Sometimes it’s the only option or the preferred option.

I haven’t. Maybe someday I’ll be willing to, but not today. It’s a hassle and extremely intrusive to provide my bank statement and photo ID to a company whose security I don’t trust.

That’s usually how I pay if someone requests money. Venmo is owned by PayPal but my account there works just fine.

I thought about that, but they ask for enough info that they’d be able to identify me. And then they’d probably ban me. At least right now I have the option of restoring my account, even though I have no intention of doing so.

The one that’s not shown: Standalone Passwords app

Thanks. That’s good to know.

Use this shortcut from Ricky Mondello, the lead for Apple’s password development team.

I get the feeling they wanted to do a Passwords app for some time but needed to get, probably executive-level, buy-in to get it done.

Apple will get bad PR about this: they are “Sherlocking” password managers. 1Password will write a blog post about how this is actually good for them because now password management is mainstream; 3rd party password managers will decide to focus more on the enterprise market; Microsoft will come out with a competing password manager that re-uses the name of a previous product and is bundled with Edge, etc. How it always goes.

Any USB-C headphones work.

Imagine the bed is a clock. The 12 o’clock position is at the head — I don’t think anything else makes sense. That makes it unambiguous.

The positions are 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock.

Did you mean White Castle?

This report is from 2016. It’s mainly of historical interest.

Ad-based apps on your phone.

It’s been done already, you say? Not like this: the front-facing camera is used to detect eye gaze. A counter on the screen starts at 30 seconds and only counts down while you are looking at the screen. If you look away, the counter, and the ad, pauses. The app doesn’t continue until you’ve watched the entire ad.

It was added in January 2004 and is a reference to the quote in Spider Man.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/12522

Another senior dev here, one of those weirdos who likes light mode. Sometimes. VS Code’s light mode is blinding to me, and I never use it. But Nova’s is beautiful and I prefer it. It depends how well the app renders fonts and colors. The oversaturated colors used in most apps are a big problem.

The ?? operator?

This doesn’t sound like a serious problem for a company like Google. They can afford to solve it by brute force — just put a Wi-Fi hotspot in every single room.

So this is confusing. I did not know about the maps mode (thanks @randomperson@lemmy.today!). If you show the map and then press the “target” symbol to get your location, Kagi will prompt to enable geolocation.

When using a regular search for “chinese food near me” I see results for a city thousands of km away. But if I select Maps first, then it shows my local area and I can search on the map.

Nope. For that I use the bang shortcut feature to send it to Google.

One nice thing about that, is that you can use g as a bang, instead of !g. It’s a little thing but easier to type on mobile.

Casey reviewed Google Glass too. He generally liked it but it wasn’t the same kind of experience he showed here.

Unlike some Apple enthusiasts, I really liked the Glass concept. The technology was there, but the experience was not.

In addition to being an Apple enthusiast I am also a tech nerd. To us, the tech seems like the hard part; the experience can be figured out later. What I’ve learned is that getting the experience right is actually much harder than getting the tech right.

Strange when the party receiving the “commission” gets to dictate the terms of that commission.