The colors are objectively worse. Nighttime navigation contrast is zero. Even the bloody text is hard to read.

I’ve missed turns because the chosen route and other roads are indistinguishable. I should be focused on driving, not squinting try to read their shitty gray-on-slightly-different-gray text.

Someone is going to die in a crash because they didn’t test a fucking theme.

I thought this was a bug in Youtube. It’s intrusive and annoying.

Do other video apps do this? Why?

I like “heat pump”. It’s a very nice ELI5 name. It’s a pump for heat. A water pump takes water and forces it to where it wouldn’t go naturally. A heat pump does the same.

Pebble Time Steel should have been the “standard”. Maybe I’m the wrong audience but the Moto 360 is a big miss for me. A smart watch for me needs to have:

• Always on, sunlight readable display
• “3 day weekend” battery life
• Basic smarts only: notifications, alerts, calendar
• Durable, waterproof
• Compact size
• Fitness tracking

I don’t care too much about “premium materials” once some basic durability is satisfied. I don’t have an opinion about round vs square.

Thumbnails and titles are not high on my list of criteria for quality content. Clickbaity or vague is annoying but what about the next 10 to 20 minutes?

A few years ago, I used crypto-as-in-cryptography in conversation with another engineer and they seemingly derailed into talking about Bitcoin and Ethereum. We were both really confused and annoyed with each other.

It had a nostalgic feeling of what does “hacker” mean with some added irritation.

It’s a modern take on the Pidgin concept. Pidgin ran locally on one computer and didn’t sync anything between any of your other Pidgin installs. Also, your login details for every account were usually in plaintext on disk. In practice, it feels

Beeper (really Matrix + bridges) is a network service that you can access with a browser, mobile app, whatever.

Amethyst. Focusing on empty workspaces makes everything stop working. Certain window types (dialog popups, arguably that app shouldn’t be using popups) are “invisible” to it. System preferences is untouchable (fair) and shows up under all other active windows.

Using more than one monitor was the first “Why would you want to do that?” moment. Window management on Macs is awful but adding screens makes it way worse. Coming from i3 and sway, with rich hotkeys and fast, straightforward window manipulation, it felt like someone forgot to finish writing the OS. It seems most people use only the laptop screen or have a single external monitor as an auxiliary? They just genuinely didn’t know why or how you use multiple monitors.

Tiling in macOS can be polyfilled with apps but there are tons of edge cases where it fails and the app’s hotkeys don’t flow well from the a handful of native keys, so it feels disjoint and bodged together. Also, if you “bump” a window, it’ll stay dislodged because it’s a poor mimicry of the real thing.

Ugh, sounds like some of my coworkers and MacBooks. Then you discover that MacBooks are seriously crippled compared to the Linux machine you were using and you get told one of:

1. “What do you mean by $feature? I’ve never heard of that.”
2. “Why would you want to do that?”
3. Run a badly performing Linux VM in a janky hypervisor to do that
4. Pay $10 for this little 3rd party app to fix the problem

Throw in some serious RSI pain from that tire fire of a keyboard and yeah, I have no idea why I switched.

Edit: Work machine. No way I’d pay for Apple with my own money.

A quick search says Amazon is 37% of online commerce (depending on which sketchy result you want to trust enough for a Lemmy thread).

If Amazon is problematic, then Apple is a serious issue.

You can install some app that lets you override the Netflix button. I forget the name but I’ve set mine to be a mute toggle.

Nexus 7 was such a great tablet. I came across it in the Drawer of Old Things, long since broken but kept around regardless. It’s hilarious how it’s only slightly bigger than some phones. I can even stuff it into my pocket.

No, you’re not helping. At all. It’s flamebait that can only derail the topic and turn into a circle jerk or verbal fistfight.

Here’s an example that may help: Why is China allowed to participate in the Olympics despite their genocides and brutal crackdowns? Why the double standard?

It’s particularly upsetting because lemmy.ml is a major instance. IMO, moderation in this c/ is infrequent and underwhelming. I don’t mean to hang the mods out to dry; it would take a big team to wade through this effluent and tame the trolls. The hostile “Here comes the Reddit refugees” and “OMG Tankie brigade” shit is just the easy stuff. A rule on lazy whataboutism would help the signal/noise ratio as well. This post is from RT, about Ukraine/Russia/Belarus but the biggest thread in here is rehashing the Iraq occupation. Can we just discuss the original topic? Is that so hard?

Why do you even bother to engage in World News if your primary interest is … the moronic good/evil framing of the world

From the guy that uses “imperialist” in every other sentence. This is especially ironic given that Russia is the one invading and annexing territory.

If you compare the sum of all Western countries together then China loses on both total and per capital so I don’t see what your point is. Per your own numbers above, even.

Wind power per capita would put China far lower than the west.

This is called sealioning so you’re really just helping my case here. Err, thanks, I guess?

Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity, and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.

But from memory, you typically display the following rule breaking behavior:

• “Ignorant American”, “Hypocritical American”, and so forth
• “Whatever helps you cope!” “Good luck with that!” (end of conversation)
• Posting almost exclusively stories that portray the US in a negative light

Most Americans have seen enough of the far right’s “No, YOU’RE the propaganda shill!” style that this is a pretty sad and transparent deflection.

For the original charge, many people have tried to engage with you in good faith. You answered with bigotry and even more weakly sourced misinformation. When finally cornered, you dismiss the entire conversation with a smug remark. You are clearly a propaganda troll with a biased agenda and per the rules, you should be banned.