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Thank you for a considerate, well-thought-out response.

I know people are downvoting me because they’re from the USA and they’re likely not ready for the truth.

They can choose to be ignorant. I can pretty much guarantee no woman I know would downvote that comment, it clearly comes from the place of male privilege that got us into this mess.

I chose to open up as a sexually assaulted woman, if they want to say my comment isn’t the plain-clothed truth, too bad for them.

They’ll see it eventually.

I completely agree it’s always been a problem - dating back to the Crusades and Witch-burnings..

I also sadly have to agree that it’s getting worse the more and more these extremist Christian views have become what the Right wing just..is, now.

>> We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's rights.

Sounds great - but would that matter?

Roe vs. Wade showed that laws made and ‘democratic’ decisions settled upon in the USA can be reversed with no warning, no voting, nothing but funding from evil people.

I fail to believe these Christian extremists wouldn’t repeat the process with the constitution.

After all, these are people who take ‘wives be submissive to your husbands’ as literal Gospel.[0]

Absolutely disgusting and appalling.

That verse and many, many more - shows to me that Women’s rights or gay rights can never even be important to these people, sadly. In fact, as long as we have rights; they’ll fight against it. They think they have to, or they’ll go to hell!

God told them to take away our rights.

I mean, Christianity is a patriarchy, by design. (‘God the Father’ and all of that…)

Outside of Catholicism, there isn’t any sort of Divine Feminine figure, and the Bible doesn’t speak much upon Women’s rights. (having been raised by a Baptist Minister I do actually know quite a hit about the Bible)

It will be a constant uphill battle against these people, sadly.

[0] Check out this crockpot doozy of bullshit from Ephesians 5:21:

“ Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Saviour.”

EDIT: I’m a victim of rape, and my opinions expressed are largely from that of a woman who has been sexually assaulted.

Before you downvote me because you might disagree, or you might live in the USA and not like that I’m speaking negatively about it, please stop to put yourself in the shoes of the women in the USA, especially those who are victims of sexual assault.

Please be part of the solution, not the problem.

POST: Looking from the outside in - America is, at best - a sad joke - and, at worst - absolutely appalling, horrific, and terrifying.

The response (rather the offensive as hell, disgusting, unbelievable lack of response) to the recent school shooting - followed by the abolition of basic human rights, less than a couple weeks later is a situation that has actually left me at a loss for words or understanding.

America has, finally - officially lost is right to call itself the ‘Land of the Free’.

The point where you’re arresting raped women for getting an abortion, yeah…pretty sure that’s just plain evil. No words.

It’s a terrifying situation, and I don’t see it getting any better anytime soon.

As a queer, transgender woman; I could not feel safer or more grateful to have made the choice to leave the USA and live here in Canada; where ‘freedom’ isn’t just a word shouted by homophobic, transphobic, gun-toting public as a reason to be hateful…but an honest-to-God way of life.

We all know that these awful people will be coming after gay marriage next.

I never thought I’d have to use the term ‘Christian extremists’, but what they’re doing to basic human rights is disturbing.

As a woman who considers herself a Christian - I’m pretty damn sure if God had a phone, he’d be placing a call to Biden to ask if they could take ‘In God we trust’ off the dollar bills.

It’s really sad how the USA can call Muslims terrorists, but ignore the terrorists within their borders. :(

Unfortunately, the art direction is literally borderline offensive to those who grew up with the game; and is just, subjectively, brutally ugly.

It’s difficult to fake a positive response when you take something with such charm and turn it into…whatever the hell we’re looking at here.

I dunno; minus the lack of true multitasking (which the iPhone, too; originally lacked), OG PalmOS got really close, especially for the time.

By the time we got the HandSpring with it's removable/exchangeable extensions like GPS + MP3's, or the Treo, with it's built-in phone - PalmOS always felt solid and was so amazing on battery life it blew the mind.

Weird take; I wonder what an alternate universe where the Jaguar didn’t rival the Saturn in terms of difficulty to develop for would look like.

I’m aware this wouldn’t have solved the other issues - such as the desperate need for a ‘Killer App’, and - of course - the big Sonic/Mario problem of the time, which was a major draw into SEGA or Nintendo’s camp.

The system - as is - is probably way more capable than what we were able to see from the software we got.

I read that a ton of Jaguar games actually abused the sound chip (I think this was it?) - which was a Z80, or something similarly simple to develop for, and thusly some of the software was literally using maybe 20% of its potential.

