I wonder if Valve will eventually offer their own system of checks similar to Google Play Integrity? I don’t think I’d care for it since it’s an invasion of personal choice on a device that you own, but for people who want to play competitive games with cheating problems, running a partition with integrity checking seems a fair trade.

It’s branding, mostly. The phones had a notch. Design language dictates that the laptops can too, since it’s Totally Not Ugly (but it is).

Also, macbooks are slightly taller (16:10 aspect ratio) than most Windows laptops (16:9). Slightly taller even with the notch, since the extra screen is on top of the 16:10. So there is admittedly not much room to fit a camera on top. Personally I would prefer a slight bulge at the top and a rectangular screen, but with a black background, it isn’t too awful. Drives me mad with any other colour, though, I just can’t unsee.

My use-case is quite basic: a single combined home server/NAS, and two remote workers. My biggest obstacle, historically, was buffer bloat, which really really annoys me in video calls. I’ve got it to an acceptable level these days but it still isn’t ideal.

In a perfect world, I’d have a single home server box that does wifi, routing, NAS, jellyfin, DNS, movies, freshRSS, backups, and a few other tasks. And then I’d eventually build another and mirror data between the two in another location for redundancy. But I haven’t found anything that can handle it on mostly FOSS, long-term-security-updated software (10 years minimum), with no required subscriptions, with easily repairable or replaceable hardware. This seems to be getting really close, though! Official openVPN support for a piece of hardware would go a long way. I made a mistake buying a router in the past with a poorly supported CPU and I don’t want to make a similar mistake again.

I’m not sure WiFi 6 will be “obsolete” in even 10 years, let alone ‘soon’. I’m still using AC just fine at home. If your ISP sucks as much as most, you won’t benefit from much anyway. Maybe the new frequencies could help for apartment dwellers, or the intranet speeds could help if you transfer a lot to and from a home NAS?

I’m not sure about specific models, but you should strongly consider a Thunderbolt connection and enclosure for your drives if you’re already shelling out for a Mac Mini. Way higher throughput and no need for external power!

Unreliable recharging is why I gave up on Bluetooth headphones, too! Had it happen with four separate pairs of AirPods in my house: OG AirPods, my warranty replacement, and my partner’s AirPods Pro (and their warranty replacement). I find nothing more frustrating than heading out on a run in the morning and discovering that one or both of my buds has near-zero charge, after carefully placing them in a case the previous day.

I’ve been using a pair of Tin T2 Pro IEMs ever since. Almost 5 years with the same IEMs, I think I’ve gone through 4 cable replacements. But the replacement cables were like $5 and the latest $10 one seems likely to last much longer since it’s a nice braided cable.

Of course, I’m stuck on my Pixel 4a to keep the headphone jack. But it works well enough that I honestly have no desire to upgrade. I just wish I could still get OS security updates.

I have it on a studio display.

I don’t notice any blurriness or colour inaccuracy next to my 14" Macbook Pro screen.

I do notice way less glare.

It’s nice. Not sure it’s worth the price increase, but if glare bothers you, it’s almost certaintly worth it.

A couple of years now. I messed around with the Secret Menu settings today and I might have solved it; my guess is that there are some “default” ads cached forever on certain settings.

Weird, I’ve had it disconnected since the factory reset.

Maybe I should connect it, let it load new ads, and then cut it off again?

The ad on the right side of the home screen always shows up for me, even with a pi-hole setup at home. I actually ended up factory resetting my roku tv and disconnected it from the inyernet entirely a couple years back for that exaxt reason. Except roku OS 10+ actually gas built-in ads on the right side that show up even if you’re offline.

…so how did you get rid of the ads entirely? Because I’d love to do that myself.

Unfortunately true. Support sites you love through purchases, subscriptions, and donations. Ads are, at best, a vector of mental malware. At worst, a vector of actual malware.

Hopefully the next Fairphone closes that spec gap. I could easily live with 2022 specs for a long time, giving plateauing performance gains, as long as the phone is supported with updates.

Of course, I would also kill for a headphone jack and a 5.4-5.8" iphone mini-sized screen. It’s so frustrating that I want to buy a fairphone but the compromises are too much.

What are the chances that an IR LED hat would get you run over by a self-driving vehicle? We already know they don’t deal well with anything out of the ordinary, and they routinely slam into trucks and barriers.

Maybe I should start walking at an irregular pace like the Fremen in Dune to throw off gait detection. Since it’s probably trained on an average lazy American gait I suspect an intentionally irregular gait would completely fuck the algorithm. Of course, if you’re the only one doing it you might wind up even more identifiable. But maybe you could introduce some subtle irregularities that most people wouldn’t notice in person but a computer would pick up.

The containers UI is damn near unusable, they’ve squeezed so many of those “offers” into the tiny addon manager popup.

I wish Mozilla had management who understood their userbase. But instead they keep pulling this crap which only makes me (and likely most other power users) less likely to use Mozilla branded products.