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I've yet to see an amount of property crime that can get the cops to lift a finger. I've seen them ignore a low-six-figures-stolen string of after-hours break-ins at businesses, ca…

MagSafe’s great because nobody in your house will run off with your cable to charge their phone or tablet or Switch controller or whatever.

It’s great if you run max two “web apps” at a time. More, and it’s heading into “may be a problem” territory. I’ve seen a Gmail tab eat 2.5Gb of memory all on its own… just sitting…

What software do they need to compete with chromebooks? It has a browser (it could have several browsers, if you want). I personally prefer all their productivity software to Googl…

I’m still on an M1 Air for my personal laptop and probably will be for another couple years. It doesn’t feel “slow” and I feel no urge to start browsing newer models. My understand…

1) Not for "self-funded"—many plans are managed by big insurance companies, but funded by employers. No restrictions there. 2) Not for plans that are (IIRC) two years old or newer.…

Vertical tabs in file names is where it’s at.

There may be other problems but as someone who's somehow ended up integrating Git into a service twice in my career without even trying that hard to find a reason (it turns out it'…

A carrier operating at sea on the other side of the world is a ton more expensive than a carrier in port at home. The Ford in particular would probably be in port now if not for th…

I agree that the core problem is that we’re simply spending far more than necessary for the level of care we receive, but the side effects like being a white-collar makework jobs p…

Well, right, a separate problem is that some notable amount of Google's revenue comes from fooling people into thinking that ads are "natural" search results. To include an extorti…

Add to it that all our retirement accounts are invested in these companies, and it kinda looks indistinguishable from a really roundabout way to have a very-regressive redistributi…

This is the right idea. Under-appreciated is that voting in the federal general elections is the point at which you have the least effect on anything. Earlier (primaries) and more …

Back when they were good at being a web search, yes.

Yeah, Google stopped even trying to usefully index most of the web around ‘08 or ‘09 or so. Was super obvious when it happened and it’s been that way ever since. Your GitHub is up …

I agree with this, while also thinking it was basically physical-enough that the home button still served the same UI purpose about as well as before. But yes it was a step down fr…

Switzerland has a “public option”, price controls, and IIRC private insurers have to be non-profits (and possibly that designation means more in their system than the US, I dunno a…

The jacket just looks like a variant of “morning dress”. It’s the equivalent of a tuxedo for the daytime (wearing either at the wrong time of day used to be considered incorrect; s…

The physical home button is, no bullshit, one of the greatest pieces of UI ever. No, I am not kidding, I really think that. It’s crazy to me that they abandoned it, the gestures th…

Oh shit, I didn’t know they had the 12.9 in a lower spec config these days! That’ll be what I finally get when I replace my current old-ass pro. Never needed the power, just wanted…

Oh yeah one of those “memento mori” things for me is browsing shelves in flea markets with tons of 1890s-1930s popular fiction and appreciating how very many of the authors are now…

The Wizard of Oz (the one you know of) was a remake. The Thing (the one you know of—though the other had a longer title anyway) was a remake. The version of Invasion of the Body Sn…

The one thing Infuse gets me is support for one fairly major audio codec (I forget which one). Have to pay for a license, doubt the official client will ever have it. The UI is sli…

Weird, mine’s usually good for a month at least if it’s got a decent charge. I just picked mine up off a table in front of me and it hasn’t been plugged in for at least two weeks, …

It’s the vendors not supporting platform features. Usually, actively avoiding it because they think it’d dilute their brand or some shit. I solved this by just pirating everything …