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by jwells89 3y ago
Make a standardized file type for web data archives, which then allows other browsers (which can open it) to show up in a share sheet that shows up when the user taps an export button. This sends the file directly to the other browser which
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by jwells89 3y ago
I would settle for forcing Google to stop leveraging their other products (search, YouTube, mobile apps, etc) to further entrench Chrome.
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by jwells89 3y ago
And those who don’t install Chrome on their own will be pushed to do so by aggressive marketing by Google and by devs who want to test against a single browser engine only. Bits will be stolen away by similar efforts from other Chrome-clone
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by jwells89 3y ago
All Google apps on iOS do this to try to push Chrome, and yes it’s incredibly annoying. The OS default browser setting exists for a reason.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Last I knew it had significant performance issues on iOS (framerate drops/stutters), which dampens its cross platform appeal somewhat and is part of why I’ve heard of apps using Flutter for the Android port of their app, but nowhere el
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by jwells89 3y ago
One way to accomplish this that doesn’t make it easy for unscrupulous apps to suck up browser data is for the OS or stock browser to be able to export an archive of user data that Firefox (or other browsers) could then import. Adds a bit of
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by jwells89 3y ago
Most of these are understandable, but the one talking about Messages integration on iOS gives me bad vibes. Specifically a “recently sent links” API for Messages that the user must opt into wouldn’t be a problem but full access to message d
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by jwells89 3y ago
Booking directly also gives you more opportunities to rack up points: once with the airline and once with your credit card. Depending on the card/airline you can then pool points by transferring from the card to airline or book free ti
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by jwells89 3y ago
> Someone doesn’t have to have anything against other browsers to prefer using their favorite browser without futzing around with browser-site combinations. Yes, this is irritating. If I encounter a site/app with browser requirement
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by jwells89 3y ago
If this next-gen LLM-based Siri is built to take advantage of local documents/data with all processing happening on-device, I think it could be more useful than incumbent LLMs in some ways even if it’s technically not as smart simply b
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by jwells89 3y ago
The PPI of the Vision’s screens is supposedly high enough to render a virtual 4k display without loss of detail, which should be sufficient for text but time will tell.
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by jwells89 3y ago
FWIW, as someone who logged between 175 and 200 hours of usage with a Quest 2 playing Beat Saber (a high-movement game) last year, I’ve not experienced any issues.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Counterweights do indeed help. Lots of Quest users use an external battery mounted on the back of their headstrap as a counterweight, so I’m sure there will be third party straps that do that with the Vision’s external battery.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Based on my extensive experience with a Quest 2, overall weight isn’t as much of a factor as balance of that weight is. The Quest 2 wasn’t that comfortable to use out of the box, but after adding a Vive Deluxe Audio Strap connected with 3
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by jwells89 3y ago
Sidecar works surprisingly well. With its latency and performance it’s barely distinguishable from a wired screen even running a HiDPI resolution.
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by jwells89 3y ago
> I was disappointed immediately as even my iPhone in native safari supports greasemonkey scripts It feels totally upside-down that Safari for iOS has a better extensions story than Chrome for Android. For this reason one of the first th
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by jwells89 3y ago
Sony’s phones also come with minimally modified Android. They still have 3-4 bloatware apps to remove with ADB but it’s pretty manageable. I picked up an Xperia 1 V on discount to take the position of “flagship phone” in my Android app dev
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by jwells89 3y ago
I think maybe Asus, but I can’t be sure. Definitely saw the option in a phone review I watched in the past couple months.
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by jwells89 3y ago
A good first step. The next one I’d like to see is a one-tap toggle that disables the bulk of Samsung OS customizations and “me too” apps/ecosystem cruft, as some other vendors have. Yes it can be removed manually, but with one of Andr
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by jwells89 3y ago
Right, I think we’d be having a very different conversation if products of AI could not be sold (what’s taken for free must be given for free and free for others to use as they see fit). Companies will fight this tooth and nail though becau
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by jwells89 3y ago
When I was last dabbling with WinUI/Win App SDK it honestly never even crossed my mind to read a book, but in retrospect that sounds like a good idea. Figuring out how to do X basic thing in XAML through googling was frustrating largel
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yeah this gets into how on macOS, applications != windows and instead, windows are hosted by applications, and while it’s technically possible to run multiple instances of an application, in practice this is almost never done outside of deb
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by jwells89 3y ago
Humans can also come up with their own styles and can draw things they’ve never seen, which ML models as they currently exist are not capable of (and likely will never be). A human artist who has lived their entire life in the wilderness an
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by jwells89 3y ago
Not too interested in this as a Windows machine, but if it runs Linux well (which it seems like it should, being Intel with no dGPU) it’d be a neat Linux machine. When traveling recently I’ve used a 12.9” iPad in Sidecar mode with a 16” M1
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by jwells89 3y ago
I can’t see carrying one of these for use with a phone/tablet (at least not with this version’s chunkiness) but something like this with a trackpoint added would make a great companion for a home theater PC. Even better if it had multi
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by jwells89 3y ago
Additionally, for several decades Americans have lived in an environment that makes time feel like a precious resource which must be stolen back any way possible, which companies are all too happy to play into with food products that sell t
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by jwells89 3y ago
It working well on desktop is a big one. The only other messenger that comes close (that I’ve tried anyway; haven’t had a need to use WhatsApp for example) on that front is Telegram, which not only has a Qt-based client that’s decent everyw
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by jwells89 3y ago
Later gens of iPod gained the ability to connect to USB but still supported FireWire. The majority of my usage of my 20GB 4th gen iPod was with the FireWire cable it shipped with.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Even now an ancient FW400 HDD enclosure of mine is less flaky than a lot of USB storage I’ve used.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Surely we’ve crossed a threshold of diminishing returns on this by now though? There has to be a point where the gains in convenience/DX/speed are too tiny for the costs involved and the weight of the average app ceases to grow.

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