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I wish my experience was like that. But my MacBook Pro keyboard became inoperable within 1 year, and too many times did an OSX update break something in my setup.

Linux at least never breaks userspace. x86 sadly can not match arm on efficiency, so the MacBooks are king for thermals/battery life. Although I don't travel enough to need more than 1 work days battery life, which I easily get on a Linux Ryzen laptop. If I could run Linux on the MBP I might consider it - I find macOS is not ideal for an engineer.

Well in Germany specifically it's a legal issue (and some other EU countries), because there are labour market laws stipulating the maximum amount of time someone can work per week (48hrs).

Sure, you can fly under the radar if you're working on your own business/start-up by simply lying about the hours worked, but if you're doing paid work for another employer it will be obvious, and they would not be legally able to employ you if total working time goes above 48hrs/week.

> You cannot simply load third party shit on your website, without asking for consent

That's not how the GDPR works at all. If it were, there would be no content distribution networks operating in the EU. Linking to a third party image in document markup does not involve you transmitting anything.

I have a Pixel 4a and everything opens instantly, or at least the delay is imperceptible.

I'm sensitive to latency (and have a 360hz monitor for games), but phones have been fast enough for a long time - for at least everything I personally use a phone for.

Cool idea. Since you asked for feedback, I found it really hard to discern the different piece colours, especially when there are white pieces on dark squares and dark pieces on white squares.

The contrast ratio for these looks to be around 1.58:1, I had to really focus to pick out which is which.

Chrome can supposedly support 32779 characters in the address bar[0], and a legal chess game should not exceed more than ~5900 moves, due to the 50 move rule. That will be enough to encode any valid game if you don't need to support IE.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maxim...

Lichess opening explorer would probably be a fairly accurate indicator of how the cache hit ratios would develop:

https://lichess.org/analysis#explorer

I imagine it would look closer to the Lichess database, which differs quite drastically from the Masters database. For instance, with the masters e4 is met with c5 in 46% of games, but on lichess c5 only happens in 19% of games.

Yeah standard E-Bikes (without a registration/license plate) are limited to 25km/h here, even with the electronic assist the car is going faster.

> AI will also shape your opinions and your political views.

When will it do this exactly? Will we be watching AI generated movies and listening to AI generated music that is altering our politics? I don't see the avenues you see for AI to lie to me, perhaps someone who uses social media, or reads news websites, or opens spam emails might find themselves vulnerable - but I think you can live a good life without ever exposing yourself to or caring about this kind of nonsense.

I should point out I don't use Amazon, nor would I use any retailers website to inform myself about available products when I need to buy something.

Maybe I bought some wine I didn't like at the supermarket, but I don't believe there is any advertising for any of these wines.

When buying something, I wouldn't use some source or community that I'm not previously aware of. I understand that advertising must work, to be such a profitable industry, but I guess my brain just isn't wired that way. I find it very easy to never buy things that aren't necessities.

> that's when AI will hit you

Hit me and do what though? That's the bit that loses me on these hypotheticals. I can't think of any time I've bought something that wasn't researched or didn't sit in a checkout basket for at least a week. And this is maybe only a few times a year, most months I don't buy anything except groceries. I don't trust AI but I'm unconvinced about how successful it could be at manipulation.

People keep all phones for a really long time. I've never had a phone that I didn't use for 5 years, nor one that ever cost more than $350.

You don't necessarily need competition either. Switzerland's state owned telecoms provider provides 25gbit symmetrical fibre to practically all homes in all cities and it is very affordable.

> It's illegal to pirate games.

Well, there's a bunch of places where that's not true. Then it's a question of morality, although that usually gets unfairly asked of the individual but never asked of giant mega corporations.

Phone thieves will watch over peoples shoulders for them to input a passcode, which isn't that dissimilar to a lot of the replay/signal extension attacks.

A lot of damage can be done and things successfully owned without needing to hack or exploit the device (car/phone).

> No level of technology will stop this.

Except for you know, the technology of a physical car keys and an immobilizer. There's a reason it's the keyless entry start/stop button cars that are being targeted by thieves, it's simply so much easier.

The frustrating thing is that new cars are being produced that _only_ offer keyless entry, and so eventually the choice is taken away or you have to drive a very old car.

Maybe a nightcap isn't a good idea, but a glass of wine with dinner isn't even going to be detectable in your body by the time you go to sleep.

WebAuthn is an open standard and is available on all platforms and devices. There's not much reason to mention iOS, Apple's implementation of the standard is nothing unique.

Don't many phone providers sell locked/branded phones that can only be used with their physical sims? This locking down has always existed, long before smartphones, and it's the reason I only buy phones direct from manufacturers.

Right. The same company that said "You're holding it wrong" when there was a design defect causing calls to drop out. The same company that shipped a broken keyboard and refused to repair units until losing the ensuing court battle.

But sure, they just only have the users best interest at heart. It is confusing that you write it, when you understand full well that no rational person will believe it, I'm not even convinced you believe it.

> I haven't found a way to force sync the missing content so I'm stuck paying the $1/month plan.

And this is why they (and many companies) behave this way, there's no incentive to fix a problem that you will just pay them more money to fix. Fixing the bug means reduced revenue. Complaining about the problem sadly won't help, you can only stop using the app and stop buying their products.

Eh, Cherry switches are great. I had lubed Holy Pandas and sold them to switch back to MX browns. Genuinely a much better switch for mixed usage scenarios. I can't help but be suspicious when people are against Cherry switches, because often it is just Reddit cult/meme nonsense rather than from actual usage.

Honestly the Macbook keyboard for me is just as bad as every other laptop. Thinkpads or XPS are the exact same mediocre experience you get from the the MBP.

Even if I watch the ad nobody is making any money from it. I'm just saving their bandwidth. But even with the latest 'crackdown', I haven't seen a single advert or nag screen so I guess the crackdown isn't very effective.

I live in a 30kmph zone in Switzerland and it works fine. I'm not sure what the problem is.

It's a really common speed limit in Europe/UK and is suitable for residential city streets. On Geoguesser I have seen similar US streets that are 40mph which looks completely unsafe.

And if advertising doesn't influence you at all, would it still be stealing? I'm just saving them the bandwidth.

Well if they copy Twitch I suspect it will be circumvented very quickly. My adblock works just fine for Twitch, I do not see any adverts (unless I open using incognito).

> Note that money doesn't appear in the list of problems

> bad teachers

Perhaps if teaching offered higher salaries, you would get better teachers. Why would a talented teacher work in a US state school if they could instead get a job in the tech industry or work in a foreign private school?

Twitter has no effect on the real world. The only people who care about anything on Twitter are other Twitter users.

I've never understood why people convince themselves otherwise. Ask 100 people on the street if they have heard anything about [current twitter drama of the week], it will be 0 or close to it.

I haven't used OSX in a while, but in the past I created my own keymap using Ukelele. Would this not still be possible?

I guess a Fairphone 5 (which will also have 5 year OS, 8 year security updates) is the best chance of this.