Perfect usage pattern for laser printers. Inkjets would dry up doing nothing. Laserjets work for years even when mostly idling.

Depends. As long as he doesn’t rub it in my face by putting it into the browser, I don’t care much. So I understand people who are pissed off because crypto is being rubbed in your face with Brave. But since I can disable that (and disabling it syncs to my other devices), I am also fine with that.

In return I get a browser where I like the sync model, with integrated Tor private browsing mode, and which is based on Chromium (which has sadly still the best dev tools, IMO).

Even MS Edge has some nice features and I used it for a while (I very much like that you can specify in which browser profile you want to open external links in). But they started to put more and more of their Microsoft bullshit into it with each version trying to sell me on all the different fucked up services they offer. Saying “no” once or twice: no problem. Saying “no” every fucking time they update the browser: fuck off.

I asked Adobe. They took a while to answer, and then wanted to sell me some weird cloud subscription, but finally they showed me that John still looked the way he always did.

He’ll be remembered exactly as he was.

In this particular case it could also be sarcasm because they found it funny (or were annoyed by) that it was mentioned so often. A troll, basically.

Is their messenger still a 150 MB monster that gets updated twice a day?

I disagree. The UX design is a critical part of the design language of a game. The Settlers has a completely different setting than Assassins Creed or The Division. For The Division a “cold” and technical UI feels fitting, since this matches with the world it plays in. For Assassins Creed it’s a mixed bag, but since the back story in AC is also extremely futuristic and technical, it still fits. It would likely still be better if the UI was more aligned with the main-setting of the game than with the background-setting, IMO. And finally The Settlers doesn’t fit at all into this theme, yet the UI still looks like it.

Re-using the engine and the development tools is completely logical and a good thing. But the UX should be in line with the setting of the game, not the company that it was developed from. Because that breaks immersion.

Even the UIs of their games look similar, even though they are from different genres (Division looks similar to AC looks similar to Settlers). IMO that alone shows that they are not about making unique games, but about hammering their franchise into the heads of gamers. They don’t foster creativity, they try to apply the same formula to everything.

RAR5 is a nice format with a very good compressor. More efficient than 7z. However I believe 7z with lzma2 can be tuned for a better compression ratio when throwing a lot of RAM and CPU on the problem. But for day to day usage, I prefer the speed of RAR.

Oh that was you?

but no one wants to write a browser engine anymore

Then let me brighten your day a bit: https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/

In RDR2: the scene with the horse (you know which) also hits hard.

To The Moon.

I think the game is full of different emotional triggers. The one that got me was the revelation why the person in question actually wanted to the moon. All the mysteries in the game around weird behaviors and circumstances suddenly made sense and the implication of what the moon really meant to this person made me cry. That was so damn sad. It still makes me cry just thinking about it.

The browser engine implementing the client side of this is open source. Even the attester could be open source (because good crypto doesn’t need obscurity). Also the server side can be open source. It will still be a DRM and you still can’t do much about it, because you can’t force server/service operators to use the opensource software in a way you want. So if they want to enable WEI, they can do it. No matter if it’s proprietary or open source. Actually it’s even easier when it’s opensource.

So if more and more bots pass the test, this can be the result either of an increase in the bots’ Artificial Intelligence, or of an increase in humans’ Natural Stupidity.

Or it “simply” plays with human biases, which are very natural. Stuff like seeing faces in everything that somewhat resembles two eyes and a mouth (or sometimes just the eyes and a head like shape etc.) is pretty hard wired. We have similar biases in regards to language. If something reads like it was written by a human, we immediately sympathize with it. Which is also the reason these LLMs are so successful and cause so many people to fear our AI overlords are right around the corner. Simply because the language is good we go into “damn, that’s like a human”-mode.

I also switched from Android to iOS.

Regarding Siri: I find SiriKit lacks too many features in comparison to Google Assistant. Controling any navigation software aside from Apple Maps? No chance. Which, especially in the car, is a big bummer. Even the integration of media apps is worse. I could tell Google Assistant something like “play on Deezer” and it would delegate the search to deezer. I could then tell it to “play on Digitally Imported” and it would start the di.fm app and play the channel there. And so on. Siri, if I am lucky, uses the current default player and then complains “cannot find Digitally Imported on …” or, worse, it falls back to Apple Music for which I don’t even have a subscription.

So in short: in the car I find Siri worse than Google Assistant. But CarPlay in general works very well and smooth.

Two other points I prefer on iOS over Android:

• Pretty long update cycles. Finding Android phones that deliver (major!) updates over 6 or 7 years is quite a challenge. Not impossible, but it’s very hard.
• Full backup. Using iTunes to backup the phone includes everything and I can simply replay it back to the next phone (or to the same after a reset). It will just work. On Android that either requires you to root the phone first with different shady methods or hope that the vendor ships some backup/restore solution … but then you are also often in a vendor lock-in.

(And with the right tools I can even modify the backup, essentially accessing and changing “protected” file of apps, that would also require root on Android.)

I feel like I have to tinker a lot less with my iPhone than I had to with my Androids before that. And I was sick of that. I already tinker a lot on my notebooks and desktops, but my phone should please just work and leave me alone otherwise.

Now? Sure. Back then WhatsApp (before it was bought by Facebook) was replacing SMS nearly everywhere.

Huh, in my opinion people simply moved away, because the underlying messenger were used less and less. Once everyone ran around with smartphones using WhatsApp, fewer and fewer people cared about MSN, ICQ, etc.

Well for unit conversion I have a plugin for ulauncher. That is even quicker than having to alt+tab into the browser. So THAT particular problem isn’t one of mine :-)

I also considered Kagi a bit and I think it might work if I start to change my search behavior. I got too used to abusing search engines as a quicker way to open websites (I could use bookmarks for that) or for bangs (I could use the browser itself for that).

If I managed to untrain myself from this and start using tools for their core-purpose, the limits of Kagi might indeed be more than enough. But currently I am too lazy for such a deep change in my daily workflows.