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Hah, that's a good point. When I think of it, the first Android skins, like HTC Sense (~3.0), were quite customizable. Every widget had a few stylistic variants, and I think you co…

> On a machine with good specs, this is perfectly fine. I think the VMs are fine on the type of machines most people would buy for Windows/macOS. Chromebooks go exceptionally low-s…

That's a good point. And it's a noble effort by the Google Design team. Unfortunately good will and good efforts are sometimes abused.

Well done to the team for good documentation and sneaking in many good UX lessons, too. For example: > Notifications should: Be about the user, not the product [..] Give users easy…

I don't entirely agree with other commenters saying it's uninspired. It is neutral, but many functional considerations go into making a UI framework, and neutrality serves an impor…

People say more Linux availability would make it mainstream. However, Chromebooks are one of the most available laptops. The software is 100% compatible with hardware, and in many …

You can buy a PC with Linux off the shelf in some countries. In practice, it's an open secret that the machines are for people who don't want to pay for a Windows license but will …

I think it's a 3D visualization of Earth with simulated clouds. You can ask an AI to generate a GIS layer to visualize an event. Then, you can talk to parts of the event in chat.

> Learning from copyrighted works to create new ones has never been protected by copyright The term "learning" (I presume from "machine learning") shoulders a lot of weight. If we …

All these fines are coming, but corporate lawyers stall as much as they can. Then, they appeal first-instance court decisions to stall some more. And they do get fined, 3-7 years d…

I’m sure some grifters won’t get their second Mercedes, but sites with no context and just ads disappearing would be a wonderful, almost dream-like outcome for the internet. It mig…

That’s understood. But is 250k euros an appropriate fine for the personally identifiable information that’s been collected and associated with behavioural metrics, political prefer…

250k euros for an association of 600+ advertising agencies (IAB) is an exceedingly cheap cost of doing business.

As I always say, you can’t outlaw being an asshole. But I am curious about what sort of assholery we will see next. Maybe all tracking will become “legitimate interest” (I’m kiddin…

Every two months, “Half-Life 3” flashed on the screen. The humans have invented Tyler McVicker.

It's missing a dash of contemplative philosophical anxiety for a proper Ted Chiang story. But close, indeed.

That's true for large urban areas like Oslo. However, the small tourist towns in Vestlandet, Norway, have some shuttle-sized hop-on-hop-off buses. Or at least had them when I last …

Many cities in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia have (or used to have) Marshrutki[0]. These mini-buses and passenger vans don't stop at bus stops but where they are flagged…

I was under the impression WiFi Calling was just regular phone service through WiFi. It seems to work that way for me, 2FA codes and all.

The dad’s photo in the end in SDR looks so much better on a typical desktop IPS panel (Windows 11). The HDR photo looks like the brightness is smushed in the most awful way. On an …

HDR is when you’re watching a dark film at night, looking at the subtle nuances between shades of dark and black in the shadows on the screen, making out the faint contours the fil…

Not everyone wants the cheapest, but lemons fail and collapse the expensive part of the market with superior goods. To borrow your example, it's as if Mercedes started giving every…

There are many behavioral economics ideas about smartphone choices. There are various psychological aspects, such as lifestyle, status, social and personal values, and political in…