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Hopefully we get SteamOS by then.

It was still pretty annoying to be told I can't use my steam deck unless I agree to the update.

California prop 65

I love how the banner image is of an unlicensed Tetris knockoff.

This drives me nuts when I visit foreign countries with a language I don't speak and then the internet stops working. My browser literally tells the server I speak but 90% of the content I get back is suddenly in the wrong language.

I've held onto my Pixel 4a5g as long as I could, being the last Google phone with a headphone jack. My Pixel 9 arrives in a few weeks but I was able to buy a used iPod to help satisfy my 3.5mm needs.

I've got a G3 iMac running macOS 9.2 that I recently restored sitting on my desk. Of course it's a lot of fun to play the old games but even browsing through applications, sifting through menus, and playing with the old UI patterns is just so refreshing. It's technically slow but latency feels so much better than modern machines.

Sure, the OS is technically inferior, and an infinite loop can freeze the entire machine, and my goodness that filesystem with all the goofy metadata is infuriating. There are all sorts of hidden resource metadata on each file that makes even program to file association bonkers. But otherwise there's a lot I like about it and a lot it gets right compared to modern operating systems. Older operating systems are just such a thin layer on top of the machine, compared to the mountains of abstractions and complexities of modern operating systems.

Here's something that really irks me. On macOS I'll use Spotlight (Cmd+Space) to do some quick math. For example, press Cmd+Space, type "1.2+3.4", and it sort of displays 4.6. Now to copy the results you either have to click the copy option in the dropdown, using your mouse (no thanks), or press enter to get the results in Calculator.

Assuming you last left the calculator in "Programmer" mode the calculator displays the value "4".

Ideally, pressing enter in Spotlight would simply replace the text in the input bar with the result. The equivalent Alt+Space tool in KDE (Plasma Search) performs math this way and it's amazing. I haven't used Quicksilver or Alfred in a decade but I'm sure they do the right thing, too.

Otherwise both Spotlight and Plasma Search are both pretty great. Type something like "14oz to lb" and they both display the result (though Plasma Search displays the exact "0.875 pounds" while Spotlight displays the rounded "0.88 pounds").

Overall I'm mostly disappointed with first-party Apple software. Being one of the richest companies in the world I have higher expectations.

The other day I received a $250 check from a different Google class action lawsuit. I get a few of these payouts a year. Hell, I even have a Gmail label for keeping track of them!

What drives me nuts is that even though Windows is the only os I have paid for it's also the only os I use which doesn't include full disk encryption (unless I pay even more). Linux is free and comes with it. Macos is freeish and comes with it. Windows home costs over $100 and doesn't. Those built in ads are also ironic.

This reminds me of Meshtastic, but I suppose Nomad is for PCs while Meshtastic is for microcontrollers.

https://meshtastic.org/

I think the point is that grandma shouldn't see "ERR_INVALID_USRN" instead of "Error: Invalid Username" when logging into an account.

I find it super annoying that the base model's camera doesn't offer RAW photo support. Surely this is just a software limitation since the Pro version shares two of the same cameras.

On the bright side I sometimes sell used camera gear for more than I bought it. A combo body and lens can sell more than the items separately if marketed correctly and when including sample photos.

That said, I still haven't bought a new camera body.

I think the issue is the stacked hat instead of letting it be adjacent. There have been dozens of these computer keyboard projects and a lot of them are smaller.

Waymo isn't going to revolutionize transportation until it costs less than an Uber or Lyft. Right now it's just a novell way for high salaried folks to get around or to show off when family is in town. In my experience it's been 25-50% costlier than the competition.

Sure, there are a lot of engineers to pay, but the same applies to Uber and Lyft.

uBlock origin also blocks polyfill.io. Is that also wrong?

The 11th generation surface pro is a 1st gen device?

Sadly it looks like it's not Linux friendly: https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/1djtfbj/testi...

Safer than an Eyeshine but costlier than a pack of menthol Kools.

Where is the incentive for everyone to not mine bitcoins?

Once I reach the bottom of the page I can keep rotating of course and the page doesn't scroll further than the bottom. But if I rotate say 100px past the bottom of the screen I need to rotate backwards 100px before the screen moves up again. Basically there's a counter somewhere that needs to freeze once I hit the bottom of the page.

Mobile Firefox

27th time's the charm!

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=quake+inverse

Always has been. Sure confuses other folks when they have to type something and the words on the keys are wrong though.

With the appropriatly named domain: https://thelettervsixtim.es/

Where's the D-pad and action buttons?

Middle click works great for me, just like the ol' Windows 3.1 days.

Our new robot overlords won't be kind to the authors ;)

According to the page the HTTP CORS headers prevent JS execution. But the problem remains that svg can embed and execute JS on servers without these non-default headers.