My holy grail is a buckling spring ortholinear keyboard. I don'kt think that's going to happen anytime soon so I made a Kailh Pink XD75. It's as close as I can get, but that new Unicomp without the numpad looks amazing.
I think it boils down to lacking in writing. I used to watch shows that had a lot of political statements made through their worldbuilding and character interactions. These were good stories because to find a political message there you had to think about it and draw parallels yourself. More modern shows tent to just outright mention current political movements IRL or just straight up lecture people by characters doing speeches. It's very distracting because it clearly breaks away from the flow of the show. Even if the lecture is something I 100% on board with it may feel even worse because it feels like the show insults my intelligence.
From this title I expected author to engrave the lens in a clever way so the noise matters on all photos would form something like his digital signature, but alas
I have an alternative view to offer here, because this to me sounds like you are leaving out a significant part of mobile messenger evolution.
Back when Smartphones weren't a thing most phones had JavaME, and the most popular networks for chatting were MSN, ICQ, AOL and others. I'll focus on ICQ specifically here because it's what's been popular where I live. It had been a messenger for people with computers, but then suddenly everyone started using it with an unofficial JavaME client Jimm. Literally every person with a phone, even though it was a complicated thing to do - you had to register on the ICQ website using a computer, build or download a pre-built Jimm for your phone (you had to cater it to the hardware, because phones had been very different back then from model to model) and log into ICQ from your phone. Most cellphone stores offered "Jimm setup" as a service for people who couldn't do it themselves. The reason for such popularity? SMS limitations made it very expensive to have long chats on the go, and ICQ demanded so little traffic that you could use it for a fraction of SMS costs. And of course, as most multi-clients at the time, Jimm had full XMPP support, after all ICQ, AOL and MSN were little more than slightly customized XMPP at the time. So switching to any other XMPP server was pretty trivial.
Anyway, this lasted for a long time, and then, sadly, a smartphone "revolution" happened. People started getting smartphones left and right, and unlike JavaME phones they were much, much worse for ICQ, XMPP or any other similar network. See, a JavaME phone was perfectly capable of maintaining connection to ICQ servers in the background, without draining your battery life too much. It was seamless, most phones at the time allowed for at least one app to run in the background at all times. But once Android and iOS came along - suddenly a phone had to either be sleeping all the time or had empty batteries in a few hours, and that was awful news for protocols that relied on continuous connection, like ICQ did.
The only smartphone that played nice with these protocols that I know of is N900.
Sadly this, and this thing only killed XMPP, ICQ and others for an average person. If it wasn't for these protocols not playing well with smartphones, I have 0 doubts XMPP would be king right now.
you can never predict how old laws would work with modern systems - for example, in Russia you also have this rule, but after the mass persecution and censorship started the judges ruled that a post on social media, even one made before the new laws were written, is still perfect ground for conviction because it is still accessible at the time of arrest. So, how many tweets do people have? Are you going to closely follow new laws and comb through all of your post history on the entire internet every time a new law is passed?
I'm not from the US and I got "free" education where I live, and I still feel like I've lost money. If I've started working 4 years earlier I would've gotten more experience and more money, and surely wouldn't be as miserable in the meantime as I've been in the Uni. I don't feel like I've learned anything substantial that couldn't be covered by a short online course, but I sure spent much more than working hours stressing out and torturing myself with absolute garbage topics.
Boneworks certainly takes the cake as my absolute VR title. It beats even Alyx in terms of gameplay alone. Playtime-wise I spent most hours in Elite Dangerous - flying in an HMD adds so much to the game that its hard to put in words how immersed I feel.
I was also pleasantly surprised by how well VR works on Linux and how much work had been put in to make even the Proton experience seamless. I now have over 1500 hours in VR exclusively on Linux.
Yes, and the government would not provide you an email address, meaning you are given a choice of either using a "free" email service that would sell your data or paying a premium to a private hoster. I am not even considering self hosting because it's not something an average person could do.
That was a market without competition. Without anything lighting a fire under Intel they had no reason to improve the chips further and kept making tiniest of iterative improvements year after year.
You should check again - Ubuntu applications are now being distributed via Snaps that everyone hates, they are sandboxed tho. For other distributions you have Flatpak that is also sandboxed.
Yeah, but then it is supposed to - you are expected to have knowledge to fix it as a user. And unlike proprietary OSes it gives you legible errors and great logging/debugging tools and a path to downgrade. Last time I had to help my friend troubleshoot his Windows setup all we would get would be an extremely cryptic error code and we solved it by finding a thread on an Italian forum and had to google translate a solution that consisted of creating an arbitrary entry in Windows registry. This is not comparable.
QLED coating is not bullshit, I had a PC monitor with it and it won against any other VA panel I compare it with. Now, the name is a but unfortunate, but the tech is there
Rust being relatively new and shiny language compels everyone who just learned it to use all the features as often as possible. I keep falling down this hole too.
..but then, just like some smart home devices, it would either constantly annoy you with an icon or popus about "missing internet connection" or outright refuse to work at all with a cryptic "something went wrong"
Well we aren't just consumers, we are also citizens. Forcing ads into your devices sounds like a collective action waiting to happen, especially if it's done via an update. And further down the road some sort of advocacy group/lobbying may be in order.
It used to be an ideal choice, but as article correctly mentions - we killed it. First some websites got way too greedy with annoying and harmful ads, then the adblockers cut all ad revenue to maybe 1/3 of what it was and then Google and Facebook took over.
There is no griping about the right to participate on my part. I don't think it's fair for you to substitute a mandated voting for a right to vote like this to misrepresent my point entirely. A right is something you have to exercise yourself, any right is an option. When you force everyone to go to the polls it's different, because people who would've never chosen to exercise their voting rights otherwise end up checking boxes, and I don't want that. It's just like you have a right to be a candidate, but you also have to go and gather signatures to actually put yourself on a ballot - where I live we already have 3-4 pages of ballot in every local election. You can't let everyone just sign their name into the ballot without any filters. Same should be true for voters - people who wouldn't bother going to polling stations don't have any business voting by their own admission. You can force people to go to the polls, but you can't force them to care or to put even one thought into that said vote.
Now if you want to talk about polling being accessible and more convenient to those willing to cast their votes - I'm all for it. More station? Sure. Disability assistance? Sure! Where I live we do polling at schools, because these are what kids go every day to, and they are located in places everybody knows about and they distributed very sanely and fairly.
People who has no business voting voting. Imagine how many people would vote - not from the informed voter perspective. They'll most likely vote for the candidate they remember in a positive light. Imagine how much more sway would a big ad campaign have.
I would be ok if a blank ballot would be the least effort option with no strings attached, but with a "wasting your vote" being a stigma and a part of the culture I see no need in any mandate. I just really don't want people who can't be bothered to go to a polling station on a holiday specifically made for voting to caste their vote to vote at all. Some times gatekeeping certain things is ok. There must be a balance.
A license is not a pact with a demon, known as the original developer.
A license is a legal document to be enforced by many different courts across the world.
Making complicates shapes these sizes is very very hard. And the fact that it's a one-off project for now makes it so much more expensive and hard. From my understanding somewhere some factory would have to dedicate a whole production line just to this one device.
However, there is an elephant in the room - any Xiaomi device can unlock its bootloader, and the flash an open firmware, like LOS. This instantly makes it much better than Apple phones or any phones on the market - you can even ignore google software. With Apple you cant even run apps that haven't gotten through Apple censors, and the closest you can get to owning your hardware is "jailbreaking" it.
Yet Apple ecosystem is an insane walled garden and you don't really own your hardware, because you can't even run applications not downloaded from the app store.