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einherjae··on The only road in London where you have to drive on the right
We can take jokes…
einherjae··on Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
Why not offer both?

I personally dislike subscriptions to the point where I’d gladly pay more to own, and as this thread shows, I’m not alone.

So why not offer both?

einherjae··on Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)
MI 1 isn’t flashbacks, that would be MI2
einherjae··on Let's stop counting centuries
Isn’t “half one” used as a short form of “half past one” these days, I.e. 01:30? That has been a source of confusion for someone used to the Germanic way.
einherjae··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
Are you a lawyer?
einherjae··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
Grey laptops that share some ideas in their outline while being distinct enough to not get lawyers from Cupertino on their necks?
einherjae··on How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?
Both English and Icelandic versions are available (potentially hidden in the burger menu on mobile): https://island.is/forsetaframbod
einherjae··on Open Sourcing DOS 4
Unlike your average user, if you have the knowledge to apply a hex editor, then you probably can Google how to work around the signature error.
einherjae··on Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
Jorn is (Nor), not (Swe)

- A Norwegian

einherjae··on The Windows Ubuntu Operating System
Formerly Lindows, foreshadowing what will happen next.
einherjae··on Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness
To quote Einstein: “everything is relative”
einherjae··on Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness
You can go even further if you open the MIDI settings thing (I don’t remember the exact name, it’s in Utilities).

There you can set the per channel volume with 2 digits, giving you 10 steps extra between 0 and 1, as well as balance.

einherjae··on Homebrew 4.1.0
Why is simply asking permission controversial?

If the implication is that what you’re doing would be rejected by 99,9% of users if they were asked, then you should reconsider either what you’re doing, or how you’re presenting it to them.

Opt-in can boil down to a simple non defaulted choice during installation.

einherjae··on Homebrew 4.1.0
Opt-in would still allow for that.
einherjae··on Running DOS Software from the Command-Line
Why talk someone’s hobby project down like that?
einherjae··on Loss of Mid in English: Free Peasantry and Their Linguistic Advantage
Vid isnt closer to “by”?

(Asking as a Norwegian, since “ved” is “by” or “beside”)

einherjae··on 1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year
To be pedantic: YYYY-MM-DD

The full year is required to make it clear that 23-12-10 isn’t the day before X-mas eve in 2010

einherjae··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
Fair enough, I stand corrected, and agree that telemetry would be useful there.

Makes me wonder though, if there is a SwiftUI codebase, why not maintain the macOS app as a native app too?

einherjae··on BlueSky ToS gives Jack a 'perpetual' & 'irrevocable' license to all your content
I find that the crowd here isn’t all that privacy absolutist (ala EFF).

The views I see on stuff like telemetry or ad tracking tend to lean towards that either being inevitable, or just the cost of doing business.

Sure you have some of the privacy absolutists too, but the crowd seems more varied, with perhaps a slight skew the other way, at least to the Slashdot of yore.

einherjae··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
That could also have been avoided by not rewriting in Electron, which I truly think 0 users wanted, whereas the old app warranted nominations for the Apple Design Award.

It’s still not too late to reverse that decision.

Incidentally, how would telemetry tell you that people miss a removed feature if said telemetry was not in place before removal?

einherjae··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
Explicitly opt-out sadly.

It bothers me quite a bit to read that we’ve normalized telemetry as much as we have. If you’d asked more or less any random hacker 10 years ago if any of this was remotely OK they’d all be slack-jawed to learn what has happened.

Where did all the privacy conscious hackers go? Did they all get replaced when JavaScript and Electron became the norm?

einherjae··on The Windows 11 Trash Party
Except you dont, not in termos of unchanging UX. Gnome reinvents itself too often…

I’m surprised XFCE isn’t pushed more as an option.

einherjae··on Could audiobooks be the next frontier for advertising?
Or negative, then I would consider thinking about it, maybe.
einherjae··on Could audiobooks be the next frontier for advertising?
Does it still count as Betteridge’s law if the answer is “Oh god, for the love of all that is good in this world, NO!”
einherjae··on Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux
The PowerPC machines never did reach actual 5 hour battery time, 3 at most, on a good day, with the display off.
einherjae··on Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
The very argument that was presented when iOS first came out, as well as whenever touchscreens on MacBooks come up, is that the UX is fundamentally different.

So why would it suddenly be a good idea to import this from iOS?

einherjae··on Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase
Netflix owns the Dahl’s estate.
einherjae··on I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression
Kinder Eggs and/or lower legal drinking age?

I was about to just make that joke, then realized that actually social media might be worse than alcohol…

einherjae··on 5k-year-old tavern with food still inside discovered in iraq
Presumably just the eras equivalent of Hákarl or Surströmming was left, alongside the pizza-with-pineapple equivalent and Dr. Pepper-equivalent.
einherjae··on Vancouver hospital patient loses Netflix access due to password crackdown
The trick is in not linking healthcare coverage to employment.
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