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> The second one is most software contains bugs. Users that expect to get things done simply choose workflows to avoid the worst consequence of those bugs very quickly.

I feel like a substantial source of everyday irritation are bugs like this in bad software. It’s frustrating that devs just don’t care.

You could make software that doesn’t require your users to work around its shortcomings.

Summarize it with an LLM.

Farming is not done for profit?

Even the smaller subreddits tend to have lots of groupthink. There’s usually a prevailing viewpoint on any given sub and anything contrary is downvoted to oblivion.

Maybe I’m not looking at the right subreddits though, who knows.

Context and nuance? On Reddit? Usually I think it lacks both.

Makes sense for Samsung. :(

> you can stop and resume on smaller units of time

You can pause a movie? I don’t always watch a movie in one go.

100% agree, and it’s ironic given that the blog is for/about design …

> I can literally grow food in the ground for "free", put it in mason jars and save my food for a year.

This is true only in an extremely pedantic, unrealistic kinda way. If it was easy/free everyone would be growing all their own food.

Legal research services (access to dockets, case text, etc.) tend to be extremely expensive. I think making that more widely available is a good thing for people with limited resources. It's kind of nuts how impenetrable the legal system is if you don't have any resources.

> I immediately notified Austin's police (APD) as I could see where it was going.

Was the tracking good enough to reasonably narrow it down to a single person?

I think people expect too much of the police with a lot of these tracking devices/services. I don't have any experience with AirTags, but I know Apple's Find My can narrow down the location of e.g. a lost phone to a street corner. But if you're in a city there's a decent chance that there's more than one person on that street corner. The police can't/shouldn't stop everyone there and search them. Tracking a stolen item to a house is even harder (need a warrant). And an apartment is probably impossible because I doubt the tracking is good enough to narrow it down to a particular unit.

Yeah, but wires are also a subpar user experience, period. Rolling them up to store them, untangling them to use them, getting caught on things, routing them to the device, etc. There's a reason bluetooth headphones are still popular despite the downsides.

> Apple doesn’t allow subscriptions priced at less than $0.99. Why not? What if I had a product that i wanted to sell for $0.50 a month?

I’d pay $0.50 more.

I just had the unpleasant experience of canceling a non-Apple controlled service. It sucked. Pages and pages of “are you sure you want to cancel” dark patterns.

You guys did this to yourselves with absolutely shitty customer experience. Could not care less if Apple makes things harder for you. Do not care if I pay more.

Is this a dark pattern? I'm ok with shadow bans if they're reserved for those egregiously abusive users who ruin the community for everyone else. Let them shout into the void.

> I'd rather vendors like Apple gave us the ability to build our own private clouds instead of locking us into theirs.

They literally do. I have my iPhone 11 synced with my self hosted Nextcloud instance. It works pretty well.

> Most of my wealth was exposed in the form of Bitcoin

Yikes.

Local news websites are just the absolute worst.

Some people like the brutalist aesthetic.

For cases, I would think headnotes and footnotes would be the only proprietary Westlaw data. The case itself is content written by the court.

> I was going to wait until the software on my pinephone was more mature but that pushed me over the edge to get power management working on my own and make sure it could make phone calls.

I guess stress is personal, because this sounds way more stressful than anything I've had to deal with on iOS! And I say that as someone who'd like to get a more open (hardware and software) phone in the future.

More effective?

Speech to text in the cloud is a hard no from me. Especially if it’s Google’s speech to text.

> The benefit of shell scripting is that it is simple enough to have as a tertiary language that you can pickup and use after a six month hiatus.

I've been using/abusing traditional shell scripting languages for over a decade now and I still struggle with the rough edges (especially quoting/escaping/argument passing).

My Fenix 5 shows up as a mass storage device when I plug in the usb cable to my computer. You can pull .fit files off that, which contain everything the watch records.

The mobile app is 100% nonfunctional. Also any changes you made on the mobile app (eg editing rep counts in a weight lifting activity) are not synced back to the watch.

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> At this point I think I should just switch to Firefox.

I use Firefox on Mac, but it is definitely a compromise. Still no multitouch support, which is crazy in 2020.

It's frustrating how the authors of this article drop bits and pieces of the story only to interrupt themselves. I get they're trying to provide "the bigger picture" or broader context or asking those "big questions" but it would work a lot better if they just told the damn story first.

> I'd say it's very customizable, but requires (sometimes significant) time investements.

It seemed like with enough effort I could get emacs to mostly do what I wanted, but it never seemed like I could get it to do what I wanted well. Maybe I just gave up on it too soon.

> 5. https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5889/how-to-highli...

This is a good example of my frustration. The solution you suggested allows you to change how an existing emphasis character appears in emacs, but does not allow you to add a new emphasis character. Not great if you still want to be able to use all the old emphasis characters.

To add highlighting without interfering with an existing emphasis character, you're stuck with some ugly hacks (of which I tried a few before giving up). Apparently the reason for this particular limitation is so that org-mode has a consistent syntax for parsing outside of emacs (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-02/msg...). I don't care about parsing outside of emacs (and even if I did, it doesn't seem too terrible to just have my custom emphasis character get printed to the screen without the appropriate formatting). A truly malleable system wouldn't make it so hard for me to modify it to my liking based on my particular needs.

I was able to consistently get emacs/org-mode to work sorta how I wanted it to, but it was _always_ hacky and clunky.