- Fair points about intense marketing and less successful products being forgotten in history. However, I wasn't able to find anything about the first (6 GB) Nomad Jukebox on Wikipedia. The iPod was released in October 2001, I only see mentions of the Jukebox later than that.
What does the "no wireless" complaint refer to? I don't see any mention of wireless connections for any of the Nomad Jukeboxes either.
Besides the point: I personally find the Nomad Jukebox and other MP3 players from the era extremely ugly, while the iPod looks beautiful and has become an icon (yes, Rams-inspired, but that's not a bad thing). I say this as a decidedly non-Apple-fanboy, but as an industrial designer.
- You picked a bad example. The iPod was very innovative (first time you could have all your music with you on the go – instead of having to decide on a tiny selection before you leave home and slowly upload it to your player).
But yeah, that was decades ago. And with Jobs, innovation has left.
- "The script doesn't run unless the file is directly opened (you can't run scripts from (<img src="/image.svg">)."
- I don't mean these Flock cameras, I mean what you refer to as "boring rooftop weather webcams". Some of those show people fairly close up and even if you can't recognize your face in the stream, you will recognize the place and realize that it's you, standing there right now in that video stream.
Just search for "<your city> webcam" and see what you can find.
- For years I've thought about doing an "art project" to make people more aware of the fact they are being observed – but I never actually got up and did it.
The idea was to seek spots in the city where public web cams are pointed at, and paint QR codes on the ground at those spots (using a template), linking to the camera stream. So when curious passerbys scan the code, they see themselves in a camera stream and feel "watched".
- > the same functionality in a watch or a belt buckle.
Trying to imagine some guy tapping the terminal with his belt buckle :)
- The problem is that rich people and large companies usually go to great lengths to avoid taxes, use loopholes or get special deals (and with great success). The missing tax income has to come from the middle class, who can't avoid it.
With increased automation, this only gets more extreme.
- If you read a few of the posts in this thread, you qickly notice a pattern: people in need are being helped.
Maybe you are not very adventurous? If your life consists of only hotel trips, best you can expect is a free breakfast upgrade or something like that.
If you're hungry and out of energy on a hike, someone might give you a sandwich. If you're drowning, someone might save your live. The situations you're in determine your experiences, not your looks.
- From the title, I assumed this is about an app distributed as a binary blob.
Regarding learning languages, I'm not a fan of this style of learning. It seems to me this is still Duolingo, just with a different interface. I had good success with https://www.languagetransfer.org/
- Wow, you're loyal!
- Light mode text: oklch(37.3% .034 259.733)
Dark mode text: oklch(87.2% .01 258.338)
Background in both modes: oklch(14.5% 0 0)
See here: https://jsfiddle.net/kmtwf4g3/
I think the fuckup of the website author is that the background is black instead of white in light mode. Otherwise the text colors would be fine as they are. Probably vibe coded and never tested in light mode.
- Dark mode looks fine to me: light gray on black.
Light mode is terrible: dark gray on black.
- > grabs my elbow and pulls the head of a broken bottle out of it. Blood started spraying everywhere of course.
I learned in first aid courses that if something is stuck deeply in a wound, you should not pull it out, but instead fixate it with some bandage and go to the hospital like that. The reason is that it can start bleeding a lot more if the object is removed.
I had a Rio 500 [1], which I wouldn't call ugly, but certainly not beautiful and it felt like a cheaply made plastic box, even though it was expensive (64 MB flash!).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_500