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Riippuu varmaan hieman mitä ajanhetkeä käsittelee mutta kyllähän Nokia kämmäsi siinäkin vaiheessa, kun lopulta taipui tekemään kosketusnäyttökapuloita. 5800 Xpressmusic taisi olla ensimmäinen kosketusnäyttöluuri ja voi ristus sentään miten onneton pökäle se oli. Kapula ylikuumeni ihan tavallista puhelua puhuessa ja tosiaan Nokian käyttämät kosketusnäytöt olivat aivan jäätävää ripulia siinä missä kilpailijat valitsivat parempia näyttöjä laitteisiinsa. Tuolloinhan tosiaan väiteltiin resistiivisen ja kapasitiivisen näytön eduista, ja suomalaiset ulisivat jostain puhelimen tökkimisestä pakkasessa hanskat kädessä, kun kapasitiivinen ruutu oli oikeastaan aivan kaikessa muussa huomattavan paljon parempi.

Tavallaan se ketteryys olisi ollut ihan riittävää mutta sisäisesti priorisoitiin vääriä asioita. Meegolla olisi voinut olla vielä mahdollisuudet kilpailla mutta se olisi vaatinut koko firman kattavaa linjausta ja panostusta eikä pientä R&D-puuhastelua jossain yksittäisen toimiston nurkassa ropellihattujen puhelinmalleilla. Eikä se N900:kaan mikään erityisen häävi kapula ollut vertaillessa vaikka saman aikakauden Androidiin. Kaveri osti N900:n samaan aikaan kun itse hankin HTC Desire Z:n, ja kyllähän tuo HTC pyyhki N900:lla lattiaa käytännössä kaikessa muussa kuin deb-pakettien asentelussa. Ei ehkä ihan prioriteetit olleet kohdillaan enää siinä vaiheessa.

Many people also seem to forget that not everyone has a dedicated room or otherwise extra space to work in. Sure, if you live alone it doesn't matter but with other people living in the same apartment/house and perhaps them also working remotely, you suddenly need extra space just for good working conditions. Working space has a cost, be it in an office building or at employees' homes. Also good ergonomics means one needs a good desk and a great office chair which are not cheap to buy. Sure, I wouldn't necessarily demand more pay just for WFH, but I would never ever ever take a lower compensation in exchange either.

That said, I love working remotely from home and wouldn't go back to office. It's just that even if you save time and money in commutes, there are other costs in place that wouldn't otherwise necessarily exist.

It's the same here in Finland. Only one provider (DNA) offers IPv6 for residential customers and others are "working on it" still.

No wonder! I've lately noticed that some non-AAA games run way better on Linux than Windows on my computer (5950X, RTX3090). For some reason Barotrauma seems to lag heavily while playing on Windows but runs buttersmooth on Linux. Valheim has similar effect as well.

Also I have already decided that Win10 is going to be the last Windows version on my machine ever. Gaming on Linux has gotten so damn good over the last few years that I see no reason upgrading my Windows installation anymore.

I had to go and check. 11+ years it seems - oh how the time flies. I was pretty much a lurker so I didn't bother with cleaning up my history. I also never used Digg - I guess I've grown up during the period that Digg was sinking and Reddit gained it's popularity.

Yet it's weird how easily I could replace Reddit with Lemmy after such time. Sure, there isn't an Apollo replacement on iOS but to be honest, I don't currently even want one. Most of the communities have started migrating here as well so I'm not missing anything relevant after all.

Is the PS5 controller limitation for playing single player games? With multiplayer games the PS4 controllers work just fine IIRC.

Proton's free tier is a step to right direction, and at least they don't run a huge advertisement company that could benefit from the free tier users' data. And if you pay for Proton Unlimited, you also get access to SimpleLogin's Premium tier which is nice. I just found this out when I finally bit the bullet and changed away from Gmail over to Proton. Now I don't have to expose my real email address to some random never-to-be-seen-again websites or campaigns if I don't want to.

If one has enough motivation, time and interest in purchasing their own domain, you can get one step forward with changing away from Gmail. Then you can pay something like 5€/month for Proton Mail Plus, use your own domain as your email address and if one day you find a better email provider, you could just change the MX records for that service and wouldn't have to go through all your accounts and update the new address to all the places.

I had pondered moving away from Gmail years and years ever since I found out Google doesn't have any real customer support and HN had stories where people had suddenly been locked out of their Google accounts because of some silly reason and couldn't get their accounts back without some inside connections. At one point most of my digital life was at the mercy of Google and losing access to my Gmail or Google Calendar or G Drive would have been a disaster. Reading all these web-DRM news reminded me that I should continue de-googlefying my life and finally made the change. Firefox has been my primary browser for years and I moved over to iPhone with my phone.

If you aren't native English speaker and therefore use a different keyboard layout than US, pretty much all features disappear on iOS. The keyboard is garbage compared to Android's native keyboard and for some reason even after 3 years of iPhone ownership I still write more typos on the iPhone than I ever did on Android phones.

I wish I could use some 3rd party keyboard, but because Jobs decided in the past that Apple's keyboard is the only thing users ever really need, I can't. There is a limited support for custom keyboards but in practice the user experience is garbage.

Eikös tämä tapahdu jo ihan luontaisesti ajan myötä? Sen sijaan, että blokataan kategorisesti kaikki ääntä aiheuttavat ajoneuvot päivästä X eteenpäin, odotettaisiinkin vain rauhassa ajoneuvojen sähköistymistä koska vuosiluvut ovat jo selvillä (kuten aloitteessakin mainitaan).

Ja sen lisäksi melurajat ovat jo olemassa. Eri asia onkin siinä, että kuka niitä valvoo ja kuinka tehokkaasti.

I have to say I haven't had an issue with Nvidia graphics on Linux in... ummm... 10 years I guess? I used to switch between Nvidia and AMD GPUs but for the last 7 years it's only been Nvidia in my computer. Now, I would love to try the latest AMD stuff but there's one critical problem:

AMD choosing to only provide open source drivers is absolutely great except for one thing: They lack the HDMI 2.1 support on Linux because HDMI Forum doesn't allow that to be open sourced for some reason. I also happen to use an LG C2 42" "monitor" on my work desk for the great real estate and I really need the HDMI 2.1 support. So now I'm stuck with Nvidia GPUs until either AMD can implement the HDMI 2.1 support for their Linux drivers or I feel like replacing the insanely expensive monitor for something equivalent or maybe better with a DisplayPort connectivity.

Thanks for the nightmares. I love it.

I started paying for YT Premium years ago after I got fed up with the ads. I value the content and I think the service is actually really good so why not pay for using it? Premium users also generate more income for creators so that's also a huge upside since I want the creators to thrive as well and keep on making good content on the platform. I think the basic ad-free subscription is only 4,99€ and Premium including YT Music is 9,99€ here in Finland so not bad at all compared to for example Netflix.

It's one thing to replace Reddit since it's basically just serving text content but replacing YouTube is not easy at all. Videos take huge amounts of space, bandwidth costs arms and legs after you gain any user base and then you also would have to be attractive to the content creators somehow. I think YT at it's current state is worth the subscription cost and given how the platform works it's also IMO completely reasonable to either force users to watch the ads or pay for ad-free subscription.