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I honestly couldn't come up with a less compelling set of paid features if I tried. I would love to see things like no ads/promoted tweets, premium API access for third-party devs, live timeline streaming (more like what Tweetdeck does [or did]), higher quality media, and the ability to always keep the reverse chronological timeline.

Honestly I think you'd be surprised just how far the managed workflow can get you these days. That being said, Expo is aware of the limitations and is actively working on addressing those.[1]

[1] https://docs.expo.io/introduction/why-not-expo/

With the EAS Build system, it's no longer a concern. Available to paying customers at the moment.

If at all possible, I can't recommend Expo enough. I hated building RN apps prior to it, and now I hate building apps without it.

It's not a complete replacement, but one former Simple customer has basically replicated the entire budgeting interface and integrated it with Plaid (so that it works with almost any bank).

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/05/08/hands-on-new-budget...

FWIW, this was standard operating procedure when dealing with upset customers at Apple Retail. If I remember correctly, it was referred to as "Acknowledge, Align, Assure". This is the acknowledging bit, and the latter portion of the sentence contains the assure bit ("we will continue to do all we can").

I'm a fan of Shelljs. I used it to translate shell scripts to run on any platform that supports Node[1]. I particularly like how the translated version is essentially a more readable version of the original shell script[2].

[1] https://github.com/Kinto/kinto-http.js/blob/master/bin/dist-...

[2] https://github.com/Kinto/kinto-http.js/blame/6a4ba42ba13a91a...

I'm really glad these don't come with a USB C port, otherwise I'd be really tempted to purchase one. There's something oddly calming about doing complex calculations on a calculator versus on a computer. I find myself reaching for the TI-34 on my desk every now and then when I want to really focus and figure something out. The benefit of the TI-34 is that it's solar powered, so I never have to worry about charging it or changing the batteries.

This feature is built upon user-specific URLs, and Zelle unfortunately doesn't have a public URL system. In fact, you can only access the Zelle network within the site/app for your bank.

As far as I can tell, Twitter uses system fonts exclusively. Opening Twitter in devtools and looking at the "Font" filter in network shows no downloaded web fonts.

Totally fair point! But I'd also like to point out that prior to World of Warcraft, Blizzard hadn't released an MMORPG. Prior to Overwatch, Blizzard hadn't released a first-person shooter. I totally understand your point that Blizzard might not have the talent to pull off a single-player RPG game, but I still think it's within the realm of reality.

I've been an off-and-on World of Warcraft player since the Burning Crusade days, and I honestly think that Blizzard is struggling to evolve the MMORPG genre into something suitable for the modern day.

There was a great article in Kotaku[1] that illustrated this quite nicely. Essentially, what made World of Warcraft successful when it launched can't really exist today, especially with our hyper-connected world. Blizzard has made many attempts to make World of Warcraft more modern, more accessible to newer players (and some have even worked!), but nothing they've done has been able to recapture people in the same manner as it did originally. I think this isn't so much Blizzard's fault as it's just a factor of our world now; there's so much competition for our attention that the "average" gamer doesn't really have the motivation to immerse themselves into the game world (nor can they really when there's so much research you end up doing while playing).

The last truly transformational gaming experience I had was with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild back in 2017. I suspect much of that experience was due to the fact that, in those crucial first few days, there wasn't really anything online about the game. (Sure, there were articles here and there, but nothing near the vast amounts of information about World of Warcraft that exist now). To a lesser extent, I think a lot of the experience I had was due to the single-player nature of the game.

I've said this for years, and I still stand by it: Blizzard should create single-player games set in the Warcraft universe in the vein of Skyrim. They've spent so much time and effort crafting these elaborate stories and worlds that I think the best way to really experience them now is with a single-player game. I could be convinced to accept a group-up mechanic for larger enemies (sort of in the vein of Monster Hunter), but a single-player narrative-driven game set in the Warcraft universe (with art done by the cinematics team) could be a blockbuster if done correctly.

However, there's no indication that Blizard cares about crafting that sort of experience anymore. They seem to be almost commpletely focused on multiplayer, microtransaction-based gaming, which is probably the way to be the most profitable these days I guess.

[1] https://kotaku.com/world-of-warcraft-classic-maybe-you-cant-...

Well, for one, Volta supports Windows! That's a huge differentiator in my book (though as a Windows user I guess I'm biased?).

Well that'll teach me to read the comments after a full day of work. Thank you for the correction!

