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Plugging in an iPhone still works as well, I plug my iPhone into my Windows PC and it pops up with the filesystem automatically in Explorer, and the photos are right there in the DCIM folder.

Unfortunately your Kindle needs to be registered to do this, and it's often a phenomenal pain in the ass to get old Kindles to register, if it's possible at all. I've got two old Paperwhites and I can't get either of them to register despite trying for hours and hours with every troubleshooting step I've found.

The preferred AV1 encoder that ships with ffmpeg, SVT-AV1, is faster than any software H.265 encoder now. You can encode 1080p video in real time at preset 6 (the equivalent of 'medium' -- presets are on a scale from 0 to 13) on a $120 desktop CPU.

It's not chip shortage related, the TV models being discussed are from 2015-16.

You don't need to modify the clipboard to do that, news sites were doing it long before the clipboard API existed. It's usually done with CSS, abusing display properties, positioning, font size, etc to make attributions a non-visible but still copied part of the text.

Check out an alternate web client, like https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit. Even compared to the old design it's much more lightweight and clean, and compared to the redesign it makes 1/4 as many HTTP requests, uses 1/20th the CPU, 1/4 the memory, and 1/2 the bandwidth, doesn't require an account to subscribe to subs, can work as pure static HTML, and doesn't track anything. I have poor Internet and the difference is night and day.

My father has insisted on doing this for over 20 years, but he doesn't know how to do it himself. I expect a password-reset phone call from him every 2 or 3 days and have done since 1998. Just recently he had someone from his bank's IT department call him directly about resetting his password over 500 times.

Reddit and Medium are awful for this. I don't know what they're doing, but every page has a small chance of infinitely looping to max out a CPU core forever, unless you block their ads. I'll feel my laptop heating up and know that some Reddit thread somewhere is to blame.

Valve's new Steam Deck device runs Linux. If it proves popular, that will be a big incentive for developers to improve Linux support for their games, and help jump that hurdle.

How do you feel about the Windows official package manager, winget? I find it a lot more polished and usable than Chocolatey was, and didn't notice much difference compared to apt or dnf, but admittedly my experience is limited and I haven't done much complex with any of the four.

> If you want to allow me to consult it offline, that's very kind and noble. Just put a zip file somewhere I can download.

To play devil's advocate: a majority of web traffic is on phones and tablets now, especially for long-form content where you will frequently see people request a page on a desktop, then request it two minutes later from a phone or tablet where they can read it more comfortably. 99% of mobile users will be happier when a text-heavy site is a PWA that caches itself, rather than a static HTML site that asks them to download a zip file, install an app to work with zip files on their device, unzip it to a folder of hopefully-relevantly-named HTML files, and then browse those, in the process breaking link sharing, link navigation (depending on OS), cross-device reading and referencing of highlights/notes, site search, and so on. Not to mention the limitations imposed on file:/// URIs, like browser extensions not working on them by default, which is a real problem for users relying on them for accessibility (e.g. dyslexia compensation, screen reader integration, stylesheet overrides). A lot of times that won't even be possible on a dedicated reading devices; my ereader will cache PWAs but will not download arbitrary files, if you make your site a PWA I can read it during my commute, if you make it static HTML with a zip file I can't. These are features most users appreciate a lot more than not having to load a 60k JS bundle (current size of React gzipped).

> They're subsidised by the game prices. You still pay for it in the end.

Initial game prices can be higher, but you can sell the games. Here in Australia it's common for new games to be $100 on console and $80-90 on PC. A month after release I can still sell a console game for $80, and often do, since I prefer single-player adventure/RPG type games which I will take 5+ years to replay if I ever do. That effectively means that games cost me $20 to play on a console or $80-90 to play on a PC. I prefer playing on PC for all the other reasons but it's really hard to justify the extra cost now that used PC games are no longer a thing.

> Both services support adding non platform games through their shortcut/executable.

The multiplayer services are independent and crossplay is an exception, that's what I think they were getting at. Being able to launch an executable from a different store doesn't matter if your copy uses Steamworks for multiplayer and the copy from the MS store doesn't support that.

> File a bug report? Or you just came up with some hypothetical issues?

It's not a hypothetical issue or a bug, it's a common problem for games that use anti-cheat software. Refusing to run when virtualization features are turned on or virtualization software is installed/present is a common tactic they use and if you file a report it'll usually get immediately closed as wontfix, because it's a tradeoff they decide to make. E.g. https://support.faceit.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019809319-Yo...

A few major factors, in roughly decreasing order of subjective importance:

1. Console games are initially more expensive, but you can sell them used when you're done, which isn't possible on PC. I regularly buy games for $100 (Australian pricing) and sell them a month or two months later for $80. (I'd rent them, but rentals don't exist anymore. I keep the ones I really really loved, but sell on most.) On PC, the same game might launch for $10-20 less, but that doesn't make up for not being able to get $80 back from every purchase.