The previously-mentioned SEGA Saturn would often be similarly abused (though not nearly quite as bad as running most of your program code off the sound chip) where programmers would use only one of the core graphics chips or only of the SH2’s (or both…) which resulted, of course, in much; much poorer performance than the serious powerhouse the Saturn was during its lifetime.

Many PlayStation/Saturn ports of the same side by side make this difference brutally obvious. (The Saturn DOOM port is, sadly; a notorious example. It was Carmack’s decision not to run it on the 2 VDP’s - to which he later acknowledged was a mistake.)

The Saturn and Jaguar debacles really woke up the industry a lot to caring about developer needs - with documentation and follow through with developer support so poor that even at-the-time behemoth EA refused to support SEGA’s next console, the Dreamcast; in what would’ve been an unthinkable move 5 years before.

EDIT: after making some corrections, I realized on editing I pulled all this info from memory; which honestly makes me one hell of a geek, lol…

I was happy to read[0] that the OS was indeed named after the so-bad-it’s-good cult film ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’.

[0] http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html

Isn’t Zig…not really production-ready? I was under the impression it was still a bit of an experiment. I’m aware of people using Rust in production on large-scale systems, but not Zig.

>> same concept

Completely different concept.

That's personal preference vs. a potential health hazard.

Great example - masks. You may have had a personal preference not to wear a mask during the height of the pandemic, but that 'personal preference' puts others at a proven health hazard.

In this case, your 'personal preference' is irrelevant.

If second hand outdoor smoke really did have the affects you initially used to back up your point, then that would be a 'health hazard', and therefore important to the greater whole, and something to be considered taking legal action on.

Since you reduced your argument to 'I don't want to smell it', the underlying concept completely changes, and your statement is completely irrelevant.

That anyone even considered this is abhorrent and disturbing. That several individuals actually worked together on it is just beyond sickening.

Wow. Words fail me.

This is what we call a 'tenuous' connection, rather than a direct connection. It is not a result of the intention behind the art, which is the message.

'Run the Jewels' is objectively political music. 'Pussy Riot' is political music.

The tunes on the LoFi girl channel are as apolitical as it can be. Lounge Jazz? Like...there are so, so many examples.

I seriously got a chuckle from your comment, though - made my day tbh. :)

What the hell is political about some random instrumental lofi track?

To claim no art can be apolitical indicates either your field of view of art is massively limited in scope or that you just haven’t experienced enough art.

The Zire series are cheap, coloured and powerful. :)

Simply watching ‘Dragon’s Den’ will reveal how ludicrously passionate people are about some of the worst ideas.

I don’t really agree with the article, though. If it’s not achieving the results you want, it doesn’t inherently mean it’s a bad idea.

The problem is that because they can't be upgraded, they are no longer 'perfectly good'.

I recently was donated a 2010 MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM, and a paltry 128GB SSD.

What the hell is anyone supposed to do with that?! If the RAM wasn't soldered to the board I could probably at least upgrade it to 8GB and someone could at least use it for email and Facebook.

So I don't really get your point.

My original point is that these laptops are not perfectly good anymore - but if I could pop that 2010 Air with 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, it could be useful for someone. A student, maybe. Boot it with Windows and you'd probably even be able to run a more recent OS.

Thank you so much for this in-depth explanation. I understood that MPEG-4 had something to do with DivX, but could never understand why 'regular' media players couldn't interpret the files. This explains it!

Depending the sensor or array of sensors, cameras arguably see more of the world 'how it is' than humans are capable of.

Night Vision, Heat Maps, LIDAR, and Telescopic lenses can capture more of the world 'as it is' than humans could ever hope to achieve. It's why we developed them! :)

Still frames of UE5 are certainly getting there. (Put it in motion, and that's a different story for sure...)

People who think AR/VR is a 'fad', won't last; etc - really miss out on the potential for simulation and work in legitimate scientific and research fields.

Screw games, I'm more interested in stuff like VR/AR software that's helping surgeons and mechanics. That's the real future to me.

DivX - wow, that brings back memories of torrenting movies in the mid-00’s.

It really was the only way to get a balance of decent video quality with a reasonable (usually 700MB or less, for CD-video purposes) file size.

My computer was too weak to really play back said DivX files at the time (‘02? ‘03?) - so I would burn them and play them through my Dreamcast with a TV tuner card attached to my computer tower. (I didn’t have a TV of my own, but I had a computer monitor!)

