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Apparently some font renderers are bugging out on this new font making some letters render in a way that looks misaligned, which is very taxing on the eyes.
Yeah, wrap the text to the viewport. It's what Opera does and it's perfect to me, as I have trouble reading small font sizes, so I got used to just zooming the heck out of text.
More importantly, you can't read long text in small copy by zooming in without having to scroll sideways in FF mobile. That's just such an obvious UX problem it's unfathomable how it hasn't been addressed yet. There's been an issue open on this problem for about 10 years already.
Maybe it's transliterated for a more Latin-like crowd where vowels have exactly one pronunciation, like in languages like Spanish, where reading the second columns as they'd naturally think to, would likely be 95% OK
This was actually the reason I didn't buy a Shield last month. Saw the news and noped right out. I've been having some sort of success with Emby and web browsers instead, it's not the prettiest UX but it works and I see no ads, which is great for my mental health.
All of them in this case did, with no families or major expenses to support, and not a weird scam or pyramid scheme, just standard contract development work where in two or three contractually secured months they'd make what they currently do in over a year. The reason is basically geographical, working for clients abroad is just ridiculously more profitable (think Venezuela).
The risk in this case is extremely low, I wasn't looking for referrals either (I'd offered to give it to them if there were any), just genuinely wanted my friends to earn more and work less.
I thought so as well, but then I started offering jobs to people I knew hated their jobs and also worked unpaid overtime constantly, with the smallest salaries. But for some reason, when offered a 6x salary freelancing, for less hours, with guidance, and the road paved as much as possible, everyone refuses.
Turns out there are people who take shitty jobs on purpose, out of a sense of... I don't know, fear, embarrassment, impostor syndrome, or a combination of them.
I've had that happen on Slack mobile so much I just don't trust it anymore. I always tell people (even if it seems counterintuitive) to email me when things are urgent because very rarely (or not, since I can't tell), it's decided not to show me critical messages.
I just want to chime in and say I absolutely love the README. It's awesome when open source projects are so detailed that I end up learning so much just from their descriptions.
Because you're wasting the company's time and money, making them spend resources on interviewing someone with no intention of actually joining the company. All in order to underhandedly advertise to them without their knowledge or consent.
Here's a survey[0] that says the following:
> In addition to users in Africa and Southeast Asia, one more world region where many cryptocurrency users are located is Latin America. Peru leads adoption with 16 percent of respondents, while Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and Chile all reached double digits.
If you follow local news, you see reports every day saying how growth is constant and spiking, this[1] Chilean headline reads "people who deal Bitcoin grow over 100% in a year" just to give a quick example. I suggest googling news for "<country> criptomonedas" and you'll see most of them will have news of the sort from the past year at the most reflecting on just how many people are getting into it. Google trends for "crypto" for every country in South America have also spiked recently.
I also have anecdata, which is worthless of course but it's there. Nearly everyone I've spoken with who saves here either already has some crypto or is learning about it in order to get started.
The crypto movement in South America is growing explicitly because people are increasingly not trusting their banks and government to protect their fiat. I've never heard of Zelle and not everyone has access to a clandestine US account, while anyone can buy open a crypto wallet and get some DAI.
It's basically the biggest reason I stick with Opera on Android. It handles text wrapping on zoom so well, that I can use old desktop Reddit on a really tight phone without issue.
I know what you mean. These headlines read less like titles and more like lyrics in a song ("He was a skater boy. She said see you later boy."). It feels a bit condescending, as if it was aiming at children. I'd much prefer a title with a "person with thing does action" style.
Wow, great timing. I was days away from buying a Shield, but I get irrationally mad when forced to see ads. I won't now, even if there's hacky workarounds.
If that's true, then I'll be forced to move many people's PCs to another OS after decades of Windows. I hope they reverse that decision, it's so hostile.
I can't believe how there's no buttons on devices anymore. This is a reminder on how much I miss them! I remember when I'd clip a really small iPod to my chest between layers of clothes and just move through songs by pressing it whenever. First and last time I felt cyborg-ish with technology.
Such a headline almost reads like a joke. "Is blood the key to a healthy brain?" would also read as funny. Are neurons? Lungs? DNA? I understand the article is insightful but the tragedy of click bait headlines strikes again.
How do you mean? Outside most major cities, ISPs tend to monopolize the playing field and there is great demand for cheaper or more personalized service. Having good customer relations would be a major differentiator, and it's not that hard.
Unless you meant obliteration by lobbying, lawsuits or something similar. There's little hope if your competition goes that route.
Damn, I'd been meaning to build exactly this for ages but never got around to it. It's always felt like a key missing piece, particularly after working with tools like Android's preview tab. Major kudos to the team!
This is death by a thousand cuts. Yet another small annoyance that can be easily dismissed or explained away as is happening in the comments, and we never realize the precise point where we have been stripped of any possible privacy or anonymity in the name of profit and ads.
A friend and I always develop small scripts to generate stuff that's really boilerplatey in Android, basically writing text to files with node.
I've also made my own autoclicker for grindy Android games that otherwise detect in-OS clickers by basically using batch and adb to click certain spots randomly in a while loop.
Also a few batch scripts for a musician friend who's 0% technical to separate mp3 songs into instrument tracks (to rehearse and have fun) with spleeter by just dragging the file into the .bat.
Oh and a bunch of mini scripts to pull and merge stuff from one git branch to another and push it all (like dev to staging) to trigger a CI flow.
Yeah I literally meant that I try it every three months or so, and it really does improve continually. As they say, I'm watching its career with great interest, at least until the time I'm using it and I don't find a frustrating bug where the easiest workaround is to go back to Emby.
I love Jellyfin and the fact it exists is amazing, but I try it every three months or so and it feels like while there's amazing progress, it's still on the last 20% of work left before it's entirely painless. The web player would just not load subtitles every other video, and there's no native player (yet!) for my family's TV. From what I've gathered from Github, all problems I encountered are being worked on (I even tried to fork it and fix a thing myself but failed miserably), so hopefully in a year or so it'll be the Emby killer.