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Aha, that's a great reassurance then! ;-)

Very nice site.

Out of interest, are they automatically classed as light or dark? For instance by some heuristic or algorithm. I saw it's reporting some contrast measures which is handy.

I wonder how feasible it might be to use some colour distance heuristics to find similar themes: then if you find one you mostly like but it's slightly off due to some preference, you can still easily browse that "neighborhood"

Ah, the joys of being a passenger with six others in a 2CV! Cornering was fun as he wheels ground into the wheel arch like something from a gladiator film!

Nice. I know your comment was on the technical points, but it definitely under sells the game!

I very nearly didn't check this out because I didn't realise the focus was going to be much more general OS, but it's a great piece, well thought through.

I recall all the chat, maybe twelve to fifteen years back when Asian use of QRs took off, thanks to ready availability of mobiles. There were impassioned arguments that it might be fine in those markets but it would never catch on in the West because it was not appealing to consumers who wouldn't want them all over magazines and menus. I never bought that, as fairly quickly the phones came with built in recognition and it was just a matter of time. We saw at table ordering thanks to COVID and many products added QR for consumers even if the shops hadn't pushed it (in the UK at least)

They barely address the why, skipping over any serious detail with a comment about "designs that weren't practical before"

And there's no discussion whatsoever about whether the negative impact on the mental model necessary for understanding Excel is worth the benefit for the unlocked cases.

I don't see why you can't just represent the cases with the existing structures and deal with that cost in cases that need it, because it keeps a simple mental model. Arrays are one of those things that mess with the simplicity here too - I'm sure there are plenty of hardcore Excel fans who find them trivial and/or essential but they're never intuitive and lead to all sorts of mistakes/delays if your spreadsheet is used by less expert types.

Keeping it simple seems a better direction in general.

Yes, I wish there was more focus on correct pronunciation over emotion. You need a mechanism to control/guide the voice which gets under balance right between not having to specify everything and still letting you fix certain cases (where you know a certain sense of a word is meant)

It's going to run a form of Android so you should be able to install those apps you need

I don't think that's a core part of the minimalism. It's about the overall aims (less interruption etc) and their Minimal OS (based on Android) and the fairly simple launcher.

It has issues but I would rather see reform of patents first. Given the greater pace of developments now, effectively they now represent a proportionately longer period now than in the past. And they are too broad, along with various abuses (especially around novelty)