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I've heard just as many horror stories for the Apple app store. I don't think there is real improvement or downfall for either. You are lucky, or you are unlucky, and the two app stores trade places for your own problems every couple of months (or years).

Not sure how many weeks? or months? since I last visited it, but Firefox with UBO just displayed this perfectly. A low bar, I know.

It's buried so deep between "ah yes, of course you know that if you ever used the feature" that I bet the majority of readers might have missed it (me too).

Coincidentally I read this not too long ago: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/how-to-get-a-doi-for-your-b...

for static sites... it's not that I would call them useless, but most are just not very critical. Clickjacking and any cookie attacks on a site without cookies is pretty useless most of the time.

I think if you ask 5 people what dumb (enough) phone meant you'd get seven answers.

For some anything after SMS is not dumb enough (ok, this still exists), others would be ok with just a browser, and you said Maps and WA/etc/.

I am not even sure I could give you a good enough definition, I'm kinda happy enough with Android and just ignore any dumb/minimal angle, because if I only take a phone with me I generally want to potentially use it as a computer replacement. There are really only 2 people I call regularly.

I've had this (first) work mac for 2 years and the upside is that every new version is usually only slightly worse than a new Windows version, which is generally a big step down.

For Linux I've been kinda indifferent for 15 years. Maybe it's me.

One of the releases was that, though - either 9 or 11, with the package reorgs that broke everything. OK... it wasn't fast.

But Java 8 was stable (as in APIs, not judging its quality here) and since then it's gotten good again.

Because this is about having a local standin for S3, which (in a production deploy) often solves a different problem than a (local) filesystem.

This post does not even mention the S3 API as a replacement for a filesystem.

Just not being able to use one application is better than your whole OS going up in smoke every couple weeks. Yes, Windows 95A on the wrong hardware (and how would you know?) did that.

Apparently it was just so big and featureful that no 2 people can agree on their experience.

I only used it for half a year in 2003, didn't have anything to do with administration.

I could receive and send emails, and I think newsgroups (or was that not directly included?), I had not self-hosted email at that point, but of course used it for a couple years. It was better than Outlook at a job I had before that, otherwise I'm really indifferent.

Call me petty, but I bought a new motorola x4 about 2.5y after it came out (via gsmarena) and it never got a security or OS update, the date is still before my time of purchase. The hardware still works perfectly fine, I use it as a small tablet around the house but I've long stopped using any kind of account on it that I care about.

I will never buy a motorola phone again and I'll gladly tell everyone to avoid them.

I mean the page is in English and they used $ for the currency, how many countries could they really target? /s

Things change. I'd been involved with some game wikis long enough ago that moving there was a good idea (if you had no one who wanted to do server admin and no hw/vps sponsors)

I'm not sure it's really snarky. In large parts of Germany stores have been closed on Sundays for most of my life (and where I live also after 20:00) and yes, going into town or to IKEA on a Saturday is actually a meme sometimes.

Both things can be true - I can be indifferent or appreciative of stuff being closed on Sundays and I can also be annoyed that 90% of the people have their only free day on the same day and thus bigger shopping needs to happen there instead of being spread over two days, unless you take days off.

I have a lot more computers than family members, so that's only fair I guess?

I know just as many people who have that title foisted upon them by HR and leadership of their company than others who have taken it up.

So I think it sounds more than actual people who would be happy to be called software developers.

Then you were simply lucky, because I see myself 90% agreeing with the person you replied to - but of course it can vary between orgs and countries.

That's an unfair comparison because while I have nothing bad to say about terminals on macOS.. on Windows it's just still a shitty experience that doesn't solve even half of my problems.

People don't really use push to talk in Teams (unlike Discord) and that's usually the dealbreaker because you can't have system wide keybinds.

"architecture by reading blog posts" is as an old boss of mine described it and I liked that better.

People at my supermarket still generally need longer to pay by watch or phone than me with using my card, so I'm not sure what to take away here.

They might just get a stroke if they'll hear what I use my smartwatch for. Hop on my bike, press start, and at the end of the ride press stop, then look at the result on my phone (sometimes). And if I don't forget to put it on I read the time. I have navigated with it once in the first week. But luckily it's not a Pixel Watch.

It's a bit weird and maybe more complicated.

I checked the area around Munich, Germany (where I live).

- one is an actual lake (correct shape) that went down to 0 from a bogus 1

- three are actual forests/parks which may have had some sorts, but 11/16/48 to 0 is a rounding error, but there is no filter for absolute, it technically is -100%...

- bit further out is another lake with 14 to 0

I'd love to have statistics on how many people can not work remotely because their partner can't work remotely. Maybe starting with how many jobs are office jobs that don't require f2f would be a good sample, but I've never seen such numbers.

"also"? :D

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amigo-Aff%C3%A4re (sorry, no English translation available)

I'm generally not zealous in either way of the good old time or everything old is bad...

But seriously, have your vinyl and be happy, I am buying CDs for home use (even in a car it got annoying fast).

But why would I ever go back to something huge, clunky, fragile like MCs (or MDs to a degree)? I'm not saying stop using a dedicated music player (although I've been team mobile phone for music (with mp3s) forever). But the only reason I see for exchangable media would be trading playlists with friends (I hardly did that with MCs or CDs, but ok) - but why not cheap small SD cards. Why do people want their Walkman back? I just don't get it.

Funny. I have about 187 posts titled 'The Stack' on my blog, but also none on 2013-08-13, so I'm not the training set it seems :P

A friend who doesn't live close had one season of a series I wanted to watch and I could stream it from his Plex. I'm not saying this could not have been solved in another easy way, but it worked without friction because he had Plex anyway.

I'm kinda over downloading gigabytes of files and then deleting them after watching. And I'm not doing this regularly so I've not investigated. All I'm saying is that it solved a problem nicely.

I dunno. I've worked with linux routers for years and I've had a lot less problems than with mikrotik.

I still like them but it's usually not the networking knowledge that trips people up.