Every time in human civilization there's a new technology, existing humans rail against it and want the Good Old Days back, existing children grow up to get used to it, the generation-to-be-born knows it as the normal baseline, then maybe future generations rediscover the past and take the best things about how things used to be without being held back by how bad they were. (see retro games made after retro games died)

Yeah, pixel games are huge now.

But I think it's more because of growing up with it have now pc, money. Not because people rediscover pixel games.

> When they introduced a mobile first UI onto a desktop OS…

That's when I jumped to Macs and haven't looked back since. Windows is just a glorified game console to me now, but I have enough fun with PS5/Switch exclusives.

Though macOS is also becoming annoying, not quite to that breaking point yet, but worrying

Meanwhile Linuxland seems like a chaos of 10000 people who all think they're right, under an anal overlord

Maybe it's time to dig the Commodore 64 back up? :')

But who cares though, soon AI will make operating systems meaningless, right?

The ellipsis problem is solved by using ... instead of the dedicated unicode character

3 characters instead of 1, how can you live with yourself??

In UTF-8, … is just as long as ...

Oh. Touché

Lots of systems convert … for you automatically.

> If not, who are your preferred providers?

Can we have fully decentralized mesh networking yet?

I love how some hyper-sci-fi settings have the concept of a "datasphere" (analogous to atmosphere): an actual physical cloud of ubiquitous nanorobots that provide connectivity, storage and computation.

Wouldn't that also be ideal for AI too the way it's shaping up to be? Any device anywhere would just need to connect to a signal "neuron" of the global brain (possibly becoming a neuron itself) and it should theoretically be able to fetch anything.

First we gotta migrate everybody to IPv6, then we can start talking.

Dealing with the patchwork of lesser-known infra providers in the EU is work enough. You want to live life on hard mode!

If everyone started doing it, it would get easier and easier. There's no inherent reason why the various AWS services shouldn't be completely replaceable with similar services from other vendors on a whim.

Meh, best I could do is an atmosphere controlled by an American PBC.

WOW I had been using the Codex app (Claude/Anthropic have a few annoying problems) and wishing there was something like this!

I often get ideas while I'm in bed or outside away from my computer, and was thinking that the ability to code on your computer from your phone, through AI, would be such a killer app.

My favorite use case would be asking the AI to review code and going over its findings/suggestions while I'm away from the computer or trying to fall asleep.

map hax

How do you export/access/parse iMessage history?

Why they would block it? If the goal is to use their services. Intention matters.

And PC gamers think only Apple rips people off :')

The majority of PC gamers don't even acknowledge that Macs exist.