TheRealKuni

Yep. I was really annoyed when Windows moved away from the aero effects of Vista and 7 to the flat look of 8/8.1, 10, and 11.

(Yes yes, Windows bad. I have to use it for work.)

I’m looking forward to this, I think it looks gorgeous.

Why would they “prove” something that’s completely obvious?

I don’t want to be critical, but I think if you step back a bit and look and what you’re saying, you’re asking why we would bother to experiment and prove what we think we know.

That’s a perfectly normal and reasonable scientific pursuit. Yes, in a rational society the burden of proof would be on the grifters, but that’s never how it actually works. It’s always the doctors disproving the cure-all, not the snake oil salesmen failing to prove their own prove their own product.

There is value in this research, even if it fits what you already believe on the subject. I would think you would be thrilled to have your hypothesis confirmed.

We use plenty of biodegradable plastics. They’re not always the correct solution. You wouldn’t want an airplane biodegrading, for example.

It’s doesn’t matter, since the absence or presence of light would still be perceived by colour blind people. It doesn’t change how they would drive, as they are already driving with the knowledge of colour blindness in mind when looking at tail lights.

Tail lights being red is fine if you live with the most common forms of colorblindness which fall into what we call “red-green colorblind.” It is still a different color than headlights.

Now put those same red-green lights on the front, and we have a problem.

I did the perpendicular thing for a while, but two of the magnets I use with the phone (one a charger, one just a mount) are strong enough that removing the phone perpendicularly is difficult.

If I ever decide I don’t want my printed case, I’ll try the loctite solution! Thanks!

I 3D printed my phone case. I had considered going without a case, but the Snap 4 Luxe, which I absolutely love, adheres better to cases than the bare phone. That could be my fault, maybe I didn’t clean the phone or adhesive properly, but if I have the phone on a magnet sometimes the Snap stays behind.

So I found a case design someone else made, brought it into Blender (because I don’t know CAD), thickened the back to the same distance as the Snap, then made a hole for the Snap and made sure to include a lip to cover over its curved bezel. I printed the first few layers in a tough 68D TPU, then switched to a 95A TPU for the rest. The tough layers and the lip keep the Snap held to the phone even when the adhesive fails, and the softer TPU makes the case easy to put on and remove.

(This is like, my seventh iteration of this case, and it sure seems flawless for the past few weeks.)

This lets me use the Snap with as little wireless charging distance as possible. I found that some cases added to the inherent 2.5mm of the Snap are just too much distance to reliably charge using weaker qi chargers. With this setup I can wirelessly charge much more reliably! And since I thickened the back of the case, the magnets on the Snap now sit flush with the rest of the back, making qi2-based external batteries more manageable.

Yep. I understand it, being able to stream my physical Xbox to my phone or tablet when I’m away from home is awesome.

There are a staggering number of varieties of plastics, and an insane number of uses for them that aren’t easily replicated with other known materials. Some of those plastics are much worse than others.

Plastic is not inherently “pollution.” That’s not to say that plastics don’t make up a significant amount of the world’s pollution, but like literally everything in life, it’s not as simple as a black-and-white.

Plastics aren’t inherently bad. Just like anything else, it’s the misuse that makes them bad.

Largely done already, as I understand it. Most use zinc now.

I kind of love that about his videos. I scoff at the time, but then start the video and next thing I know it’s a half hour later and I’ve learned something in a surprising amount of depth.

I like a world where not everything needs to be 5 minute videos. Some things can be longer form.

I guess “love” is a strong term. It does everything I need it to and I have very few complaints, the same experience I had with my Android phone.

so many apple shills here… why not upgrade to an adult phone?

So this makes me laugh because when I was younger and had more time to spend with rooting and custom ROMs, I used Android phones. And I loved them!

Now that I’m older I use an iPhone (for a number of reasons) and I also love it!

It’s almost like smartphones are tools that fit their use case, and not something else up be tribal over.

Is okay to choose A simply because B is quite literally orange hitler?

Obviously yes. Doing so isn’t saying A is fine, doing so is saying B is worse, and bad is still better than worse.

If you tried to say that there was no reason to be concerned with A because B was worse, that’s a fallacy. But acknowledging that one of two options, while still bad, is LESS bad, isn’t a fallacy. That’s just being realistic.

One I see people use frequently and I’m not sure they realize it’s a bad argument is the fallacy of relative privation.

“X is bad. We should do something to fix X.”

“Y is so much worse. I can’t believe you want to fix X when we need to fix Y.”

Both X and Y can be bad and need to be fixed. Fixing one doesn’t preclude fixing the other.

An alternate form of this is:

“A is bad”

“B is worse, so A is fine.”

I was going to recommend this very thing.

The Alt-Right Playbook

or even win 11 since it involves a ton of audio plugins, etc. and my projects would become unsable.

Have you looked into this? Because Windows 11 is so much Windows 10 with a UI change that they didn’t even update the NT number.

Like, Windows 2000 was NT 5, and XP, which was very similar to 2000, was NT 5.1.

But Windows 11 isn’t NT 10.1, it’s still NT 10.

At their core they’re very similar. I’d be shocked if something designed for 10 wouldn’t work with 11.

Our YouTube experiences are vastly different. Their algorithm frustrates me because it consistently serves up interesting videos I want to watch when I open the app to seek out something specific. My Watch Later playlist has become huge.

If you’re using BASIC for real world applications in this day and age something has gone really wrong.

Visual Basic is essentially the same as C# if they’re both working with the .NET framework, if I recall correctly.

But yes.

what he did for electric vehicles with Tesla cannot be understated

I think you meant to say “cannot be overstated.” “Cannot be understated” means the opposite of the point you’re trying to make.

He definitely lit a fire under the asses of the traditional automakers, no doubt. But then he consistently threw away every advantage his company had, one after another.

Had they developed a normal-ass pickup truck they could’ve beaten the Lightning F-150 to market. But no, because Musk wanted to make a car as stupid and ill-advised as the DeLorean DMC-12 it resembles, design time took so long that by the time the thing hit the streets it wasn’t what truck owners wanted or what Tesla owners wanted. There was already an EV version of the best-selling pickup truck in the world. And he had, by that point, thoroughly torched his image among the people most likely to buy his cars.

Tesla definitely accelerated the development of EV models and infrastructure, but I personally think it’s easy to overstate Elon’s impact.