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I‘m assuming this is at least partly a client feature so every user has to add their own subscriptions to their Plex account or does this allow to share subscriptions through a server with multiple users? So so you could add your subscriptions to your server and anyone with access to that server will also be able to use your subscriptions?

The Transitions look nice but I feel like this will bloat code incredibly. Maybe it‘s meant only as an optimisation to be used sparingly but if I would always have to also start a transition when I do some conditional rendering it will generate a lot of overhead code. Or am I wrong?

Do transitions help with that? As I understood it, the batching changes would solve that problem and not necessarily the transitions.

Doesn‘t Preact do that? (in regards to the Synthetic Event System)

I wonder how much of it is all the Skins and Cosmetics you have to download even if you never bought them as someone else might have it equipped.

> It’s exceedingly hard to be cancelled if you’re acting genuinely, kindly, and with empathy for the topic you’re discussing.

Sorry but I don't even undstand what that would mean. I can understand not being a jerk or insulting someone when voicing an opinion but to me this sounds like you want people to only voice opinions in a docile way that acknowledges all the other positions as just as valid. You can be genuine, kind and nuanced and have a firm position I think. Not being a jerk is just half of the equation, the other half is if people are even receptive to discussion.

> Apps on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS can now control allowing or preventing web content from using the Fullscreen API.

Too bad Safari still does not offer this as a toggle on iPadOS. I really hate the fullscreen video players on my iPad. They are mostly unusable with touch. Maybe it can be controlled using an Extension?

The Netflix thing makes me so angry sometimes. They have the show, the title, description, episode titles and descriptions are all localized to my language of choice (English), but when I actually start watching I can only select French or Original Dub & French Sub.

Luckily not all crusts are as dangerous but I would be lying if I said I was never hurt by a Baguette.

I am Swiss German and living in Switzerland (German speaking part) and I had the weirdest issue for a couple of years: Swiss, the airline, always gave me french boarding passes. But all my settings were either set to English or German. The bizarre part was that if I booked for multiple people they would all get english ones except for me. Similar things sometimes happen for other services. Sometimes Switzerland means French for some services and all my settings on any level do not help.

Hey, I had the same issue and variations of it (french category titles, german content and english menus). Also Swiss German with English setup. I actually managed to solve it with some unintuitive language settings.

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Okay so the issue can be resolved as follows (Windows 10): Windows Settings -> Time & Language -> Language -> Preferred Languages -> Order it so that "English (United States)" is at the top

I previsouly had "English (Switzerland)" at the top. This order influences the "Apps & websites" setting at the top there.

With "English (Switzerland)" my section headings in the Store were French, e.g. "Films et TV" but with "English (United States)" at the top I get "Movies & TV". Of course the section headings, callouts, etc. otherwise are still a mixture of your MS Store region (German in my case) and the Windows display language (English in my case).

Why "English (Switzerland)" would result in French... I don't know.

I might be in the minority but my love with the 7-11 sandwiches and most bread in Japan was very brief. I like crusts that aren't soft and nearly all bread and sandwiches in Japan are very, very soft without much bite. Most of the bread-based food is also just way too sweet, even the savory things.

The 7-11 sandwich shown further down in the article is probably one of the worst ones you could get (IMHO).

(I'm European if that matters in this discussion, not from the USA)

Thanks a lot for answering in detail!

Do the Homeservers act as Signaling, STUN and TURN servers or are there additional components necessary? Will the SFU part in the future also be part of Synapse or will/are these things split?

I‘m only a participant, not one of the organizers but even then, the laptop was provided with the device by the company to be used together, I would assume that simply for support and data integrity reasons they are not interested in using a different PC.

I am currently participating in a study using tEAS (transcranial electrical and auditory stimulation) for tinnitus. Can‘t say much about if it works or not especially as the study was redesigned and will contain less treatment, so I‘m not too optimistic. (Background: 10y tinnitus without any known cause, was coping very will for the last 8y, had a terrible last 2y but I am starting to get over it again so in general I am hopeful about my future at least)

But as this is HN I wanted to share a technical detail: The device used for the stimulation is pretty new and, as all medical devices are, pricey. It is connected to a laptop through USB-C but not only for data, it‘s completely powered through it. Sounds neat, right. But what happens if either by accident or not knowing any better you unplug the cable? Then it dumps all the stored charge through the electrodes into whoever has them on their scalp at the moment. It‘s VERY uncomfortable and I am shocked (hahaha) that a device like this has such a failure mode and that this is even allowed.

