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There's lots of YouTube carpeters that still do it in custom built tables. And these are very expensive custom builds too...

In a way, the YouTube channels I follow are like cable: they produce content of different genres and topics on a regular basis and serve it to me. There's another way to use YouTube, though: you can search for a video and find what you want exactly.

The way I use video is unlikely to be completely taken over by AI. Sure, producers might use some AI along the way, but people will continue valuing genuine programming, be it educational, comedy, news etc.

But I expect the second kind of content, the one you search for, to be mostly consumed by AI video and AI summaries as time goes on.

Like those "wood" tables that are 50% made of epoxy. It grinds my gears

Looks so nice and it's lots of fun. Great job!

With that said, I hope no one ever uses it, it's terrible.

Would also be trivial for the author to add a warning for users that have that setting enabled. Something like "Heads-up: you have requested reduced motion, and this library disabled animations as per your request"

AI should not be allowed in photos of products being sold, period. That's pure false advertising. Disclosing is not enough.

That just adds to my confusion. Some like the chain icon are really small and have minimal detail. Others like the trashcan are huge, and definitely not as small as it could be while still conveying it's meaning clearly

I think icons are nice, but using icons instead of labels, is a terrible design decision in principle. It might be acceptable for your power users, or if you know your project is only used by you and your household or something like that. My company just did this for mobile to save space. It's so confusing even though I use our product every day. Humans can read short labels faster than they can decipher icons.

Nice project. The icon sizes seem a bit too inconsistent, but if that's what your projects need, I guess you must have your reasons.

Streaming is how everyone consumes music these days

It's pretty dangerous to assume that what you do is what everyone else does too.

so everything new gets released there

Previous comment was probably referring to older music.

Exactly. I mean sure, people were definitely pirating music. But lots of people are own huge collections of CDs, and you could also just borrow other people's CDs to rip them. We were kids without money, but older folks at the time did spend money on CDs.

That's fine, if that's your choice. Reddit was awesome at first because it was a hot pot of cultures. But we lost that control. You don't see what you want unless you fight hard against the algo.

Without getting into whether the price is fair, there's not much that can be done there. Lots of solar users are using the grid without paying otherwise, and there's a real grid cost.

That's a weirdly optimistic view of technology. Specially the comparison to homophobia and racism. Yes, tech has solved people's basic but real needs for communication, banking, entertainment, etc. Then after a certain level, without aggressive dark patterns, people's needs for tech were basically met. No one needed social media, we needed social networks. No one needed inescapable "algorithms"¹ besides the ones trying to screw us over. What is this "status quo" you're talking about? And what is this technology progress that is threatening it?

¹ using the term "algorithms" here in its colloquial non-tech sense.

Is that because Bankers have mostly disappeared as a profession people deal with in person?

This is probably showing both our ages that this is new to you and very old for me.

I don't have smart washers, but I did build a smart ESP32-based [0] zigbee numerical display. Then I use Home Assistant to send the current electricity price to that display when the price changes, and send a notification to all users' phones when electricity is cheap (< 0.05€/kWh) or expensive (> 0.15€/kWh). This helps me plan my laundry and dish washing, which are the only energy intensive appliances I have. I also try to avoid cooking complex meals in the stove+oven.

[0] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010546076391.html

There's also the electricity transport costs. We're talking about the pure electricity cost here.

A mix of English and French is just called... English

Whenever you see people complaining that the EU is "too slow", more often than not it's because they benefit directly from EU rushing things without thinking.

So do I but fair point

We did an 8 hour ride on a rental recently in Central Europe, mostly through major motorways. The car dashboard disagreed with (apple) maps which disagreed with the road signage so often. The beeping was infuriating.

I think you commented on the wrong post

I once looked up those TV codes and ended up factory resetting the TV just to jailbreak out of the hotel mode and use the Hdmi.

Can you imagine having a hobby and not trying to monetize it? I really think we've completely lost the plot.

Hotel TV's often have all inputs blocked out actually. It's really stupid.

I definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.

So much happened since 2018 that this ruling feels ancient now. It was about Google making unfair deals with OEMs:

In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grounds that it abused Android’s mobile dominance to give unfair advantage to its own apps via pre-installation deals with smartphone makers.

While this specific problem is much better today, specially since of the DMA, things also got so much worse. And even if a new anti-trust ruling would occur today, we could expect it to drag on almost a decade again...

These efforts will also save a lot of old macbooks from the landfill in the future.

To me the cherry on top was that they started modifying how third party icons look to match the Liquid Glass. People started complaining to us that our app icon looked blurry because of it.