With bluetooth headphones I've moved to doing everything I can while exercising. Even sitting down to read a book feels like precious time that could be spent combating a sedentary lifestyle like listening to the book instead.
User plugins are a cool feature that let users do all sorts of things you couldn't forsee as the app developer nor want to encumber the UI with every possible feature.
But it feels so hacky when you need them for things that seem like rather elementary functionality like resetting a deck.
Calibre feels the same way like needing a plugin just to estimate page count. I feel lucky when a plugin actually works.
No, an extension that has good reason to inject a script into every webpage can, with the same permissions, exfiltrate user data under a new owner. Almost all extensions thus users are vulnerable to this. There is no higher priv the script needs to ask for.
People think it boosts the signal of their post to make their agreement seem exceptional. Simple as. It's such an internet comment meme that it probably even works. Just tack it on to any rhetoric for free points.
This is like pointing out how easy it is to rob a house or someone on the street. All you need to do is break a window (made of glass!) Or approach them alone at night with a gruff voice. Life hack! Why isn't everyone abusing this free money?!
Disagree. Paying per byte is a critical part of making people realize they are part of botnets and to create the only incentives that have a shot at working naturally like pressure against poorly secured smart devices. Unlimited bandwidth just forces everyone behind Cloudflare and breaks the internet.
So, if nobody votes the way I do, I should be happy that I got to vote even though I will never get the thing I want. I don't see why that's better than having that plus other options that help me today.
Having more than one option is worth infinitely more to me than just one option I can vote on. It's not like the US dollar is going away. You present a simple example of false dichotomy rhetoric which hurts discussion and is uncharitable to the reasons someone could see the upsides of having Libra around.
Well, there's also no real payoff. Hosting your own blog is just a major HN circlejerk. Who cares?
There are 100 other things I'd rather focus on in the day than die on the hill of owning my own platform, or spending even one second remembering which server I have to SSH into or how it was setup again, revisiting the Jekyll docs just one more time, ctrl-r recursive searching for the last time I used that one command 6 months ago when my blog broke (again).
People don't like to admit this. We like to fixate on some sort of ideological purity as if we're immortal or something.
I think it's weird to compare server application development to client development which is an entirely different beast.
Client development on any platform is more complicated than the server stack. Back-end API devs have a much simpler job for most apps too. We as back-end devs like to pretend otherwise even though our app runs on just one machine.