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by bsimpson 1y ago
That post is 6 years old, and yet Linux still sucks by default on a touchscreen. I installed NixOS on a handheld nearly 2 years ago and tried a whole bunch of touch-oriented options (including tiny ones like Maui). The closest I got to goo
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by bsimpson 1y ago
It's a product decision. Apple decided when the iPhone first came out to redo the whole UI stack to be touch-first. There are hardenings for security and battery preservation, but that's arguably the biggest difference between iO
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by bsimpson 1y ago
It's interesting that in the early 2010s, both halves of the ecosystem were talking about "convergence:" Ubuntu wanted to make its Linux render a single column on a handset and with floating windows on a larger screen. Motor
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I work on a quantitative user research team, and we've found notebooks to be really useful for crunching and visualizing the data from experiments we've run. I work at Google and my UXR colleagues are more comfortable with Python
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by bsimpson 1y ago
My Eufy (by Anker) robovac is such a piece of shit that it sullied the Anker brand for me. I used to expect anything they made to be good by default. Now, it's the opposite.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
This is one of the things I find infuriating about the Subway in NYC. There are local trains and express trains. Often, you'll have to wait on the platform for an extra ~10 minutes for a local (v.s. getting on the first available expr
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by bsimpson 1y ago
The personality cult of modern politics is so disgusting. You have to scroll a couple pages just to get past the photo of Trump trying to look important. Then, you get to read the talking points, written with Trump's signature idiosyn
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by bsimpson 1y ago
> maybe I can start by just writing up my rant, and maybe someone else will read this and find a Research Project in here and will make the time before me This is one of the things I find fascinating about Bret Victor. In the early 10s,
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I expected this to include AppleTV and cloud storage alongside device insurance, since that seems to be what One means for other brands.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
This is my fundamental problem with Elizabeth Warren et. al.. They act like the choices are omni-powerful US tech companies, or a plethora of small companies building utopia. They say "we need to hamstring our most successful companie
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by bsimpson 1y ago
> I'm not sure the Trump administration actually has a coherent position That seems to be the most salient property of his presidency. His position on any issue is whatever he just said, with no regard to what it might have been ye
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by bsimpson 1y ago
He's proven himself to be more of an asshat than I'd hoped (see the Zelenskyy meeting), but he did come up in Silicon Valley venture capital. There's a lot about this administration that causes concern, but I'm glad to
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by bsimpson 1y ago
The desktop shell feels out of place on tablet+controller devices like the Steam Deck. Would be great if you could choose a shell like Mobile or Bigscreen that is designed for being used without a mouse.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
When Facebook first came out, you could run an ad for $5 and the ads are often things I happily clicked on. Granted, it was by and for college students, so there was an inherent selection bias. Still, Zuckerberg built his whole empire on ge
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Say you want to play Outer Wilds on an airplane. Your options are Windows or SteamOS. Which do you prefer? No one in that scenario cares if it's easier to run Office on Windows.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Considering a major selling point of handhelds is portability, it's bizarre that Steam insists on trying to log in when you power it on. Even if there are no known wifi hotspots nearby, it will still spend a minute looking for one.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
It's also an anticompetitive red herring, at least for Epic. They say they don't support Linux because it's too complicated to be worth the ROI. Really, it's that they don't want to boost a platform where Steam is f
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I know there was extensive testing when face recognition authentication came to smartphones. I wonder how an open source project like this one compares. I suspect there are substantially more false positives/negatives than on a commerc
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by bsimpson 1y ago
They built a product that needed a bandwagon effect, rationed how many people could join the bandwagon, and then complained that not enough people were on it.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Sounds more like "Google Pixel is no longer the reference device for AOSP"
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by bsimpson 1y ago
And according to the article, they're using RTC because Android is meant to be hardened against backdooring localhost, but Meta found a loophole that allowed it if over RTC.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
...and FB Messenger
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by bsimpson 1y ago
It's an allegory of trust: They write thoughtful looking reviews with headings like "why you should trust me" and you think "okay!" Then they recommend something that sucks and you think "never again."
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by bsimpson 1y ago
It's also unclear why this post even exists, except as simple marketing FUD. > Powered by PureOS, a Debian-based Linux operating system, the Librem 5 and Liberty Phones Can their devices run APKs? The only Linux distro I know of th
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I get bold and italic confused because Google Chat is almost-Markdown except for * being bold and _ being italic (whereas it's double vs singular in classic Markdown).
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Don't overlook Reddit as a major reason for many otherwise-non-technical people to learn Markdown.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Please select the squares that contain the bicycle for the mind.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
My dad's hobby when I was a kid was playing the saxophone. Bunch of wind instrument legends started dying relatively young around that time, and he went "yeah… no." (Granted, he wasn't doing drugs and alcohol like musici
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I caught that too. Interesting set of examples. I can think of a profane use of beaver immediately, but not a unvalenced use of "asshat."
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Unfortunately doing that many things means the codebase must have been rather big. Big enough that auditing and removing licensed code (for instance, the video codecs) seems to be more than they had the stomach for. It really was a wonderfu

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