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New comment by basejumping in "Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US"

basejumping — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:22:28 +0000

So why do they want Americans to use TikTok? It's not like they can't live without it, and anyway, they still have Youtube and Instagram short videos, etc. It's also not to show other countries that US is better and not banning foreign apps (like China does for example), since showing a good example won't change what other countries do. Is it because they know it's a more addictive service that they then control and can influence people's minds? Is it for their friends to make money off this split?

New comment by basejumping in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

basejumping — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:50:25 +0000

They should set a very high salary as a criteria for hiring someone from abroad. You want exceptional people, not regular people that you pay less than the ones you find in your own country.

New comment by basejumping in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

basejumping — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:40:34 +0000

For transferring photos from your Iphone to your Mac, you can also use the native Image Capture app.

New comment by basejumping in "Secret Deals, Foreign Investments: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm"

basejumping — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:54:38 +0000

His son is currently on a tour of eastern europe presenting his crypto 'opportunity' to 'investors'

New comment by basejumping in "Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry"

basejumping — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:27:52 +0000

You should then be dissatisfied with both at the same time. When people wish 'any change' they actually wish a change into better, otherwise it's plain stupid.

New comment by basejumping in "JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier"

basejumping — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:05:10 +0000

Yes, but you need to pay the license to them. I guess I'll switch, it's just silly that there isn't an official integration

New comment by basejumping in "JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier"

basejumping — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:59:38 +0000

Is there a way to use Claude within the Jetbrains IDEs? I have a Jetbrains IDE license, and a Claude subscription, but I couldn't find an integration. To use Claude and have it integrated I need to subscribe to Jebtbrains AI instead, but then I don't have Claude in the browser anymore.

New comment by basejumping in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

basejumping — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:47:51 +0000

He doesn't need to follow that recipe for dictatorship. He just needs to do whatever he wants, being a bully without consequences both internally and externally, transforming the image of the US into an aggressive nation. At this moment Americans are as guilty as Russians for allowing this to happen.

New comment by basejumping in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

basejumping — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:48:45 +0000

Maybe it's temporary, not 'once you build it they will use it'. Time will tell, if in the end a dictatorship proves itself to run things more efficiently and make everyone richer, then other countries will follow the US and adopt the same model.

New comment by basejumping in "No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard? Here's why"

basejumping — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:30:40 +0000

Why did you pick up 21 mln people? Just to make a contrived connection to the number of bitcoins?

New comment by basejumping in "No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard? Here's why"

basejumping — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:02:13 +0000

Why would the people holding all the 21mln bitcoins be the richest people in the world?

New comment by basejumping in "GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn"

basejumping — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:11:05 +0000

I didn't even receive a LI email, checked my spam as well, yet I can login to slideshare and see my account with full name and profile scraped from my LI account. Great!

By the way, my email is marked private on my linkedin account, but now it's on slideshare. So selling information you marked as private!

New comment by basejumping in "How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors"

basejumping — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 06:30:50 +0000

I have been looking for the same thing. I want to connect my 2 laptops to the same dell monitor via one usb-c port, charge them, use the mouse and keyboard attached to the monitor. Now I have to move the usb-c cable from one laptop to the other, which already started to leave a mark on the port enclosure.

New comment by basejumping in "Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo"

basejumping — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 20:33:06 +0000

since in dutch you call the country Nederland it's not a big mistake to call it The Nederlands

New comment by basejumping in "Megadesk"

basejumping — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:36:37 +0000

I suggest they also program a child lock for the buttons. My son caught his fingers between a chair under the desk and the desk itself while pressing the down button, luckily I jumped in time to help. I've since then moved the controls on top of the desk and at the back.

New comment by basejumping in "Avoiding the Global Lobotomy"

basejumping — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:42:26 +0000

I don't know if this works for you, but since a month I started taking a 1h walk every evening, after my kids go to sleep. I'm in my 30s, walking for me was something older people do. I also run every other day. But I find it so relaxing, it gives me 1h of reflection, burns a few hundred calories, and in that time I would have probably sat at the computer anyway. I think this is one of the good habits one can pick up, and in your case I think you need to pick up some good habits. Focusing on how to break your phone addiction could be hard since it's very specific, so maybe changing some fundamental things that you do will shake off this behaviour.

New comment by basejumping in "New iPhone SE"

basejumping — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:23:14 +0000

Is the frame made of aluminium or glass? I can't find it mentioned anywhere.

New comment by basejumping in "Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report"

basejumping — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 16:36:19 +0000

I have the QC35-II as well. I've now disabled it on my phone, and hopefully it will only connect to the computer. I wish they would have put a physical button and let me cycle through the connected devices. But no, I don't know what they've thought, that the headphones will guess my intention? The reason I have it on my phone is that because of the poor bluetooth range I will keep the phone in my pocket and stream to the headphones when I walk through the house, but when I come back to the computer I need to hassle again to switch the connection.

New comment by basejumping in "Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report"

basejumping — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 07:05:08 +0000

I have the QC35 and besides the noise cancelling they are crap. The bluetooth drops off when I'm sometimes only 8m away, the battery life is low, but the most annoying thing for me is the multi devices connectivity. They will connect to both my iphone and mac at the same time, but never in the way I intended to. A lot of times I need to turn off the bluetooth on the iphone, or turn the phones on and off several times, or desperately try to connect/disconnect the phones to the mac, do this a few times a day and see how it feels. There is no option on the phones to switch between devices, or even to stop multi connectivity, the phones know better and will connect to the device which is 'closest'. Good luck when you sit at the desk with the laptop and the phone on it. The only way is to use the Bose supplied app, which is full of dark UX patterns. Every time it asks me to create a Bose account, to connect my other social accounts, etc. And it doesn't even solve anything, do I really need to open my iphone and open the Bose app to turn off a connected device every time I start the headphones?

By comparison my Beats solo are much better, for range battery and connectivity, but they don't have noise cancelling.

New comment by basejumping in "Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have fallen sharply over the last few days"

basejumping — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:29:10 +0000

Why is cash king?