The only other alternatives I knew of at the time were QuickTime (which got big fast when it was longer) and AVI, which; AFAIK, didn’t even use compression and was thusly huge.

It’s not a wonder that DivX is gone now; but for a while, it was just insanely prevelant.

Goodbye to a plague on the web coding world.

We only wish you could’ve died sooner.

I produce music. Bluetooth is an instant no-go. Yes, at home I use a DAC with two headphone jacks. But on the go, I don’t want to have to carry a USB to headphone converter.

No amount of security or performance benefits can outweigh even the environmental/eWaste disaster alone that non-upgradable RAM chips/storage and lack of user replaceable batteries are responsible for.

Then there’s the cost thing. Have 8GB of RAM in your MacBook and want 16GB? Whoa, boy; that’ll cost you. That old computer’s pretty useless now, and we go right back to the eWaste problem.

Soldered RAM/storage/batteries are the epitome of greed in technology.

They prioritized the customer purchasing a whole new product over simply upgrading one component; creating a literal never-ending shit-stream of eWaste and products increasingly designed to stay properly functional for less time.

The law chases them; and instead of getting the message and smartening up; they find loopholes to get out of it.

There’s no excuse. It’s greed.

EDIT: More importantly - can we please stop making excuses for these greedy assholes, and start collectively working on change?

We need to start focusing on the planet, and this is a super easy start.

The commenter explained why. (they mentioned the iPhone specifically; this may be the case moreso on there, I don’t follow Android)

It’s because there is a metric shitton of software that goes into the camera app itself, and access to the camera’s hardware does absolutely nothing to enable these features.

IIRC there’s actually some sort of crazy ML shit behind Apple’s native camera app; I would be very curious to see what a raw photo from the same sensor would look like in comparison.

Having said that whatsoever validates the commenter’s point.

Why is this okay?

I wouldn’t download, e.g.; a video game that would ask for my contacts or location.

Why should I have to download and wait for the app to install before I know what permissions it’s asking for?

Furthermore - what’s the possible purpose of removing this information when it was already there?

There were and are a surprising number of people such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who studied and practiced an actual thing called ‘Magick’. I have yet to see any honest-to-God evidence of such a thing.

Just because whom you believe may be credible people might back something up doesn’t give it value. It’s value does.

Wow. I wanted to call you out for just being an asshole, but seriously - is this account just a bot? And who cares about karma on HN?

Hey, thanks so kindly for bringing that to my attention! I'll probably migrate my system to NextCloud. :)

>> IMHO, the problem started when we all jumped on Gmail, knowing that there was no support

Back when Gmail was invite-only, most people used Hotmail or Yahoo Mail, which would offer a base level of (I think) about 50-100MB of storage at the time. If you wanted more storage; you'd have to pay for your email service - an idea I don't think anyone born past 2000 has even heard of.

Gmail came along, and suddenly offers us 1 GB of free storage, for free. This was around a quarter the size of some people's hard drives at this point.

Of course we didn't care if there was no support!

Are you kidding? I don't think Hotmail had support, either - (maybe I'm wrong?) - even if you paid for it; but here Google was offering a substantial value for anyone using any other existing mainstream email service, immediately.

They even had STMP and IMAP support, meaning you could use whatever client you preferred. Back in the day most people used computer-side email clients and had local backups of emails anyway - so if one went missing from Google's side it wouldn't be so bad.

There's a reason Gmail is still one of Google's strongest and unusually longest-lasting product of Google's. There's less reason now - but my God, when it was introduced it was an honest-to-God mindfuck as to how they were offering such a large amount of space and features for nothing.

Can I take a moment to recommend 'OwnCloud'? ( https://owncloud.com )

I may be out of the loop, but my experience with it has been great. It's a (mostly?) open-source, self-hosted DropBox(ish) clone - with a great UI, web browser support as well as native MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS apps. (I figure there's probably some sort of Linux client as well? I'd have no idea.)

I'm shocked that Adult Swim isn't using something like this internally to work around this very issue. I'm sure they send copyrighted clips of shit to each other all the time for reference material. They've never run into this issue before? Even once?

Lesson learned - depend as little as possible on services you can extremely easy replicate on your own. When my free DropBox storage ran out years ago, I installed OwnCloud and have never even thought about cloud storage since. It 'just works'.