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by jwells89 3y ago
On the other hand, I have to imagine that to some extent YouTube is making maintaining their apps across multiple platforms harder than it has to be. The app is almost entirely made up of tableviews/collection views/recycler views
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I’m sure that removal of the headphone jack helped drive sales, but it’s worth remembering that AirPods were also some of the first bluetooth earbuds that were good enough for mass market appeal, and for usage with phones especially wires c
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A large chunk of the remainder who still keep an optical drive around do so for personal media archival, in which case they’d want specific drives known to be well suited to that purpose (feature support, high accuracy[0], etc), and the dri
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Exactly, requiring installation for long term persistence mitigates usage of the API for tracking and prevents storage usage from slowly snowballing over time as sites store random things the user probably doesn’t even care about. Should PW
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For the Firefox but they’re probably talking about how desktop Firefox dropped PWA support a while ago, which is indeed odd and confusing.
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Win2k is pretty good, fixing the one big problem with Win9x, which was its dreary darkish gray base color. Personally I’m a bit more fond of the Platinum theme from Mac OS 8 up through 9.x, though. Similar color scheme and principles, but i
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I think there’s places for extreme skeuomorphism even if it’s not suitable everywhere. Nothing wrong with letting the designer have fun with absurdly detailed buttons for a game UI for example.
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Kudos to the admin, that’s a much better way to handle such a situation than what I’ve sadly read many stories about, where the IT dept seemingly takes mild cleverness by students as a personal insult and punishes them.
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Moving to a subscription model is largely a symptom of that coasting. They couldn’t consistently come up with compelling reasons to upgrade to new versions of Creative Suite, with users being perfectly happy to run what they had for as many
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I don’t know how Sketch compares on the collaboration front, but I still use it a lot personally for three reasons: - It still has a one-time/annual purchase option available - It’s still offline-first, with a fully first-party-documen
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I was a bit bummed when Google Video was shuttered. In some ways its simple to-the-point UX was nice compared to that of YouTube, which had become cluttered pretty early on. It was also sometimes a backup for when videos on YouTube got take
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Bolt is discontinued and dealerships in my area don’t sell them for under $31k. Leaf also isn’t long for this world, is based on an ancient platform, and starts at $30k in my area. I don’t qualify for the tax credit.
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Maybe not $1200 but something in like an electrified Toyota Yaris/Mazda 2 hatchback the ballpark of $15000-$25000 sure would be nice. I like the look of the 2024 Fiat 500e but that $34000 MSRP is difficult to justify for a practical li
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Apps like Procreate have sold a lot of iPads to artists who use them for “real work”, as has the Sidecar capability which lets an iPad and Apple Pencil act like a Cintiq with a better screen that’s not desk-bound. It’s true that they’re l
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Functionally speaking these apps would be scarcely distinguishable from the plethora of screen streaming apps that exist on the App Store already, like Screens and Moonlight. Of course Apple could reject these apps anyway but it seems unlik
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I wouldn’t be surprised if this came in a visionOS update. On a shorter timescale it could also come in the form of third party apps, because there’s no technical limitations preventing a server app from cutting out windows on a desktop OS
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Sounds great if there’s some way to raise compensation for tradespeople to the level it should be at, considering how critical they are to modern society.
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Something that may help defend against #2, if perhaps only temporarily, is to move to niches of software engineering that are more difficult to automate and have higher bars to entry. Things like kernel code, GPU drivers, embedded work, etc
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I wish more headsets would ape the design of the Vive Deluxe Audio Strap. Have never owned a Vive but have that head strap connected to a Quest 2 with 3D printed adapters (a setup dubbed by the community “frankenquest”) and it works quite n
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The problem with VR gaming is that it’s been hamstrung by requiring either a substantially beefy gaming PC or limited onboard midrange smartphone with underwhelming developer buy-in. If the rumors are true that Valve is working on a standal
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BSDs aren’t going to be functionally different from Linux in terms of desktop prettiness/animation as the two run the same DEs. GNOME is probably the most polished in terms of aesthetics, animations, and gestures. The downside is that
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I wish so much that YouTube would allow fully featured, non-hacky third party clients again, even if only for paid users (similar to how Spotify used to). The clean platform-convention-respecting straightforwardness of the Apple iOS YouTube
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And polish. With X you can sometimes feel the “layers” separating and slip-sliding around a bit in places that you don’t with a Wayland DE or in macOS. This was especially true in the late 00s when there was less computing power available t
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I think that regardless of category, we should strive for making quality easier and cheaper to achieve and sustain. Unfortunately financial incentives favor velocity and volume at the cost of all else and so instead we’re increasingly pumpi
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Been using Anki on and off for years for learning Japanese and more recently, have been using it for studying for university courses. It’s a great tool, but it’s definitely got some oddities, like how its editor has every formatting and tem
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It’s also a pain to get working right with fractional scaling on non-GTK desktops. I had been using GNOME on my little “study pod” ThinkPad X1 Nano (which has a screen that requires 1.5x UI scale) but Anki was a real pain under that and so
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I have issues keeping up with large language decks, too. In my case the problem usually lies not with Anki but all the other stuff going on in my life — stressors, work, etc. There’s just a cap on what I can be juggling at any point in time
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User agent strings should still be visible in server analytics though, no?
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Google bought their way into a lot of software bundling deals too. From time to time I still encounter Windows installers that try to install Chrome alongside whatever the main program is.
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Those mistakes chiefly being starting at the low end and not doing anything to make the platform particularly more interesting than what was already out there. Users don’t talk about budget devices and developers don’t talk about mediocre p

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