- Instead of shutting down completely, why not this:
For goo.gl links that were created by google, continue redirecting them as normal. For others, show a warning page explaining to the user that the link wasn't created (or vouched for) by google. If they press an "agree" button, still don't show a clickable link, but instead show it as plain text to be copied.
- This looks like it could be very valuable for quite a lot of people- thank you for making it!
Just a couple first impressions from your site... loading it on a phone, the first thing I see is this: https://imgur.com/4maP1vV
(1) The entire contents of the site is completely covered by a cookie warning. This is honestly quite annoying even for an SWE like me, never mind your target audience.
I know at least one older person who doesn't understand these cookie modals at all and refuses to touch them. They either continue using the site in the background without accepting/rejecting(!), or if that's not possible they just leave the site.
I'd suggest you carefully check whether you actually need this modal at all. If the only cookies you use are technically necessary, then (based on my layman understanding of the law) you don't need to show it. If you absolutely must use tracking cookies, then maybe consider a more subtle approach that allows the user to continue reading the page without deciding.
(2) "Join Now" makes it sound like I'm signing up to a subscription, rather than making a one-off payment.
- Thank you! Just used this to clear away a load of tabs.
Some gripes:
I wish I could just use it standalone without it replacing the "new tab" page.
I wish I could view the full title of a tab, maybe on hover.
I only want to use it to manage tabs, not history or bookmarks, so I wish I didn't have to grant those permissions.
- This youtube video seems to show a cat recognising its reflection:
- Your GPU is 6 years, 7 months old. As an analogy, consider someone in 2007 objecting that their 2001 GeForce3 Ti500 can't run Crysis/Mass Effect/etc. The PS4 generation really messed with the usual conventions and expectations of PC upgrade cycles.
(I appreciate that GPU prices have creeped up and up over time, though.)
- Yes! There's a public git repo here: https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git "Public" in the sense that anyone can just push to the "mob" branch. You don't even need an account.
Such anarchy has obvious security implications but has worked remarkably well in practice. There's a mailing list too.
- >It appears that, during our transition to the digital age, the internet completely disappeared. We scoured the globe for it, but it seems to have been completely erased from existence. This has caused immense disruptions to our business, leading to the unfortunate layoffs that are necessary for continued success.
- Those results look excellent. I'm trying to gauge whether something like this could potentially work in realtime, i.e. in games. I know it inevitably depends on hardware, resolution, settings, etc but do you have a ballpark figure for how long it takes to apply this to a frame? (And does it have a temporal aspect which requires access to frame N+k to render frame N?)
- Pressing "See it in action" shows an empty black overlay.
Opening that link in a new tab works, but the demo/story isn't as helpful as it could be. For example it talks about screen recordings, so I was expecting to be able to play one back. If a live demo isn't practical, I think I'd prefer a short video showing typical usage.
- I looked into building something like this for a React Native app. (Actually I first considered the practicality of making a reactive version of sqlite... I decided it would be too complex and not something I'd want to use without upstream support).
We ended up doing something a bit more traditional/basic/manual, but this looks nice. It would definitely have been in consideration if it'd been available at the time, and I'll keep it in mind for future projects.
- >International travelers who visit the U.S. and Canada can use Emergency SOS via satellite
So the international versions do have the hardware. That's good to know.
>except if they bought their phone in China mainland, Hong Kong, or Macao. Emergency SOS via satellite isn't offered on iPhone models purchased in China mainland, Hong Kong, or Macao.
No comment.
- Honestly, your sample doesn't sound very good. It's a bit better than the other samples that have been linked in this thread, and you're perfectly audible, but it's very muffled and there are noises that sound like the throat-mic equivalent of cable noise. If I head this on a call I'd assume you were using a particularly bad laptop mic or gaming headset.
Not bad enough that I'd comment on it, but if I knew you'd gone to the trouble of a custom setup with elaborate extra adapters etc, I'd expect it to sound excellent (like a podcast mic or similar).
- >a lot of people who have degrees have no clue how to code
I don't understand how this is possible. I know CS != coding, but every CS degree syllabus I've looked at does involve plenty of programming classes, practical programming projects, etc. How is it possible to graduate from that without being reasonably comfortable writing non-trivial stuff in a couple of major languages?
- >you strip it off IPTC copyright metadata which makes your copy illegal to use in the UK
I might be mistaken, but that doesn't sound right. Not all formats even support that metadata in the first place. Can you point me to more info on this? Is there UK legislation that refers to such low-level details as image file metadata?
- >I've only changed clients once, as my contracts have been very long-term
It should be pointed out that this is much closer to insecure employment than traditional contracting/consulting. No judgement from me, because I'm in a very similar position- freelance contractor on paper, but in reality, one client and a very employee-like working dynamic.
Everything actually feels significantly more solid/stable/reliable than modern Windows does. I can install updates at my own pace and without worrying that they'll add an advert for Candy Crush to my start menu.
I also run Bazzite-deck on an old AMD APU minipc as a light gaming HTPC. Again, it's a much better experience than my past attempts to run Windows on an HTPC.
As with everything, the people having issues will naturally be heard louder than the people who just use it daily without issues.