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I so despise that, I always cut it off and get agitated because always leaves some sharpness.

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Anything you want from Reddit - use an RSS-feed. Reddit itself is not worth to use at all.

All you currently see is:

  • Drama (writing awful stuff to each other).
  • Ragebait.
  • Terrible memes
  • Bots karma farming
  • Bots trying to steer political things.
  • People cheering on deaths of innocent civilians.
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Source of the last point?

Find a Reddit thread that's about the current war between Israeli government and Hamas. I'm not going to search for these threads, got enough of Redditors behavior. Just google something along the lines of ''Israel-Hamas war'' and you'll find upon the threads, just take a solid minute or two and you'll notice the comments.

Here's a thread from a month ago that addresses it as well:
Can we all just agree that killing civilians is bad and cheering it is repulsive?

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I have the app and the developer is a Palestinian himself. I genuinely hope it survives, the app helps a lot to boycot products that deal with Israel.

It’s unfortunate to see that so many products have deals with Israel. Some products are sadly impossible to avoid.

Here’s a screenshot about the app from within the app itself

Thi No Thanks Origin Story

The app on the AppStore (IOS):
No Thanks App

EDIT: apologies, should’ve read your post in its entirety. You already mentioned the developer was a Palestinian.

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The text is from the TimesOfIsrael website, so blame them for being wrong.

Screenshot of TimesOfIsrael
Site

What matters is that the app exists and helps to boycot and from what I understood is that Israel wants to see it banned.

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I think you haven’t watched the news about the boycotts on for example; Starbucks and Mcdonalds. Also about Samsung leaving Israel.

  1. Samsung Next Withdraws From Israel
  2. McDonald's to buy back Israeli restaurants after boycotts
  3. Starbucks loses $12B market cap amid sales concerns, boycotts over Israel

You have to start somewhere and slowly build up the boycott.

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Surprised it got a lot of backlash. The price increase of streaming service is bullshit while they’re removing sharing password and worse experience for the users.

Though, I saw the same picture on reddit through RSS-Feed. Haven’t checked the comments on that one, I’m curious now though.

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I think, you need to read a lot of history as to why Hamas exists and why they attacked Israel.

Your comment is full of ignorance or perhaps you are just an Israel-supporter that leaves out the entire history.

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That’s because the components inside each little white stick are glued together. Apple could use screws and latches to hold together the components. That way, if something needed to be repaired or replaced, you could easily get inside the device in order to fix it. But Apple doesn’t do this.

So as usual, they purposefully do this. This reminds me of the time with the iPhone battery 'scandal' Apple Batterygate.

I really like their Airpods Pro (1st gen), have them for about 4 years now. However not without problems. I had to replace them 5 times because of crackling sounds, muffled sound and broke-bass sounds. This even happend after my 2 years warranty but luckily (and thankfully) the Apple employees are nice people at times. When it happened (twice) outside my warranty, they told me, if I showed them my receipt - They can and will give me a new pair of Airpods Pros.

They told me ''many do not know but there's a law that forces companies (even Apple) to give a 'decent product' to the customer''.

Not sure if I will get their Airpods Pro 2 (or 3) though after all the hassle.

EDIT: As I'm not sure if this law is also outside my country, here's the official government website with their explanation of it. It is in the Dutch language though: Rijksoverheid deugdelijk product

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Agreed! Though, I asked one of the employees that worked there and was told that the 1st gen AirPods Pro had a very known issue with all the three issues I had. Especially the crackling sound.

And apparently Apple refuses to fix the entire issue with the 1st gen and rather replace them continuously (I suppose?).

I’m only so glued to the AirPods Pro at the moment for the NC. I got Tinnitus, hear damage and with loud sound I will get Hyperacusis. The NC allows me to have very low sound on, avoid the noise from outside but still capable of hearing other sounds a bit.

Great service of Jabra though, I’m surprised they allowed you to keep the old ones.

ModernRisk ,
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None. I stick to the AirPods Pro at the moment because, they work right now and Apple keeps replacing them anyway.

That and don’t have time (yet) to do research for new in-earbuds that are good quality with real good NC. Noise cancelling is a must though.

