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by pndy 1y ago
Neither do I - just the usual "verifying your request" screen: https://i.ibb.co/MyWRVtFj/xc.jpg
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by pndy 1y ago
Overall it works but the problem lies in instances that tend to die-off pretty fast. There were homebrew "hubs" solely providing redirects out of pure kindness to many big sites and services but now it seems it's hard to find
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by pndy 1y ago
Are you planning adding support for Czech diacritics?
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by pndy 1y ago
Signal does other things which annoy me to the point I can't consider it as a viable option for me, my family and close friends. For a start, it wants a full access to contacts and if doesn't get it it pops internal notification
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by pndy 1y ago
Aye; MS wanted to make easier porting apps into their platform from Android and iOS with project astoria and islandwood but they abandon both at some point. Apps availability was the main issue - there were people who baked their own 3rd pa
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by pndy 1y ago
Dunno if you missed it but Linux Mint team forked libadwaita into libadapta to enable theming https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44230914
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by pndy 1y ago
Can't wait for another turn to flat when '50 will be around the corner /s The overall bulky style reminds me of the least appealing cosmic-techno-chrome Windows themes that were spawning like rabbits ~20 years ago: https:&#x
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by pndy 1y ago
Guess this is universal because mine does the same. Perhaps it's a frustration that screen doesn't responds in same way as e.g. a remote control where there's a physical press. Sure there can be a haptic feedback on phone but
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by pndy 1y ago
Someone installed beta and posted a screenshot down below somewhere; control center with these glass buttons over a colorful springboard icons grid turns interface into a visual mess. I wonder if they manage to change anything or tweaks, po
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by pndy 1y ago
Maybe it's because I'm living in a country where we had to catch up with marketing and advertising after communism fell and I have some kind of "immunity" and cynical approach to such forms of product presentations... Bu
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by pndy 1y ago
Metro was terrific on mobile - especially for older people who had no issues reading information from tiles or navigating sharp interface. Once my mother's HTC 8S broke and she had to temporarily switch to iPhone she complained how the
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by pndy 1y ago
Everything is deep down beneath all this W11 acrylic translucency. MS did a good work around W7 when they patched majority of old icons and resources and then made widgets flatter in W8 and W10 so they would fit better. That gray 9x legacy
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by pndy 1y ago
When they announced Apple Intelligence, I had hopes that it would come with Siri supporting more languages. These features, that duck taping llm as parent comment says looks nice but not when your language isn't supported. 13 years pas
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by pndy 1y ago
Jobs pick him because he knew he's gonna to handle company's financials good once he's gone. My partner says Cook is just a good accountant focused on keeping numbers up and nothing else.
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by pndy 1y ago
This whole flat style fever which doesn't distinguish between active elements and informative text allowed to spread darkpattern tactics which lead to deploying adverse or even harmful changes for users. It also contributed to nullifyi
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by pndy 1y ago
It's a pain in the ass here with Polish Post with such screens - my signature doesn't even resembles one on the paper. Private delivery companies just call you to see if you're at home; you also have mobile apps and most of t
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by pndy 1y ago
There's a userscript that can provide what you want: HN Highlight Original Poster - I'm using it together with HN Avatars
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by pndy 1y ago
Isn't Ubuntu doing that for at least 3 years or so in terminal during system update?
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by pndy 1y ago
Perhaps that's why: two total submissions from this site and both are added by same green account registered 7 days ago.
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by pndy 1y ago
Considering image backlash they had over last year with: acquiring ad tech company created by former meta people, which in turn lead to introducing so-called "privacy preserving attribution" feature for ads tracking, changing ToS
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by pndy 1y ago
> It's like the indoctrination of any religous cult Heh; sister in grade school for her computer class was given a pamphlet where she and her classmates could learn how to become web surfers with IE, how to write a blog with WL Wri
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by pndy 1y ago
I had one from Distro Themes once in Manjaro up until one of heavy updates overwritten it with default theme. Also, github gives me "You have exceeded a secondary rate limit" message while it's the first time I'm visitin
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by pndy 1y ago
I said this last year here: it's not a choice nor consent but a plain harassment. And it won't stop until you give up and let the software/company do what they want. I doubt anything can be done nowadays without some law enfo
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by pndy 2y ago
It appears someone uploaded a draft version (at least that's what file says on the inside) on atarionline forum
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by pndy 2y ago
I've got 4861 (top 2% ~3 years off) If someone likes additional challenge then Teuteuf Games' WhenTaken has both guessing the year and location: https://teuteuf.fr/ They also got Worldle which was covered on hn -
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by pndy 2y ago
Thus "problems"; I didn't want to dive into whole story because this tree is already off-topic for a different period. Tho, thanks for a few additional words.
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by pndy 2y ago
> Thinking about it I realized that circa 2000, Poland's early desktop and home computers were probably still in use Around 2000 we were already using normal x86 machines in the offices and homes. There was a company named Optimus w
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by pndy 2y ago
Damn, I forgot about cross-domain tracking. I'm either browsing or shopping on every platform in private mode - perhaps that also rolls me onto... the great captcha wall.
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by pndy 2y ago
Speaking of, anyone else has encountered issues while browsing temu? I'm facing captcha's most of the time. I mean the "slide to move piece into a position" which most of the times fails, after which I'm facing a mo
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by pndy 2y ago
Just wanna point out the obvious thing just in case: "article" is from 2021 but photos are from '75 and '82 http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm - here are few more; site may load really slowly.

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