For anyone asking "why", Panic has written a blogpost about it and talked about it on their podcast: https://panic.com/blog/the-story-of-playdate/

It wasn't always their goal to enter the console market, it started as an idea for a very special anniversary project and evolved into the playdate. It might be a pricy, boutique, indie gaming handheld for us but from what I've read more of a "fun" project and life experience for panic.

Yes

I don‘t use Vanced but something similar for iOS. I actually do pay for YT Premium but what the app also gives me is SponsorBlock, so thanks the other viewers flagging sections in videos, it will also skip baked-in ad slots. As I have YT Premium and assumed that the creators get paid for their baked-in spot according to their reach (channel size, engagement, etc) and not how many people don‘t skip that section of the video, I don‘t feel bad but frustrated that I have to go so far to simply watch videos without getting constantly bombarded with ads. If my assumption is wrong I would be grateful to get more info on how these baked-in ad spots are arranged.

And I stressed out about the label to make sure to interpret every question against us to include even the smallest things; when I could just have taken the easy route and maybe added the most obvious points or none at all…

To try out simple things I like to use https://runjs.app/

Nice, just last week I got my x200 out of the closet. Now I have to replace the CMOS battery and probably repaste the CPU to get it back into a somewhat working condition, it seems like my SSD died as well in the meantime. It's always been my "oh shit I need a linux laptop to fix my network" laptop, really handy :)

It would be sad to see the HoloLens project dying. I have used a HoloLens and developed something on it and as far as I can judge it's the only headset that really actually works and ist not just a huge pile of wishfull thinking of marketers. And I would say it works incredibly well. Sure, FoV and image quality are suboptimal but everythin else is just incredible. Nothing feels half-baked. The docs and tools are also stellar to work with, even for beginners.

I absolutely agree. But I assume that at least some of the complexity also comes from what JS can do so typing some things might inherently be complicated. But trying to type an arrow style react component with generics in it‘s props has been incredibly tough an I am absolutely sure I didn‘t do it correctly (tsx also getting in on the fun is another complexity making just figuring out how to even write certain things challenging).

I really, really like Anonymous Pro. In comparison JB Mono looks similar enough but a bit fatter, not a bad look :)

German or French would certainly help a lot but don't forget that the german speaking part of Switzerland does not speak high german (like germany) but their own accent (swiss german) which you would have to learn to understand first. Noone is expected to actually learn to speak it (if you're not born here) but if you want to integrate better it's a must to at least understand it.

I don't know how or why it has become 42, it just is. Mainly for medical professions it's even higher. We swiss have a bit of a strange relationship with work hours and holidays, when we had to vote on 6 weeks of holiday instead of 5 it was of course voted down... A lot of companies are still very old school so I don't have high hopes of getting any of the new experimental 6h workdays to try out here.

(As already said, no, you will have to choose your own insurance and pay for it) And you are required to have basic health insurance but can't get rejected if you have prior conditions. There is also a market for additonal insurances or higher tier ones (so you get your choice of doctor and single bed rooms in hospitals).

I don't think it's this easy. Especially not as simple as skin color. But I do admit that it is not a non-issue. Even caucasian germans can have a hard time here. I know enough germans that get xenophobic remarks here and there.

I'm Swiss and worked at a couple of software companies, mostly smaller in size.

1. Engineers are highly sought after. The companies I worked for always had a hard time getting local people (and capable ones at that) and are pretty much continously searching. I'm hearing the same from friends at other companies.

2. Pay is very good, if you go for some of the larger companies or into the financial industry even better. (For swiss people, maybe can't compete with ridiculous silicon valley salaries.) Raising a family is pretty expensive though for everyday things, at least the schools and universities are cheap (and good) ;)

3. From my experience flexible working arragnements and remote work was hard to come by and often only allowed for maybe 20% of your work. Since COVID this has of course changed and we are currently forced to work from home. I think this also changed the attituded of many workplaces (at least I hope so) but it's not been a given for a long time. I can't compare work culture as I have never experienced it anywhere else but as others have mentioned, 42h workweeks are standard with 5 weeks of holidays (depending on the canton you move to you might also have more or less public holidays in addition to that).

The big cities are of course always the most expensive ones to live in but Switzerland has very well built out public transport that is also mostly on time so getting into the cities to work while living outside of the city is mostly a non issue if you are willing to spend the time traveling.

If you care about the FAANG titans, we have Microsoft and MS R&D in Switzerland, Google has their largest Software Engineer campus outside the US in Zurich and AWS is just moving in.