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Yes, and I even have one. Doesn't change the fact that Linux is the least popular supported OS.

Which is still larger than the percentage of Linux users.

I absolutely understand your concern about battery life, but:

- A better screen would likely require more power, especially if the resolution was higher. OLED screens are also prone to burn-in, which can be a legitimate concern, especially with games that have a persistent hud.

- I think it's quite impressive we've managed to get the current battery life, considering how relatively small the battery is.

Overall, it's a great first generation product, which would likely not have been possible just a few years ago.

No way are smartphones more powerful in hardware, and streaming adds latency to controls, regardless of the quality of the network connection.

Not to mention space constraints for power supplies, and cooling the LEDs enough.

For all the benefits of LED lights, incandescent bulbs are infinitely simpler.

There is a problem with LED lamps: they need their own power supply to convert AC to DC. This is where a lot of the issues happen. Low quality filtering caps, or just circuit designs with a lot of ripple lead to pulsing. When the filtering cap fails, the bulb often does as well.

How do you actually find decent documentation for Lazarus though?

Lazarus looks so promising...but their documentation is so scattershot.

Your consistency is not worth it to the end user. It's just time wasted, bytes used on a limited data plan, and overall, generally not worth it.

Besides, few users will really notice the difference between Arial, San Francisco, or other system fonts.

Umm...font loading is blocking. Not in a bytes transferred way, but in terms of user experience. Text disappearing for a font to load is not a good experience.

Unless the website is an art piece, portfolio, or something similar, where the typographic design actually matters, I'd say the system fonts are a better choice.

This is especially relevant on devices with limited storage, like the Steam Deck.

Keeping dependencies with applications does have a lot of advantages, especially for applications that need incompatible versions of the same libraries. But, having every application with its own full set of dependencies seems quite wasteful.

Not in my experience, but I got the cheaper one, so of course it's terrible.

There's quite a difference between having a standard layout, and having a standard aesthetic design, though.

I certainly agree that there are many usability patterns that should be implemented in every website. That doesn't mean that every website has to look the same in terms of padding, color design, and content, though.

Funny how using native browser controls is more accessible than re-implementing the controls.

Or heaven forbid, browser-native controls. So many building blocks in a SPA are required because you are not using the browser's native functionality. Instead everything is re-implemented worse.

Unless it's Arc (at least right now)

Server-side rendering is so much simpler from platforms that were designed to do it.

As a user, I despise seeing a white screen with a spinner.

Client-side storage sucks, especially if you want to visit the same site from multiple devices. Without more code to sync this data, it's not great.

I'm a long time Firefox user, but some things are getting really irritating:

- The default toolbar layout looks really dumb with those spacers, especially when you enable the search bar

- Wizards in the first visible tab when you install the browser, or even a specific new browser version.

- Mozilla the organization in general

I really like how easy it is with Just to make it self-documenting.

There's some good things about Makefiles, yes, but there's also a lot of weird legacy functionality. Make was meant to create files and directories, and the .PHONY functionality seems to be a workaround added to make it usable as a general-purpose task runner.

I miss Art Deco. At least to me, it seems like a flexible style that looks good, while not being purely ornamental.

I would say the problem is more so that renewable energy sources just aren't as reliable as fossil fuels. The sun doesn't always shine, and the wind does not always blow.

No, if you don't have drive encryption enabled.

I think the appeal of a lot of these 'analogue' things is that they aren't as reliable as the newer replacements.

Much like a classic car hobby, the tinkering or swapping of items is a good part of the fun.

Keyboard and trackpad/mouse is a huge difference from only a touchscreen.

Why? Did it function poorly? I'm a bit sick of the idea that something has to be changed because it hasn't for a while.

So ruin macOS for the sake of inferior hardware.

I don't see the point of the change. It looks too much like iOS.

It's always Chrome first

As an old Mac user I loathe iOS.