> Outside of collector/classic car insurance policies or parked insurance, there is not $200 to $300 a year car insurance in the USA.

Absolutely beg to differ. I was on a high-deductible, low-benefit plan for a two-year old used economy car in Louisiana with no marks on my driving record for $250/month. The insurance cost was more than the monthly cost of the car. That being said, it was more than the state mandated liability insurance, but it still wasn't anywhere near the levels of insurance I now have in Washington State on a brand new Tesla Model 3. As you mentioned, it's highly dependent on where you live, but it's absolutely feasible to be paying $200-$300/month for insurance.

Edit: Apologies to parent comment. This was a reading comprehension failure.

Two things:

1. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about half of people making minimum wage or less are older than 25 years old.

2. A single person working a full-time job (32 hours) at minimum wage makes $12,064. The US federal definition of poverty for this individual would be anything below $12,880. So yes, minimum wage workers are literally, by definition, working for poverty wages.

Another happy LG OLED and Shield owner here! I use the Shield when playing more difficult-to-play media from Plex (stuff like high-bitrate HDR content with lossless audio), and the built-in apps on the TV the rest of the time. Heck, even Apple TV is available as an app on the LG.

Fun fact: Tile actually partners with device manufacturers to embed Tile into their products. For example, the Skullcandy Crusher Evo wireless headphones have Tile built-in.

https://www.skullcandy.com/crusher-evo-wireless-headphones

It's nice to see that it's possible to build a hardware device that can play songs from Spotify, but my ideal device would be something with a screen and browsing/ad-hoc music selection, more akin to the iPod nano than the iPod shuffle.

makho has a video on the power usage of the EZ Flash Omega DE versus some other flash carts.[1] He's also put together a spreadsheet with his results.[2] Essentially the EverDrive would result in a runtime about 90% of an original cart, with the EZ Flash Omega DE coming in at 80%. The original EZ Flash Omega would last about 70% of the time of an OEM game.

[1] https://youtu.be/HrGTzSrdCyA

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1baIDOZlUjERhOsmc...

I went down the rabbit hole of portable media players, even going so far as to write software to sync my Plex music library with an iPod. Unfortunately, shortly after that Spotify launched for Teslas in the US, so I switched to that full-time. I do still wish there was a small wifi and bluetooth enabled dedicated Spotify player in the vein of the square iPod nano. Ideally something that connected to my phone when available, and fell back to on-board storage when a data connection wasn't available.

I have one of these M5Paper devices, and it's quite nice! I quickly ran into issues drawing nice UIs, so my app actually runs server-side and sends back a PNG that the M5 simply renders to the screen. Is it the fastest thing in the world? Absolutely not, but it makes a great ambient display that's only refreshed every few minutes.

Yup, from the linked EFF article:

> Observers may learn that in general, members of a specific cohort are substantially likely to be a specific type of person. For example, a particular cohort may over-represent users who are young, female, and Black; another cohort, middle-aged Republican voters; a third, LGBTQ+ youth. This means every site you visit will have a good idea about what kind of person you are on first contact, without having to do the work of tracking you across the web.

Honestly I'm still surprised GitHub didn't adopt One Dark as their official dark syntax theme considering they originally created it.

I think it's RAM, not CPU. My DS418 has 2GB of RAM and an ARM CPU and supports BTRFS.

If you stretch the definition of "personal computers", Apple actually has about 45% of the market in the US. Microsoft only has 30%.[1]

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states...

> it's that there is no option on the market for a non-homebrand TV that is fully functional but doesn't show ads

Actually, Vizio tried this with their SmartCast TVs. They didn't have any built-in apps, and relied on Google Cast to work. The TVs shipped with an Android tablet so you didn't technically need a smartphone to use it.

They only lasted one year before reverting and putting apps on the TV.

I can almost guarantee that the issue is your Fire TV's input is set to a specific picture mode, whereas the built-in apps are using the color-inaccurate vivid mode.

I had a mini panic attack when I refreshed a waiting PR and was suddenly logged out. I take all the suggested precautions with my GitHub account, so while my mind did wander to the worst case, I figured it was just a weird cookie interaction on my machine.

If anyone at GitHub is reading this, it would have been nice to see an alert with this info on GitHub's status page, which is the first place I checked to see if it was a known issue.

I love this idea! One of the main use cases I would like to see would be sharing a direct link to a collection. It would be nice to be able to build a collection and link directly to just that collection. Additionally, having the ability to add a public description for each book in a collection would be really nice since you could use that to provide additional context.