My colleagues having a chat about their favourite tv shows in the operations channel at 7am have entered the chat.

I know, but those techniques are more likely to cause selection weirdness than flexbox/etc, which is why I mention them specifically.

On mobile: multiple top and bottom tool/nav bars that automatically show/hide themselves when you scroll. They’re invariably more irritating than if they were just pinned at the top of the page (or perhaps viewport, but ideally page - I can scroll to the top of I want it back)

On desktop: animations tied to scrolling.

Anywhere: any kind of popup, modal, etc that I didn’t click on something to get. Please fuck alllllllll the way off.

The browser implements the text selection behaviour, but how infuriating it is depends on how convoluted your page construction is.

On a simple page with no floats, overlaid elements, negative margins, absolute positioning, hidden stuff, and other css layout tomfoolery, it’s perfectly predictable. It’s only when designers do designer things does it start to break down.

“Winning” is like making it to max level in a mmorpg. It’s not the end but it is the beginning of the endgame.

Best of luck with that.

Gimme dat blowhole mod

If you’re making a mil a year in revenue there’s a good chance your profit margin is tiny and licensing fees could obliterate it.

Omg they’re going to get n-bombed by a 12 year old to death!

• Larger, OLED screen
• Hall effect sensor sticks
• Better rumble
• Support for 2242 m.2 drives
• Second SD card reader
• Better cooling (I’d gladly have a lump in the back middle if it allowed for a quieter/better fan)
• Better accessory connection options (eg a standard for attaching stuff like extra batteries to the back) - I would prefer this to adding more battery (ie weight) to the unit itself.
• Tweaks to the back buttons so they work no matter where on the button you press
• Some sort of charging dock connection standard to avoid the manual usb connection. Maybe just a usb-c on the bottom
• Small case design change to prevent sd cards being snapped when opening (I haven’t done it, but only by luck)
• Replace the carry case with a plastic cover to protect screen/sticks like dbrand’s (or at least make it a lot smaller)

Better performance/more ram would be good too I guess but honestly having a unified platform with fixed specs to target has a lot of benefits.

I am not sure how Manifest V3 is relevant here?

Because they literally tout security as one of the primary reasons for forcing it onto people.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/

The first line is “A step in the direction of security, privacy, and performance.”

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/mv2-transition/

“Manifest V3 is more secure, performant, and privacy-preserving than its predecessor.”

It’s the first thing they say.

If it doesn’t prevent a malicious extension from lifting your password in perhaps the most dumb and naive way I can think of, then it seems fairly disingenuous to describe it as “secure”.

They use data, just not the data from the customers paying them for enterprise licenses.

Honestly fear of leaking customer data is the only thing that’s kept my work from spunking every single byte of data we have at some LLM service a lazy attempt to come up with a product they can sell with minimal effort. They’re gonna love this shit.

I don’t break very many cables myself, but I’ve certainly broken a couple of Apple cables - they seem particularly delicate.

All it takes is picking up your phone without realising it’s still on charge and getting unlucky with force/angle. That won’t destroy it but it’ll damage the interface between the cable and the plug enough that it’ll start to deteriorate and eventually come apart.

Wow.

He looks like a plastic bag full of porridge with hair plugs.

Yeah I’ve got one too. They’re certainly nicer, but the thing that worries me is while the braided cable is a little more durable they’ve taken away the strain relief.

(That said these usb-c ones look like they have strain relief, so maybe?)

You can bet your left nut that braiding will do precisely zero for durability. No way they want to eat into their cable profits.

Doing the lord’s work

Holy shit that’s too real. I come here to get away from work!

Fair enough. But devil’s advocate: presumably they’re still selling it there at a profit?

I mean there a number of big publishers who don’t seem to give two fucks about their image if there’s profit in it…