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Subscribe, Forever
Recently, there was a detail in the unredacted court filing in the Adobe case that looked extremely awful for the creative software company. Here’s the relevant passage, with the important part...
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The Rich Data Wonk
Steve Ballmer is responsible for some of Microsoft’s biggest success stories, as well as some of its worst decision-making. He’s also the king of sweaty executives—and honestly, nobody will ever...
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Shape-Shifting Companies
Today in Tedium: Every MBA knows the tale. Warren Buffett got so upset that he was being undercut on one of his investments, a textiles company, that he decided to screw over the guy who messed up his...
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Writearound
At the beginning of this year, I announced I was jumping into the Linux ecosystem, full steam ahead. It’s been about eight months, and I’m still here, with the one exception of video calls, which I’ve...
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Best Foot Under
I’ve read all the reports about how all this sitting we do in front of our computers is going to mess up our health, and … well, I get it. It’s not a particularly healthy thing to do, to just sit...
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Mac As Appliance
Recently, the Mac rumor mill has suggested that Apple is about to shrink the Mac Mini to the size of an Apple TV. Perfect timing, because it shows exactly how Apple thinks you should use its...
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Dead On A Friday
Today in Tedium: I have this memory of the one period in my life where I wasn’t sure if I could make it on my own. It occurred in the winter of 2006, when I had just departed from a bad roommate...
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Platforms Built On Quicksand
By the way, related to the below news, Tedium has opened up a page on Ko-Fi, and would love to encourage you to follow us there or chip in something if you like our content—regular or not. We have $7...
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All That Glitters
First off, a quick shout to the folks who decided to support our little newsletter on Ko-Fi. As I said in that newsletter, we were at a pretty paltry $7 at the time I sent it. Now we’re up to $71,...
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From Segments To Pixels
Hey all, hope you’re having a killer weekend. Last week, we launched a fresh Ko-Fi page amid the recent Patreon drama, and the results have been nothing short of astounding. (We started at $7, now...
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When The Coffee Sweats
The new CEO of Starbucks, the beleaguered corporate coffee giant, is pissing people off already because of his travel routine. Simply put, he’s commuting from Newport Beach to Seattle by private jet....
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Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too
It’s not every day that a famous one-hit wonder decides to re-emerge, as New Radicals did this past week with their first studio recordings in a quarter-century. We wrote a popular piece about them in...
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Getting A Second-Hand Bill
First off, I want you to imagine something: the bloody murder that computer users far and wide would scream if they couldn’t buy, say, a used laptop without being forced to pay money to get it working...
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Did Section 230 Meet Its Match?
If you’ve never used the internet before, I have a piece of useful advice. The secret to navigating any “challenge” a social media platform recommends—whether it involves eating a spoonful of...
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Control Freaks
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Dayten Rose. I’ve been trying to work more guest voices back into Tedium after a period in which I had to take a break from it—and donations to Ko-Fi are helping....
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The Worst Form On The Internet?
As you may or may not know about me, I am a nerd who likes hosting nerdy things in nerdy places. In the past year or two I have become a big self-hosting nut, and am always looking for ways to...
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Taking A Mile
Having been on Hacker News for a while, occasionally getting pieces that go viral over there, often without my direct influence, has given me a unique perspective on the point where tech and content...
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Tethered
Today in Tedium: If you’re far from home in need of an internet connection, you most likely either use your phone or hunt down the closest coffee shop. But if you’re fancy, maybe you’ll tether your...
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Can Weird Creatures Survive?
The challenge with running a great internet platform is that there are no guarantees that you’re going to be able to keep it around just because it’s great. In a world where venture capital often...
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No Plane? No Problem
Hey all, Ernie here with another piece from Dr. Matt Lee, a.k.a. mattl. He recently took a very long trip in a train—a cross-country trip, in fact—and because I have always been curious about such...
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