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There are UI guidelines to make apps show something however useless it might be. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/loading

I guess most developers go for a logo rather than a spinner. Maybe they worry that folk will forget what app they tapped on?

Hardly surprising since they were acquired by Google.

It’s only piracy if you grab a cutlass and storm the local shops. It’s time to call it what it is = digital theft / running unlicensed software / whatever. If someone hacks into your accounts, I doubt you’d call them a pirate for stealing all you personal videos and pictures, taking over your steam account, ‘borrowing’ your netflix, and so on. The whole thing is deeply uncool.

Personally I wish the laws would change to make copyright non-transferable from the original artists, who deserve reward for their efforts but shouldn’t be a meal ticket for others. I’d also like to see abandonware legitimised - if folk can’t buy it then it should be fair game.

The rubber on mine turned sticky and I got rid of it. It was nasty to touch. I’d get another if it was a different material. Ended up with a G903 but not keen and want something new after just a year.

Powerbeats Pro have hooks over the ears and only get used when a wire would be intrusive such as workouts. I don’t much like them but they are hard to lose. They’re notorious for not charging properly and worked much better on Apple than Android, but at least I still both left and right buds.

Earbuds are worse, it’s always one that’s dead because it didn’t sit properly in the charging case.

My experience: via iPhone 8 + Apple adaptor, it couldn’t drive big cans, and even for earbuds they lose significant volume. My phone has the 3.5mm jack, and it can deafen me. This matters more when hooking up to sound systems because it raises the noise floor.

It’s better than nothing, but it’s not good. I don’t know about the USB-C alternatives though - I can only hope they are better than the ‘lightning’ connector ones.

No headphone jack, no sale. I have three hard criteria:

headphone socket usb-c charging expandable storage

I’ll stick with my Sony. Two-out-of-three isn’t good enough.

I do hope so. Temporary things have a stickiness that makes them semi-permanent. May as well go with 418 then :o)

CP is something that’s prevented me from hosting imaging solutions in the past, out of risk-avoidance so I’ve given it a lot of thought over the years. The lack of support from Cloudflare hasn’t helped, and making it USA-only weakens it as a general solution. That said, I’ll still run some sites via Cloudflare because I’m certain it tracks the content regardless without the mandate to enforce or alert, and that tracking may help lead to the original source [pure opinion here with hard facts, but I use CF for other reasons].

Now that I want to host fediverse things safely, it’s still a concern. I’m not in the US, I’m in the UK and host in Canada. Doesn’t matter greatly. They’d still take all my equipment while they investigate IF they had sufficient evidence to charge. But they WON’T because the CP is attributable to someone else. The main takeaway from all of this, for me, is to NEVER take backups of actual content, only settings/accounts. Holding archives is dangerous because only I would have access to their contents.

Defederate aggressively, block paths as needed, keep logs, don’t run it from home, etc etc. Keeping records gets most folk out of sticky legal situations.

451 or 403 would be more appropriate as it’s not available for legal reasons. 410 Gone would also fit well if it’s a permanent block. I’d steer clear of 5xx server side because it encourages retry-later. The client has requested something not served, firmly placing it into the 4xx category. The other problem with 503 in particular is that it indicates server overload, falsely in the case of a path ban.

Sad to hear that about Hey: that was how I felt about Basecamp. It’s a shame they are repeating the same mistakes.

I’m halfway between proton and fastmail, mostly because I like and trust protonvpn. It’s tough to choose. For pure email, I’d pick fastmail.

That’s good to know, I don’t think I’ve had any communication about this 😕

That’s correct: I use FOSS where possible, and if I must use closed source it must store data in an open standard.

As you insist on evidence: I can create and open 100% of my archives in all systems I use now or in the foreseeable future without installing additional software. RAR fails that test.

The other reason: RAR is a closed format, and like I said there are better alternatives that are not proprietary.

Likewise your philosophy is that RAR is best and you are free to have that opinion also without providing evidence.

I scan all files already, so nothing new there.

Personally I choose to not deal with RAR and use a format that isn’t proprietary, isn’t patent encumbered, and is FOSS. These are rational, evidence based choices. There are plenty of alternatives that fit my needs better as well as those of my clients and peers.

In no particular order: Fastmail, Proton, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, Gandi (free if you buy a domain), I’ve heard Hey is ok, but haven’t used it.

Indeed, I don’t trust those either. As for RAR being “bad”, no I don’t agree with that - but I’ve only ever seen it used in that context. If someone sent me one it would raise an eyebrow, much more so than if someone sent me a .7z file. Likewise if I used it professionally, it would arouse suspicions amongst my peers more than if I used 7zip.

I’ve never come across a legitimate use of RAR, you are quite right about the link to warez/virus/trojans and other malware but it will never shake that association. As for Kaspersky, I trust that steaming pile of Russian spyware even less.

This is great news, I’ve just switched to Firefox & Firefox Focus on Android as a longtime user of Mobile Chrome and Desktop Firefox. It always felt weak on mobile, but things have changed. Still hating the purple though, and the placement of the new tab button but that’s a small price to pay.

It’s much the same when I send .tar.gz / .tgz files. Folk get uppity about it not being .zip. I don’t bother with other formats purely because I know I can expand them anywhere without installing additional software.

As for .rar, I always view them with suspicion. Dodgy.