoboSupport sucks. I will never purchase a Google product if I can help it and will steer clear of them in any team setting where I can affect the decision.
I miss the days of the "Don't be Evil" Google.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for bringing that up. However, te truth is often a bit more nuanced (although it doesn't make for as good headlines). Dissecting your three examples. In the first case, (and based on their own statements) those people were buying up phones by the hundreds, shipping them to a single physical address and then scalping over the internet. It's basically fraud. So yes, they probably got picked up by an automated al…
Those don't sound very convincing. Firstly, any time these things get enough press to become well known cases, it's natural that the "appeal to PR" vector gets them sorted out. Secondly, the per case details don't look good for Google - in the first case, buying and reselling phones for a profit sounds perfectly above the board. Even something a "don't be evil" company might do... In the third case, the statement rea…
To your first point - The natural counterpoint is - there are billions of Google account there. Yet, the number of cases you hear about this is in the handful.
To your second point - scalping phones is most definitely against ToS. This is true for Google, Apple, Smsung anybody.
Here are our ToS - https://store.google.com/intl/en-US_us/about/device-terms.ht...
> You may only purchase Devices for your personal use. You may not commercially resell any Device, but you may give the Device as a gift. Recipients of gifts may need to open and maintain a Google Payments account in order to receive any support offered by Google. These Terms apply to any gift recipient.
This isn't unique to Google. I'd like to see you walk into an Apple store, and buy 10 iPhones. Or say, 100?
In fact - Apple even introduced controls to stop scalping of Genius Bar appointments:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/09/12/apple-store-genius-b...
Or say you create 100 email accounts - john001@gmail.com, john002@gmail.com, john003@gmail.com etc. - and have them each buy a phone, and ship them to a single physical address.
You can see why this would come across as hijacking/botnet fraud, right? (That's separate to the ToS violations).
But from public statements - the scalping itself wasn't what got them, it was probably the bot-net like account creation, and indications of payment fraud.
Thirdly point - it doesn't sound remotely like legalese, and there's no indication lawyers were even involved. In fact, why would they be? I would have preferred him to post some more technical details, as that would have cleared things up, but he posted a nice message of his own volition, which I suppose is fine.
It reads more like the message of somebody who's relieved, and glad he got an explanation of what actually happened behind the scenes.
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#189How much cheaper does this need to be to capture any market share from a traditional laptop user? I think I would bite at $500.
It's basically an up-specced Asus C302CA, as far as I can tell.
Those also come in $500 versions, that's the one with the m3 CPU. I don't think you'd lose much; still has the Android apps and such.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Previously everything of mine went through Google. Email, phone, phone number, search, etc. I've migrated everything away (except Google Voice) for this very reason. My life would have came to a grinding halt if they banned me, and I couldn't even email them about it.
Could you share your email transition strategy? Any tips? Do you still end up checking the account?
I forwarded email in Gmail, and move over forwarded emails as I can. Note that it's not been an easy process, it's still a massive undertaking changing all those emails.
I did think about switching to my own domain for emails though. I have previously avoided it because it adds a new vector of attack - i.e. if an attacker gets my domain, they have my email. With that said however, I can still keep a handful of important sites hooked up to my real email. Eg, my bank can go directly to fastmail, but randomsite.com would send emails to me@mydomain.com.
That would give me freedom to move my email where ever I see fit, with minimal changes. It seems tempting.