Oh I get using your thumb to click/hold like it's a button. I was questioning the three-finger-drag but the other comment answered it, the gesture is "sticky" so you can reposition quickly when you hit the edge.
I don't have a MacBook but I looked up a video and this seems interesting. But how does it solve the problem of hitting the edge of the trackpad? If anything, it seems like it makes the problem worse because now you have three fingers on the trackpad so you will hit the edge quicker.
My company does that too, it's really annoying. They also sometimes send out mass emails for things like surveys but link to some third party service. I've even seen them put, in the email, things like "the link goes to a trusted third party and is perfectly safe". Why should I trust that if I'm already suspicious of the emails legitimately?
I guess I'm confused then. Is the expectation that you can just run any Windows app on an Xbox, unmodified? I would think you'd have to at least change the UI
I also took issue with the Xbox example, and I think it's a context issue. When I read it, I interpreted it as an API for new apps/games to use. In that case, they should be testing on an actual Xbox before shipping! And why would the app be trying to print in the first place if it's designed to run on an Xbox?
But I suspect the situation this is being designed for is existing PC apps being ported to an Xbox. OK, in that case I can see fudging the API since there might be obscure corners that the devs didn't think about that try to print. But I'd still say the devs should be testing on an Xbox and make an effort not to attempt to do things when it doesn't make sense for the platform.
In my school, my district had an elementary school, middle school, & high school. So yes if you live at the same address the whole time, you and your friends would all go through each school together.
Also, about the "regardless of where your friends go" part, I'd say most people meet their friends in school. I guess if they moved and had to change schools that would suck but I can't think of anyone that happened to personally (other than friends who moved far away, like to another state). And the school district is often a very key factor when people with kids are looking for housing.
I remember in elementary school having a class once where we went to the computer lab and learned about the Internet. I distinctly remember the teacher saying that links were always blue and underlined, and we even had a demo site with a grid of links and had to click the right one (some were different colors, some weren't underlined, etc). The funny thing is, I remember thinking at the time that clearly they didn't HAVE to be blue & underlined because otherwise how would the wrong links work on the page!
I'm not a Mac user but something like this would be nice for me. I'm visually impaired, and I have to be very close to the screen so I have my main monitor on an arm so it can float above my keyboard. Then I have a second screen (or laptop) on a desk next to me, but to see that I have to turn 90 degrees and lean in, which makes it awkward to use my keyboard/mouse. This is better with a laptop because it gives me a second keyboard/mouse for the second monitor, but I have to keep moving the cursor back and fourth. My solution so far has been to use Autohotkey to define some hotkeys that move my mouse to the center of my main display and the center of my secondary display, which works surprisingly well.
Although to be honest, I rarely use the second display. I mainly use it while screen sharing in a meeting so I can have notes and stuff up on my main display.
At one point I was using an old phone as an IP camera and I had it plugged in to a battery bank that was constantly charging. The battery bank died pretty quickly, I think within weeks. Then I just plugged the phone directly into power, and the phone battery died eventually too (it started bulging, glad I noticed before it got worse). So yeah, Li-ion batteries don't like constant 100% power.
Why would someone who just wants to access the data need to pay for AWS? And the rest can be avoided by using a library PC & open source software. Or more likely, are already things almost everyone has on hand anyway.
Reading this gave me an idea to extend this even further. What if the AI could look at your logbook history and suggest automations? For example, I have an automation that turns the lights on when it's dark based on a light sensor. It would be neat if AI could see "hey, you tend to manually turn on the lights when the light level is below some value, want to create an automation for that?"
Some update to Windows 11 recently made Notepad open your last tabs when opening it. This keeps throwing off my muscle memory because I'm so used to just launching notepad and pasting or typing immediately, but now that might mean typing into a random spot in some existing file. I'm guessing I can turn that off but I haven't bothered. Plus it's kinda nice to keep those random notes if I don't save them.
I'm pretty sure that's what caused my blindness. My dad has even told me that he remembers thinking at the time that 100% oxygen wasn't a good idea. I'm kind of lucky though that only one retina fully detached. They were able to save one eye, so I have some vision at least.
There's also the types that fold like a book with a second screen on the outside. So when folded, it's like a thick normal phone, but when unfolded it's like a small tablet. I've never quite understand the appeal of the flip-style foldable, seems like the only advantage is taking up less space in your pocket.
I guess I just don't understand why it makes Apple look bad here. My understanding is that Beeper reverse engineered their APIs and people expect Apple to just accept it? How is it much different from blocking a hacker who's poking around to find holes?
And to be clear, I use Android and I do think the whole iMessage situation is silly. I just don't get how anyone could see an unofficial iMessage client going any differently.
At my job it's a weird situation where it isn't really possible to even compile the code locally so we end up editing locally and then uploading the code to another system to compile it. Then we can remote into a hypervisor to spin up a VM with the code.
So in a way it's "local" because we have private environments to build & test the code (and don't need to go through a build system) but it is still a relatively slow code-compile-test loop.
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm visually impaired but don't tend to need a screen reader that often. But the times I do want/need to use one, I inevitably find things that are just awful. For fun, I tried turning on TalkBack on my phone and this demo site was completely inaccessible (TalkBack didn't pick up anything other than the archive.org controls). Maybe part of that is it being on archive.org, but I suspect it's due to the lack of any real HTML.
They are unfortunately raising it to $14/mo. But I'll keep paying because I can't stand the YouTube ads, and it comes with YouTube Music so I don't need to pay for Spotify or some other music service.
I've also heard the term alarm fatigue. Pretty sure I heard it in the context of cybersecurity where security admins will get complacent if there's too many false alarms and potentially miss legitimate attacks.
I used to use Notepad++ but eventually switched to Vim (specifically gvim on windows). I used vim for everything for a while before switching to vscode for code editing and vim for one-off file editing. It's really handy knowing how to use Vim proficiently since it has some really powerful features.