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Reason number 8765432567543 to avoid WhatsApp

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Say you are using WhatsApp web… in first place, what the fuck!! whatsap web? where is the fucking native app?. Ok, you are using that crap.

But you have to have your phone connected to whatsapp in order for it to work!!! NO FUCKING KIDDING ME!! what is the point of having a web version already connected to the fucking service if you need to have your phone connected  too.

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Hey, let’s fuck up their lives by requiring the phone to be online for the web version.

Take for comparison another Instant messengers:

Telegram

  • Free (Open Source and you can use the service for free)
  • Mobile app (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)
  • An API to create your own app/service
  • Bots
  • You can share pictures
  • Voice messages
  • Is quite similar to whatsapp, but..
  • You can use either, the phone, the tablet or your desktop as long as you have internet in the device you are using. No need to have your phone connected.
  • This thing does support GIFs!!!
  • Unfortunately, you have to pay for the data usage in mobile since there is no agreement with carriers to give it for free (as with whatsapp)

Facebook Messenger

  • Free (you can use it, althought there is no source code available).
  • There is an App for most popular mobile devices (Android, iOS, Windows Phone?) and there is a web version (http://messenger.com) which you can quickly make a desktop webapp.
  • Most of your contacts already use Facebook, so what’s the problem?
  • You can share Pictures, video, Voice messages and other files.
  • You can do Video calls.
  • It does support GIFS.
  • No need to have your phone connected to internet. You can use whatever device you have at hand.
  • In Mexico most carriers give it for free as the mobile data usage in “social networks”.

I still wonder WHY THE FUCK PEOPLE STILL USES WHATSAPP!!!!! if it is because it’s free, then use Facebook messenger, it does support video calls and it’s free. Do you use it as a messaging replacement?, use Telegram!!

 

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Worth every cent

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We gave this iPad to Sofia last year as a birthday gift. But the iPad companion was that griffin survivor case.

Sofia, Diego and Ana have dropped that thing a lot of times, stepped over it, draw on it (with crayons), and of course water.

The iPad is still working and no scratches or dents on it. That case is worth every cent I paid for it

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What makes a Mac a Mac

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I think that Macs are expensive computers, but any other computer with the same hardware should cost more or less the same.

Yes, you can get cheaper computers with the same processor, more storage and the same amount of ram, but is not just CPU-RAM-HDD what makes a computer a good computer. Is everything that is around those.


The display, the quality of construction, the durability of the keyboard, the battery   and I don’t mean just getting 10 hours of battery, I mean how many years that battery is going to work fine.

I have the same Mac for almost 5 years, I upgraded the RAM from 4GB to 8. And changed the 5400 rpm HDD to an SSD (which I highly recommend). But aside from that everything else is the same.

Now the other side of the coin. I had “PC” laptops that at most were with me for two years and I had to replace the keyboard. A couple of  HP/Compaq, one Dell and one Acer. The battery died in the first year. Were they cheaper?  Yes, but at the end I had to get two or three laptops in five years. Not cool.

The operating system is another key piece. Whether you like it or not, the best desktop operating system seems to be OS X. The power of UNIX and simplicity not matched by any other OS. Windows is arelly good operating system but in my opinion not as good. Linux have the freedom, the choices, but let’s be honest, is not the easiest OS.

Of course Windows and Linux are great OS, and I believe they are superior than OS X in other fields, Linux is great as a server, Windows is no doubt the Desktop OS for PCs and gaming, but OS X is better as a desktop OS (of course, in a Mac)

So, what makes a Mac a Mac is the mixture between a well done hardware and the software. You don’t spend €600 for just for the machine and €600 for the apple logo, you get great hardware and great software that works as expected, that lasts, and ensures that will keep working among upgrades.

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So, we went to watch the new Star Wars

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And although it was good, to me it was not a memorable movie, better than the first three episodes yes, better than the 4-6 ? No.

A couple of spoilers alter. Stop reading if you haven’t seen the movie yet.

Basically the same, Rebels vs The bad guys. They even had the killed parent. The different part is that the Jedi is a woman now (trying to be inclusive?) and there’s a bit more of humor with chewbacca and Han Solo.

Also, Kylo Ren is the worst villain I’ve ever seen in Star Wars. Just think about this: a fucking storm trooper hit him with a laser blade. Kylo could just use the force a twist his neck and No more Finn for the saga. Also, a girl with no training who discovered her Jedi powers 15 minutes before beat the ass of Kylo, a Commander of the dark side…

There are several mistakes, but at the end is just a movie, not what I expected but not worse than the other movies.

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no sugar

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Just to let a note on my blog, I’m starting a new challenge, no sugar week, if I can do it for one week then I’ll try to make it for another week and so on. that’s why I’m drinking coffee with no sugar.

I’m also trying to get rid of meat, so, this is also my no meat week challenge, I tried to do it last week but I failed on Thursday I think, kids wanted pizza, I wanted pizza, but they didn’t wanted the veggie one :-(. I hope I can do it this week.

I’m also doing some workout, I hope the workout + no sugar + no meat help me to get rid of this ~20 extra kilograms I have.

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