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soziawa commented on AltStore. The first Apple approved alternative App Store   altstore.io/#Downloads... · Posted by u/janandonly
oreilles · 2 years ago
In Switzerland, Delta Emulator is not available in the App Store since Riley made it an AltStore exclusive in Europe. However, you cannot get AltStore either because Switzerland isn't part of the countries where Apple allows alternative stores: https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/118110#countries-and-regions.
soziawa · 2 years ago
It is available for me in Switzerland. In fact, it's the number one app.
soziawa commented on The App Store, Spotify, and Europe's thriving digital music market   apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/dm
nojito · 2 years ago
Spotify doesn’t pay Apple anything and yet has a 56% share of the EU market.
soziawa · 2 years ago
The market share of iOS in the EU is only around 35% though. The market this is about isn't the market for music streaming apps but the market for iOS apps.
soziawa commented on Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative   ente.io/... · Posted by u/madmax108
reacharavindh · 2 years ago
Does it do background sync on iOS?. There are so many alternatives to Apple Photos, all with this handicap. “Leave the app open for it to sync”

Photos are the only reason I pay for the 2 TB plan on iCloud. I don’t need all the photos on device all the time. If I can _reliably_ stash them in remote servers and have a way to access them on-demand on the phone, I can take the money I give Apple and pay for the app that enables me. But only if I don’t have to remember to open the app every now and then and watch it sync my photos. It needs to be as easy to use as Apple Photos..

soziawa · 2 years ago
> There are so many alternatives to Apple Photos, all with this handicap.

Apple doesn't allow background execution for third party apps. Can't increase service revenue if you allow competition.

soziawa commented on The failure of self-checkout technology   bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/LaksiMati
htrp · 2 years ago
Where are you and which store is this (general terms)?

I use the mobile phone checkout for one of the stores I go to. Every time when leaving, they manually inspect every single item in my cart.

soziawa · 2 years ago
In Switzerland the two major grocery stores have this system. You need to establish trust first, for the first few months you'll get more inspections. But I haven't been checked in years now.
soziawa commented on The failure of self-checkout technology   bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/LaksiMati
k4rli · 2 years ago
I just scan the barcodes on my phone and place everything in bag as I go along. Before leaving the store a QR on the POS kiosk display is scanned with the store phone app and I just need to select on POS if I will pay through app (pre-added card info) or physical card/cash. As simple as it gets.

No one checks the products. Occasional random checks happen but the checking frequency probably depends if past checks have found issues, so I get a bag check once a year max.

soziawa · 2 years ago
In Switzerland it's similar for one of the two major retailers. For the other one you can pay in the app without every going to a POS.
soziawa commented on Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G4 review: Business laptop is better with AMD Zen4   notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-... · Posted by u/sydney6
soziawa · 2 years ago
Can you put linux on one of these without any issues?
soziawa commented on Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable   bloomberg.com/news/newsle... · Posted by u/cududa
vunderba · 2 years ago
I really wish Spotify would understand the difference between white noise and actual music, using Spotify on my smart speaker when I go to bed playing a continual brown noise loop completely screws up the recommendation algorithm.

YouTube has a similar issue. Viewers who watched "60 minutes of white noise" also enjoyed "8 hr tv noise loop". Yeah... thanks for the rec.

soziawa · 2 years ago
You can exclude certain playlists from the list of stuff that is considered when creating the recommendations. Tap the three dots on a playlist and tap "Exclude from taste profile".
soziawa commented on Show HN: StackOverflow.gg – AI-generated answers to every coding question   stackoverflow.gg/... · Posted by u/jshobrook
matsemann · 3 years ago
I don't get this hate-boner HN has for SO. Have you tried being active there? It's super easy to not have your question closed, just do the minimum amount of effort. And if you're active, you'll see the thousands of similar questions arrive every day. If you're active in the review queues, you will see all the spam, broken answers, non-SO fitting questions etc. people churn out.

I see people complain about how their "well researched and well articulated question got closed" all the time, but when prompted no one every actually provides a link to their question. Which makes me believe it actually just was a low effort noisy question after all..

If anything, HN is much more snarky, just look at the comments on anything here.

soziawa · 3 years ago
It very much depends on the tags you use. Swift and iOS is absolutely abysmal and questions will be closed as duplicates of questions that have been irrelevant for years. Go and Haskell are great though.
soziawa commented on Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?   meter.com/mac-osx-awdl-ps... · Posted by u/bradleybuda
lapcat · 3 years ago
> Note: if you opt to not use the script and want to use the UI, you have to disable both Bluetooth and AirDrop.

Periodic reminder that Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bluetooth.html

soziawa · 3 years ago
It also resets custom DNS settings for all networks.
soziawa commented on Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups   support.apple.com/en-us/H... · Posted by u/frizlab
manmal · 3 years ago
No. Install Charles Proxy (iOS app) and see what you can get of the MITM proxy it ships with. Many apps don’t ship with pinning.
soziawa · 3 years ago
But most importantly the whole OS and all of the integrated apps do use pinning.

u/soziawa

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