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birksherty··on QBittorrent v4.5.0: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Legible Text
It's should not be necessary for all to give feedback for basic things and developers who have no idea about design should not change design.
birksherty··on LineageOS 20
Yes, this is the main reason for me. I can backup and restore data of any app, on different phone.

Another reason is XPrivacy Lua. Nothing beats it from privacy point.

birksherty··on The Gates of Argonath in VR at 50 FPS on Unreal Engine
HN is rich and detached from reality in other parts of the world. People still have to manage their savings to buy storage in non rich world.
birksherty··on LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing
> in the context of video editing, yes, 500MB is cheap

This type of thinking is pretty common in HN, where they live in a rich country. Then the same people apply their situation to whole world. It's not same in developing world. People still have to manage their savings for storage.

birksherty··on How long would society last during a total grid collapse?
Obviously, people would not die. What was the expectation? That we will die within a day after no power?

Electricity is not human's natural basic need like water and oxygen. But civilised life will be extremely terrible, society will collapse, that's the story.

birksherty··on Twitter at 1am on a Friday
> Heck most of us would love to be a part of something like.

Nope. At 1 AM? Nope.

Nobody would be in office at 1 AM by choice, they had to for the paycheck.

birksherty··on Oxford University Press’s new logo is unfathomably bad
> If you're a person who prioritizes "actual innovation," why are you spending so much time complaining about a fucking logo redesign

Because that logo redesign does not produce any actual innovation.

> Heck, they even created custom fonts for their blog posts.

These companies have lots of money, lots of managers, lots of designers. Those people would have nothing to do if they don't rebrand, create new fonts etc. They can't just sit idle in office and take salary. If those fonts were not made, nothing would have changed right now, the company would not have any less progress in any way.

People also do these to have something big on their resume, to get promotion. This is what lots of humans do now, bullshit jobs even though there are much bigger problems to fix in the world.

birksherty··on Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013)
This is only in US; in most other countries situation will be different.
birksherty··on Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy
We already pay for internet.
birksherty··on Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet
People who donate, do it only for the website, not for any other cause. The donate banner is a lie. Now when they are spending elsewhere, they are deceiving the donors. Period.

If they want money for all these things, they should clearly mention this while asking money in Wikipedia. People will donate for that. This is the reason of the issue. Not because people hate any community.

birksherty··on Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet
> find more avenues to increase the world's knowledge

No. People who visit and donate, only wants it to go to the site they are using and for its development. Not to some other things that they don't know.

If Wikimedia wants money for all these things, they should mention what are these exactly without hiding.

4/5 million is still huge amount.

birksherty··on Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans
> rodents, mosquitos, and ants

> How much animal testing has been done by scientists on all types of animals to have what we have today?

Nothing compared to what we are doing to meat animals. We make these animals to eat like a machine. All these are to hide your guilt.

birksherty··on Plastic recycling remains a 'myth': Greenpeace study
> other costs exist too

This is the problem that is destroying the planet. It should not be about capitalism.

birksherty··on Ask HN: How to deal with regret of not having kids
Find purpose, but don't involve unwilling person (the kid) who did not ask to be experiment in your problems. That's pretty selfish and harmful for to be born kid. Most people only care about consent when it's them, not others and even refuses.
birksherty··on Ask HN: How to deal with regret of not having kids
Nope that's pretty selfish to bringing unwilling person (the kid) into a problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33301496

birksherty··on Ask HN: How to deal with regret of not having kids
> The idea that we must perfect ourselves before we enter a relationship with others is common in internet advice and frankly wrong.

Ok when they give consent like your spouse. The to be born kid did not. Kids are not anyone's property to experiment with. You should not force a 3rd parson (the kid) without their consent into your life if you are not mentally and physically well. Do whatever you want with your own life that does not involve unwilling subject.

Personally, I would not wish to be born to someone who is struggling, which will make me suffer later. Most people only care about consent when it's them, not others and even refuses.

birksherty··on Ask HN: How to deal with regret of not having kids
> If you want to have kids, have kids.

No. Kids are not your property to experiment with. You should not force a 3rd parson (the kid) without their consent into your life if you are not mentally and physically well. Do whatever you want with your own life that does not involve unwilling subject.

Personally, I would not wish to be born to someone who is struggling, which will make me suffer later. Most people only care about consent when it's them, not others and even refuses.

birksherty··on Apply for student loan debt forgiveness
When will americans complain about trillions of tax money given to defense industry and fraud banks, instead of little to education and poor? I guess never.
birksherty··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
It's not for all that reason. But to make companies follow standard. So it's a great decision.

These companies have been doing what they want for far too long like removing headphone jack, removable battery etc.

birksherty··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
I don't care about private companies, if they want to operate with people they must follow a standard and so the news is good. All the time these companies do whatever they want like ditching headphone jack, fixed batteries, even if people don't want it. They force the change and we have to comply.

So yeah it's great for long term.

birksherty··on Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling
Nobody likes it except developers of these annoyances themselves. It's not power, it's toxic annoying dickbar.
birksherty··on Has the Zodiac killer mystery been solved again?
> evidence against the idea he's Zodiac

Obviously zodiac is not idiot to match those arrows to his normal drawing. Any okay-ish killer would differentiate their handwriting and such symbols.

birksherty··on uBlock Origin Lite: Description
Could not find what happened, but if it's the forum known for enabling harassment, and if IA did something bad to this site owner, then I find no problem. Those kind of people deserve what they do to others.
birksherty··on Cairo: Alternative Windows Desktop
Most people around world use small laptop screens, where having a top bar bad from fitt's law. Having infinite large window buttons (that are used often) on the top right corner is great and window menu/start button at bottom left corner.
birksherty··on Mars is ‘irrelevant to us’ if Earth is doomed, says Kim Stanley Robertson
This argument is tiresome. Earth is not just a rock, it includes all the species and environment, which is doomed. If it's only just a rock, there are billions such, name any of those earth and problem solved. Whatever happens after that, when or if things will be like now flourishing, nobody surely knows. So lets stop guessing that part. Everything that is here right now except the rock is dying.

On the contrary humans will survive even if there are full blown nuclear attacks, we will go underground.

So except humans everything else is doomed.

birksherty··on Mars is ‘irrelevant to us’ if Earth is doomed, says Kim Stanley Robertson
Opposite, most people in world are still drinking the overpopulation koolaid given by the privileged and corporations. Who wants more people only to buy their products and keep the quarterly growth moving up and for cheap labour exploit.
birksherty··on VLC media player banned in India
How is mpv better than vlc?
birksherty··on Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios
All natural resources are limited based on which are are alive. You might be living in a bubble in a privileged place.
birksherty··on Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios
The resource consumption is a huge for climate change catastrophe. Resource is also not plenty like you said, it's bs by capitalist.
birksherty··on Climate endgame: exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios
Degrowth doen't mean reducing life expectancy. It's not.

All the growth people talk about is increasing quarterly profit in board meetings. That's what is causing the catastrophe.

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