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> ... VHS players rapidly became throw-away items – eventually nobody really cared if they only lasted a year or two. I don't know if I'm losing my marbles, but I don't ever recall…

> The saddest part is that both the Alexa and Apple walled gardens spent years constraining users from integrating with other ecosystems, but now they are all racing to give data t…

Got it!

> Cars unlike aircraft don’t need to move forward to maintain safety. They do if they're crossing railroad tracks.

> the exact same pitch would have been used with “big data” in the 2010s I'm surprised I don't see this mentioned more often. The tech industry feels like a "more obvious than usua…

> You can't have RAM sync between hosts. That's what FT is for, if the primary VM instance dies or becomes unresponsive, you failover to the mirror instance.

I guess I just don't share the sentiment that giving every child in a classroom unfettered access to content designed to distract them while a teacher is trying to teach the class …

I still don't understand why they were ever allowed in the first place. I went to public school in the 00s and if you got caught with your phone out in class, it would be confiscat…

> As of this moment 100% of comments have to do with “I guess other people have a lot of money”. Very weird thing to be concerned about. This has to be the most out of touch statem…

Can HN get rid of the light gray text on light background please? It is annoying and user-hostile. I shouldn't have to squint to read a comment just because I arrived here later th…

> Buy Brother printers. Brother is going down the same path, sadly. They started pushing their EZ-Print subscription in a software update a few months ago.

> didn't allow How would he even enforce this?

> STIR/SHAKEN is already required for VOIP providers I'm not convinced that STIR/SHAKEN even works properly. Recently, I migrated a DID from one VOIP provider to another. I set the…

That was my first thought, it sounds similar to what happened with Klarna[1] a few years ago. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27301219

> Text-only BIOS setup was the norm for a long time I've had a GUI BIOS setup on almost every PC I've owned since the first 486 I built back in 1993.

I don't see anything "kinda weird" about that.

> bro what's the big deal bro just write the paper exactly the way we want you to bro

> There is no physical or mental disability preventing people using modern technology. Judging by the amount of insufferable "Got it! Got it! Got it!" modals, pop ups and other bul…

SPO: Subsequent Public Offering

> do better Can we keep the kindergarten-teacher-scolding tier comments to reddit, please?

Heaven forbid someone should type out a comment to voice their disinterest about something.

> It's really odd seeing comments on HN upvoted like: Not really. The HN user base has been taken over by big-corporation/big-government shills for years now.

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