Wow! I didn't know this ad existed, but it pretty much nails it: "A dazzling display of common sense."
And thumbs haven't changed since then!
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That's true. However, it'd still be harder (or impossible) to reach every corner of the display with my thumb, which I think makes it tedious to use. I don't have a problem with that on my SE. If it were up to me, they'd just make the SE even smaller by removing the bezels.
Honestly, if I had to develop a Desktop app today and wanted it to be cross-platform, I’d probably use Electron. No need for hacky workarounds like in a web app to make it run on every major browser.
But I guess you could get a used iPad with the Apple Pencil or something similar.
I just discovered that it’s possible to switch to a light theme, which is much more readable. Still would’ve preferred a nice serif font, though.
That’s a pretty far-fetched allegation which does not contribute anything to the discussion, but instead makes it seem more black/white or rather good/bad.
A tempo limit on the German Autobahn wouldn’t have a big positive impact on the environment. I'd support a general CO2-emission tax (there‘s already a europe-wide emission tax for some industries [0]), but not as big and grand as Fridays for Future demands it - it'd make a lot of things much, much more expensive, and mostly low-income households would be affected, while the green upper middle class would just pay the premium.
However, like Greta Thunberg said: The fast and emotional exit from nuclear power for example in Germany was a wrong move. It could’ve been the best transition to renewable energies. Now, energy in Germany is crazy expensive, but thanks to coal they’re even further away from reaching the paris agreement.
It’s a good thing that Fridays for Future caused lots of discussions and that young people are getting active in politics. But scaremongering does not help. The whole thing smells like climate-populism.
Who says life will be over in 50 years?
Of course Germany's a leader in a lot of things. But Germans do have a tendency to be cautious and sceptical about innovations that would impose a change to their (everyday) life.
It‘s hard to say if you‘re far away from being able to afford things like that, and content with it. It‘d surely weaken the problems with relationships they mention at the end.
But in the end, how much does Germany really matter if China and the USA don't do their part?
Sometimes party programs sound just great. "More of this, more of that, less of the bad stuff". I want to be able to cut through the bullshit and make decisions based on my knowledge of the world. And I'm curious about it, anyways! That's why I read the news.
Everyone should read a prestigious newspaper. But especially educated people who hold higher positions with more responsibility, whose actions have a higher impact than those of the average citizen, should stay well-informed.
I love Spotmatics! Sadly, the ones I inherited have light leaks.
If you're not going to use the viewfinder, it'd probably be a lot easier to use something wider than 50mm. Besides the greater depth of field making zone-focusing a lot easier, there's literally "more room" for error in your (somewhat accidental) framing. Makes things easier. But I might be biased here, as 35mm is my favorite focal length on any camera!
It's very small, if not the smallest 35mm camera out there, which makes it inconspicuous. Also it only has zone-focusing, which means you have to guess how far your subject is away from you. You'd only use the viewfinder for framing and setting your exposure. However, since I also used the flash, the exposure was fixed anyways. I usually put a roll of Portra 400 in, which I pushed to 800. All that allowed me to stop down the lens quite a bit, so I knew that everything in around 1.5 to 15 meters distance would be in focus when I press the shutter. And I didn't worry about the framing, so I didn't use the viewfinder.
This gave me an instantaneous access to situations and pictures that otherwise would've been long gone after looking into the viewfinder and setting the focus and exposure. I didn't worry much about how I held the camera and just used my intuition. It really was a kind of liberating way to create images. So yeah, the camera does matter! Although I think I only paid around $100 for this one.
Those are a couple images I took in Paris that way:
* https://gereonrecht.com/photographs/images/paris/paris-2.jpg
* https://gereonrecht.com/photographs/images/paris/paris-3.jpg
* https://gereonrecht.com/photographs/images/paris/paris-4.jpg
And one I took in Cologne: https://gereonrecht.com/photographs/images/cologne-man-with-...
But the problem I have with it is that this is essentially the life advice you'd get from a good friend after the 3rd beer in the pub, yet it's on Mark's website where he presents it as dating advice in a way that makes it sound like it's the truth and everybody should do it. I would've wished for at least one sentence where he declares "Fuck Yes or No" his own thought experiment or approach to dating.
But I guess more cautious and less self confident writing doesn't make as much money.
Sorry :)
Also, I'm missing a golden thread in this post. It reads like a few half-baked thoughts to promote his company.
I do agree with his recap though.
He’s basically saying that being in the 99% of people (in his world) means that you suck, and you haven’t amounted to anything. Being in his 99% can be both very comfortable and challenging though. And you don’t have to be your own boss to be financially independent and travel the world. I’d even say that’s more likely if you aren’t your own boss.
Growing up in midst of the rise of smartphones, I just now realized how much time I spent staring at a screen, being distracted by the constant flow of information and the constant need to communicate. And I still am, although I am cutting back on phone usage and senseless browsing. I just made the decision to subscribe to a weekly printed newspaper instead of fanatically checking the news every day (or sometimes every hour).
Now I don't have any data on this, but I'm observing that people start noticing the downsides of digital things and their interfaces, and start going back to well-tried "analog" stuff. So many blog posts about when to turn your phone off, apps that let you plant trees for not being on your phone (https://www.forestapp.cc/en/), products like the bullet journal (https://bulletjournal.com/) and feature reduced "dumbphones", etc.
It seems to me that this hype of making everything digital, from blackboards and car interfaces to home automation systems and coffee machines, happened without ever paying any thoughts to the real world profits gained by this. A prime example: Teachers use maybe 10% of the functions on an "ActiveBoard" (digital blackboards you can "write" on), spend a lot of time trying to get basic functions to work or calibrating the pen, and their writing looks crooked. Chalk on a blackboard worked just fine before that, the "interface" is intuitive, and the writing (depending on the teacher) more readable, and it didn't cost a couple thousand € of taxpayer money. I'd argue that for the most part ActiveBoards resulted in a big productivity loss in schools.
And with "just works" I also mean the little things. Ubuntu also "just works", but in 17.10 for example they didn't ship the gnome indexer that allows you to search for files in the overview , so I had to manually install it. It's stuff like that which ruins a Distro for me. With Fedora, I never had such an experience.