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Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Re: Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Post by sometimes_all »

Whenever someone says, "oh Steve Jobs would have done / would never have done X", I always remember the scene in Silicon Valley where Laurie says "Monica, Peter Gregory is dead"[1].

Steve Jobs has been gone for a long time. Other people have taken his place, and Apple has been very successful since. While Jobs might have been very successful in his vision, a lot of things have changed since then, and it's very reasonable that the current apple execs might not align with what his philosophy was at the time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2-rGVw44A

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Post by strictnein »

delecti wrote: post #133
strictnein wrote: post #95

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This is how Amazon is too with the movies and tv shows you bought. There's no way to search your owned library anymore. You just have to page through it to find what you want. And your library is hidden away behind a tiny little unlabeled icon in the upper right corner. And, to make matters worse, you have things like the Charlie Brown Halloween Special, which Apple now owns the rights to. You cannot in any way searc…

How are you browsing your Amazon content? I see search bars on the 'All Content' [1] page, and also on each individual page, like my movies and shows [2]. Though it seems like the interface is pretty rubbish in the Prime Video section [3], so maybe that's where you're looking? [1] https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/a... [2] https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/v... [3] ht…

Roku based TVs and their mobile app. And the website - #3 in your list above. Never seen those other two links, and they don't show up when you're trying to watch things on your tv.

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Post by wafflemaker »

estimator7292 wrote: post #231
93po wrote: post #196

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yep: seedbox + this + jeyllfin = unlimited streaming of anything i want for $15/month. no ads, no terrible app UIs, no autoplaying previews, no content getting removed, not having 4 different streaming subscriptions that are hard to cancel, no fuckery at all.

I set this up for my husband who barely knows which end of a PC to use. He's filled up the 4TB media array and now I need more disks (or better retention policies)

It means it gets a lot of use, so you can justify larger disks! Isn't that great?

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Post by wafflemaker »

lukan wrote: post #185
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #173

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Yeah shame it’s hidden behind 50 pop-under triggers and infectious scam ads. Literally unusable without an ad blocker. (Which you should use anyway but it means they’re not a great choice for Joe user on his unprotected windows pc)

A bit deeper into the scene, there are no ads anymore. And the biggest problem for most people in the west, is rather just using torrents without a VPN will get you lawyers letters quite quickly. But Joe average can use youtube downloader without danger.

Even with full encryption?

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Post by wafflemaker »

petralithic wrote: post #178
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #173

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Yeah shame it’s hidden behind 50 pop-under triggers and infectious scam ads. Literally unusable without an ad blocker. (Which you should use anyway but it means they’re not a great choice for Joe user on his unprotected windows pc)

One, people should be using uBlock Origin as you mentioned. Two, there are many search engines without such ads. Three, qBittorrent has a search right inside the client, there is no need to even access the websites to perform searches.

And the client has optional web UI, so you can order a download from your phone and watch it on your TV (through jellyfin or plex).

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Post by gigatexal »

tacker2000 wrote: post #207
gigatexal wrote: post #184

Who cares? He’s dead. I know that sounds harsh but this obsession and worship of founders has to stop. Companies are people or so says the Supreme Court. So now that the company exists it’s bigger than any one person even the founder. The company he built is now an order of magnitude more valuable and hardware is the best it’s ever been. It’s maturing. No company stays nimble and vibrant and agile forever. It’s payin…

Yea i also think this blind steve worship needs to stop. He was great back then but who knows what he would have done nowaday. The situation is different, the world is different, apple is serving much more consumers, the company has much more employees, more products, more markets. And i get it, the software they put out nowadays is pretty terrible and could be much better and everyone is frustrated but this constant…

To be fair — and I love my Mac — macOS isn’t as snappy as Linux in my experience. And yet I still rock macOS because it just works and slow app load times are just a small price to pay for things just working. YMMV of course.

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Post by lukan »

wafflemaker wrote: post #264
lukan wrote: post #185

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A bit deeper into the scene, there are no ads anymore. And the biggest problem for most people in the west, is rather just using torrents without a VPN will get you lawyers letters quite quickly. But Joe average can use youtube downloader without danger.

Even with full encryption?

What do you want to encrypt?

The principle of torrents are, everyone downloading has the ip of all the other participants for p2p to work. All it takes is one node recording that other nodes send copywrited data to them, to get the real adresses of them (via ISP).

They hire dedectives to do that.

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Post by happymellon »

Jnr wrote: post #190
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #173

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Yeah shame it’s hidden behind 50 pop-under triggers and infectious scam ads. Literally unusable without an ad blocker. (Which you should use anyway but it means they’re not a great choice for Joe user on his unprotected windows pc)

There is https://github.com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr

And nzb360
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