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It's possible that he was driving with the open window or that the window in his truck wasn't blocking much UVA.

I switched from VLC to mpv. Mpv loads quicker and is more (CPU) efficient. Besides that, I like the minimalist UI.

I think it's worth it, but to get the most out of it, you'll need to customize it to your liking (tweaking the OSC, the keyboard shortcuts... you can do many things, but it requires some reading/searching).

Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187470

>the support for old hardware is honestly amazing

I disagree. As an example, Macs stuck on 11 (Big Sur) stopped getting updates in 2023.[1] That includes Macs released until ~2014-2015, which are still usable in terms of hardware.[2]

I wouldn't call that amazing at all.

[1]https://endoflife.date/macos

[2]https://support.apple.com/en-us/103260

>CrowdStrike runs on Linux as well. _This time_ they only crashed Windows devices, but there's no guarantee that switching to Linux would prevent any of it.

In fact there was a recent CrowdStrike-related crash in RHEL:

https://old.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1cluxzz/crowds...

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083

Relying on easy-install "security vendors" is the problem. It's one thing to run an antivirus on a general purpose PC that doesn't have a qualified human admin. But many of the computers affected here are single-purpose devices, which should operate with a different approach to security.

This kinda reminds me of a feature Windows (Phone) used to have, where it would share your Wi-Fi password with the device's contacts automatically. To opt-out you had to add _optout to the SSID name. https://www.theregister.com/2015/06/30/windows_10_wi_fi_sens...

It looks like this feature was removed eventually, but it's just one of those tasteless things that MS does every once in a while.

I, just like the blog author, disable remote images in emails. So I wouldn't get the "intended experience" anyway. Actually, does anyone besides Outlook users get the intended experience here?

Second, "reactions" are not part of the email culture or the standard email specs. It's unexpected and awkward.

So it's not being "anti-reaction" in general, it's being against some feature that only works in MS email apps, which then pops up in broken form elsewhere.

It's going to have a 5" screen, but quite thick at 15mm. A similar (but thinner) size phone is the Qin 3 Ultra.

The S22 is notorious for the poor battery life. The S23, for example, is pretty much the same size, faster, and the battery lasts significantly longer.

>Apple discontinued the iPhone mini because they weren't selling.

I've read somewhere that they sold several millions of them in the US alone. Is that not enough to make a profit?

But I think they could sell it with a slower CPU (cheaper) and it would still be fine. People who want a smaller phone probably have a computer at home.

>the upcoming Jelly Max

From a quick search it looks like it's gonna have a 5" screen and be 15mm thick.

Frankly, I don't like almost anything about it. The dynamic loading/endless scrolling instead of pages, the silly navigation bar, the "x time later" instead of the exact date and time, the narrow post width...

I get "dumbed-down, mobile first" vibes from the UI, kinda like Twitter, which is the last thing I want for a forum with thoughtful discussions. And it's also more bloated/slower than classic forums (https://danluu.com/slow-device/).

I think the best forum software right now is XenForo. But even phpBB and many similar free alternatives (MyBB, SMF,...) are better than Discourse. Those can also be heavily customized (might be true for Discourse too, but I doubt it would improve it much).

To me an old fashioned forum would be something like phpBB. Discourse-style forums are relatively new and IMHO much worse in terms of UI. I really don't get the appeal.

>I feel like iPhones and iPads receive updates for what seems like an industry-leading amount of time.

If we're talking about OSs alone, Windows wins. MacOS/iOS second. Android dead last on average (but it's much better now on some new phones).

You can easily run Windows on a PC from 2010 (at least on a desktop PC with a good CPU), getting updates well into the 2030s...

>an "ad" for iCloud appears in the Settings dialog hierarchy where iCloud settings would normally be. Also, they are really subtle and hard to notice, tastefully integrated with the OS/color scheme.

Okay. But can they be permanently disabled?

Windows' OneDrive ads can be disabled, FWIW. There's a switch for almost everything in Windows (which doesn't excuse the shitty defaults, but still).

>It’s hard to say that Chappell Roan is particularly derivative of anything

I've never heard of her, but the first search result I got is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKqOmSkGgM

It seems very derivative to me.

And FWIW I think there's plenty of high quality and original/creative music out there nowadays. But the 'top 40' category does seem quite stale and boring (judging by the music I hear in shopping malls/bars...).

Also, Signal for Windows installs in a user writable location (C:\Users\...). Which means that user-level malware can modify or replace its binaries.

Yes, that could work (it would need to be done for each fan individually, because of manufacturing variation). But it's still not guaranteed that the fan will keep working the same way in the future, after some use/deterioration or in untested conditions.

Some restaurants have been experimenting with eliminating or reducing tipping.[1] But I agree that it's a difficult task for the "free market" to solve at scale.

[1] https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/american-restaurants-do... https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/tipless...

Because the RPM of a fan is not a 100% reliable indicator of its loudness. Sometimes a lower speed can even be louder than a higher one, because of certain resonances...

>People feel good about themselves when they leave extra, deriving a sense of generosity.

Interesting. I never feel good about tipping. If I tip I feel bad, because I caved in to the pressure. If I don't tip I feel bad, because the staff will wrongly think I didn't like them or their performance. Then there's the question of how much % is right... What an unpleasant social convention. Just give me higher prices on the menu.

If you value privacy, you should disable referers by default. Only enable them if you really have to (there are extensions for that).

Yes. Which is another reason to disable referers in the browser. (There are extensions to toggle them on/off quickly, in the rare event that a website doesn't work properly.)

>But then... It won't f*ing run Windows 11 because it doesn't have a TPM.

You can keep using Windows 10. The LTSC version will be supported until 2032. Even the regular versions will get (paid) updates probably until 2028.

Windows 10 LTSC IoT (same thing, really) is supported until 2032.

>Even youtube had rss feeds for channels.

It still does!

>From my understanding it's still the music labels that are not giving the artists their share.

If that is the case, the artists can easily sue the labels for violating the terms of the contract. But the fair share is just what the two signing parties agreed to.

>you get ads

What do you mean? If the browser blocks ads, they'll be blocked in the PWA too, won't they?

Yeah fair enough. The login screen should still provide good protection in a TPM-only scenario. (Although it had some vulnerabilities in the past: https://secret.club/2021/01/15/bitlocker-bypass.html)