randmeerkat

>…addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone.

Buy a Garmin watch, battery life measured in weeks, and you’ll never have to re-enter your pin again because it moved on your wrist. You’ll still get great fitness tracking though and also notifications if you choose to sync them.

How do you feel about Clojure vs Lisp?

iLemming you clearly know how to interwebs, well met.

> If you think that "VI is a superior editor than Emacs", I'm afraid you still have a shallow understanding of both.

Thank you for your long and thoughtful prose, so fitting for an emacs user. One day, when you value productivity, might I suggest VI.

> Strategically thinking, after setting the shredder on fire it will be harder to shred the code of the future emacs clones! :D

The most realistic future is that emacs begins shipping with a self-shredding feature. C-h s

<3

> I would like to see a dedicated new user/learner mode

“To run the tutorial, start Emacs and type C-h t, that is, Ctrl-h followed by t.”[1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

Realize that VI was the superior editor, give up on the endeavor, print out the code I had already written for emacs, shred it, then set the shredder unceremoniously on fire.

For those that downvote me, worth it.

> They have some of the most recognisable IP in gaming (and with Pokemon etc, one of the most recognisable bits of IP in the world), so they have the market power to pull people to buy their hardware too.

I haven’t picked up my Switch since I bought my Steam Deck. That’s not “market power” that’s losing a gamer instead.

> Nintendo currently rent out NES games as part of Switch online

If Nintendo really cared about this they should create their own version of Spotify for legacy video games and charge a monthly subscription fee for the entire library that’s cross platform and mobile friendly. The strength of Nintendo really is their games, not the hardware. I don’t understand why Nintendo is so attached to their hardware in 2024, especially in the age of the Steam Deck.

Touché

> Removable storage should come standard with any mobile device.

Removable storage should come standard with any device.

> Probably a dumb question, but what are the 3 taps for after screwing each screw? I presume they are tapping the screwdriver itself?

I think it’s a torque screwdriver.

> That's kind of the opposite of the Hacker ethos

HN revolves around YComb and finding ideas that make great products. Someone has come up with a brilliant solution and someone else is saying they want to buy it. HN isn’t about “hacker” purity, it’s about thinking through cool ideas and maybe finding a startup along the way.

Gaming laptops have user replaceable batteries.

> What do you mean by that? Due to geopolitics? Or at a technical level of the current law?

Geopolitics, but the technical level of law certainly plays a part. Europe had no idea what the effect of leveling lawsuits against a fortune one company would yield. However the EU has proven rather adept at identifying technological practices harming consumers and a strong capacity for rectifying them. Now that the EU is beginning to find its stride, I expect it to become more assertive in how international commerce is conducted.

> Until these fines become meaningful, companies will just continue breaking the law and asking for forgiveness later, as the changes to their market cap can offset this fine in hours.

Up until recent years the EU didn’t even know if it could take action against U.S. based tech giants. Now that the EU has established wins in fines, usb-c, user replaceable batteries, and alternate app stores, I expect EU regulators to take even bolder action.

> Still not something they want user serviceable, I imagine mostly because it creates headaches for everyone involved.

User replaceable cell phone batteries used to be the norm, not the exception.

> If the iPhone would have true user-swappable batteries, their business would collapse.

It’s coming, the EU brought the USB-C port to the iPhone and in 2027 it brings user replaceable batteries too. [1]

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/07/13/new-eu-regulation...

> apple isnt building to impress internet neckbeards like us. they are building for the normies. features they understand intuitively and cannot fuck up. maybe wait til it gets in the normies hands to judge.

Apple has lost its way, just look at how the "normies" and the "neckbeards" responded to the Vision Pro. Apple doesn't know how to innovate anymore, just how to market, and mass produce things, which is honestly good enough to keep making money for now.

> You have no idea how true this is :). I had to upgrade everything, the old site didn't even have SSL. But this annoyed me so much I wanted others to know how to fix it.

People like you are the ones that make the internet worth logging on for.

> I'd be extremely happy to be wrong, as I invest my life and my family's in the US.

Spend less time reading the news and more time enjoying your family. The world has been “ending” for decades now, the U.S. isn’t going anywhere and will continue to get some things right while getting other things wrong.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

~ Nick Fury

> I'm curious about such questions because on a larger scheme of the things, I really hope that Boeing is not a miniature reflection of the US - an empire in its twilight that got entangled in irreconcilable interests, doomed to watch its own inevitable decline.

I’m tired of this hyperbolic, melodramatic angst about the general decline of the U.S. Did you not read the part about the crew being returned by SpaceX? A company that just made landing rockets a reality only 9 years ago, not even 10 years has passed and reusable rockets are as boring as smartphones. NASA identified an issue on the Boeing Starliner, and a cutting edge company (SpaceX) stepped up for a non-emergency rescue mission. There was no loss of life, or equipment, there’s been no injuries, just mild inconveniences. This isn’t a nation in decline, this is a nation that has even begun to peak yet.

I will never trade liberty for the easy fix. That side road you are so willing to take could very well be what ends the democracy that you’ve lost faith in. What comes after is something much more sinister.

Nihilism does nothing but to further erode the foundations of democracy.

> There was a UT reboot, but as the other poster mentioned, when Fortnite eventually took off, they removed everyone from the project around May 2017.

Yeah, I guess I was always holding out some futile hope that they may reboot it at some point.

> Fortunately UT2k4 is still fun and plays well, even on an ancient PC, and looks decent enough.

I’ve heard there’s still some folks on some self-hosted servers playing it, maybe I’ll have to look into that.

> His talks are great to watch, and the books on BSD design as well.

If you had to pick one book, which one would you select?

> UT2k4 supporting Linux was so progressive back then

Will we ever get UT2k2X?

> If congress is bought off I'd rather trust the administrations. They aren't perfect but are usually more on point.

You also vote for your Representatives and Senators. I’m surprised people are so willing to advocate against their democratic interests for short term gains.