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It sounds like you quoted the “piss off price”. They didn’t really want to do it, so they just quoted a stupid amount of money if you’d taken them up on it it would have been worth it for them to do it but they were hoping you wouldn’t.

Screen replacements for laptops are a pain because it’s never all that obvious from the beginning how easy it will be. For you it was apparently simple but it depends massively on the laptop and they may not have an encyclopedic knowledge of which laptops are easy and which laptops are hard.

PS3s regularly go for €115 so I guess it’s not that surprising. It’s about demand, if a lot of people want one then it doesn’t really matter how old it is.

I would be extremely skeptical of buying something listed as untested. How hard is it to test if a Mac works you just turn it on if it doesn’t turn on it’s broken. It takes like 30 seconds.

However if you turn it on and it’s broken but you don’t want to sell it for parts you can always just sell it as “untested”.

So I had to look online because I don’t know where it is and North Carolina is nowhere near a coastline, so I’m not sure how much the people who live there are to blame.

The problem is people have gone and built entire cities in unsafe areas. If we were being sensible basically the entirety of Florida should not be occupied, the place is a disaster waiting to happen, or more accurately is a disaster that has already happened, but somehow nobody’s learnt from it.

Dreamweaver is an IDE (a bad and crappy one). SASS is a pre-processing language.

They don’t even remotely do the same thing

I’m not saying that I like the fact that they’ve gone over to a new render engine, I don’t.

But frankly the alternative wasn’t working and either they couldn’t or were unwilling to put in the effort to develop their own system.

I fully believe Google might have been doing some messing around with YouTube. but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they did and no one was ever able to provide any evidence for the accusation.

With regards to things like linear gradients, kind of get your point but also at the same time who the hell still codes raw CSS? I’ve been out of the industry for probably about 8 years and even back then people were using SASS, so needing a bunch of vendor prefixes is kind of irrelevant really.

That was a claim that was made yes, but never proven.

Meanwhile what I said is demonstrably verifiable. Early versions of Microsoft edge that they put out were an absolute travesty, and all of the criticism leveled at it was 100% earned, it had nothing to do with any machinations from Google. Microsoft made a terrible browser put it out to the general public and were rightfully criticized for it. They couldn’t fix it so they switched to chromium.

What do you mean history disagrees with me? If you look at reviews of Microsoft edge when it released pretty much all of them talk about how it lacked compatibility with modern standards and was nowhere close to feature complete. Large parts of the HTML5 spec were missing, including any support for webm or ogg encoding.

If there was an open source VR headset, I’d own it.

That’s the big tech philosophy isn’t it. “If at first you don’t succeed, give up. Also if you do succeed, give up anyway just because”

Not every company is as bad as Amazon. I don’t think I’ve ever worked at a company that is actually run in a completely ethical manner, capitalism being what it is, but I’ve also never worked at a company as bad as Amazon or anywhere close to what Amazon do.

The gold standard is a myth anyway. You can’t actually get that gold even if you do have an original dollar. The number of times it’s been reprinted doesn’t matter.

The US isn’t backed by gold anymore the Euro was backed by the Dollar. Every currency is simply backed by that country’s economy, that’s why you get hyperinflation in countries with civil unrest or war.

They truly are a ridiculous company. If they were a bit more open about their Macs I would buy one, but they aren’t so I don’t.

Their desire nickel and dime people as much as possible ultimately ends up in the earning less money. Meanwhile every small computer shop on the planet sells Windows computers.

Did you ever have to deal with the HMRC Apple gift card scam? One lady I dealt with had literally thousands of pounds in Apple gift cards she wanted to purchase.

Super suspect.

Would not be Linux then? I’m pretty certain Mac OS isn’t even in the top three mostly because their os is tied to computers and their computers are stupidly expensive and only westerners can really afford them with any degree of regularity.

Haven’t they been told they’ve got to stop doing that now?

I thought the European commission had forced them to allow other browsers to actually use their own render engines

I don’t know have any lag on YouTube using Firefox

The early versions of edge were absolutely terrible and didn’t support modern standards. I fully believe that YouTube didn’t work on Edge but I don’t believe it was anything to do with Google and everything to do with Microsoft not being able to build a web browser.

You have to walk around in the right environment otherwise they’re all going to turn into generic eevees, and you don’t want that