2. Many games are unfortunately exclusive to a particular console, including many of the most popular franchises, e.g. Mario, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, and The Legend of Zelda are only on Nintendo consoles. If those are your favorite games, then none of the other factors really matter. And it's much more common for games to be exclusive to a console than exclusive to PC; there's virtually nothing these days that doesn't end up on the consoles, there are usually a couple of major blockbusters every year that don't make it to PC.

3. PC graphics card prices have absolutely skyrocketed due to cryptocurrency mining. I paid $130 for my graphics card seven years ago; the same model regularly sells for $150 on eBay now and when I look at replacing it, I can't find anything that significantly beats it for under $300. I looked at spending my tax return on a multi-part PC upgrade, but to match the performance of the new PlayStation I'd have to spend nearly double its price, and most graphics cards would require me to join a waiting list. (As it is, I went with neither and I'm waiting to see what happens next year.)

4. Formerly, playing games together with friends in the same room. Sadly, this is less and less well-supported on consoles with every year that goes by, but it used to be practically exclusive to them, and not something PC games ever implemented. This was especially important for kids (who make up a huge portion of the market and often have siblings to share the console with) and students (who would hold multiplayer game nights in dorms etc). It matters even for online multiplayer, though. You want the system your best friends have so you can all play together. And that's more likely to be one of the major consoles, and you'll rarely get your whole friend group to switch, especially if it's to a more expensive (at least upfront) option.

> they wouldn't be able to do a restore anyway.

The Backblaze software doesn't handle restores, it just backs things up. To restore, you download zip files of selected folders from the website.

They were on the autism spectrum, and had written about feeling emotionally sensitive and easily overwhelmed. Unfortunately, that's all it takes for bullies who just want to have an impact on someone -- knowing you're vulnerable to it. Then they came out as non-binary and made some political posts, which elevated it to hatred for many of those bullies.

> Because you can attach bots? or make calls, custom emoji?

Because you can access an indexed repository of every conversation your team has had, organized by grouping, channel, digression, and participants, even if you weren't present, online, or even a member at the time. What's the MSN Messenger approach to this? Everyone join one giant group conversation window and try to keep the conversation straight, everyone send every file to every person each time, everyone keep every file you've been sent, grep through your 5 years of logs to find stuff, and hope you never need to use a different device or lose your connection? Slack provides the ability to reply to specific messages in digressionary threads, which is a key part of keeping busy channels readable in the present, let alone in the future, and the only reason many conversations can span long periods without getting lost in noise. I shudder to imagine my job relying on staying up to date with an MSN Messenger window with 44 participants.

Then there's integration with the bugtracker and support ticketing system, and Keybase, putting live-updating views from spreadsheets and the database directly into chat, drop-in/out call channels (which aren't comparable to MSN/WLM's direct calls), compatibility channels to migrate from IRC and mailing lists without losing anybody... those don't count as extra functionality? There's a reason professional teams use Slack when they never used MSN/WLM.

Metaphorical meanings for medical issues are some of the most common metaphors in most languages, and I would be surprised if you aren't using them yourself. Rejecting it seems frankly as bizarre as rejecting metaphor entirely. Are you wincing when you read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Dostoevsky, etc, who all use this regularly? You're never been shocked or dumbstruck, never find anything lame or sickening? Never describe anything as crippling, mad, callous, stupid, idiotic, crazy, never get drowned in work?

The metaphorical use of paralysis even predates its modern precise medical usage, having meant more broadly enfeebled before relatively recently taking on its specific motor function related meaning--so that would be the medical field assigning a new clear definition to a term with a 2300+ year metaphorical history.

Anyway, please sign my petition denouncing libraries everywhere for putting all these joke books in the humour section. It is a real hassle for melancholics trying to balance out their bile. Then we're getting onto this Jesus fella for all this fancy double-talk about eye debris, I've had specks in my eye before and cornea scratches are a legitimate problem.

The moment you started to see any real success with a company like this and become significant competition, John Deere would reverse their equipment-as-a-service DRM-based model, and you would be instantly crushed by their far more familiar and established brand with all the accumulated knowledge and trust people already have. It's so certain that you have essentially no chance of long-term success. John Deere can operate like this because there's no competition, but the second there is competition than can revert to how they were and you are dead, so there's no point even trying.

It was already a thing, Node launched earlier in 2009 and there had been quite a bit of talk about it on HN already.

Netflix was a streaming platform in 2007.

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/01/8627/

By 2009, they had 12,000 movies up for streaming, and Netflix-compatible devices were advertised heavily in stores, with Best Buy including Netflix apps on their store-brand devices.

https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-compatible-video-devices-c...

