I wish they could come up with a more honest term for it than "vegan leather". Call it "upholstery vinyl" or something. Frustrating how there's no good standard quality grades for that stuff too. Like, the seats in my Prius don't wear the way my belt and my boots do, and they're all made of pleather vinyl.
Glass backs are the dumbest idea in the history of stupid.
The only way things like that could be defensible if they were easy to replace (bring back Moto-Z style magnetic backs!), but since phones are all held together with glue now, that's not a thing.
Except there isn't much of a Google stealing their thunder. Bing isn't better. DDG isn't better.
In general their mice are weirdly perverse in the way they fail. I've never seen one fail in any way besides the buttons, usually failing into double-clicking. Like it feels like they would last super-long if they just used better components for the buttons. The mousewheel has never failed on me, the radio has never failed on me, the main sensor has never failed on me, nor the laser... just the clicky buttons.
G Hub has gotten better in the past year, imho. It is now merely bad and no longer completely goddamned defective.
I have a simple opinion on paywall bypassers:
If it's possible to bypass the paywall, that means there's already a class of unauthenticated clients you're allowing to see it. I have no interest in complying with whatever infrastructure you use to implement this discrimination.
Implementing a true hard paywall is trivial software. The only reason bypassing is possible is because they're trying to have their cake and eat it too by allowing (eg) search engines to see it unauthenticated.
This feels like a workaround for a core problem: Media (particularly games) are no longer transferable goods.
What's needed is a proper legal standard WRT resale-ability and server support. Clear requirements on what a piece of software must be able to do without its private and impossible-to-acquire cloud server, and clear requirements on allowing transfers of ownership of non-recurring-subscription-based digital goods.
The PM should make more than the people who run crown corporations. 80 of Canadians are wrong.
You know those "X is now older than Y was when X came out"?
Like, in this case: "Pearl Jam Ten is now older than The White Album was when Pearl Jam Ten came out"
That happened in 2014.
I have a gwatch 4 and the hardware is fine. The flaw is Google's half-assed android fork WearOS, and then the layer of Samsung software that somehow makes it worse.
You could have infinite memory and processor in there and it wouldn't solve the jank.
I dunno, these extreme tall phones are a pain to type on. Keyboard usability seems to be defined by the squareness of the phone.
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I noticed that when I click my username menu-dropdown (the profile|settings|logout dropdown) on this Lemmy instance, because the menu is aligned to the left but the button is in the top-right-corner and I have a very short username, it widens the window because it extends outside of the normal right edge of the viewing area.
Here, let me show you what I mean:
note the overflowing dropdown box and horizontal scrollbar. That horizontal scrollbar only appears when the menu is visible.
I was going to log a bug in lemmy-ui, but then noticed that this doesn't happen on my other account on sh.itjust.works. Then I realized the difference: sh.itjust.works has a massive amount of wasteful padding on the sides, and over a maxwidth it just centres the whole site. Meanhwhile lemmy.ca uses the full width of my browser window.
First, I want to say: Thanks! Please use my screen to the fullest extent instead of wasting it on empty bars. If I wanted a narrow view, I'd shrink the browser window.
But I'm curious, is this customization something built into Lemmy or an unsupported tweak to the Lemmy code. That is, should I still log my bug on Github?
edit: confirmed can repro on narrower window on sh.itjust.works, logging bug to github.
Absolutely.
Bing Chat Assistant is better than Google, Bing search, or DDG today. If I search for "how do I do X in software Y" on a normal search, I get zillions of dead-link-filled MS pages, some interesting tangentially-related stackoverflow posts, and a bunch of old blogspam.
If I ask the robot, I often get "no, there's no supported way to do that officially" which is the clear clean answer I can't find elsewhere. Or sometimes it misunderstands the question and gives me a tangentially-related result, which is bad but is the same thing I get from Google via StackOverflow, except Bing is much more responsive to me saying "no, I didn't mean that way, I meant this" in which case I often get either the right answer or the "no" answer, which is still good and accurate! The problem is as you iterate, the conversation accumulates cruft and becomes more erratic and hallucinatory.
But right now, with the level of SEO that has ruined all major search engines (ironically partially caused by AI), Bing Chat is the best search on the market now imho. The cause of and solution to all of life's problems
So yeah, in terms of "things where AI has lived up to its potential"? It is winning the search war today. Everything else is something on the horizon in various distances (art, music, text generation, true general AI) but better search for information is here right now.