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Leaning to program on 8-bit machines with 8k of RAM means that even today I abbreviate names.

Plus it was accepted wisdom that shorter variable names were faster for the BASIC interpreter.

Yeah, even using a hotspot internationally it's the same price, with the same data limits.

And with data-SIMs, it's possible to share that data with a few other devices, still at no extra cost.

Those features are often overlooked when people ask why it's more expensive than e.g. Mint.

Oh, and by cancelling my Peacock subscription, I was able to sign up for it free (ad-supported), with my Instacart account.

What a world.

Last year I found that there was a bundle. But I had to sign up for it via Hulu. Now I still get billed for both. At one point I thought that I was over paying, but I found that the Hulu bundle reduces my Disney sub price to add up to the bundle price.

I think. All I know is that it seems more complicated than it should be.

Catgacating! Cartchy tuns!

The Pacific Coast Highway occasionally shuts itself down by falling into the sea.

A reliable, fast fingerprint reader that you can feel, where your index finger is naturally placed already when removing your phone from a pocket, so that you can effortlessly unlock the phone before you've even got it out.

Not having to wake the screen to see whether the reader is, either reach awkwardly with the thumb of the hand holding the phone, or use a finger from the other hand, then press hard maybe three times until it works (with the added side effect of a bright flash of light at night).

Why did they think this was better? Could we maybe have one on the edge, or the power button?

Someone said

Does bitwarden allow me to automatically create a new randomized email address for every new saved login

And I'm questioning that based on the page in the "yes" link reply, suggesting that the provided page is not evidence that they do.

I don't follow how your reply relates to that.

I'm referring to the link to bitwarden.

From looking over that page, it looks like they explain how to use such aliases, but don't provide an alias service themselves, which it looks like Proton Pass does.

Well if you'd played Vader Immortal in VR, you would.

Right. Some people believed that they would somehow get a free phone after two years, so were extra pissed over it.

But all it really was was that you could start the program again and get another phone that you would pay off over the next two years.

Mine never warned me about 2 airtags in the house, until I drove on a trip with them in the luggage.

But yours must have been traveling with you, maybe there's some algorithm that decides that they have been around so long that they belong to you.

Well that's one way too ensure that the parts of the antenna are the correct length!

Ah, sorry, I was only looking at what I did in the 90s!

Looking at the page, there's a console error that says something about "invoke Tone.start()" so I wonder if it needs some javascript to do that, maybe

<script type="text/javascript">Tone.start();</script>

I think that it's including this player code?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/midi-player-js

But the docs there describe creating a new MidiPlayer object and calling play() instead of start(), so I'm probably not helping.

I don't work with javascript, so this is all pure guesswork.

I think that maybe not knowing how to make the embedded midi auto-play is more authentic!

But I used to use Autostart=true in the Embed tag.

I've used a Mac occasionally but mostly use Windows and Linux.

Trying to put my natural bias aside (being more familiar with windows) here are some things I've noticed:

Mac is meant to be generally easier to use, but installing a program involves this odd process of dragging a downloaded package into an apps folder in some window. That seems strange compared to just clicking the downloaded installer.

A program can be open with no windows. Just the task bar showing. Windows always having a program window seems less likely to confuse a newcomer.

With windows (and some Linux desktops) windows-key-number launches a program from the task bar. So win-1 might be my browser, win-2 my file manager etc. For Mac, I have to install an app to do that. There are other shortcuts like that that seem rarer on Mac, or it has overly-complex combinations of Fn, Ctrl, Opt, Cmd buttons.

BUT: Mac is unix-based! No need to mess around with WSL (abd its own separate filesystem) if I need a Linux feature. With Mac it's just there! But is that really why people choose Mac over Windows?

I wonder how it can be worth the extra cost on CPU/GPU time, compared to search of mail.

I might type "best value Jacuzzi" into Google, but "write a python script to sort numbers", or "write a message sounding like I'm actually sorry to not go to someone's party", or "this sentence is a lie" into an AI.

I can only see one of those being valuable.

Why is there this push to use AI everywhere when it's so resource-heavy? What do Google, MS etc gain?

Aaannnd I get to post this https://m.xkcd.com/2897/