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That'd be great but governments often don't make specs and source code available. Governments don't make things open. The amount of stuff councils and state governments gatekeep ab…

Plenty of things are addictive. I don't think this is one that should be intervened. I wish we had more personal responsibility today. America's meant to be the country of freedom,…

That's not done on an NPU though, even if it could be. That's all done on companies' servers and won't be changing.

Now y'all are just analysing the UX of YouTube and Chrome. The problem is that by agreeing to close the tab, you're agreeing to discard the comment. There's currently no way to bri…

Incredible. Purism has come a long way. It's amazing to have a truly open phone. A lot of people don't know how hard it is to mod an Android phone. You have to worry about drivers …

Why does the acquisition need to go through for Activision-Blizzard's titles to be on Xbox Game Pass?

But that is how licensing works for Steam games (that require it). I don't want invasive rootkits, locked down software, or resource consuming software. Steam is light compared to …

There's no migration path from Skype to Microsoft Teams (Personal). Microsoft hasn't picked one as far as I know. Microsoft similarly has a bunch of duplicate services and products…

Doesn't help that Epic Games has three instances of Chromium. Add that to Steam's and all of the games' instances and you've easily gotten at least 2 GB of duplicate instances of C…

I think it's because the apps have additional functionality and because the services push users to use the apps on their websites. Some of the additional functionality is artificia…

Another concerning web API is the Battery Status API. See demo[1]. Firefox and WebKit have not implemented it thankfully but Google refuses to remove it for some odd reason. How it…

Dopamine is chemical that makes you feel good. The algorithms are made to increase engagement. Some of the most engaging content is content that makes people angry or shocked. Look…

This could be because iFixit is trying to be more consumer facing so they can sell more of their repair products. A wild guess. More likely that they're getting paid by these manuf…

Source? "Teams for Life" aka Teams Personal is different to Teams (for Business).

And people don't even know about the issue mentioned in this post until after they've bought it. They don't know where the issue lies. They don't know what AptX is, let alone AptX …

While Android shows you which codec and even lets you pick, Android doesn't let you customise output and input devices so you can't avoid the low quality hands-free profile like yo…

Windows Ink? Do you mean Windows Ink Workspace or Windows Sketchpad? It was Windows Sketchpad that I really loved. After Microsoft axed it, they released Whiteboard. It felt very..…

With services you get a lot of lock-in/exclusives. Two examples are Discord and Netflix. I wouldn't say you have much of a choice if you want to join a popular place to chat or if …

Google's fight against Firefox isn't so visible on YouTube. I'd say it's mobile, Google Drive and their video calls. Google does a lot of A/B testing and I'm surprised someone on H…

And truth is, as long as you have exclusive content on a service, the quality of your app (and thus the satisfaction of your end users) doesn't matter all that much.

The McDonald's app. Pokemon Go.

I don't see why this article paints this as specific to teenagers. You can find social networks that use iMessage in various countries among tons of age groups. /nit

When I wrote that comment I had performance in mind.

Isn't Windows Defender one of the worst performing AVs?

But I'm pretty sure Samsung Buds (perhaps the first gen?) use some sort of standard battery.