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Not the GP, but, yeah, because it is still a form of spam.

If it's only a link to a newsletter, sure. And "signing" a comment breaks a norm here. But if it's otherwise a good comment, seems like a poor use of "flag"; one of the rare instances where maybe you want to leave a short, polite note ("don't sign off with links to your newsletter, we don't sign things here").

Flagging deprives everyone else of the comment, and is especially hostile if there's already a thread sprouting from that comment.


A bit of unsolicited advice -

* Focus on Windows users. Windows desktop share is 10x that of Mac and nowadays Windows users pay almost as willingly as Mac ones.

* Charge several times more.

* Redo the website. In particular get rid of 3D slant and on-hover animations, put larger high-res screenshots, explain each of them well (and not in gray on gray text), put up "Windows / Mac / Linux" in bold friendly and highly-visible letters. Better yet have separate Download buttons for each. Add version and last release date, next to the Download button. Have at-a-glance summary of features closer to the top of the page. Ditto for pricing and trialing details. Ideally, adjust windows chrome in the screenshots based on the web client's OS, i.e. show Windows screenshots to Windows visitors, Mac ones - to those coming from Macs, etc. The last thing you want to show Mac screenshots to Windows people, because it implies that the Windows version was an afterthought.

All in all, the site gives an amateurish/hobby project vibe, and the $5 price cements the impression. If you are to spruce things up a bit, you can potentially live off this app. At the very least and with not much of an effort you can double/triple what you make off it.


Did you bother to look at the source code? It's Electron-based, so the effort for supporting more than one OS isn't very high.

Woudln't OP be able to tell what the platform split is just based on his internal download metrics?

With Mac screenshots on the site they won't tell much. Plus the point is that it's worth to actively cater to Windows users even if you don't have many at the moment.

The OP says that he doesn't want _cards_ be stored in opaque format, because they are valuable. The review history he doesn't care about.

But, yeah, phrasing could've been a bit more precise.


How exactly are they going to link accounts with no real names, personal info or identifiable emails to a person?

Probably by the phone number used for account verification, in many cases

The anime avi posters will have to level up their OPSEC


Literally all data coming in/out of the US (lots of it, even between other countries sometimes routes in-between US network transit points) is kept, and considering the possibilities that just private companies have today by dealing with data brokers and others offering "social media protection" (or whatever they call it today), it's hard to even imagine what the government and its agencies can do.

Did we really forgot about what happened back in 2013 so quickly? Did people assume all these agencies suddenly stopped doing what they've been doing for decades? Nothing you do on the internet with regular network connections are hidden to these entities, don't live falsely under the impression that you can.


The answer to that question doesn’t change the sage advice to not lie.

Hailstone numbers has been a popular subject in computing circles since forever. Not much practical application, just a very simple, but curious construct.


Clearly, the proper solution is to have a p2p mesh of down detectors.

As per usual, all new is something old, well-forgotten.


Interestingly enough, the architecture of "a p2p mesh of down detectors" converges with the architecture of "not using a down detector".


Might've worked for HDDs, but SSDs have a cap on lifetime writes.


Yes but also the drives in the OP have 4~ TB lifetime writes, basically nothing compared to the total capability of the drive, Given these drives can do 2TB+ a day for the entire warranty period a day, I don't think these drives are that bad, the amazon seller shouldn't have claimed they were new, but in terms of the flash wear, these drives look almost as good as new


Yep. They should've engraved it.


To add some context -

Powell's 4-year term ends January 31, 2026. Whether he is reconfirmed by the Senate for another term is an open question.


Uhh... Powell's term as chairman ends in May 2026. His term as a board member ends Jan 2028. Senate confirmation is irrelevant because Trump will not nominate him again for anything.


Bah, you are correct [1]. I got my date from the Wikipedia page and apparently it's wrong.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48233

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Powell#Federal_Reserve_...


> We stay away from conflict, just robots driving circles around buildings in remote boring places.

Kudos for clarifying this.


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