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I'm also excited about a non-x86 architecture on the desktop again. Monoculture is bad, and I find x86 to be especially ugly... As for switching... I'm increasingly unhappy with Mi…

To give a different perspective: I find Apple's move to ARM the most exciting thing to happen in desktop computers in many years. I'm typing this from a PC running Win10. Current p…

Nitpick: for the Amigas they used Motorola 68000 series CPUs.

Maybe you'd like to look into Jamulus: http://llcon.sourceforge.net/

Jamulus is nice: http://llcon.sourceforge.net/ Yes, there is latency over the internet, but IMO you can get used to it.

Maybe it was a mistake for the software industry to give up on the nice big colorful cardboard box with software inside it. Bought at a physical retail store, with CD-ROMs in it an…

To me, "telemetry" is a violation of boundaries. And I don't think it's necessary to provide legitimation scenarios for not wanting that. For decades I have used personal computers…

Many of the classic Japanese Hi-Fi makers are still around and make good non-smart amplifiers and speakers. Take at look at the offerings of e.g. Onkyo, Yamaha, Denon, TEAC, Sony, …

So Sonos devices need "activation" via some server on the internet? Why? If I just want to stream audio within my own home, why is internet even necessary? And what happens when So…

Another disadvantage of AirPods (and most other wireless headphones): they're terrible for the environment. Builtin batteries which will wear out, glued shut so no way to replace t…

> You're right, let's burn the library down because one book has a liable chapter in it. Jeez... You may want to re-read my comment. I have written no such thing, and it is not my …

Although efforts like internet archive are noble (and I find it occasionally useful), I'm not sure it's always so great that everything anyone does online will be permanently archi…

I agree that "straight C" is not the best choice anymore... but C++ isn't great either. It inherits most of C's weaknesses and for libraries, it makes it very difficult to use the …

You might want to read https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

And they figured this all out without so-called "telemetry" in Win 3.1. Isn't that amazing. Almost as if today's "telemetry is absolutely necessary for improving UX" mantra isn't a…

iOS already has a separate feature "offline dictation" which works on-device. I don't understand why that isn't used for Siri. Also about "recently"... back in the late 90s I had a…

It's interesting how they talk about "doing as much on device as possible"... but Siri's voice recognition still works by sending the Siri request audio to an Apple server and doin…

> Cut out time-consuming distractions Good idea. Time for me to close HN now. Seriously... I spend (waste?) way too much time here.

Does Fedora come with support for playing back common media formats these days? Last time I tried, it didn't even play MP3s, just showing some dialog box about how it can't play th…

Same here. I see all this marketing hype about 5G but I just don't know what I would do with it. Maybe I could some day get gigabit internet on my smartphone then... but what for? …

Cheap toys are generally worrying. Unrelated to Amazon specifically, but to get an idea, you can also take a look at this EU site listing some products which have been banned/recal…

Then how about Motorola, a US company in the same market segment, which also failed?

Oh wow, I remember playing Exile back then! Found it on some shareware CD-ROM in the 90s. Was a nice game... I should check out their newer games!

Yeah, you're right. I also wouldn't recommend to try just say "public domain" today for that reason.