prmoustache

Europe is not necessarily the correct example as it artificially tweaks the market the same way USA do: with tariffs.

Look at latin america, asia, africa or oceania. Chinese cars everywhere, and not only electric, ICE market is also flooded with brands named after seemingly random letters like on those chinese electronics sold on amazon.

FWIW I never bought a computer for more than 300€/usd and I just bought a (used) thinkpad for my daughter for 200€ with a brand new battery.

I have no idea what dolbyvision is thus I am not sure it is worth paying it by surrendering my privacy. I seriously doubt it though.

Flash was bad on every platform. If it wasn't vattery, it was accessibility, if it wasn't accessibility it was security.

The only good thing about flash were the authoring tool but it only appealed to content (games, websites) producers, never the users.

We've reached the godwin point quite quickly.

Why do you need an llm bot for that? Every single distro has one or several autoupdate packaging tools that will update packages and reboot your vm automatically if needed.

Is it that hard to use a regular computer or video game console hooked to the TV?

I have been using a laptop for 2 decades (albeit with a beamer, not a TV), using display scaling to 150% for the desktop and a wireless keyboard+trackpad combo.

Whenever I am in a place where I want to temporarily put, say, music using youtube app on an hotel TV, I cringe at the terrible UX to search for content with a tv remote versus using a regular keyboard+trackpad. Especially entering text in a search field.

AFAI youtube hasn't yet desactivated rss feeds of youtube channels (for how long?) so once you follow channels new videos discovery is easy to do using third party tools. There is no API to query.

> Can you please briefly describe the features you think make it worth it?

If we are talking specifically about windows explorer, I think not freezing randomly for no reason once in a while would be considered a nice feature.

You can import/export a lot of data with just sound and video.

In my workplace a lot of people used to like firefox because it was the only browser on which the pac proxy setting was not enforced by group policy so it allowed them to have their corporate apps to actually work regardless of the network they were connected to.

They lost fierefox a few months ago due to new compamy policy and with it lost access to some apps when working from home. We know it is related to the proxy config but company is so big and processes are such a mess nobody knows who should be contacted and by which email alias or service now ticket.

That's the method of modern thieves. They advertize your stuff and only stole them when they find a potential buyer.

I've had friends finding photos of their own bicycle locked in the street advertized in second hand platforms.

I don't know, firefox typically do not comes with an updater on linux as it is updated by the package manager.

caveat: Amazon was just a simple online bookstore at the time. There was little relation to what amazon is now (no AWS for example) except it was already selling and shipping stuff and keeping an inventory like any other online store.

Probably because he knows it well and he rely on pledge and unveil capabilities of openbsd and it is well documented on how to use those in C.

You can do that in other languages but you need to use aditionnal dependencies (modules or bindings).

RHEL/Fedora SUSE/OpenSuse, ubuntu then?

> Are these still needed in 2026

Need has never been the correct word.

Why would you give an agent rights to overwrite system wide binaries?

It shouldn't even have access to the same binaries you are using but only those within the jail it is running in.

Not that I have issues downloading with ̶f̶i̶r̶e̶f̶o̶x̶ librewolf but what's wrong with just using curl?

My ex mother in law bonded with a crow. She had it spending time on her shoulder whenever she was spending time in her garden.

It was quite a sight, especially when she was wearing dark clothing.

A few centuries before people would have had her burned for being a witch.

Yours obviously, tailored to your exact needs and only those.

Which is why I find those "show hn" posts ridiculous in the days of vibe coding.

I have only seen canva used by kids for quick school predentations.

> people no longer code by hand its over.

Yes some still do.

I knew about tires prices and cable wear on non hydraulic handbrakes so I really only played with the scandinavian flick or the handbrake on snowy days.

Anyone with at least half a brain working understand that crime rate is the consequence of racism and far right influence.

When you struggle to get a job, your schools are overloaded, not well funded, you are forced to ghettoisation, get reminded every day you are not welcome or hated, get considered a criminal by default by ignorants like you, the odds of taking the wrong path becomes quickly much larger.

technically there is only one specie/race, so 100% are homo sapiens sapiens.

Except your mom just have to tell her AI agent to download and print that document.

She doesn't have to call you anymore.

> I could see its use - you could remotely activate them

What is the point of activating a washing machine remotely if you aren't there to put your laundry inside? What is the point of activating your coffee machine remotely if you are not here to drink it? Even when you have to fill water in the machine and grind coffee beans, and wait for the machine to preheat the water.it takes less than 3 minutes to prepare an espresso.

Had they done that from day 1 you woulf have a point but it sounds like extorsion to me given youtube got rid of most of its competition and established its casi monopolistic position being adfree.

Are they monetizing it? If not they are missing out!

This is really not about better or worse UX but preferences. Lazy loading means your client will be available from second 1 to open an emaik but would take ages every time you search for something. Building an index at first import allows almost instant search once it is complete.

I compared for instance evolution and outlook, evolution has always had much faster searches.

Having said that, having a bit of digital hygiene goes a long way.