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dysamoria said:

frantisek said:

My experience with Snapchat is just short but o am surprised it’s allowed on AppStore. It’s just social network for PornHub and transgender girls selling their nudes.

1. I see countless examples of Snapchat usage that’s not porn. Maybe you’re only familiar with the porn angle because you’ve seen Snapchat images a lot while browsing for porn, but it’s not remotely “just a social network for pornhub”.

2. If no one is being harmed, and it’s all consensual, what should anyone care if people use the tool for sexual purposes? Give humans a tool and some of them will use it for sexual purposes. We are sexual beings. Its just what people do. Do you have a problem with human sexuality?

This is all very off-topic, but my issue with Snapchat is the disappearing messages. What possible reason for this feature to exist could there be other than for kids to hide their conversations from their parents. It's horrible, and for that reason the app should be restricted to adults-only.

I have the slightly smaller (918+) version of this and it’s one of my all-time favorite devices. In addition to safely storing my important documents, it also functions as my Plex server and runs several other services (one of which has its own vpn client) running in their own Docker containers.

I cannot recommend Synology strongly enough!

gatorguy said:

macxpress said:

Bottomline is its not Apple news. I don't care if its Apple's competitor. This isn't Apple news. It's just general news on an Apple site. I don't really care what Android is coming out with....I refuse to use such a POS knock off mobile OS. 

There are other Apple users here who also use Android devices too, or who have family member that do. If you're not interested what does it matter? Just don't read those articles.

Thank you. I’m one of those. I use an Android device for work (by choice) because, even though I don’t care much for Android I still need to be able to test my sites on it. I don’t care enough to read Android central to see what’s coming, so I’m glad to see the occasional update here. 

Also, some of android’s features trickle down into iOS (and visa-versa) so it’s good to keep on top of what’s out there. And if you don’t care to, then don’t read these articles.

chasm said:

2. Edge doesn't have a low share on Windows because its a bad browser -- it's not. It's not the finest browser in the world, either. It falls very squarely in the middle. The reason it has a low share is because towards the end of IE quite some years ago, every Windows fanboy/tech was recommending anything but IE because IE was horrible, and that advice was taken. People like FF and (stupidly) Chrome, so Edge -- despite being pretty similar -- has been ignored.

4. If you are on a site that says it's best compatible with IE, run the other way. They either haven't updated it in a decade, or it's a warren of malware (or both).

I have to disagree wholeheartedly on your second point. When I “upgraded” my Windows 7 VM to Windows 10, I tried out Edge. And as a sometime web developer, I have to ensure my sites work on everything. Edge is awful. Using it is, to me, akin to using notepad as a text editor. Yes it works, but it feels very stripped down. Even IE offers a better user experience.

As for your fourth point, on that I wholeheartedly agree. These days you have to work pretty hard to find ways to make your site work best on IE. Microsoft finally embraced web standards, making life so much easier for front-end development and using IE-specific features takes effort.

For years I've seen people speak of Aperture replacements, many of which (including Lightroom) have superior editing tools to what Aperture offered. What none of them seem to do as well, however, is offer a comparable workflow. With Aperture's stacks, rating, and compare tools, I could quite literally blow through a 600 photo shoot and narrow it down to a few dozen best images to focus on in about 10-15 minutes. I could then produce an album of those photos in another 15-30 minutes.

Lightroom has great editing tools, but its workflow is a joke, and that's not even taking into account the fact that you have separate modes for each. Aperture allowed you to stack, sort, edit, and catalog all in one place.