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You can still create a FAQ. Discord is a great way to know what are the frequently asked questions.

> I'd rather follow steps in a document somewhere so I can ignore the steps I don't care about and share steps I find useful.

I rewrote the onboarding documentation of my team and asked myself if I should script the tooling installation. I came with the same conclusion and just gave a list of tools to absolutely install (with a suggestion of how to install it, but do as you please) and recommended tools and extensions (+ why they're cool). I think this approach is especially useful for newbies who don't necessarily know the tools or how to install them.

If anybody has an issue with their custom installation though, I redirect them to the onboarding recommendations.

I wonder if we could use some kind of federation (ActivityPub?) to build an aggregate of the search indexes of a curated community. Something like a giant federated whitelist of domains to index.

Two lesser known extensions I always install are:

- "Bookmarks", to persistently mark some lines and easily find them later (there's even an explorer pane with the bookmarks by file). It's must have when navigating a big code base

- "Todo Tree", to list all the TODOs and FIXMEs from the codebase in a panel

> Double points if I backspace to change it back and it re-"corrects" me again.

That's just awful design. Another quirk is that it can autocorrect the last word you typed when you press "send". Sometimes I proofread myself and still end up bitten by the autocorrect because it changed something when I pressed "send".

On Android when you backspace once after an autocorrect it reverts the autocorrect. It's not great but still better than what iOS does.

I honestly don't know. On one hand I'd love for a standard used by everyone, but on the other hand I fear it'll limit innovation. What if Apple want to sell a full wireless phone with MagSafe only for instance? What if someone invents something better than USB-C?

I'd like an alternative where manufacturers have to sell their products with USB-C, but they can sell the same product with something else if they want (eg. Apple would sell iPhone xx USB-C, iPhone xx Lightning, iPhone xx MagSafe... but they'd be forced to sell an USB-C variant)

> I haven't played a good game in nearly a decade. I used to play them for the story, then it all became too grindy

That's on you. There are tons of amazing new video games with a good plot and a great gameplay. I'm not a huge gamer myself but the last one I did that checks those boxes was Horizon Zero Dawn.

> We could not transfer the domain

Depending on the TLD that might be a contractual breach between Google and the registry. I would suggest reading the TOS of the extension on the registry's website and complain if Google breaches them. Sometimes it's forbidden to the registrar to prevent a transfer, even when there's a dispute.

Note that in the case of domain names Google is not all powerful. The ICANN and the ccTLD registries are. If Google threatens you and your domain and doesn't let you appeal, you can (and should!) contact both the registry directly and the ICANN if the TLD is not a ccTLD (> 2 characters)

Can you instead push for giving your *customers* the ability to actually contact you in case of a problem? It's shameful that the only way to contact one of the biggest megacorp is being noticed by an employee on Hacker News.

FWIW, in the case of a domain, this might be an ICANN breach (if OP's domain is a gTLD) or a registry breach (if it's a ccTLD). You HAVE TO be contactable and you HAVE TO reply. If you don't comply to the rules Google Domains might in theory lose its accreditation.

As someone who loves Discord, I'm curious why you'd think that, can you elaborate how it's user hostile?

> people who use languages with ASCII alphabets exclusively may think it's unjustified

And what languages would that be? (given that even some borrowed words in English have the letter é for instance)

Can you imagine being wrongly imprisoned for a week and wondering if you'll ever get out? Living with the fear of something happening to you in an unknown and potentially unsafe environment? What about his reputation that might be permanently stained to his family members, friends, employers, the cops?

I'd also try to get the most out of this awful week.

Come on, you can't seriously respond to "can I see some screenshots" with "just download the ISO and install a VM"...

Requesting screenshots is not entitlement, it's both legitimate AND a useful advice to improve the landing page.

This is incredibly common. Why would you develop anything and then not provide screenshots? Even for CLIs screenshots are useful!

What's the first thing you see on Apple's Big Sur landing page[1]? A big fat screenshot!

What about Windows 11 preview[2]? Yep, screenshots!

I can't think of a single time when the first thing I want to see on a landing page (or 1 click away) is not a screenshot or a demo.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/ [2]: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/windows-11

Agree. Regex literacy is a big skill to have too.

I don't know if it's a standard but both Postgres and MySQL have PREPARE statements, and any sane language driver will implement it correctly

> I believe that Safari makes life easier for users

Except when it doesn't. I use Safari iOS (because there's basically no choice since only their engine is allowed) and I regularly come across webms that don't load or that decode atrociously. It would not be that bad if only they would allow other browsers to ship their own engine.

> To this day, I cannot remember which is which and I do not know the original French spellings. According to Google translate, _fiş_ is "prise de courant" so what the heck is _priz_ then?

_priz_ is "prise" (socket). _fiş_ is "fiche" (plug). The thing is that both can be either male or female.

> When I think of a socket, I think more of things that are more permanent things like wall sockets or sockets on actual computers

That's definitely the case. A "prise" is a wall socket and a "fiche" is on a wire. I believe it's the actual definition of the terms.

You still have sponsored segments even with Youtube premium. I refuse to pay for a service and still get ads.

> and as Windows 10 demonstrates, the amount of telemetry is anti-correlated with software quality

What's wrong with Windows 10? I think it's great

I had a random Sony surround-sound system that I bought for 60 bucks and it was great! I have to replace it because it's not easy to connect to my new TV. I tried a few soundbars and I've been flabbergasted at how shitty they all were. They're pretty and convenient, but any basic 5.1 or even 3.1 system is ten times better. I'm not fond of 5.1 because of wires, but 3.1 is good enough for depth and intensity.

Don't play stupid, the ad itself is not the issue I'm mentioning here. The issue is that the ad should both be displayed AFTER my search result, AND clearly flagged as an ad in the same way the Play Store does it. It could also be a bit less prominent than the search results.

Is the Apple community always this way? I came to love Apple products but the community is a piece of work, it's like nothing can be criticized and everything is perfect as it is.

I agree, but the correct way to do that is what the Play Store does: display what the user asked for first and unambiguously, and AFTER, display some ads, clearly flagged as "Ads: other content that might interest you".

Apple doesn't even clearly flag them as ads.

I just added a screenshot for Spotify. I guess search results are region dependant

> This isn’t really an Apple problem, this is TikTok buying ad space targeting Netflix as a search term

It's an Apple problem. They must either forbid it, or more realistically not display the ads first before the real app.

You're being downvoted but you're right, I am specifically talking about the App Store, which is the biggest offender of what I'm referring to. The Play Store doesn't do that.

> App stores (android, Microsoft, ….) seem to think it is a failure when you think ‘I want to install app X’ and you install X

To be clear, I'm talking specifically about Apple's App Store. I'm not sure about Microsoft, but Android's Play Store doesn't have the specific dark pattern I'm referring to. When I type Discord, Spotify or whatever on the Play Store, the perfect match app is displayed first and prominently. On Apple, the concurrent App is displayed first and takes more than half the screen.

Good thing it's not in the HTTP standard but in a joke standard then.

The favicon acts as a separator. I often have way too many tabs and the new style doesn't change anything, it's still very clear where a tab starts and where it ends.

> I don't think you're losing users due to the shape of tabs

They very might lose users because of the design of tabs. Tabs is almost the only UI most users see. If they feel dated, the whole browser feels dated.

The "floating tabs" style is very minimal, fresh and modern, and honestly still unambiguous. I'm pretty sure this new style was a good move.