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I think the less frowned upon way to charge is to just do it once.

If the Apple store supports this, free trial + one time payment sounds like a good way. Don't optimize for freeloaders, as someone else said.

If the app relies only on iPhone hardware and/or is not a live service, an account/subscription should not be required. Even non-devs might justifiably ask "why do I need a subscription for a camera app".

Re:Railway (PaaS) Global Outage on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @11:57AM (#46977436)
I use https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify on a VPS for this.
Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:01PM (#46964018)
> The pole at ts8 isn't when machines become superintelligent. It's when humans lose the ability to make coherent collective decisions about machines. The actual capabilities are almost beside the point. The social fabric frays at the seams of attention and institutional response time, not at the frontier of model performance.

Damn, good read.

Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:58AM (#46808460)
On top of that, the factory is getting converted to make robots...
Re:Indifference is a power on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:52PM (#46606849)
> You’re not allowed to feel things. Emotions make you weak. Just suck it up and power through. Bottle it up.

Yeah, none of that is "real stoicism", but just the hydroponic TikTok version of it, as you say.

This can happen to anything if TikTok is your main source of information; everything becomes life hacks, "tricks", and "did you know that <insert biased misinterpretation of well known thing>" types of knowledge bites. Philosophy is unfortunately not the only victim of short-length "edutainment".

I think that Stoicism might be particularly vulnerable to this because of its built in flexibility, which makes it easy for people to divulge their interpretations of it with little pushback. If you haven't read much of it, and without a clear rirgid "rule set" for what Stoicism is (other than its tenets in the cardinal virtues and dichotomy of control), you might believe me if I tell you that it is a Philosophy that encourages suicide and tells you that being sad because a family member passed is stupid.

> I use it mostly as a reliable syncing solution for my photos

That is... storage.

Re:IRCd service (2024) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:31AM (#45759859)
Which channels should we join? Feeling lonely
Re:The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @01:41PM (#45736119)
I use these at night, sleeping with them on. I experienced this screeching intermittently for like a week, and then it went away almost completely. Now, it only happens if I lay down in a very specific way. It's probably related to the strength of the seal in my case, and maybe at higher altitudes and different pressures the seal is affected in a similar way.

The seal might have improved for me the more I used the same eartips

Re:Vibe Engineering on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @11:24AM (#45517210)
I feel the opposite. I get to sit down and think about problems, expressing them in words as best I can, and then review the code, make sure that I understand it and it works as it should, all in a fraction of the time it used to take me. I like that I don't have to google APIs as much as I did before, and instead I can get a working thing much faster.

I can focus on actually solving problems rather than on writing clever and/or cute-looking code, which ironically also gives me more time later to over-optimize stuff at my leisure.

Hugged to death, I think
Re:Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:46PM (#41735393)
Yeah, Jobs probably went "only I get to be rude... and to my employees, too"
Legal, but probably against ToS
> I don't think sound engineering can be classed as creative music.

Yes, let's gatekeep what can or cannot be classified as "creative".

oof I love this. the bass and bass drum hit hard
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:42PM (#32919666)
I know it's not the point, but you can generalize the input handler in the first example by using the name of the input field as a key — in most simple forms, at least:

```

const Form = () => {

  const [formData, setFormData] = useState({ firstName: '', lastName: '' });

  function handleChange(event) {
    const { target } = event;
    const { name, value } = target; // Destructuring in steps to make it easier to figure out where values come from.

    setFormData({
      ...formData,
      [name]: value
    });
  }
  

  return (
    <>
      <input name="firstName" value={formData.firstName} onChange={handleChange} />
      <input name="lastName" value={formData.lastName} onChange={handleChange} />
    </>
  )
}

```

Re:An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS on Sunday July 17, 2022 @02:00AM (#32124819)
I didn't know about about cohost. How does one go about getting an invite code?
Re:Self arrest on the slippery slope of addiction on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:34AM (#29684089)
It's the worst for sure. Managed to kick instagram for a month, but ended up going back when I had some down time.

Regarding my question, I was wondering if I was missing something else within the article, which I feel like I do a lot of the time :) Glad to know that I actually got it.

Re:Self arrest on the slippery slope of addiction on Monday December 20, 2021 @05:51PM (#29631524)
I don't get it; isn't he just listing stuff he stopped doing?
> That said, I don't understand the outrage.

My guess is that it comes from the fact that it's a YC Company.

Re:Don’t use environment variables for configuration on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:33AM (#26660304)
This is such a bad take that it feels like it being in the frontpage might even be dangerous.
Re:Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:42PM (#26471479)
It's unlikely that they need lodash at all.
Re:Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005) on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:27AM (#26276475)
everyone knows it's called 'tictactoe'
Re:Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job? on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:45AM (#26179699)
Just wanted to say that I read Grindr and I had to do a double take :)
I went through a similar process with the WSJ, except it was made worse by the fact that I had to call them to get it done. I'm not from the US; no such thing as a toll-free number for me.
Re:Is Requiring a College Degree Discrimination? Yes, It Is on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @12:27PM (#26016191)
> I preceded to tell him that it doesn’t matter if you have a college degree anymore to do today’s jobs and that he was basically bragging about his family’s socioeconomic status, not his son’s actual achievements. I tried to elaborate about the inequalities of higher education and why it’s an outdated metric of future success. I explained why employers are absolutely wrong for thinking his son is better than someone without a degree or a degree from a public university.

Massive eye roll. I'm sure everyone clapped after that, and they gave them a free coffee, and hung their portrait on the wall.

Also, it's "proceeded".

Re:Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:56PM (#25115523)
I tried upgrading a 2019 iMac with Catalina to BigSur. It failed after the black screen with the apple logo and a count down, by going to a screen I've never seen before that said something like "failed to _apply_ update". If I restarted, then I would land on the same countdown screen until it inevitably failed again.

I ended up deleting the hard drive and reinstalling Catalina, but the weird thing is that now my 2019 iMac with Catalina plays the boot chime, which is the only part of Big Sur that worked for me...

Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. on Saturday November 07, 2020 @08:29PM (#25021893)
So, American friends, I can't imagine Trump stopping his hissy fit and conceding... what happens if he doesn't concede?
Re:PS5 Teardown [video] on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:48AM (#24709414)
Apple gets shit for building shit to be thin over having good cooling; Sony gets shit for building a chunky, properly cooled device. I think Sony wins here.
Re:Ask HN: What are good life skills for people to learn? on Sunday September 27, 2020 @02:25PM (#24608924)
Cooking is essential. Jumping into meal prepping for there, is another thing. Meal prepping saves you some time, but if you actually like cooking and enjoy fresh meals, this is not necessarily a good thing.

Meal prepping falls into the productivity porn category for me.

The States feel like so much worse and so much better than my country at the same time.

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