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I think the Microsoft Store actually did not require the account, which is quite a unique feature across app stores. Whether that is actually relevant on an OS that now forces onli…

It is an article that doesn't care about facts, just feelings. It should have no place in any serious discussion.

Yes, quite a bit. Not so much as a replacement for trackpad/keyboard/mouse, but mostly to write down notes with a stylus, or do some quick sketches. I don't do that often enough to…

I actually quite like the UI of MS Office, but nevertheless I don't understand why so many competitors try to make clones. Say what you want, but MS has a huge head start here and …

Somehow, .NET jobs seem be tied to waterfall processes ("but we are still agile, because we release two times a year"), requirements in OneNote, and a 5 kg Windows laptop.

His text contains hardly any new insights about Germany, and I suspect that this was the real reason for the rejection.

I am also out of the loop here, how would namespaces have helped?

Newer Coworking places generally seem to have some Starbucks-vibes, but AFAIK they are not doing to well. Maybe the price of a coffee is exactly what people are willing to pay for …

The article implies that tabs, bookmarks, passwords can only be synchronised between Firefox installations and not with Zen or Libre (I assume this refers to LibreWolf?), but at le…

I much prefer installing it myself, with the required version for my project and at a known and common location.

Is this even true? I am strongly opposed to ads and tracking in my OS for other reasons, but surely the performance impact is barely measurable.

HN is social media. Messenger apps are almost certainly social media. GitHub or similar platforms might be social media. There might be some people out there without any social med…

> Omitting social media information could lead to “visa denial and ineligibility” for future visas, the embassy added. Honest question, how would they detect missing info? If they …

Internally. I feel like this word does belong into the headline. Other than that, I will never understand how employees don't move all of their communication far outside of their e…

Every article that criticizes some general UI thing, like the general state of current user interfaces, how everything was better 10/20/100 years ago, how the start menu or setting…

> Through a series of Executive Orders, President Trump has called on administrative agencies to unleash prosperity through deregulation and ensure that they are efficiently delive…

This just reads like the usual anti-intellectualism.

Base 32 does that for them, it excludes the lower case letters and I L O U.

Lego specifically lasts pretty long, I've got some of them at home that survived three generations of kids. But apart from that I do feel like there's way to much plastic in toys, …

In fairness, the article comes to the same conclusion.

At least enough grip on the market to get designated as a gatekeeper under the DMA by the EU [0]. [0] https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/13/bookingcom-gatekeep...

These things are already in development, with BeyondATC [0] using some combination of AI and classical "scripting", and SayIntentions [1] using LLMs (?) for everything. Also, both …

> And this is not just traditional industries, even 1 in 10 startups risk bankruptcy. [1] That seems incredibly low though, even 10 years ago (and not specific to Germany) only 1 i…

On the other hand, Recall doesn't even have a server side, right? Ignoring the SQLite access issue for a moment, I'll always prefer a local solution.