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My experience is similar.

I want to add that when I left WhatsApp (~2y ago) I deleted my account. WhatsApp kept accepting messages on my behalf. People didn't know I wasn't getting their messages. I'm surprised I don't see this mentioned to the point I wonder if I did something wrong at the time.

In the end, I reopened a WhatsApp account recently because everyone is using WhatsApp in France and I couldn't stand breaking everyone's efforts to bring us together during lockdown.

Well, Lockwise is 100% open source, isn't it? I'm not sure there are tools for extracting the data easily, though. This may be your point and I'd agree on that.

But I've been using Lockwise for years (and the previous cloud tool from Firefox, Sync, IIRC) and it mostly does the job. Sometimes I'd like to edit the entries to a finer grain or add foreign passwords (the ones that don't relate to a webpage) but that's it. Extremely easy to get running and sync.

I'll just take the occasion to reference the works of W. Brian Arthur and Paul A. David on path dependence, increasing returns and lock-in where they model the situations where technological artifacts come to dominance, often not out of their intrinsic values but because of extrinsic factors. So, why is there no widely accepted language progress? Maybe because the situation is locked-in.

Would you share the plans you have in store to help them cope better with our society?

I sympathize to your comment... But at the same time I'm likely to be in the crowd of the unknowings. Could you suggest examples or a way to get an idea how fast computers can be.

I've recently been amazed when cracking an old cryptanalysis puzzle at what Python can do in very little time. But I have no idea what a responsive OS feels like on a general standpoint. Should I try to compile Firefox on Windows 3.1? (Just kidding on this last one, obviously.)

I should also take advantage of the occasion to mention that I find it a pity that we don't use keyboard keys as 101 complementary buttons for the mouse/trackpad :D

It's like upvoting is not enough, here. I've witnessed that some users love their Macbooks' Touchbars, at the same time I'm surprised so few users recourse to these extremely low tech tricks. Just like the camera cover thing that's also trending on HN best: pen and paper and other thing just (almost) anyone can use can still benefit proper use of rocket tech :)

edit: Plus thanks for the link! I've not read the article but the pics are great up to the end! So much inventivity on how to upgrade bona fide keyboards with relatively low tech all through computer history!

"Let's devise a way to purposefully burn the LED in such a way that current can go through." We have to keep in mind that not everything has to be by accident :) I have no idea how likely it is to be possible, though, you've got a point.

Yes, I think the parent is a /metajoke/ as you call it :) However, there are 3 threads around that miss the original author is poking fun there. I'd like to stress the structure of these 3 paragraphs:

  The first is that, [serious things with a reference] they think of the weather and fail to take account of other things, such as the fact that California is full of tedious hippies.
  The second, [serious things with a reference] [after a breakup] we’ll decide we never liked the person anyway.
  The third [serious things with a reference]. In other words, last night’s party was never as good as you think it was.

Given my HN karma, I won't dare end this comment with an attempt at being humorous. It would be akin to a HN suicide.

There's still quite a range of "dumb" phones available. A concern of mine is always: can I sync it to my computer. As far as my research went, you don't get that, at least with entry level phones from Nokia (105/106). That's especially annoying as it wouldn't require much effort.

On a pretty different note, I'm surprised nobody ever mentioned Punkt phones [1,2] on HN. From a design standpoint, also taking durability into account, it looks as if they're worth a try. They're outrageously expensive but I still like the fact they've been built at all.

1. https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp01-mobile-phone/ 2. https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/

My beloved E6 had its flaws. It was a pain to sync, the syncs were not serviceable, but at least it was syncing to my computer, not to the cloud. On this one, Symbian Anna felt better than Symbian Belle and it would have been a pain to revert.

That said, it was small, smaller than an iPhone SE. And it had a hardware keyboard. I'm not against fancy apps and stuff on my phone but, besides calling reliability, the first thing I want is to be able to type small things.

I must confess I was unhappy that it even had a touchscreen: a nightmare when it was raining. I guess I just loved the form factor and its promises.

