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rrreese··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
Due to the steam sales and deep discounting its easy to buy games on steam for much cheaper then the consoles. For console where a game may be £60 for several years, buying physical means you can resell. For anyone with a budget, it makes a huge difference on how many games you can play.
rrreese··on Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
As the author I certainly apreciate this feedback
rrreese··on Backblaze has stopped backing up your data
Your feedback is noted! I'll darken it down a few nootches and test it on mobile. Thanks for the feedback
rrreese··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
Yes, you're exactly right. Once they decide not to exclude certain filetypes it puts the burden on the endusers who are unequipped to monitor these changes.
rrreese··on Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points
The direct link is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Canon_EOS_digital_cam... You can get to it by pressing the `V` in `V T E` at the top left of any tmeplate
rrreese··on Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points
You can get a Canon 5D II or a Canon 6D for that. Older cameras for sure, but full frame with excellent sensors. And there are a ton of inexpensive used EF lenses available.

Compared to moderns systems the main difference is the autofocus and video capabilities. Modern mirrorless have cosmically better tracking, eye detect etc.

rrreese··on Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed
Before the listing mechanism was introduced, several buildings where demolished overnight preventing any public outcry from saving them.

You also seem to be implying this is new, but the current listing legislation has existed since 1990.

rrreese··on Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox
- You Right click a tab and choose `Add to new Tab Group`. - You then name and set a colour for the group. - You then drag tabs in and out of the group.

So far the tabs work much the same as ungrouped ones. There is a small coloured button to the left of the group with the name, and the tabs in the group are underlined with the same colour.

But then you click the button and the tabs all collapse.

The nice thing is when expanded they are just like every other tab, not hidden away in a folder, or some menu or modal. But then you can clean up with the press of a button.

Lack of Tab Groups is what stopped me from switching to Firefox last year.

rrreese··on The Dying Computer Museum
https://web.archive.org/web/20240819080509/http://ascii.text...
rrreese··on WP21
>Quick judgments

I think most peoples judgments have been formed over 21 years. WordPress initially gained a reputation for being a fast and easy way to setup a website, then gained a reputation for being a security nightmare.

Maybe its not anymore but people are right to be sceptical. I sure do see a lot of CVEs in the weekly update I check - maybe they're all low risk, or relate to rarely used plugins.

rrreese··on Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead
I’m baffled as to when this time was? Back in the day there was ICQ, Yahoo Chat, MSN Messenger (and no doubt a dozen I forget).

Before the there there the proprietary networks (Aol, CompuServe and others) along with BBS, IRC, Newsgroups, etc.

I literally don’t remember a time in my life where messaging hasn’t been fragmented.

rrreese··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
Not the browsers themselves, but the extensions that provide tab group functionality - they often have the `Access your data for all web sites` permission.

Maybe I trust the developer right now, but one day they may sell their plugin to someone else. Obviously its the same story for uBlock Origin, but I prefer to restrict the number of extensions with these permissions, and its a shame to need an extension for what is provided by all the other major brwosers.

rrreese··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
I tried moving to Firefox a year ago but found that the lack of Tab Groups really killed me.

There are several extensions that try to emulate this behaviour, but I didn't find that they worked particularly well. And then there are the security concerns.

I guess when Chrome break uBlock Origin next year I'll give Edge a go, or one of the various chromium builds

rrreese··on To Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine
Byte Magazine [1975 - 1998]
rrreese··on There oughta be a bullet time video booth
I use several EF lenses on my Canon mirrorless. They tend to focus faster then on the old SLRs (and this is on the EOS-R which has the least sophisticated focusing).

They’re cheaper but you have to carry an adapter.

rrreese··on The Flickr Foundation
If you want them kept for posterity, upload them to (archive.org)[https://archive.org/]

Just create an account and upload them. Create a collection called `historic transport photographs` and they will live on.

rrreese··on The mid in fake midcentury modern
A comment made two hours before yours literally calls it a monstrosity
rrreese··on Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
I was using Evernote extensively back in 2008. It was a real tossup between Evernote and OneNote (which at the time wasn't cloud based and required syncing the files).

Then Evernote proceeded to cease all feature development on the main app. They where releasing food apps while the main product grew stale. Instead of making Evernote incredibly powerful, they didn't touch it and people left any of the dozen competitors that exist today.

rrreese··on Triple-dip La Niña confirmed as BoM makes declaration
If like myself you are confused as to what the byte Ordered Mark has to do with weather, BoM is the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

Triple dipping refers to this being the third year of La Niña in a row.

rrreese··on Freeciv – open-source Civilization clone
What I find fascinating about this project is it’s longevity. It was started in 1995, a year before Civ II came out. I remember playing it in 2000. And here it is still going. Development is pretty active and there is even a 3D mode.
rrreese··on Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer
There is a dark theme available here: https://resource.dopus.com/t/simple-windows-10-dark-theme/30...
rrreese··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
This is amazing as having only vaguely followed the announcements I thought it’s was published today until the very end.
rrreese··on iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things
There is a well understood difference between macroscopy and microscopy. Naming macro lenses micro might be helpful to the layperson but not the subject expert.
rrreese··on Intel Processor Names, Numbers and Generation List
This is pretty similar to AMD though?

   Intel Core  i7     10  65  G7
   AMD Ryzen   9       5  900 X
rrreese··on Logic board with 20 USB3 ports
Yes I also have more then 12 right now, so its a little odd.
rrreese··on Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid
It appears to be this article "Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?": https://web.archive.org/web/20031114161830/http://www.adequa...

No idea of the origin.

rrreese··on What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (2011)
I'm left astonished at the amount of work that went into this article! Not simply its length (which is padded with large amounts of quotes) but the number of sections. I had assumed there would be an enormous comments section at the end, instead section after section after section. Oh look a randomized study he ran. Oh an enormous table of anecdotes.

Incredible.

rrreese··on Dropbox ignore file or folder in beta
I have to use Google Drive at work and it's a complete dumpster fire.
rrreese··on Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad
I'm a hobbyist too. I was in China and Korea earlier this year for a couple of weeks and took 270GB of photographs. Do you think this would scale for me?
rrreese··on Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
I on the other hand do not touch type (very well), and regularly touch type function keys (F5-F12 while debugging).
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