thatKamGuy @ thatKamGuy @sh.itjust.works

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If you’ve never used an inline remote, it’s really hard to explain why they were so much better from a UX perspective than what’s available now.

If I want to control media on my smartwatch, I need to flick focus on my wrist - usually stopping me from being able to fully use that hand, identify the right controls on the touch screen (and that it’s even on the right screen, and not obstructed by notifications) and hope that they register correctly.

Those old inline remotes were basically a useful ‘Bop It!’; control inputs varied: twist a dial, tilt the end, button press, slide, scroll dial and provided full tactile control which could be truly used one-handed (when clipped to my shirt).

It is a true shame that they were left by the wayside, when multiple devices ended up amalgamating into the modern smartphone.

I have one - but its touch screen is no replacement for bespoke, tactile controls.

This is all well and good, especially from a nostalgia perspective (in addition to the general pushback against cloud everything); but what I miss most about portable music nowadays is the lack of decent inline remotes (think early 2000s Sony MiniDisc players).

The player stated in your pocket, and the remote handled everything, volume, playback, and even had a dot-matrix screen to identify and navigate playlists!

It saddens me to know that if everyone who went out and kept blindly pre-ordering games from Konami, Blizzard (or any formerly great studio that is now just trading on their name and pushing out the jankiest titles); instead put that money towards shares of that company - they’d have enough of a voice to dictate that companies future, and have them produce something other than the microtransaction ridden, poorly thought out, barely put together, live service garbage we’ve been getting for the past 2+ console generations.

What you call ‘market distortions’ are at times the only other means of getting additional money into the hands of low income earners.

If someone’s already paying $0 in income tax, either because they are on disability payments, a student, or caring after a loved one - then providing them with supplemental rental and nutritional payments are sometimes the only thing standing between them becoming unhoused and going hungry.

Big sums of one-off money are a great spectacle, but they have negative short-term impacts (likely to cause another spike to inflation) and negligible long-term benefits as once the funds are spent it’s just a return to the status-quo.

A more aggressive tax-cut for the lowest band, as well as a boost to services offered to those same people (rent assistance, dietary stipends to promote healthier foods etc.) funded by the top-end of town are the best long-term solution- but they don’t cause anywhere near the same level of media ‘splash’ as a “free” $1K would.

Should be a contractual obligation that if a show is optioned for additional seasons and Netflix cancels it, there are at the very least on the hook for a movie to tie up any outstanding plot points.

Not only to give the fans of the show closure, but potential new audience the confidence that the content available on their platform will likely have a satisfying narrative arc.

Only if you buy into the Murdoch press. Similar thoughts tend to be expressed about Australia’s Labor party also, when the actual reality is markedly different.

It’s got that ‘new-tech’ smell blowing out of the cooling vents in spades.. it’s legitimately pleasant!

This almost feels like they’re name-dropping Apple Pay and Google Pay to mask the fact that this is more aimed towards embedded payment systems like WeChat (along with AliPay and whatever hot garbage Musk intends to add to Xitter)?

If you just want something that’s more privacy-minded out of the box without messing about with custom ROMs etc, maybe consider an iPhone?

With hindsight, given the dirty tricks the GOP played in order to secure Trump two Supreme Court appointments; the Dem’s should have just gone full radical and take the Senates refusal to put the nomination up for a vote as a tacit ‘approval’ (seeing as they didn’t technically vote him down), and sit Garland on the court.

It’s the political equivalent of not negotiating with Terrorists, akin to the Paradox of Tolerance.

Windham Rotunda, Bob Barker and Arleen Sorkin walk up to the Pearly Gates..

What a strange, miserable week..

Any thoughts on the compendiums that occasionally get published which include the entire arcs (including supplemental issues from other lines)?

I haven’t read comics in a long while (launch of the Ultimate line, IIRC); not sure if they still even do those?

The large ‘malls’ here are all seeing to do very well, and those that were previously struggling have seemed to have seen success pivoting away from being just a place to go and ‘buy’ things and into places to ‘do’ and ‘experience’ things.

We millennials have a fascination with mixing alcohol and activities we did growing up, with bowling, mini-golf and ticket arcades doing well by feeding off our nostalgia.

Wait, the Model X doesn’t have RADAR/LIDAR to supplement the cameras?

Driver is definitely the one ultimately at fault here, but how is it that Tesla doesn’t perform an emergency stop in this situation - but just barrels into an obstacle?

Even my relatively ‘dumb’ car with adaptive cruise control handles this type of situation better than Tesla?!

Super Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger, I think strike a good balance regarding random encounters.

On the other end of the spectrum would be something like the Front Mission or Final Fantasy Tactics series - where the narrative is all handled through set battles.

Currently running Windows 10, but refuse to upgrade to Windows 11. Next rebuild will hopefully be Linux-based, and am getting my head around it slowly through my Steam Deck. It has immensely improved since my uni days in the early 2000s.

First learned of him from the Chatterbox radio station in GTA3, of all places. FREE KEVIN!!