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When I was in high school and not allowed to have a cell phone, I had to use email via Gmail in my PSP's web browser in order to message people. I relied on these addresses so heavily and many people gave me weird looks for "oh btw, I need to know which carrier you have so I can get the right email address"

I'm not going to say that this isn't disappointing or isn't a real problem, but to say Google sucks at making hardware is a bit unfair, as every device has design issues.

If this is the major hardware issue this generation, then they're getting _much_ better. I've suffered tons of hardware issues over the years with mobile devices (the worst probably being the iPhone 7 with failing batteries and broken radios) and reliability on my Pixel phones has been pretty darn good over the years. I started with the Pixel 5, then the Pixel 6, now the 8 Pro.

I definitely have one on my screen, but I really have to look for it. Doesn't really bother me much.

I just retired some drives out of my home array. 3TB WD Reds with 10.5 years of power on time, no logged errors. Ran them through a full block check and had no errors.

I've been working with getting games from 1995+ working on modern systems over the past two years, and honestly the biggest incompatibilities I've seen have been in the registry. Combined with some redirected filesystem calls, I really think you could get 98% of games working in a portable fashion.

The problem I have with some of these GoG releases is they just patch out buttons for things like networking, when features like local IPX multiplayer can still work with shims.

If you're talking about the team behind Forgotten Empires, it was the same team that was hired to do AoE2 HD

I don't understand why 5K @ 27" is so sought after. My partner uses a 4K 32" display currently and if I'm at a normal sitting distance, I couldn't tell the difference between it and a 5K Studio Display. The 32" is 137ppi which sounds low, but with your eyes at 25" away it's still "retina".

As I sit at my desk now looking at my 27" 1440p (108ppi) display at a distance of 23" I really cannot fathom having double the pixel density. Could it be better? Sure! I chose 144Hz over density, but double the amount of pixels? No way in hell

I'm not old, but things like this make me go "back in my day we had a CRT with one input, VGA, and it just worked". Obviously we don't have to worry too much about a monitor's supported modes anymore (though that wasn't a problem at the tail end of the CRT), but we're in a period where plugging in a monitor doesn't guarantee that it'll work.

Signal integrity and all that sure, but really it's just a freaking monitor.

Grandma shouldn't be buying a MacBook Pro.

How much of the savings has also been a result of users leaving the platform?

I think he does get it, though. Windows 11 is the most touch friendly version of the OS to date. While Windows tablets aren't as common as say, the iPad, they're inherently more useful.

I will say, they do need to get their heads out of their asses for MAUI.

Truly built by engineers

Can your 20 year old Mac even decode high definition H.264/5 videos?

Honestly I love Home Assistant and rely on it daily.

That being said, I'm not sure I'd trust it controlling a pressure cooker.

Throwing my hat in saying I agree with you. There are certainly aspects of Blazor that need to be improved, though. Sometimes Intellisense has an aneurism and syntax highlighting completely breaks. Debugging needs some TLC in instances where exceptions are thrown in the JS console instead of being caught by the VS debugger.

I have experienced _some_ performance problems, but only when I don't have enough resources for VS to gobble up. Should it be lighter? Absolutely. It's not like I can't get work done though.

It depends on the crowd. If you're just sampling the general population, yeah you're going to have problems. The best conversations on Twitter are done in more niche communities.

This is the "trust me bro" argument and while trends have shown that Apple supports stuff longer than most other manufacturers, there is no guarantee.

I think it was more of a rebranding, at least from Pixel 2 and onward. Nexus devices were often primarily designed by another manufacturer with Google oversight.

Looks like there's some discussion about the first one in the GitHub repo: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/15939

It's sitting on some old drive somewhere. I'll probably do some digging at some point and put it on archive.org, if only for preservation.

I cannot overstate how wonderful it is to have a proper terminal in Windows these days, along with everything that properly utilizes it like PowerShell 7 and OpenSSH available as a feature.

The summer workshops for HS students at DigiPen helped launch me into a programming career :)

No experience with Zero, but when I did the workshop in 2008 we used the .NET-based engine. I forget the name of it and the backup I have is in a pile of unlabeled burnt CDs.

Most games that _do_ use the registry use it as a data store that may or may not be accessed by external applications. It provides a very reliable pathing (at least at the time of the game's release) to access typed data.

For instance, most EA games from the early 2000's standardized the store of the CD key in ~HKLM:\SOFTWARE\<Game Name>\ergc. This would let one install the game to any drive and still have access to the CD key.

Games also use the registry as a way to point to where the game is installed. In the worst case scenario, it's used as a dumping ground for the game's preferences/settings and save states. With the shift to 64 bit and the introduction of WoW64 and most recently the shift to VirtualStores, I would rather nobody ever stores anything in the registry.

I'm currently working on a compatibility shim geared towards games that will redirect winapi filesystem and registry calls to a custom location. Hopefully it'll result in being able to make more portable installs of games that may require access to the registry.

Maybe I just glance over them now, but I don't see any ads in Windows at the moment? My start menu just has the applications I installed. Notifications are just from my apps. The most egregious thing I can think of is the news app (which cmon, just unpin it from the taskbar) and how search will look up web results.

tbf, this naming scheme is much more meaningful if you actually need this version of the product

Of course. Ideally we'd be able to have all appliances be polarizing agnostic and write that into any standards, and then be able to enforce those standards.

Clarifying what you mean, all acronyms are pronounceable, otherwise they're just a sparkling initialism.

I know type L is not great because it's not polarized, but I think it's the best looking socket out of any of the ones listed.

This is certainly alleviated a bit on Android by having most of the core apps updatable separate from the OS itself. I know people who are running 5+ year old Android devices that are only just starting to think about upgrading.

I feel like the implementation of this was needlessly complex. Instead of running all that CAT6, why not use some ESP32's and throw up a few AP's? You could also wire up multiple rooms to one MCU to cut down the amount of devices needed.

Hell, if you wanted to do a prebuilt solution, ESPHome is almost perfect for being able to quickly spin up an ESP32 with button inputs (and debouncing) and control of some relays. Pipe the communication over MQTT and handle the messaging using some server software.