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Regarding the length, the smaller 2.5mm jack used to be pretty common on smaller devices. Now the only thing that I know uses it is the input on Bose QC headphones.

Minor nitpick - ASUS ROG phones have two USB C ports, I think some other gaming focused phones do as well.

It’s just another hype cycle, they happen rather … cyclically.

I recommend ignoring them. Despite VCs trying to spend it into existence, we aren’t going to have another internet level event in information technology and the smartphone+laptop combo is peak personal computing.

I think we are near the crest of this wave but that just means the next one is coming, though.

Microsoft is pro open source, it's just that they use it as a means rather than an end which trips up a lot of people who view open source differently.

Its a tool they use to encourage adoption of their developer tools and get people to spend more money in Azure, not a philosophical stance.

Same for the c# one I think, the old language server was and is still open source but the .net core debugger has always been proprietary.

I imagine it is because it is derived from the Visual Studio debugger in some fashion. JetBrains ran into the same problem with Rider back in the .NET core days and had to write their own debugger.

In my experience AirPlay 2 isn’t flawless, pretty much every time I try to use it there are stutters.

This is using an iPhone 16 Pro to AirPlay to a stereo pair of Sonos Five’s that are connected using Ethernet.

AirPlay isn’t a great choice if you are concerned about audio quality anyways - if you’re using AirPlay 2 you’re using 256kbps AAC, so it should sound the same as Bluetooth (or worse if you are comparing something like LDAC).

See here for more information.

https://darko.audio/2023/10/apple-airplay-isnt-always-lossle...

Guitars are manufactured from organic material. Even coming off of a factory line, no two guitars are identical because no two pieces of wood are identical.

Check out Roon if you havent already

Is Google Camera FOSS?

does lightning -> usb C -> 3.5mm not work? it requires an extra adapter but is better than nothing.

> How about a text editor which represents code as a syntax tree that is formatted as you type? Or one that has support for embedding multi-media content within source files? Or one with advanced program rewriting capabilities (in-lining functions, replacing struct members into getter methods, etc)

We have had these for decades, they are called IDEs

Why? Linux users are a minority even among developers.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-operating-...

People really need to find a better word than 'rootkit' to describe software that users willingly and intentionally give root access.

> The problem of cheating in games does not weigh more than the users ultimate ownership of and control over their own property.

What the users want to use their ultimate ownership and control over their own property for is preventing cheating.

It's not like Riot is forcing this on people against their will, people just don't like playing against cheaters.

The only place I ever hear complaints about kernel anti cheats are people complaining because they want to use Linux and it isn't supported or forums like Hacker News, where people paradoxically care so much about peoples computing rights that they are perfectly happy to limit what gamers are allowed to do with their computers.

I am curious as to what OS's you've tried. Fractional scaling is flawless on Windows and KDE6 with wayland in my experience.

48 inches at 4K is such a low pixel density, are you not bothered by how bad text looks compared to high DPI screens?

> Also, is it impossible to have a Google account with a non-gmail address?

You can have your own domain if it is a workspace account

It isn't magic but they are different than laptops and desktops in important but subtle ways.

They are (generally) always on your person. They discourage the creation of text. They always have an internet connection. They are usually charged right next to your bed, so they are the first and last thing you interact with every day.

I am on Windows for the same reason but KDE finally has fractional scaling that works just as well as Windows. AFAIK, it is the only Linux DE that has it though.

That is true, although they could add that to a model 3. I wonder how Waymo deals with it.

Yeah I would be interested in seeing how the costs shake out.

There is logic in this design being cheaper to manufacture but I would think that it would be a long while before you "broke even", so to speak, compared to using a design that you already know exactly how to make.

Anybody know why the autonomous taxi isn't just a model 3?

I don't see the point in a purpose built two seater with no steering wheel or pedals and I don't know why regulators would approve an autonomous car with no way to manually override it.

> Linux makes it easy for you to be a developer, while other platforms fight you every step of the way

I see this sentiment a lot but the developer experience on Windows is good to great in my experience.

Much better than MacOS or linux if you are using Visual Studio and .NET, pretty equal if you are using another stack.

What it isn't is posix/unix. A lot of the bad developer experience people have on windows is from trying to (pre-WSL, at least) shoe horn unix tools and practices instead of doing things the windows way.

> Meanwhile, you can't install adblocking on iOS Safari as an extension at all. But I never hear anybody bringing that up.

There are a bunch of safari ad blockers in the app store that work the same way manifest v3 blockers work.

if you like puppy, check out easyOS too - sort of a successor from the original creator of puppy linux.

https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-different.htm...

Not sure it is wise to directly reference popular nintendo game titles on the homepage.

"Games like Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Super Mario Odyssey run almost flawlessly on the emulator."

Edit: site has screenshots of it running the new Zelda game too, I think Nintendo would definitely take issue with that

They have universal installers.

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-for-windows-1-6-5-insta...

Im not sure how it differs technically from macos universal binaries but the user experience is basically the same - one download no matter what architecture you are on.

It's reasonable to expect people who advocate for policy to have some idea of how they want it to be implemented.

As recently as a few months ago you could see NSFW content in Narwhal 2 on iOS. Not sure if it has since changed.

I do remember hearing they were planning that change, though.

I was hoping for a more holistic analysis about nintendos business model, the environmental impact, and how the purchasers choice to not buy Nintendos hardware and software fits in. But it is interesting food for thought nonetheless.