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Why take it on Spotify? YouTube Music pays even less and I've never heard anyone complain about that.

You might want to take some time off the internet, I can smell your liver from here.

The internet sucks, it always sucked, most people don't know how to do anything properly, trends ruin everything else. It's always going to suck, most things do. Time to take a chill pill and learn to live with it.

Real parallax is fine if done well. A subtle image parallax looks great on some websites. If you're talking about "move any random element at different speed without rhyme or reason," then yeah, I agree with you. We all hate it.

If you opened any "web design awards" website you'd know how terribly wrong you are.

People will animate the sh out of any element exclusively for you to go "wow". It does not go much deeper than that. Designers and developers spend weeks scrolling up and down completely disregarding content. It looks cool, nothing else matters.

I really don't understand the hate for Spotify. Been a paid member for a decade and Apple Music still sucks for me (particularly when internet is bad)

Always a catch.

I checked and you're mostly incorrect.

2018+ Macs/iPhones still receive Safari updates, with security updates going further back.

Chrome is Android 10+, which requires a device not older than 2017/2018 as well.

Chrome is Windows 10+, which I'd say requires 2015+ hardware.

The difference is not that large, how many devices older than 9 years do you use?

Italy, France and Spain have 200GB+ plans for 10€. Romania reportedly has unlimited for 4€ but I don't know which operator.

US plans just aren't comparable as they've been historically f'd with astronomical monthly payments.

> how about I go for the cruelty-free version.

They should just use that as a label: https://xkcd.com/641/

Would you like the cruel or cruelty-free patty?

Modding has been a thing for 20+ years though, people spend money for aesthetic purposes only.

The spec hasn't even reached stage 4 yet. Chrome only added support 58 days ago. Safari already added support in their alphas.

People keep calling this "a phone chip" when M1 was literally "a phone chip" to begin with, based on A14. It's entirely reasonable that in 4 generations of "phone chips", the A18 reaches the speed that M1 did during its "one-generation" rework.

It's just momentum. You buy windows because you have windows. You buy windows because there's not really much of a choice. You have windows because you're not going out of your ways to reconfigure hundreds of laptops at your company just for your employees to be less comfortable with Linux.

Now introduce a choice… and things might change.

With the vast majority of software nowadays living in the browser, your OS matters less and less, especially for a business that buys machines for its employees.

Yes but also this has never been an issue on any phones (i.e. never heard a complaint), and you take that to the toilet. By comparison a laptop camera has much less access to your private life.

People who are truly worried about cameras will cover it regardless of indicator.

I was never able to properly parse large man pages, I'm so happy that llms can now prepare half a usable command without spending an hour reading a time without a single usage example.

The sriracha sauces one you mentioned are effectively copies of the sauce made and popularized in the US by Huy Fong.

So it's not so much that "sriracha is like ketchup" but just that you don't know the origin of the sauce. It's like saying "we have a lot of cola products in France, what's so special about Coca Cola?"

Now, if you were Thai that would be different story, as "sriracha" means a completely different sauce (and place) in Thailand, and thus more "generic"

If you see penis everywhere that's on you, unfortunately.

To me this looks 100% like what you used to see on Tumblr. Just pure random art with a theme. The difference is that back then it used to be gifs.

I'm honestly suddenly having issues unlocking my iPhone 17 Pro in broad daylight. Feels like it doesn't work in the sun anymore. No hair, just eyeglasses.

Too much effort on my part and zero on theirs

This is just a fun blog post, no people who use AI to submit low-effort PRs will read this.

Do what I do:

1. Close PR

2. Block user if the PR is extremely low effort

The last such PR I received used ‘’ instead of '' to define strings. The entirety of CI failed. Straight to jail.

I think there's a huge "it depends" caveat. In the JS world I remember browserify, it did what it was meant to do and it was extendable. A really nice Unix-like minimal software.

The reality is that it was just a small piece in a larger ideal build chain. So for the past 10+ years, we've seen an explosion of more complete build tools that do everything.

Browserify now sits there "finished" and receiving bugfixes. Nobody uses it anymore, even if it popularized npm for the frontend.

It's the kids' social network, you're just old.

I get it, there's now definitely a hurdle between "I got a computing device" and "I can program on it". I don’t think it's a huge hurdle though, you can and will be able to upgrade or just buy a full computer when and if you encounter its limitations.

Your car can't compete in races, but it doesn't affect you because you're probably not interested in racing. You're more interested in comfort and price.

To a technical person, this is obvious. AI doesn't happen on the glasses, it doesn't happen on your crappy phone, it happens online. Live streaming, which is also a feature, by definition sends everything it captures to someone else's computer (ahem, the cloud).

Yesterday I saw a Instagram reel of a guy asking "what am I looking at" while between his girlfriend's legs. Congrats, some Indian guy saw her too.

The core piece of information that is missing or unclear is whether this collection happens also when not actively and knowingly sending data to the cloud.

The glasses let me record videos locally, can Facebook see any frames of them? This is the question that needs to be answered. Everything is else is nonsense like "omg Amazon hears what I tell Alexa"

IMHO technology (and price) is just not there yet. I can buy a phone and 2 tablets for less month than a foldable.

I'd love a 10 inch screen in my pocket but maybe in 2035. Nokia imagined this 20 years ago and we're barely there yet.

What are you talking about? Air literally always meant thin and light. Now they're treating it a premium product between normal and pro instead (see iPhone Air too)

I hate apple. Can't they just add a second bump on the other side? They're being a PITA with this wobble and it's been going on for like 15 years now (iPhone 7 forward)

I live in Asia and I see all students using iPads instead of laptops. The limitations of the OS are really not felt by the general public. Whatever you listed doesn't even make sense to them, they buy things based on what they can afford. Every iPad works the same to them.

By law third party engines are allowed since like 2024, geoblocked to the EU, but I haven't seen any news of browsers actually doing that. I think a number of other countries are starting to enforce that, like South Korea or Japan.