1. My Microsoft account is still @msn.com, which I don't trust in any way to be secure, since it's not an email account I ever use
2. I have lots of Samba and other shares that know my local login
3. If my router goes down, I'm probably going to log into this machine to fix it, and it won't be connected to the internet
So of course I used one of the local account tricks when I installed Windows 11, and I hope they don't break it. Apple's solution of letting you have BOTH a local login and an iCloud account is much better.
Vertically integrated apps are much cheaper to run - Instagram stores only a small fraction of your photos and makes a lot of money from them. It is somewhat harder to explain why we pay for things like iCloud, which mostly has no web API, only APIs for Apple devices. (Plenty of value there because it keeps you from having to buy a bigger iPhone.) But there are lots of these "almost general purpose" solutions, paying to upload files and store them, but where you cannot use them as you like.
Why not dozens of apps running over the "web filesystem" like happens on the desktop? Two reasons:
1. Amazon pricing for transit/bandwidth is way higher than storage, and so it makes accessing your own data quite expensive if it is not in the same datacenter.
2. And there is a huge security and usability gap between "pick one photo" vs "give me [scoped] access to your Dropbox"
Often the general-purpose mode does not work that well, is quite slow, or just costs a lot in bandwidth, a thing nobody wants to pay extra for when they're already paying for storage.
Assuming mobile platforms weigh in with an API sometime, it's notable that the only people allowed online by default would be minors who are using parental controls, because they would be able to prove (a) age and (b) parental consent on day 1.
We deployed hashcash for a while back in 2004 to implement Picasa's email relay - at the time it was a pretty good solution because all our clients were kind of similar in capability. Now I think the fastest/slowest device is a broader range (just like Tavis says), so it is harder to tune the difficulty for that.
Thank you for doing this - I think there are two lines in the sand that a true "user agent" would allow us to set:
1. Don't show recommended content at all--I want to view only the content I've specifically asked for (or searched for) in this session
2. Recommend only content that I've chosen (e.g., by following), where there is a finite amount of it
You'd like such things to be part of the basic wiring of your device, though writing an app to regulate how other apps work is often not easy to implement today, so efforts like this are super valuable. What if a device could look after your attention and ensure you have the motivation to do other things?
Another way these kinds of switches could get built by requiring them as child safety features, like "Watch the YouTube video for school, but don't get an assault of Shorts after" or "See the single TikTok your friend sent, but don't spend five hours scrolling after"
Think of willpower as a finite resource. It's simply not feasible to rely on it solely. You need to build the world you want to live in. (Set yourself up for success)
Google right now lists the title of putty.org as "PuTTY", even though right now this text is only in the footer. Up until August I guess it provided a download link, but the title was not "PuTTY".
Correlation isn't causation - the post here says smaller homebuilders can't get financing right now, and so a supply shortage is correlated with larger actors who can, but it isn't caused by concentration directly. The question is if government can have remedies for broken markets other than breaking up companies, because here it sounds like "fixing builder financing" would help:
Sometimes struct-of-arrays (in-memory column store) is the right solution, and you get automatic packing that way. C makes it so much easier to store an array of structs that people don't do this often enough, but column stores prove it has its uses.
The average car on the road is over 12 years old, and maybe a laptop has maybe 1/3 as long a lifecycle? Not sure that tracking "Wh" as a replacement for "mileage" is that useful, it's either time to replace a battery and SSD or it's not - and perhaps we should have scheduled maintenance for removing dust from your fans? An old PC that has a hard drive replaced with an SSD and a fresh battery is usually a great thing, unlike a car with tons of after market parts.
I think this would make sense in a world of glued-in components where service is hard and somewhat risky (like Apple) and the highest quality components were installed originally. But ultimately the aftermarket value of a PC is only as good as the brand's reputation overall, that means removing bloatware and good quality batteries and other things that are hard to attest to automatically.
A well-built laptop can last you just as long. I’ve been rocking a tricked out Dell XPS for 9 years now and it’s still going strong. It’s really hard to find something better on the market. If I could only change the motherboard with a slightly updated APU like the strix halo or current gen AMD solution, I couldn't be happier.
1. My Microsoft account is still @msn.com, which I don't trust in any way to be secure, since it's not an email account I ever use
2. I have lots of Samba and other shares that know my local login
3. If my router goes down, I'm probably going to log into this machine to fix it, and it won't be connected to the internet
So of course I used one of the local account tricks when I installed Windows 11, and I hope they don't break it. Apple's solution of letting you have BOTH a local login and an iCloud account is much better.
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