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Cool, I hate it.

Radio buttons are in html spec for over 30 years and they allow extensive CSS styling on every part of the element.

Functionality-wise, there's very little that can be improved

Yep. Honestly can't name a single major new smartphone feature that I would consider a dealbreaker that wasn't available 10 years ago.

The last things that made me excited about a new phone was contactless payments and Android auto, but both are pretty old now.

Now it's just a slightly different ui and maybe a bit better camera when I got a new phone.

Same. Also I don't get using RPis for hosting all kinds of services at home - there are hundreds of mini-pcs on ebay cheaper than Rpi, with more power, more ports, where you can put in a normal SSD drive and RAM, with sturdy factory made enclosure... To me Rpi seems a weird choice unless you are tinkering with the gpio ports.

Yep. I got over 250TB/month traffic (150TB+ outbound) on Hetzner, and I don't pay anything additional for that, just ~800$ month for 11 servers.

At 7c/GB that would be over 10500$ just for the traffic alone, and probably about the same for the processing power.

I have more than 10 servers on Hetzner (some dedicated, some VPS), for 5+ years and the same experience, once one of the dedicated servers had some hardware issues, and an hour later the drives were moved to another box and it was running again. Other than that time, I had downtime only because of my own fault.

Pretty sure over these years AWS has experienced a lot more issues overall.

TBH I don't need "fine grained rules for each app". There is only one rule I care about for most apps - block all notifications.

General web development. PHP, javascript, css. I used to do some java projects as well, but not lately.

I know it's not mainstream to use NetBeans these days, but I don't care, I'm just used to it and it gets the job done. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Not sure if you mean that sarcastically, but it's a really boring and stable OS, the setup is just a few clicks and hitting enter a few times. I think I haven't even bothered to change the wallpaper on my newest laptop.

There's nothing really special about Debian as well, it could as well be Ubuntu, Mint or anything else that's plug n play. I'm just used to Debian, and it comes with less junk I don't need installed by default.

Nothing interesting. I spend like 99% of my computer time in the web browser, ide and terminal.

Chrome, git, ssh, docker, netbeans

I too used to obsess over customizing my OS. Now I just install Debian, a handful of programs I use daily and that's it. I can recreate my setup on another machine in 20 minutes.

Not really, I have a Discord account for at least 5 years, I'm a member of several Discord communities and none of them are related to gaming. For me it's kind of a replacement for IRC.

good riddance!

I just cut off the broken connector and put on a new one in 2 minutes...

I have several non-ecc machines running 24/7 for years without any crashes.

So pretty much the same as this: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

It still exists, the last app update was uploaded yesterday, but it seems most of the users didn't stick around after the initial hype died down. I guess the early focus on monetization and trying to turn it into payment app didn't help.

IMHO it's not so much of a problem with google search, but the internet as a whole.

Most genuine discussions have moved from open, publicly accessible web to places inaccessible to search engines and general public. Smaller niche forums, blogs and personal websites with no financial incentive have died out. People have moved to Facebook, Discord, Whatsapp, Instagram, Slack, Twitter and other places behind logins. Online newspapers and portals are increasingly using paywalls. Most of the genuine human interactions and quality content is not indexable anymore. Instead we have a million affiliate marketers fighting for the top positions in search results with every possible seo trick.

Reddit is one of the last places with huge amounts of publicly accessible online discussions.

I have the same experience. I have tried my friends VR set a few times and another one at a work party, and overall it was pretty underwhelming. Uncomfortable, a bit nausea inducing and nothing particularly impressive. Kind of cool to try out, but not something I would want to use every day or pay for. At the current state I don't see what's the fuss about.

Also VR as some kind of social networking replacement seems unlikely to me because huge par of the time people spend on social networks is not while sitting at home dedicating time to this activity. Most people are not going to lug around VR headset everywhere they go.

Udemy can sign a receipt with a simple cryptographic key. But what's the benefit of blockchain here?

I'm using X220 from 2011, it has i7, 8GB RAM and SSD, running Debian Linux.

I don't even feel the need to upgrade. It's in ideal condition, I love the keyboard and form factor, and for my daily tasks mostly involving terminal, text editor and web browser if feels snappier than many modern machines I have worked with.

I bought a new Dell laptop for my wife a year ago, and while the CPU and GPU are obviously way more capable for tasks like running games or encoding video, overall it just feels slower. It takes longer to boot, launch programs, even just switching between windows has some small delay. It probably would be quicker if I installed the same OS, but still - I feel better user experience from a decade old ThinkPad than new $1000+ machine out of box.

If your solution is to trust the Internet Archive, why not just skip the blockchain part?

Any hash can match virtually unlimited number of different turd images.

And even if you trust the hash function to never be broken or brute forced with future technology, it can only verify the image, not prevent it from being deleted or altered, rendering the NFT broken and useless. Verifiably broken and useless, but still...

Wow. This is really awful, would be bad idea even for a major version. Shipping it in minor version is insane. It's the worst kind of breaking change, not just resulting in error or exception, but can easily lead to loss or damage of data and unexpected behavior without anyone immediately noticing.

makes renewables more profitable

In other words - increases energy prices for everyone.

Does DO even offer dedicated servers? I have used their vps in the past. It was ok, no issues, but more expensive than hetzners vps or dedicated for large traffic/cpu needs.

My app allows for "share nothing" architecture, basically using multiple DNS A records as load balancing. Currently it has 6 servers.

Even if 5 of them would go down at the same time, the site would still work as intended (thought probably couldn't handle peak load with less than 3 or 4). If one of or two are down, nothing happens.

Also completely reinstalling a server takes around an hour.

I handle ~150TB and 26M page views for ~$500 by simply renting a few dedicated servers at hetzner. And if I didn't need quite a lot of processing power (more than average website), it would be much lower. I only need so many servers for the CPU power, not traffic.

Not really that simple, I see a lot of potential for abuse - using bots and brigading to mass downvote your competitors or political opponents.

Couple of positions up or down in google results for somewhat popular and valuable keywords can mean the difference in thousands of dollars per day of ad or affiliate revenue. I suspect it would get pretty wild if google launched something like this. There already are black-hat seo methods and services, but something so simple and direct would turn it up to 11.

Not surprising. It's incomparably quicker and more profitable to list a few top selling products with affiliate links and a bunch of relevant keywords, than to spend significant time and money actually researching and comparing these products in a meaningful way.

Same, I also often use site:reddit.com Thankfully Reddit is still left mostly indexable, but most of the other sites where discussions take place are not.