Your source doesn't say school shootings are down from previous highs nor that they're very rare; it specifically only deals with shootings where _4 or more students were killed_ excluding the shooter. That's a very different things from "school shootings", where the mean number of fatalities is 3. If you define "school shooting" as "people being shot at school", then use the same data as in your source, you see 247 people shot in 64 incidents during the 2000s, and 555 people shot in 213 incidents during the 2010s. (It's worth noting that Fridel & Fox came under some scrutiny for choosing their definition of school shooting, because the standard definition used--by the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and by Fox himself in previous studies that conflicted with his new one--is four people _shot_. )

What we're seeing is a large increasing in the number of school shootings, but a decrease in the average success of each school shooter. Is it surprising that the average shooter has become less effective when schools are spending a lot of time and money preparing to deal with them? Shooter drills, established lockdown procedures, buildings being designed with escape and hiding in mind[0], staff training, employment of security guards, etc.

The data you're citing states it plainly: there are more shootings at schools now than 10 or 20 years ago, and more people are being shot at school than 10 or 20 years ago. 50 people killing 3 kids each isn't somehow safer than 25 people killing 4 kids each.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/22/new-high...

Because the scientific evidence overwhelmingly shows that artificial sweeteners _are_ better for you. They have no proven health impact and eliminate calories. The idea that they're somehow "just as bad" (or even worse) only comes from sugar and corn industry lobbying and marketing efforts.

I've always thought of aggression as something qualitatively different. To me assertive behaviour is behavior in pursuit of some objective, whether or not it's sensible or effective, while aggressive behaviour is about the experience of aggression itself, not needing a goal. Things like road rage, school bullying, wrecking stadiums and yelling at players after football matches, where the behaviour isn't intended to achieve anything except the direct effects of being aggressive (expression of anger, feeling big, making others suffer or feel afraid). I would say that someone can be incompetently and rudely assertive, or quietly and competently aggressive.

I guarantee you this design would confuse a lot of people. Imagine you're not the computer savviest person around, how you'd read this.

- The large, bolded "Click to download" text isn't clickable, like pretty much every other "Click to..." prompt you've seen.

- After a moment of confusion you think oh okay, there'll be a list of links to places I can download it from then. But there isn't. There's just the product logo. Download the product from itself, maybe? But why is it written like there's supposed to be a list? Hm.

- Oh wait, after "Download the latest version" there's a separate section called "Downloads", that's where the downloads must be.

- Okay, down there after a while there's bold text that says "Download", but that's not clickable, nor is the text next to it that says "Sandboxie Installer." Keep reading.

- Ah, okay, here's a table with a single row for some reason, with a nice link "Download from this site."

- Wait, why did "Download from this site" take me to a completely different site? The address in the bar is totally different, the design is totally different, I've never heard of this new site before and it wants me to give them my job title, full name, company name, and zip code. Is this a popup ad? Is this a scam? I thought I was downloading it from that site I was just on.

Incidentally it doesn't matter as the form doesn't understand my country's zip code system and won't accept it.

Well satellite has bad latency on top of that. Not especially large pages, I'd say. eBay, IMDb, Wikipedia.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy that there would be such a huge difference. Turning off Hangouts and using uBlock Origin might make a big difference because that's all I've really done to modify it.

Sure, you can say that. You will lose your clients to the agency down the road who happily use React and say "no problem." Especially once it turns out that it _doesn't_ require 10x the time and budget and your prospective client tells everyone you bullshitted them.

Is that from scratch? I'm using an i3 on a 1 Mbps satellite connection, and opening up Gmail now (having opened it earlier today), it was 0.27s until DOMContentLoaded and I could interact with it. It continued asynchronously loading stuff in the background but from my POV it loaded in 1/3 of a second, which in Chrome is faster than the app opens on my iPhone 7. I have disabled the Hangouts/Chat feature in settings which apparently makes a big difference.

I couldn't disagree more. For anyone on a slower connection (I use a satellite connection that's 1 Mbps on a good day) a SPA is almost always a greatly superior user experience. A server-side rendered application is a blank white screen for roughly 50% of the time I'm using it. Even if a SPA takes longer to initially load, it's much nicer to keep the application actually onscreen while it's loading new content. Even if the SPA takes longer to load content it will often feel as if it's faster because you're looking at the application while it loads rather than staring at a blank screen for 5-10 seconds with every click. When people talk about SSR applications being a better user experience I always assume they're operating on first-world 10+ Mbps broadband connections or cellphones in developed cities, because the difference is night and day for those of us on slower.

I also disagree with the idea that SPAs are pushed by developers who have lost touch. Clients frequently push for them and ask questions like "Twitter/Instagram/YouTube don't show these blank white pages after every click, why does my site? Can't you make it like YouTube?" Clients want to have them more than developers want to make them.