I'm thinking of making this an ode. The E6 ballad. Sorry for that long little-informative comment...

Even though it's sort of an aside, I'm glad someone mentions Psion. I'd love to check whether their keyboards are on par with the legend. I wonder how many others relate, at the global scale :)

Why can't we just have two address bars? One for general "end" user that's optimized to help them against phishing and all, another one that's just the bare plain old URL? The toolbars are customizable, why not just add this option?

This is a duplicate from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042207 The top comment there has many interesting links to other monuments that have been similarly captured.

I'm surprised this doesn't get up-voted. The tool automates very nicely my shell command writing process: pipe one step at a time and check the incremental results by using head to get a sample. Looks cool to me!

I actually thought it was sort of a pun playing with the fact it could be understood as Early Bird or Early Board. And that sounds pretty neat to my non native English :D

I was about to ask about dmoz.org. But apparently it's dead. We could probably do something with bookmark sharing à la Delicious. Good dead things for a better future.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Emscripten. Unfortunately I have no experience with it but I get that you could write a native app and also get it to work in browser with this. I also get there could be a performance penalty but hey... There's also a native app! It feels like we could reverse steam and get 1st class native apps again.

The first thing that comes to my mind is: Are you joking? But I wonder to myself: what does he call blurry fonts. Anti-aliased fonts, of course. But I've never seen them as blurry and I guess most other people don't, otherwise we'd not like them better. Don't you think there could be a sight specificity? Do you have extremely sharp eyesight?

Please, let's bring back sharewares instead of this mess. Unplausible, I guess. Impossible, I'll hear. Whatever.

If you'll pardon a naive question: would that be the end of hackintoshes?

I've also seen DDG improve over the years but there are still cases where I can't find some obvious things I'm looking for. Unfortunately I can't provide an example. Sorry.

In that case I fallback to Google which is usually helpful even though I have the feeling that it's getting less good.

In the end, my default search engine is becoming Wikipedia... (Mostly kidding, of course, even though I rely to Wikipedia for an increasing number of searches.)

Thank you for the link, the mapping of sub-topics looks interesting and promising. Reminds me of HotBot circa 1995.

Not a proper BSOD but there's an evocation. Have you tried "crazy" in the Terminal? You'll go for a 3 min ride of music with funky animation starting with a BSOD sprite. (It's probably the same as Start > Programs > crazy but as much as I liked it, I won't run it twice.)

Given how hard it can be for me to focus when the web is just one click away, these dedicated tools are such a boon. Plus the hacker touch of these programming languages has something lovely.

(I don't get what's so funny with the 38x3, though...)

There is likely some degree of humor in your message but I'm not sure. Why are you interested in lower power consumption? To save money on the electricity bill? Or for environmental reasons?

You mention you bought more expensive CPUs to get lower power consumption... Which points to the environmental reason. But you call others to buy AMD to get cheaper Intels, which would in turn rise the global power consumption.

I guess that last sentence is to be read as a joke but as a result I'm really confused by your comment :(

> Jackson said his success in the bathtub boat gave him > confidence in life. He founded [several big things and > did good in life].

Does facing danger have a mood/personality hardening effect? I find it somewhat inspiring and thought it deserved to be stressed out from what looks just like a funny article.

I can't find a reference to ELIZA even though I'm sure they (and maybe you) had this in mind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

MacOS Mail has the worst autocomplete feature I've ever seen when it comes to the "To:" field. When I have to manually type a new e-mail address, it always selects some other e-mail address. I've just tried again: return validates the wrong address, tab does the same, clicking elsewhere does the same... A complete nightmare!

The article "Letting Kids Light Matches and 9 other seemingly scary things that German parents do" [1] provides the point of view of an American mother on parenting and schooling in Germany. (I can't check the link from France, hope it works.) Otherwise, it's all about Sara Zaske's book "Achtung Baby", anyway [2].

1. http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/parenting/sc-fam-ge...

2. https://sarazaske.com/upcoming-book-achtung-baby/