MoonWalk

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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Another major pisser is sites that deliberately disable zooming on their mobile incarnations. WTF, WHY? My favorite was when Google imperiously declared that it would "punish" "non-mobile-friendly" sites in their search
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
"It's fantastically disrespectful of other people's time." And this is what people have become way, WAY too tolerant of. The deliberate theft of customers' time. While this is obviously a very minor example, there a
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
On a Web site or anywhere else. Apple, Microsoft, "flat design," and peek-a-boo UI all insult the user and waste his time by turning an important tool into an Advent calendar.
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
"should have to enable "Clown Mode" or something." Bwahahaha, +1! This reminds me of calling Windows XP's default motif "Fisher-Price" mode. Which, sadly, looks professional and efficient compared to Windo
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Even better iOS example of not just "scroll fade" but regressive and incompetent UI design: the moving of Music's playback controls from the empty area at the top of the window into the content-browser area... where the contr
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
"And as the initial crop of Apple Intelligence features hasn’t been used as much as Apple expected" Nah, as so-called "analysts" expected. The no-effort crybabies deriding Apple for being "behind on AI" have tu
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Your criticism contradicts itself. He's saying that the software seems free, but is so inefficient that it bloats other costs to run it. And he never said he wanted to replace $2K/month with $10/month.
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Yes, instead of answering... just downvote.
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
"1080p webcam doesn’t support Center Stage" That's a huge PLUS. This asinine "feature" ruins our family Zoom calls EVERY WEEK. There doesn't appear to be a system-wide way to disable this junk on iOS. Because W
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
And a last gasp for the USA's dignity.
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
"...backed by formidable fraud protections" Laughable, at least in the USA. It took decades for us to finally get cards with chips in them, and when we finally did... the issuers "forgot" to implement the other half of t
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
You obviously don't know any small-business owners and didn't read the article. Credit-card issuers in the USA are a textbook example of a consumer- and retailer-harming monopoly.
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
But before that it was commonplace to see discounts for cash, especially at gas stations. Then credit-card issuers started prohibiting it in service agreements, but that was outlawed during the Obama administration.
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
It was part of the Obama administration's banking reforms, if I remember correctly. It outlawed credit-card issuers' prohibition on giving cash discounts. It also included a number of other valuable consumer protections, such as f
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Maybe they implemented the death penalty for texting while driving.
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
I don't think that follows at all. If my mom goes to log into her bank account and is told to look for a code in an E-mail, she's going to go the E-mail program and try to fetch new mail. Remember... HN does not even come close to
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
If your Mac goes bad it can be worthwile. My friend gave me his pre-Retina 27" iMac, part of the circa-2008 generation of Macs whose GPUs all failed. I removed all the computing hardware but kept the Apple power supply, instead of usin
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Not true. Mac OS does not nag you about subscription services. What are you talking about? Windows is offensive, insufferable trash. From its CONTINUAL hounding about "your Microsoft account" to its bug-riddled, regressive, and sh
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Ugh, more "AI" hype. How useful are the cited hardware features for NON-"AI" processing?
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Thanks. I noted in my comment the option to re-add it to the toolbar, but everyday users can't be expected to know this is possible or how to do it. Nor should they have to, given that mail retrieval is something that everyone can logi
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
What did you expect readers to view your documentation with?
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Thanks for the reference.
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Thanks for that answer. Still not sure why references can't be corrected and/or replaced as modifications are made, but I need to more time to consider what you've described.
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
There are lots of other regressive, mind-bogglingly inept changes scattered across the included applications. One of my favorites is in Apple Music, where the transport controls and song-title display has been moved from the top of the wind
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
I heard in the past that Time Machine backups would inevitably become corrupt because of a fundamental defect. Pretty vague, I realize, but I wouldn't have used it anyway; I rely on Carbon Copy Cloner to back up only what's import
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by MoonWalk 7mo ago
Maybe, but Standard time is still closer to "correct." "Daylight Savings" time never made sense. Why are we "saving daylight" when there's more of it?
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by MoonWalk 8mo ago
Unless I missed it, the article doesn't answer the first question you'd ask: Why don't they just generate unique IDs for everything and use those internally, instead of names that get changed all the time?
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by MoonWalk 8mo ago
So the markup dialect that's widely used but suffers from a near-total lack of viewers will now finally be rendered as intended, at least on Windows? Markdown presents a chicken-&-egg scenario that has dragged on for decades: tons
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by MoonWalk 8mo ago
What is?
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by MoonWalk 8mo ago
Another leech piggybacking on the bloated corpus of the greatest leeches in all of consumerdom: credit-card companies. Disgusting rip-off of consumers, yes, but even worse is the rip-off of merchants.

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