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With a decent file manager and an hour or so

An hour? You've made my case. It takes at most a couple of minutes for importing hundreds of books in Calibre. Metadata retrieval is automatic (from the file itself and/or online). Everything happens in a few clicks.

With a file manager, you'll probably only be able to find a book from its author, and title. If you have a small collection, this is fine.

When your collection grows though, issues start to show up. Being able to sort, and find a book based on other information becomes much more useful: date of publication, genre, custom tags, etc... While you could always integrate these in your filename/directory structure, with the help of symlinks, it's very cumbersome to manage and use.

You seem to have forgotten the extremely agressive marketing from Google. At some point, practically all major free software was bundled with Chrome, which installed by default. It was almost similar to malware in its persistence, and adopted many dark patterns just for the opportunity to get on your PC.

A mirror of the archive still exists: https://dmoztools.net/

For more, you can check the artists websites.

Don Davis: http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/allyours.html

Rick Guidice: http://rickguidice.com/nasaart.html

Roy Scarfo: http://www.royscarfo.com/

Check this Ask HN, for more examples of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337948

I think it has more to do with how thoughtless downvoting/upvoting can be in some implementations. But this isn't inherent to the upvote system. Requiring a comment for each vote to explain the user's position, for example, can curb this tendency.

There are strict drone regulations in Ecuador and specifically in the Galapagos. They are banned except for scientific use.

https://www.galapagos.org/travel/travel/planning-a-trip/trav...

https://drone-traveller.com/drone-laws-ecuador/

Chrome was one of the last to actually implement this feature. It took 8 years (!), and Animation Policy (part of the accessibilityFeatures api) still doesn't work that great, and is only available via extensions.

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/accessibilityFeatures#prop...

The older captcha with words was for the digitization of books. It helped in the Google Books, and Internet Archive projects notably.

https://cogdogblog.com/2013/12/recaptcha-all-the-books/

The current one helps in identifying and navigating streets, useful for maps and autonomous driving.

https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha...

You'll notice that recaptcha always has a direct effect on current projects of Google/Alphabet: Google Books, Google Maps, Waymo.

It's actually the opposite, Opera (Presto) was stricter in its adherence to standards. It was the first/second (depending on OS) to pass the acid 2 tests, and constantly was among the top scorers.

That said, there were often compatibility problems on various websites, because they favored IE (which wasn't standards compliant), and rarely if ever tested on Opera.

I tend to agree on all your points. But when a site I need to browse does require JS, simply "turning it on" is, in my opinion, much too lax. You really need more granularity in managing javascript than the binary enable/disable feature available on browsers: namely javascript blocking extensions (noscript, umatrix, etc...). Being able to block 3rd party javascript is invaluable, for example.

Quite a few applications still have their config path hardcoded.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory_supp...

use Youtube either in private window, and/or download content with youtube-dl

You can play youtube directly in major video players (mpv, vlc), at least on linux. Although, afaik, they use youtube-dl in the background.

I agree with the gp that consecutive full reboots definitely shouldn't be necessary. That Windows forces your hand on when to reboot just worsens the case.

The state of Windows update is terrible to me. Say what you will about Linux, but updating on most distros is a breeze compared to Windows.

There's a related one, though not from psychology: Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy.

"Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true--except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/6-things-know-about-nucle...

$30.6 billion requested in 2019 for the Department of Energy, which includes more than $757 million for the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE).

It's weird how no one disputes the term quality in the title. Why is technology-based playtime not considered "quality"? Doesn't it demonstrate a biased view of the issue?

Don't get me wrong, I also think there might be a problem in how kids grow up nowadays. But in my opinion, it lies more in the variety of entertainment offered to youth, rather than mobile phones/internet/video games being bad.

For native vertical tabs, you can also check Vivaldi.

I have a hard time understanding why, with widescreen so common nowadays, it isn't a standard native feature in all browsers.

It's still very suspicious though that such changes happen right after Google implemented their own native adblocker. If tomorrow 3rd party adblockers stop working, Google can now point out that people can rely on their own solution.

Paranoid? Probably. But Google's revenues are from ads, so this kind of attitude is very much warranted in this case.

This has been my experience as well. Quite a few old games have become buggy or simply unplayable under recent Windows versions, but play fine under Wine. The most common symptom is the game becoming extremely slow on more modern DirectX iterations, which can ironically often be solved by using Wine DLLs.

Very interesting. Did you get feedback from NYT on this page?

The only way to be productive... for a developer. The great majority of computer users have little to no need to tile anything, to be productive.

Probably confusing it with Dunkirk. It's the largest and latest (back in september 2018) city to implement free for all.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuit%C3%A9_des_transports_e...