yeah, I've tried their 24" 4k monitor, was okay, but not great, so returned.
24" is the max size I can tolerate with short-sightedness, but avoid using glasses for the monitor.
"There is online booking system, but it never shows any available slots. But then there are few companies that for 50-100 euros can get an appointment."
^^^ shouldn't complain about this on Hacker News.
I wrote my own bot and it took a day or so.
The appointment slot came in in 30 minutes thereafter ;)
He has his own agenda. And probably asked ChatGPT to refine the text. It's quite dull.
Also with constantly pushing Telegram as "secure" messenger (and belittling competitors for "innovating" less), for me Durov is just a clear-cut hypocrite (and a wannabe who enjoys running sticker sale campaigns more than addressing real issues - not just talking about them when he got affected). Not a person I'd trust.
Gmail and other consumer services have deliberately dumbed down e-mail experience. No proper quoting, threads by default (instead of single one by one emails), hidden text, subjects. Consumers were not educated to clean unneeded chunks, instead they're just responding above the fold, creating a mess of a read. I still can't stand long unedited emails, recalling old years of FidoNet and GoldEd mail editor - how clean and neat it was, when every Kb was counted! Still cleaning all my in/out emails and hate to text-encode large attachments.
I don't buy this nonsense about Putin having ambitions beyond Right-Bank Ukraine. Putin didn't expect such resistance, and he understands now that Ukraine won't allow itself to become entirely Russian. Western Ukraine is not a match for Russia ideologically or historically, and since the war began, Central Ukraine has become much more radical in its stance toward everything Russian. He now realizes that Eastern Ukraine is the only area where Russia can be tolerated , if ceded to Russia.
And please -- anyone who talks about European ambitions is either naive or deliberately spreading propaganda.
The regions are largely already occupied. Are you aware of how many refugees have already left for Ukraine? They are not coming back to those territories unless they are liberated. A lot of pro-Russian refugees left for Russia. Any non-conscripts left for Europe.
I know what my relatives in Ukraine want -- they want to stop the war without it progressing further and without the conscription of 18 year olds. Zelenskiy should have held a referendum on Crimea years ago -- he promised it before getting elected. They purposely want to avoid this because most Ukrainians would vote to cede Crimea to end the war. This could have been used as a strong negotiating chip with Russia. Ukraine could have negotiated the return of some of the already occupied territories in exchange for accepting the loss of Crimea. But it's not happening! And nobody is allowed to talk about this -- not even hint at it! I ask my numerous Ukrainian contacts privately, and they all agree: cede Crimea, at least to end the war.
It is quite obvious that Ukraine cannot win a war of attrition, and the longer this drags on, the more devastated Ukraine will be when the war ends. The amount of damage to the economy, infrastructure, agriculture, housing, etc., is already beyond recovery. Have you seen how much the World Bank expects Ukraine will need to rebuild? More than half a trillion USD -- that's today's figure.
So yeah, you can continue the demagoguery about "who gave you the right" or "what if, what then" -- but Ukraine needs concrete steps and the acceptance that it will have to lose something in order to secure its further independence and, hopefully, future prosperity.
PS: But if you think losing millions of lives, losing bright minds who don't want to have to do anything with this war, is more important than ceding some pro-russian oblasts - go on the frontlines and fight for this flawed ideology.
PPS: I checked your posting history on HN and you seem to have joined 3 months ago to support Ukrainian-government's official narrative. I would have saved my time responding to you, should I checked it earlier.
Ukraine - as how it wants to exist in the present: West-oriented and with Ukrainian-speaking population - can exist without these parts Russia demands. Those parts were Russia oriented in the first place. There is no reason to forcefully conscript those unwilling to fight and send them to die for no reason. This war shouldn't be lasting that long. "Threat to it's very existence" is a lie, Ukraine will be smaller, but it could have much stronger identity. The risk of losing more land to Russia is much higher than keeping pushing up this false ideology about "existence risk". Why there is still no referendum about Crimea, which Zelenskiy promised, if elected? He has drastically changed the course for some reason and many Ukrainians oppose this suicidal fighting for nothing. There is minerals deal already - time to stop and negotiate some better terms, instead of blank refusing them.
PS: I think I recalled Dennis' nickname.. Y0nkie :) dude, hope you will get out of this safe and sound. I know it's not your war, as neither it would have been mine, should I have stayed in Ukraine..
Damn.. even though we were both on the same reverse-engineering/cracking scene back in the '90s, but I can't immediately recall his scene nickname -- his full name has immediately slammed me back. Were we all the same gang - whether from .ua or from .ru, hanging on IRCs, chatting in English and Russian (almost nobody spoke Ukrainian online back then), although Dennis was from a Russian-speaking part of UA.. I see his blog is still predominantly in Russian (with ENG translation), it is so damn pathetic that Ukrainians are being suppressed into ukrainization and fighting for a cause many do not side with - four oblasts which Russia demands should be given to them to stop the war. It's unpopular opinion, but people in Ukraine do not want to die and fight for being "pro-Europe". It is simply not worth it. As a Ukrainian who emigrated decades ago, I am asking everyone to push Zelenskiy towards being more accommodating to Russian demands, give them their f*cking four oblasts and the Crimea, but stop the war! It can't be won.
I'd like to hope that Dennis could get away from serving or use his tech skills in drone teams or whatever.. but how many other talented people are being taken to the front lines against their own will and against their cause?! :(
I just can't stand email OTP.
Before we had passwords, now we have passwords + email OTP. And doesn't matter if you forgot password - you will receive password reset to the same email. You already prove email ownership by resetting or using password - why sending another useless "security token" to the same email. Pure nonsense. Whoever designs all of this clearly has little idea of what they are doing :(
UX/UI is steadily going downhill on everything where it was "re-designed". I feel new generation wants to re-imagine everything, at a cost of usability.
And vitalik.eth was just essaying on how important privacy protocols are and how Ethereum must adopt them... Let EU ban ETH then and shift closer to the caveman era and be even more laughing stock for the (expectedly) more crypto-friendly US.
Telegram is a much worse messenger when it comes to E2E encryption and default settings.