Rumor has it that apps that use Real Debrid are way easier to use since you can just go to a TV show and watch it. Even a non technical person can use apps like Weyd. Real Debrid supposedly caches torrents on their server so you can instantly stream them over an encrypted connection.

I’ve heard that Google might have information about Real Debrid and apps that support it. I cannot confirm or deny this myself.

That’s the thing about all the pirate apps (apps like Weyd, Syncler, the now-defunct TVZion, etc). They’re made by people that actually care, not by companies that are only in it for the money. The user experience is usually a lot better. One of those apps plus a Real Debrid subscription and you’re set.

For desktop PC use, I think I’m liking Fedora more than Debian. The newer packages have been useful - Wayland seems less buggy for instance (thankfully I’ve got an AMD laptop, but unfortunately my desktop has an Nvidia GPU)

I’ve thought about the Atomic version, but don’t really have much time to learn a lot of new stuff at the moment. How different is the workflow with the atomic versions vs the regular Fedora?

I moved from Windows 10 to Fedora/Debian recently. Dual-booting them until I figure out which one I want to use. I’ve used Debian on servers for 20+ years, but Fedora seems like a great distro too. I switched to Fedora at work too, and I’m enjoying it. At work, I can choose between a MacBook with MacOS, or a Lenovo ThinkStation or X1 Carbon / P1 with Windows or Fedora.

The only Windows-specific app I really cared about was Visual Studio, but Jetbrains Rider is looking like a good replacement. I don’t really do any PC gaming any more.

NodeBB is probably less painful to deal with as a system adminstrator, since it doesn’t use Ruby.

Lots of forum software used to have threaded discussions, but most of them settled on a more linear commenting experience, maybe 20 years ago.

it stopped being a monopoly when competition was created,

Yes

construe that as “monopoly equals competition”

No

My original comment was saying that getting rid of a monopoly doesn’t necessarily increase competition. That’s still what I’m saying. Decreasing the number of competitors never increases competition.

We know that in every single example so far that Monopoly and Competition inversely correlate by definitions

A direct (not inverse) correlation between them happens all the time in tech. Smaller companies get sick of the market leader or monopoly for some reason, produce a better product, and people switch over.

For example, Internet Explorer had a web browser monopoly. Around 98% of web users used it. It lost that monopoly not because it was shut down, but because other, better browsers were released and people organically switched over. Increasing the competition reduced its monopoly.

The same could be said about Teamspeak users moving to Discord. Teamspeak had a monopoly on real-time gamer chat, but people moved to Discord because it was better.

Show us one example where shutting down a company increased competition among the remaining companies. That’s just not something that happens.

Smaller companies compete by building products that are better than the current market leaders. If the market leader disappears, they no longer have that incentive, as people are going to buy their products even if they don’t improve them in any way, since the customers don’t have a choice.

I’m not saying there won’t be drones any more. I’m saying that they won’t be competitive with DJI in terms of quality or value of money because they don’t need to be.

Similar reason to why they banned Dahua and Hikvision cameras from US government facilities. No intentional backdoor have been found in those either, just some security vulnerabilities that have been patched. They’re still very widely used, and you should always have security cameras on a separate VLAN with no internet access, regardless of which country they’re manufactured in.

I use mine to check if my solar panels are dirty or if leaves/branches have fallen on them, and I used it to take photos of the roofers’ work when I had my house reroofed.

DJI has 70% of the global drone market share, so banning this company might actually help innovation.

That’s… Not how innovation works. Why would other companies want or need to innovate if their main competitor disappears? If anything, the opposite will happen - they won’t have to try as hard to make a great product, since they no longer need to be better than the market leader.

Ahh, it’s probably using some proprietary features that only exist in Adobe products.

I’m not sure if they still sell it, but Adobe used to have a suite of form tools where the person filling out the form had to use Adobe Acrobat (it used some non-standard PDF form features), and the company collecting the form responses had to use software built on top of Adobe ColdFusion (which costs thousands of dollars per server). They really tried to lock people in to their form ecosystem.

You can’t fill it out with Firefox? I think pdf.js (which Firefox uses) supports PDF forms.

In E2E tests you should ideally be finding elements using labels or ARIA roles. The point of an E2E test is to use the app in the same way a user would, and users don’t look for elements by class name or ID, and definitely not by data-testid.

The more your test deviates from how real users use the system, the more likely it is that the test will break even though the actual user experience is fine, or vice versa.

This is encouraged by Testing Library and related libraries like React Testing Library. Those are for unit and integration tests though, not E2E tests. I’m not as familiar with the popular E2E testing frameworks these days (we use an internally developed one at work).

In an alternate reality, we’d all be using JSSS, which was even worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets

In that case, it makes sense. I guess it differs depending on use case.

I’m a developer and am stepping through code in a debugger pretty frequently, which makes heavy use of the F keys. I use the F keys far more often than the media keys.

. A lot of laptops and keyboards ship out with media keys as the default on the top row now

That’s always the first setting I disable in the UEFI. I hate it.

You can’t easily run Darwin OS these days, unfortunately. Apple used to release an ISO you could install on a PC or Mac, but they stopped doing that a long time ago. These days, Apple release the bare minimum amount of code as required by its license, and it’s just a pile of code without the build scripts required to actually build it.

My commute in the Bay Area is 15-20 mins without traffic, but it can be 50 minutes if there’s some incident on the 101 or if I accidentally try to commute during the highest peak period.

I’d love to take a train to work, and I used to take Caltrain every day, but it’s just not feasible where I live now.

I think LA is even worse than the Bay.