My worry would be who is funding it and how they plan to keep operating. Venture Capital startups will always betray their users.

In the back of it, it seems to be a series of Matrix bridges https://github.com/beeper

Is there any market research at all indicating that customers want 6"+ displays?

Unfortunately, yes. People who buy smaller phones are the people who buy a new phone less often, and small phones tend to sell worse than the big models (see S10e, iPhone 12(?) Mini) so don't get renewed. Would be nice if they did.

A good article, a lot of those advantages I wasn't aware of! I think DisplayPort unfairly got a bad rap as "oh, I have to buy another cable now" when it was new, but it's obviously the better choice now. Although I still hate DisplayPort's latching, makes it so hard to unplug cables in tight spaces. I'd rather old-style screws than the latch on all the DP cables I've used.

Beeper is Matrix in a trenchcoat, judging by their Github page.

People on reddit are absolutely losing their minds over the lack of steam workshop support, but if Paradox wants stuff to be available to console users and all PC users, it's really the only option.

My concern is how it'll interact with Steam Proton on Linux, and just generally if their mods platform will be any good.

"my law..." "my study..."

yeah, i think the author wants a law named after them. the first half of the article is also... junk?

My first thought was; did Jill Stein's 2016 campaign have any real impact on the result?

Looking at this table of results implies that if all Stein voters had voted for Clinton, then maybe Clinton would have won Michigan (final EC result is still 290:248), but the contests elsewhere either weren't close enough, or didn't have enough Green voters to matter. Looking at that table, it's clear that the Libertarians had a much bigger impact.

Bernie Sanders

I've heard good things about Kagi, but I can't justify the cost (especially as its USD)

FYI, you can go directly to messenger.com and avoid seeing the rest of the site entirely. You can also deactivate your Facebook account and leave Messenger (mostly) functional.

Large tech companies only join protocols like this with the aim of killing them; any Mastodon instance worth its salt should defederate from Meta as soon as they go live with it.

These laws exist in Australia already, Facebook and Google claimed they'd pull out of the country and of course they just came to an agreement with almost all news companies and life moved on.

https://beehaw.org/post/7776438

that's a lot more money for a smaller screen, though. 32" is a big monitor sitting in front of a desk, but a small TV if you're on a couch.

If you know the team, then that's a pretty good reason to trust them. Only works if you know the team, though.

"attention tokens," wow that sounds bad in and of itself

I do have experience using it, and it's not worth looking at BigBlueButton.

without ads.

only if you have a very strict definition of Ad

I don't think Red Cross is going off trademark law; using the Red Cross for anything but the Red Cross (same for the Red Crescent and Red Crystal) is a violation of international law (i.e. the Geneva Convention)

I've lived in places with speed cameras all my life... if you're worried, just don't speed?

Like, I don't want to be all "don't break the law and you won't have to worry (:" but speeding is really easy to not do, especially in places where cameras are well signposted or static.

damn, i've been coasting on that for ages

Unfortunately, it doesn't allow me to use my nation's weather service, so it doesn't exactly matter how good the App is. There's a choice of providers, but most of them are no-name aggregators.

They took it over after Disney cancelled it and closed the studio that was making it.

Revolt is probably the most similar.

I have a Garmin Vivosmart 4; does all the things I need it to do, and isn't big or distracting. All I wanted was a step tracker and the ability to set multiple alarms.

In some places Messenger is the default communications platform, more so than SMS or WhatsApp or iMessage or whathaveyou.

I use Firefox (i.e. not Chromium) with UBlock Origin on mobile, no issues. Also has a reader mode.

They wanted to software-limit non-MFI usb cables, not sure if the EU will stop them in time.

Among other intriguing items on the agenda for the division are plans to adapt video games from Annapurna Interactive, the gaming branch of the indie studio

I wonder what else they could adapt? I don't think Outer Wilds would ever work as a movie, and that's the first Annapurna-published title I can think of.

Microsoft, forever and always, will keep trying to pivot Windows to whatever they think the Next Big Thing is going to be, and then fuck it up every time. They tried to pivot to Mobile (Windows Mobile), then Tablets (8, 8.1), then digital assistants (Win 10 Cortana), then 3D (Win 10 Paint3D, 3D Objects folder) and AR (why a bunch of Win10 got the semitransparent glass aesthetic), now AI. Maybe they got ahead of the curve enough to be the "leader" in "AI" this time, but that doesn't make it a Good Operating System.

Still possible, but why would that be useful to anyone?

Depending on the use case something like Obsidian, free commercial software but not telemetry-filled and bloated, might be worth using.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election#Results_by_state

If all Stein voters had voted for Clinton (which, even if the Green party weren't running, they wouldn't all have), then maybe Clinton would have won Michigan, and final EC result is still 290:248. The contests elsewhere either weren’t close enough, or didn’t have enough Green voters to matter. The Libertarians had a much bigger impact.

It's a genuinely good security feature, but wrecks custom roms as a side effect (which I'm sure samsung doesn't mind)

Some people with early access have been playing on computers below the reccomended specs and been okay. Teddy Radko has a 3060 and i7-4770 and is getting good enough performance.

It doesn't matter if they're efficient relative to the space taken, if the space taken is functionally 0 (since the space isn't used for anything else). The poleward side of an east-west canal could also just be cloth or some other kind of shade to lower install costs!

It's a 1:1 replacement for the lowest effort trash written by an un- or under-paid intern, but when companies start assuming (and they will) it can take over well-researched reporting, it'll be crud for us all.

Wouldn't it end up implemented somewhere inside Chromium?

"promotions" telling me to play a certain game on stream in discord (and get some cosmetic item for it) are ads for that game. I don't have a screenshot of it on hand, unfortunately.