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The aspect ratio on the RD280UA looks great but I wish they offered a version with a PPI similar to that of the 27" 5k Studio Display.

This is ultimately the endpoint of all Chromium-based browsers. Even the most stalwart will throw in the towel on MV2 support sooner or later, because the effort required to mainta…

The sense of urgency is strange and feels extremely forced. There’s no way this is all so important that all other concerns automatically go out the window so projects can complete…

As a user I don’t like installer packages as much because without special utilities, they’re opaque and it’s hard to tell what they’ll do. Of course copied binaries can cause plent…

It makes more sense if one thinks of the disk image files as digital analogues to thumb drives, optical discs, etc. In the Classic Mac OS days a decent chunk of software (especiall…

Looks great, but at this point I’m too used to HHKB layout on custom MX/topre boards to go back to full time typical 65%/75% layouts. Standard Delete/Backspace position in particul…

No constant anxiety that you’re going to be serially priced out of your own home or that the landlord is going to decide they’re giving the apartment to their nephew or something i…

The menagerie of TLDs is somewhat a necessary evil in my view. Prior to them it was becoming nearly impossible to get a decent domain, with most of them already having been laid cl…

That’s part of the picture, but the US also has a considerable “my vehicle is an extension of myself” or “my vehicle is a major pillar of my identity” thing going on. That’s how we…

Probably correct, which is why date filters come in handy.

I’m inclined to agree, but not as much because the image was generated with AI but rather because it’s rare for such images to exhibit taste. They feel like the visual equivalent o…

That holds for major upgrades (e.g XP → Vista), but those didn’t used to just happen on their own. In the time frame my previous post was speaking of, one still had to buy major up…

It's not just super bespoke that SwiftUI can't do well, there's lots of little things that are standard in UIKit and AppKit) widgets that inexplicably never made their way over to …

I won't argue with that, but with how complex web browsers have become, holes are unavoidable regardless of the level of effort put forth to prevent them.

A big driver of automatic updates in the late 00s and early 10s were people who never updated their OS or browser and were getting compromised left and right. As I recall, one of t…

Mavericks played out similarly as far as I can recall. Earlier releases had issues but by the last minor update it was quite solid. 10.9 my personal “Snow Leopard”. It has most of …

One example of where I think imperative generally does better is UI that requires substantial setup or customization. In SwiftUI, that means endless chains of modifiers, and in Com…

Perhaps. Certainly source visibility makes life easier as a dev who has to live with these frameworks on a daily basis. That said, I think frameworks should strive to have a wide a…

I'm sure many will disagree, but I have doubts that pure declarative-reactive is the "right" shape for an all-purpose native UI framework. In my experience, Kotlin+Compose shares m…

I’m in favor of repurposing old machines, but for a lot of the use cases they serve would be more than adequately filled by those little mobile CPU mini-PCs and Mac Mini’s which ca…

Flash storage can’t sit on the shelf without bitrot as long as CD-R and DVD-R can, even though writable optical media itself isn’t the best for durability. CD-RW/DVD+RW on the othe…

I would be extremely surprised if it's insurmountable. It may turn out that this effect is triggered by environmental factors that are entirely controllable that we simply never ha…

Not just that, they restrict the WWAN slot to cell modem cards only. This really sucks because it’s just mPCI and could host a number of other things. I used the WWAN slot on an ol…

The problem I always had with barrel connectors is that they get loose, sometimes very quickly, and this experience has been near-universal. Even the more fancy barrel-with-center-…

I’m not sure that macOS changed as much as developer practices did. Dock icons bouncing are usually the result of the app opening a modal alert window. Those can’t foreground the h…