It is innovation.

Just for the company, not for you.

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Thanks, appreciate the suggestions

Lucky you! :)

For me, switching to Bluetooth half the time makess the audio go crackly and stuttering, which sometimes can be fixed by switching codec, sometimes not, and then after that happens my HDMI audio is screwed up too, even after turning Bluetooth off.

With steam games too, audio is the #1 most likely thing to be not working, or working improperly.

Same for me with Markdown. Love the simplicity.

I went through a phase a while back of evaluating a bunch of note-taking and to-do apps, and hating almost all of them for being proprietary products with so much vendor lock-in.

I eventually settled on Joplin because it just uses plain old markdown, and allows you to selfhost the storage back-end so you own your data.

So because of that, my recipes are just a folder (and some subfolders) with markdown in Joplin.

These days, that’s pleasantly true :)

15 years ago was a different story. You’d have about a 50/50 shot of your trackpad working, one in three that your WiFi would work, and if you were hoping for a working webcam, you should just forget about it.

So even in modern times when you do an install and everything mostly just works, it still feels suspiciously miraculous.

I’m currently still running macOS Monterey on a 2016 Macbook Pro which I use as my general purpose desktop. I’m considering going to Linux on it :)

I have other Linux machines already so this isn’t a new foray - would just be interesting to see how it performs. Battery would be way worse I know, but this laptop serves basically as a permanent desktop anyway, so that’s very much not a concern.

Boom, this is it.

And let’s be fair, this isn’t just a “woman” thing either. I’m a guy and I’ve been in plenty of situations where I felt socially pressured into saying, accepting or doing something that I later wished I hadn’t.

If the glasses-woman had said she was recording, that would have been a blessing, and easy grounds to reject. But she said she wasnt, and also that the glasses were prescription. You can hardly ask someone to remove their glasses when they’ve told you they’re prescription, right? You’d be an asshole for that.

It all put the customer in a very difficult position where their hand was forced.

Tap to pay is a choice, with a viable alternative.

You could choose to NOT use tap to pay, carry a bank card, and it would have basically no impact on your ability to conduct your life.

But I agree the banking app itself is a big problem, and something that cannot be lived without.

Depends on what basis one is comparing it.

They are very different scales of game, but they both exist within the same economic realities.

Big studios seem to be working on the basis that just because they spend millions on a game, the game automatically becomes worth whatever price tag they want to slap on it - as if it’s a natural law that pumping in more money should directly translate to more revenue, without fail.

But it turns out the value of a game is not what publishers hope its worth - its what players percieve it is worth.

So it’s no surprise that indie games with amazing price-to-value ratios are seeing a surge, while big studios are struggling and don’t seem to have any ability to understand why their business model isn’t working.

Publishers are all shocked pikachu when their big budget games fall flat, but If people don’t want to buy an $80 game it’s not their fault - it’s your fault for not doing enough to justify the price tag.

My message to studios isn’t “your games should all be $20” (although some of them should) it’s “you should provide value that matches the price tag” - and Silksong over here just laid down the gauntlet as a game which looks set to deliver tonnes of value for relatively little cost.

Take note AAA studios - this is how you do it.

With this pricing, Silksong may be the only game this year that I’ll actually purchase on release day.

A person with a hammer? Why does it need to be difficult :P

Or just go with direct address

“If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

Chuck Tingle, is that you?

I feel like I’m in the same boat. I don’t have a solution, just wanted to say I understand your perspective.

I’ve completely ditched Microsoft from my life and I’d love to ditch Apple too, but there’s just nothing on the market I’ve seen which matches the build and usability of macbook hardware.

With the old Intel macs it was simple enough to run Linux but now with Apple Silicon it’s not on the cards. I love what the Asahi team have been doing and I hope they keep doing it, but it’s not ready for primetime yet.

And so I’ve reached the same annoying conclusion - for the moment I’m stuck with Mac, and therefore stuck with macos too.

My biggest peeve with JSON when I’m forced to use it as a configuration format is that it doesn’t have any syntactical support for comments.

So I can’t even add any notes to the file.

trash-rm moves files to the trash bin, as opposed to the usual rm which instantly deletes them.

You can certainly charge a phone with a PD laptop charger. PD does negotiate, so it will only give the device what the device indicates it can support.

I use my laptop charger with my android phone frequently if I’m out and about.

The person you replied to is referencing findings made by the author, in the article.

The author tried plugging a PD charger into the watch to charge it, and it wouldn’t work. It’s probably not PD as a specification couldn’t work, but that the watch failed to negotiate with the charger.

Whatever the reason, the findings were that plugging your PD laptop charger into this cheap little watch does not result in any charging.

Advertising cars with the exact scene that carbrained people are constantly getting in the way of is ridiculously ironic.

Carbrained people want to enjoy the beauty and lifestyle that comes from walkable cities, but those things only exist because people aren’t driving.

They want to drive on empty roads (that are empty because nobody else has cars) to get to a beautiful leaf-shaded downtown with cafés and shops (that only exist because of dense mixed-use cities) then park in an always-vacant spot right outside the door (that is only vacant because everyone else walked or biked)

The “dream lifestyle” of car ownership is a fakery that only exists if cars are an exclusive luxury for a tiny number of people. It’s fundamentally elistist, and selfish. But nonetheless that’s the lifestyle advertisers continue to push, and the public continues to lap up.

It’s really interesting when you think about that.

In the video world, we’ve had an arms race all throughout the last 25 years for the lowest possible file size at the best possible quality, with new codecs and containers constantly coming in and out of favour. Hardware playback has always been spotty at best, with little guarantee you’ll get a file to play on any device in particular.

Meanwhile I could rip a CD and put it on even my first-generation MP3 player from the year 1999, and it would work. A blessing we rather take for granted.

I guess there just hasn’t been sufficient pressure to toss MP3 out completely. From an evolutionary perspective, just like the horseshoe crab, it is “good enough” and so it endures.