StevePerkins (u/StevePerkins)

StevePerkins commented on You are how you act boz.com/articles/you-are-... · Posted by u/HiPHInch

Dilettante_ · 2 months ago

  I find the Franklin model far more useful [...] because it gives you agency.

Does it? If our present actions make our future selves, that means our past actions made our present self. The moments in a person's life are a row of dominoes, one causing the next. There is no agency anywhere.

StevePerkins · 2 months ago

This sounds like me always complaining about "Past Me"'s tech debt. Or when tech debt is being introduced, my team jokes about it being "Future Me"'s problem. It's good for a chuckle, but obviously there is continuity of identity.

But continuity is not immutability. Your actions are a present thing, and define you in the present. Past actions may have consequences, but you are always free to act differently now. Likewise, your present actions don't carve a future identity in stone, either. "The rent is due everyday", so to speak.

StevePerkins commented on ChatGPT Atlas chatgpt.com/atlas... · Posted by u/easton

px43 · 2 months ago

This Apple only nonsense is driving me nuts.

I pay OpenAI $200 a month, and use Codex all the time, but just installed the crappy ChatGPT app for Android, and just use it from the mobile web browser, because it's over a month behind on super common features that launched on iPhone on day one.

Same thing with Sora 2 being Apple only. What craziness is that? Why are developers leaning so hard into supporting closed source ecosystems and leaving open source ecosystems behind?

StevePerkins · 2 months ago

This never has anything to do with open source vs. closed source, or anything like that. It always has to do with prioritizing the cohort that's most likely to pay money.

It's been shown over and over again in A/B testing that Apple device users will pay higher prices for the same goods and services than non-Apple users will. They're more likely to pay, period, versus free-ride.

As an Android user, it frustrates me sometimes. But I understand. I'm far more frugal with my online spending than most of my Apple user friends, myself.

StevePerkins commented on Replacement.ai replacement.ai... · Posted by u/wh313

lwhi · 2 months ago

Government no longer has the power or authority to constrain private enterprise; especially in highly technical sectors.

StevePerkins · 2 months ago

Of course it does. Do you think the elites actually WANT massive tariffs putting a brake on GDP growth? Why are tech companies suddenly reversing course on content moderation and/or DEI, after years of pushing in the opposite directions?

Private enterprise will always have some level of corrupting influence over government. And perhaps it sees current leadership as the lesser of two evils in the grand scheme. But make no mistake, government DOES ultimately have the power, when it chooses to assert itself and use it. It's just a matter of political will, which waxes and wanes.

Going back a century, did the British aristocracy WANT to be virtually taxed out of existence, and confined to the historical dustbin of "Downton Abbey"?

StevePerkins commented on Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify bhargav.dev/blog/VPS_Setu... · Posted by u/itsbrgv

StevePerkins · 2 months ago

I only clicked this to see if Coolify could be a compelling option against my current setup, of using Docker Compose for everything on my VM (including a private Docker registry for my images, and a Traefik frontend proxy to route it all).

Zero actual mention of Coolify, and the manual steps to PREPARE for it seem far more complicated than, "Just base your VM on the Docker Compose base image, and then tweak a couple things".

I'll stick with what I have. Nice advantage is that I can migrate from host to host and 99% of it is just copying the Docker Compose YAML file.

StevePerkins commented on Gemini (2023) geminiquickst.art/... · Posted by u/jhanschoo

throw310822 · 3 months ago

Never heard of it, but what's the difference with the web in 1994?

StevePerkins · 3 months ago

I believe that's the entire point.

StevePerkins commented on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson sportingnews.com/us/boxin... · Posted by u/storf45

squeaky-clean · a year ago

Has Netflix ever live streamed something before? People on reddit are reporting that if you back up the play marker by about 3 minutes the lag goes away. They've got a handle on streaming things when they have a day in advance to encode it into different formats and push it to regional CDNs. But I can't recall them ever live streaming something. Definitely nothing this hyped.

StevePerkins · a year ago

Chris Rock comedy special, and the Tom Brady roast. Nothing on this scale, though.

StevePerkins commented on Pixel Watch 3 blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/eamag

tomComb · a year ago

Interacting with Googler's in the past I noticed the same thing but took it a different way.

Clearly there was no pressure to use the Google product so they used a wide diversity of devices and services, and I saw this as a healthy thing.

StevePerkins · a year ago

Let's put it a different way. Are you as likely to see the same number of Pixel watches, while walking around the hallways in the Apple spaceship?

StevePerkins commented on Google Pixel 9 Pro store.google.com/us/produ... · Posted by u/ksec

__MatrixMan__ · a year ago

Agreed, home is always in the center. My comment is regarding whether "back" is left or right of home. Samsung defaults it on the right side, everybody else puts it on the left: https://www.androidcentral.com/how-switch-position-navigatio...

Recent android versions have put more of this in the the hands of the app, for better or worse. So it's not especially material nowadays.

My point is just that it's an example of Samsung making design decisions which leverage the fragmentation to create confusion among the users.

I noticed it when my boss said that non-galaxy devices feel awkward. I ended up using his phone later and realized why: vendor lock in through muscle memory. It's the kind of monopolistic move that only the largest fragment can benefit from--anyone else puts themselves at a disadvantage by departing from Android defaults. But Samsung, since they control the majority, can bias the market in a way that makes the defaults feel weird. It's rather Apple-like if you ask me.

... which is why I use a Pixel. I hate Google, but they're what I'm stuck with, so I might as well not be messed with by anyone else.

StevePerkins · a year ago

I'm sorry, but this is absolutely nonsensical. I literally just posted a screenshot showing that this is configurable on a Samsung.

In fact, when I first setup this phone, I had to specifically choose to make the home bar visible at all. Because the current default setting on Samsungs is to use "gestures" only. The same as the default setting on a Pixel now. All Android manufacturers seem united in pushing this, to ape iOS.

There are plenty of reasons to choose a Google Pixel. And I wouldn't quibble with any of them. But it's absolutely bizarre to point to a default setting as a reason, when they are configurable and when both brands use the same default setting anyway.

So many of these discussion threads are like this. It's perfectly fine to prefer a Pixel over a Galaxy. But people so often seem to take umbrage against Samsung for some reason, and when you poke at a little it rarely makes much sense.

StevePerkins commented on Google Pixel 9 Pro store.google.com/us/produ... · Posted by u/ksec

__MatrixMan__ · a year ago

They switched the home and back buttons... why? I can only assume it was to make competing android phones feel awkward such that those who step foot outside of Samsung quickly run back to "safety".

StevePerkins · a year ago

This?

https://i.imgur.com/9uUJLaz.jpeg

I've never seen any kind of UI where the "Home" button wouldn't be in the center. And you have the option of placing the "Back" button on the left and the "Open Apps" button on the right, or vice-versa.

StevePerkins commented on Google Pixel 9 Pro store.google.com/us/produ... · Posted by u/ksec

taeric · a year ago

I'm kind of sad that the world seems to have given up on the smaller phones. The marketing of the masculine hand holding the larger phone is amusing to me, and I can understand wanting to have a larger screen. I do not like the amount of space these things take in my pocket, though.

StevePerkins · a year ago

I can see wanting a smaller phone. That is an underserved market segment. But implying that phone marketing is patriarchy-driven is laughably absurd. Marketing for phones is probably more diverse and carefully balanced than for any other product category.