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    4 days ago

    Yep. My Dad in his late 70s uses this system and it works great for him.

    People make fun of it, but for people with low tech literacy this is actually far better than having a mish-mash of solutions where some their logins end up automatically saved in iOS on their phone, some are saved in Chrome on the desktop, some are just in their head, they don’t know where anything is, and are constantly losing access and resetting credentials all the time.

    And it definitely reduces the burden on me of parental tech support, when its all in the book.




  • Email has bits of both in the chain.

    Using the olden-days of desktop email apps as an example then:

      1. You compose an email and push it to your email provider
      1. Your provider pushes the email to the provider of the recipient address (including retying if necessary)
      1. The recipient user “checks for new emails” and pulls down new ones from the provider to their local app

  • The cause of this for SMS is not the phone, but the network, and the underlying technology. SMS is push-based, compared to Internet messaging which is pull-based, and uses a backoff-based redelivery mechanism. Once your message is sent and has been received by your carrier, deliver is attempted, but if the recipient handset is unavailable the carrier will try periodically to redeliver, and if it still fails the wait period between delivery attempts will increase the longer the recipient is unavailable. May be every five minutes for the first hour, but then once an hour for the next 24, for example.

    Each message is its own distinct entity which is treated separately for delivery, just like letters in the post. That’s why it was possible to get this sort of odd-seeming scenario where you have a newer message that made it through, while an older one is still stuck in retry somewhere.



  • Swiftfin is what I’m using for Plex on my Apple TV

    It’s perfect for me because it supports direct stream and decoding of the file for playback on the Apple TV - because the Apple TV is capable enough to do that.

    This is ideal because my NAS server is a venerable but now very long in the tooth HP Gen 8 microserver from 2014, so it doesn’t have the chops for reencoded streaming anymore.


  • The reality is, it varies.

    I just opened the language picker on the first site I had in my browser tabs (happened to be Epic games) and they display the language list using native names for the target language, rather than current language (screenshot attached)

    I agree it’s much better to do it this way.

    As a developer, why it doesn’t happen sometimes could just be by accident. If you intentionally set out to localise a site and put all text and menu elements into localisation files to be translated, then the language names are going to end up getting translated too. It takes conscious thought and UX design to realise that it’s better for accessibility if that single part of the site is actually just static text, regardless of what language is selected.

    And before anyone suggests using country flags in your language picker as a cool solution - please don’t, because that sucks too. There isn’t a 1:1 relationship between countries and languages and so the flag approach is a flawed compromise at best, and actually insulting at worst.


  • Yeah. When you buy a Logitech mouse that comes with a dongle in the same package, you don’t need to do anything, just plug it in.

    In my case though, I bought a replacement dongle for a mouse that was missing one, and was able to use Solarr to pair it up.

    Solaar does the other Logitech-specific stuff you need too, like macros, scroll wheel ratcheting, and all that.





  • Seems like you’re in the UK too.

    Yeah, this was never a thing until Amazon made it one.

    Thankfully, the law is very unambiguous about this, and if a parcel is left outside and then stolen before it gets into your hands (unless you specifically asked for it to be left outside) then you are entitled to a refund or replacement.

    Amazon play the numbers game and figure that replacing x number of packages costs less than needing their drivers to bring all the undeliverable packages back and try again a different day.

    It’s not a cool precedent though and I very much dislike it being normalised.








  • Even if only 1% of people used adblock, then that’s 1% of millions of dollars of ad revenue. It’s easily enough to put several people on this as a full time job if they want to.

    I’m sure Google saw it as only a minor issue at first, but the number of people using adblockers is presumably going up all the time.

    The irony being of course that adblock usage is skyrocketing only because companies like Google have made the Internet so thoroughly ad-polluted it’s intolerable to go without one.