jack1243star

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Comment · 5 days ago
> "The content has been filtered by the system due to its involvement with hate, sexual, violence, self-harm reasons."

Perfect.

Comment · 2 months ago
iTunes is trash on both of the jobs you mentioned though. Still waiting for a worthy alternative to foobar2000 on either Mac or Linux...
Comment · 3 months ago
>> Usually, dupe's sacrifice quality for price. The fact that a market exists for this at all indicates a strong consumer acceptance of lower quality items.

I think it is the other way around, too many brands lowered their quality enough that general consumers no longer believe (or perceive) the "premium" options to be worth it.

Might as well gamble and get the cheapest option that does not hurt the wallet too much, when high-quality is so rare these days.

Comment · 3 months ago
Funny you'd mention MS Gothic (fixed-width), since old school Japanese ASCII-art on image boards assume MS PGothic (proportional!) instead. Some sites even try to detect ASCII art and force font-family on that specific post.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
That explains the recent useless UI update on Quest OS, I guess
Comment · 6 months ago
Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful reply! I agree that in both of the scenarios you mentioned, this API does provide better usability.

I guess what feels wrong to me is the implicitness of this feature, I'm not sure whether clicking on something is going to add to history or not (until the back button breaks, then I really know).

Comment · 6 months ago
(rant warning)

Well, if I wanted to return to the parent screen in a single page application, I'd click on the back button in the app itself. No need to prevent me from back tracking in the exact order of my browsing should I need it.

I especially hate YouTube's implementation, I can never know the true state on my older PC during whatever it's trying to accomplish, often playing audio from a previous video when I backspace out. I resort to opening every link in a new tab.

Comment · 6 months ago
Please explain the legitimate uses. Not once I have ever encountered a website that does something useful by modifying the behavior of my browsing history.
Comment · 6 months ago
The Affinity suite was made free to use, with optional paid "AI" features behind a subscription. The betrayal was probably against the promise of a perpetual license sustained not by subscription.
Comment · 6 months ago
Trigger warnings are not there for some scientific effect. I view them as courtesy for consumers to have an chance to opt out of possibly unwanted experiences beforehand.
Comment · 7 months ago
Are there links I can read up on this? Ethernet as on-chip bus blows my mind.

I guess it's cheaper than having to redesign an entire SoC, but still...

Comment · 9 months ago
> You still need to use your phone number to sign up, though.

Which defeats the whole point. What if the FBI politely asks Signal about a phone number?

Comment · 10 months ago
Totally understandable and even reasonable position, but the paying customer gets the worse treatment, which does not sit right.
Comment · 10 months ago
> marking clipboard text with some magical locale indicator

The geniuses behind Unicode managed to make it mandatory anyways, at least if you want correct CJK text rendering :)

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