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I mean, if you don’t understand that I only paid once and that Apple replaced them freely even out of warranty. And that, that’s why I keep using the AirPods Pro (1st gen) for now.

I don’t know what else to tell you. You can call me an “Apple zombie” if that satisfies yourself. But it doesn’t make sense.

I’m not going to explain myself to a stranger that soft-insult and can’t even give an good argument as to why I should not keep using them while Apple replaces them for free until I decide to purchase different in-earbuds.

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I understand you don’t like Apple. That’s fair. But you keep pressuring your opinion on others (me). You changed topics the moment, I told you, you didn’t understand my first comment.

Was it frustrating? Perhaps a little, I suppose. I don’t remember how much time, I spent. I don’t care either. The service was easy, quick and good. That’s what matters.

When I spend apple money on something I expect it to work.

Lets rephrase that shall we?
“When I spent money on something, I expect it to work.”

Indeed. I expected it to work, it didn’t. Unfortunately several times but they replaced the product without any issue. So problems quickly solved.

Life isn’t going to always be in your favor. Have patience and find a solution.

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why I should not keep using them while Apple replaces them for free until I decide to purchase different in-earbuds.

You also didn’t give me an actual good argument yet on this.

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May I ask the name(s) of these extension(s)?
Currently having this issue and that’s why I mainly use MPV to load my music playlist on.

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I like Apple. Got Apple Watch, AirPods Pro and iPhone. I love the design of MacBooks however I refuse to ever buy MacBooks.

Overpriced like crazy. For half of the price you can get a really great laptop.

I’m honestly even thinking to buy a €200 android device to get used to the system.

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Ohh that’s sad to hear. I was thinking to get the Samsung Galaxy A14.

ModernRisk ,
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Call me pessimistic, but I do think:

  • Privacy is an illusion.
  • Control is an illusion (a reference to Mr. Robot).

Certainly, we can do a lot to have more privacy, but it is an illusion to think that we have complete control over it. Especially with social media, jobs, and today's technology.

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It seems like my comment has upset you or at least agitated you, if that’s not the case – it’s the impression you gave me.

I never said that we should ‘’not do everything we can’’; of course, we should. But that certainly does not mean we control everything. No matter how hard you try and how well you manage to maintain both privacy and control, at some point there will be a ‘’leak’’. Not by you but perhaps by your job, your family, friends or acquaintance. There are to many external things to have 100% control.

In today’s era, both privacy and control are truly mere illusions because you can maintain your privacy and believe you are in control, yet somewhere along the way, you leave a trail behind, especially with technology. I’m not sure why you brought ‘’morality’’ into the discussion of privacy and control – because that’s a whole other argument. This post and my comments were merely about these two.

Though, I did not expect my comment to get this much attention. It's just my personal opinion, you can agree and disagree.

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May I ask what you’re using to replace Discord?

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At the moment none, I don’t find any of it worth the money. I’m more of; that’s a good thing to pirate.

ModernRisk ,
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As a non-native English speaker, I thought the same exact thing. That they lost revenue of 300M.

So unfortunately they are gaining revenue?
I wish more people would get into Piracy honestly.

Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US (www.engadget.com)

Disney+ started getting strict about password sharing in Canada last year, and now it's expanding the restriction to the US. According to The Verge, the streaming service has been sending out emails to its subscribers in the country, notifying them about a change in its terms of service. Its service agreement now states that...

ModernRisk ,
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Was no surprise that other platforms would follow Netflix with not allowing sharing passwords.

What does surprise me is that people actually pay their own subscription for these platforms. Netflix had a win in profit/revenue. I’m surprised that these people did not go for the Piracy method even though, they complain about:

  • Price increases
  • Not allowed to share password/ account
  • Content not available on said platform and having to go to others platforms
  • Cancellation of shows after one or two seasons
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I actually wanted to check out Substack to see whether it was better than Medium.

After hearing all the stuff about them allowing Nazi-content, I refuse to ever use that platform.

So hoping someone knows another platform similar to both.

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I’m honestly surprised and shocked that Nazism is rising up again. It is a scary idea that, that ideology is growing bit by bit.

Have people not learnt about and from the past?

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