axelthegerman

Or maybe the majority of people buying a new damn phone every other week just prefer it'd be a tablet

We really don't. If that finally does happen, people are quick to adapt to change it will use one of the many alternatives, maybe even one that's interoperable or open so we're not in the same mess five years later

Unfortunately for the foreseeable future you'd need a cheap Android or iOS device for those apps and whatever you want as daily driver.

I don't think you NEED to open your online banking on your phone every day. Just use cash and cards.

2FA should be easily available on any OS

Also should have been easy to design an OAuth like flow where the government that seems to care so damn much about age verification to attest someone's age in a privacy respecting way - only yes/no if the person is of the desired age.

But then again if it was to protect children, better support for voluntary age control would be so much more useful as most minors use devices managed/owned by their parents.

But then similar to cookie banners it is just about enabling surveillance

Try writing your own code like it's 2025

Great explanation, very reasonable.

Except that before they did and then they didn't without any proper notification (release notes don't count for significant changes like this).

They should have just added a pop up or at least email or both, given a heads-up and then again when the change actually kicked in

Works so great on new devices like smartphones. Except not.

And so easy to set up on a home computer. Except it's not always on and doesn't come with backups.

I'm not saying S3 is where it's at but might need a bit more than just Samba. Or maybe you don't but people who need Dropbox do.

And most folks getting stuff done with Rails ain't be filling out surveys to boost their stack - or maybe that's just me.

So everyone just stop worrying what everyone else thinks or seems to think and just use the right tools for you and get on with it

I hope they'll execute this one well.

Have been waiting for a wallet product from Stripe for a while, but maybe less juicy margins than on top of credit card fees?

And how great it will be to troubleshoot any issues because everyone is basically running a distinct piece of software

Gotta say this is pretty cool. Love some of the nostalgia on the homepage.

Personally not a nextjs fan but finding a modern alternative to WP will pay off for many businesses

> Tell it what git commands to explicitly run and in what order

Why don't run the commands yourself then?

This! Sure you might need a Google account for your android but you don't HAVE to use all their services.

First just don't use Gmail, docs, search, chrome and co. But even better get a Pixel with Graphene and Google's invasive tactics are even more limited.

However it is sad that a company like Apple that used to produce superior hardware with superior UX is falling apart on all fronts - hardware (especially pricing), UX (hello glass design), software (macos just getting worse every release without adding ANYTHING of value)

And now introducing more and more ads while keep selling you "pro" laptops with 512GB SSD :-/

E2EE is definitely nice, however if you communicate with many people using other email providers your emails still end up there unencrypted

It never really worked. Most businesses just paid for customers that were going to or already found them anyways.

Not saying ads don't work at all, they definitely increase awareness.

I don't see why upgrading a motherboard to one with a newer generation CPU is not valuable. Or why going 16 to 32 GB RAM a few years after buying it first isn't.

Yes full upgradability of each component would be pretty nice but now we have a desktop and factors like compactness and "premium feel" would be even worse

Or more like "be careful with the power you give your LLMs"

> we had to spend time fixing the broken test even if the changes had nothing to do with the initial change. In response to this problem, it was decided to break out the code for each destination into their own repos.

One could also change the way tests are run or selected. Or allow manual overrides to still deploy. Separating repos doesn't sound like the only logical solution

Right let's add more layers that always solves everything.

No language or abstraction is perfect but if someone prefers pure functional coding, Rails and Django are just not it, don't try to make them. Others like em just as they are

Oh that's one of the best news in the smartphone world in a long time.

It's impossible to escape the Apple/Google duopoly but at least GrapheneOS makes the most out of Android regarding privacy.

I still wish we could get some kind of low resource, stable and mature Android clone instead of Google needlessly increasing complexity but this will over time break app compatibility (Google will make sure of it)

Edit: I do think Pixel devices used to be one of the best but still I'd like to choose my hardware and software separately interoperating via standards

CDN is not the same as DDoS protection.

Cloudflare does both but some providers do one or the other. You can use any CDN no matter if you use Cloudflare or not (shout-out to Bunny CDN btw, very happy with them - they do one thing and do it well)

This!! Everyone seems to "really need" that unlimited scalability of AWS & Co - but they'll happily scale your compute and the bill for you.

Sure maybe you'll get lucky and they waive it.

But sometimes going down is a feature if you're not a multi m/billion dollar business

> [...] just want to get a “degree” /maximize scores to get a job, There is little interest to learn.

Seems to be more and more common these days in general :-/

If the industry wouldn't have pushed React as the magic bullet that is always to be used it could have stayed an awesome interactive frontend library.

In some cases it's just not what you need and SSR etc are more important - then just use appropriate tools instead of forcing React to do that too

While Rails indeed tries to support old versions for a while I found that many devs are eager to stay on top of upgrades (which also has been less painful the last few years and definitely when done incrementally)

Fair there will be some old never updated backend only services, but that seems like a stretch that those will need a FE library all of a sudden

And to have buy in it needs to exist first :)

Like websites nowadays being usually designed for mobile and desktop devices

Solar and battery for refrigeration seems a waste.

If you own a house I'd look into very old school options like digging a deep hole to store your food in a dark&cool place - forgot the name for it but it'll work for weeks or months without a single milliwatt

By more efficient you mean taking hours to settle? And no inflation as in Bitcoin level volatility and up?

I'd love an efficient and cheap option to move funds online - especially for micro payments too. But so far I haven't heard of any crypto option that actually stayed around long enough to prove these things.

Happy to be pointed in the right direction here.

It's ridiculous that we live in 2025 and most people in North America have apartment buzzer systems that don't work with "long distance" calls or forward to multiple phone numbers.

[freshbuzzer.com](freshbuzzer.com) does that and much more!

This!!

Even modern cars have some trouble knowing the actual speed limit of the road you're currently on.

In Canada I don't think the speed limit is ever higher than 110 or 120km/h - limit to 130km/h and have an override, get full on in trouble (incl loosing all insurance) when disabled.

If track use only maybe even have some kind of device that isn't publicly sold to disable the speed limit there.

Also I doubt any north American car is randomly gonna show up at the German Autobahn - gonna get across the Atlantic first