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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For clarity, are you imagining imaginary unicorns or just regular non-imaginary unicorns?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Austrian Audio Hi-X25 are excellent open-back headphones available with or without Bluetooth. They punch above their weight for the price, sounding - to my ear, at least - as good as headphones double the price.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I find IKEA's ZigBee bulbs to be rock solid as well and they're significantly cheaper. And another +1 for Home Assistant with Adaptive Lighting here.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Does this guy live in The Backrooms or something? This layout is mental.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I was taught to use the Oxford comma by my parents, Ayn Rand and God. I had a strange upbringing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just sayin'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The fundamental difference between religion/spirituality and science/reason, as far as I'm concerned is this: religion demands that you accept something as an indisputable truth and that questioning it is not only discouraged but forbidden and will be met with an arbitrarily horrific punishment (eternal damnation, etc), with what the specific something is dependent on the teacher, their interpretations and their intentions. As a mental framework, I don't think it's healthy for either individuals or societies to unquestioningly accept - or be made to accept - that any ideas are defacto sacred.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

For your Steam Deck. And your Linux laptop. And your Windows desktop. And your next handheld, which might be an MSI Claw or Lenovo Legion. And so on...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Right. "10% of a million versus 50% of a thousand" type situation. Plus, Steam's pretty good at promoting the better games, even the obscure ones.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Proof (as if it was needed) that just running a reasonable storefront generates more than enough profit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I will never forgive Apple for fucking over the open web. When the iPhone launched it was web-only. You could 'install' web apps, and any device APIs - accelerated graphics, hardware sensors, location, offline storage, intents, contacts lists, push notifications - were user-selected and presented as standard JavaScript interfaces. One app, literally every platform, and iPhone was there first. It was in a period where every platform was rushing to support web applications with high-performance browser engines and Apple looked like they were going to do for websites-as-applications what they had done for USB ten years earlier: recognise it as the best way forward and push it hard, compatibility be damned.

Then the iPhone started selling well and they got fucking dollar signs in their eyes, realising how much money there was to be made forcing everyone to develop on their platform, in their language, for thier devices. Apps, distribution channels, operating system, services, devices, development, all of it on their terms and on thier platforms. The second they became mainstream they started locking everyone into their vertical ecosystem and wringing as much cash out as they could, exposing their hipocracy and showing that they were as anti-competetive and destructive as Microsoft at their 1990s worst.

In 1980, a large number of experts in business and general tech predicted that by 1990 most written communications would be fully electronic, something akin to email. What they didn't predict was the appearance of the fax machine, which was novel enough to be exciting but simple enough to be understood, and people flocked to it. As a result, electronic communication was stalled for about twenty years. I have no doubt that at some point in the future, Apps will be seen the same way but I think it will take a lot longer to get there.

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