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The technology was there all along, and it's ironic that we're discussing it on this website of all. Look up ViaWeb.

I feel like using Bash is a double-edged sword. Yes, it's available on every modern unix-like (notably absent from the base system in the *BSDs), but the language (being an sh desc…

The specs link directly to the Pebble Appstore, which showcases a bunch of really cool watchfaces that are... all for the square screen. I think it would be wonderful to land the u…

> But honestly I've had Macs that still work 15 years after I bought them [...]. 2002 PowerBook user checking in. Not great for "modern" work, CPU gets really hot compiling "simple…

It's been always kinda weird to me that BT spans four layers, from antennas to volume controls. You'd think all the vertical integration should make it reliable and interoperable, …

COW on fork has been a given for decades. You can't COW two different libraries, even if the libraries in question share the source code text.

Nintendo has done this exact thing with the GameBoy: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/11736 If you mess with the logo, the console locks up during boot. If you don't, you…

Voting with your money doesn't work in a world where all wealth is concentrated in oligopolies.

> [...] so you weren't able to change them yourself. This should be illegal. You're supposed to do what, stay on the roadside for 20h before an authorized repairman can reach you? …

You are an average person. A program you're using crashes. The only non-generic word you see in the crash message is "SQLite". You look it up, find SQLite, and you bother the devel…

What about local friends?

I agree and I do not agree. I still sometimes use a Thinkpad X230, and wait- a G4 PowerBook, and they are fine machines for many tasks. Yet even those have soldered CPUs, simply be…

> Partnerships could mean more than just fab capacity -- maybe even incentives to build an instruction translation layer so software built for Intel chips could run natively on App…

> needs an external app for fractional display scaling Huh? I go to Settings -> Displays -> Advanced -> Show resolutions as list -> Show all resolutions -> you can literally pick *…

Tried it for a while, it was death by a thousand papercuts. I wanted the Konsole theme to stay in sync with system light/dark theme. I ended up writing a pair of .desktop files and…

> soldered RAM Hold on a minute. It's not "soldered". It's integrated with the SoC . The benefit is memory latency and bandwidth. If you know Framework, their entire mission is to …

Anyone can recommend something viable for simple tasks? I don't need 32GB of VRAM, just a reliable machine for everyday tasks that's decent, lightweight, has a good battery. (I kno…

Yep, bad law, I'd also say bad intent. Apple is ahead of the curve[1]. You get a system-level popup asking you for consent to be tracked. Actual, not implied consent - only "yes" m…

We've had ad-hoc WiFi for about 3 decades, but that requires a level of device access that no gatekeeper will agree to anymore.

A physical switch is extra BoM / cost, and doesn't make sense in the context of a networked device. Just make it LAN-first / LAN-only. Any Internet-enabled features should happen o…

Agree. I don't think Gemini plugs any hole that Gopher could've left open. As it is, it's just a motherfuckingwebsite.com, except it's trying to take itself seriously.

Yep. Manufacturers / distributors should be held responsible. Aligning the incentives is half the battle.

OK so it's like Minecraft, but with a lot more combat. I can see the appeal. > The most effective anticheat tool really is game design. Yep, that's always been my idea, and why I b…

Yep. Everyone understands email, not everyone understands that email is federated, and yet everyone benefits from federation.

As an occasional enjoyer of OS X 10.5 on PowerPC, I can recommend... iTunes. It is actually really decent, as is most of Jobs-era stuff. I don't have anything to play FLAC or Vorbi…