My favorite current plugin woe is where it completely changes what it does but keeps the same name and it's all a part of its 'update'

You can’t tell me the information and programming for all the is stored in an egg/sperm cell

I think the UK is still the highest court for a bunch of independent countries in the Caribbean. And also they still have a few colonies there (Montserrat? Etc)

So, they still have a vested interest in the safety of its subjects who may be using the international waters in the Caribbean. Even if those persons aren’t directly affected, they may be reluctant to perform their normal activities (like fishing).

This all sounds a bit like the “better horse” framing. Maybe richer content shouldn’t be consumed as primarily a virtualized page. Maybe mixing font sizes and over sized text can be a standard in itself.

We get by with lower resolution monitors with lower pixel density all the time.

I think part of getting by with a lower PPD is the IRL pixels are fixed and have hard boundaries that OS affordances have co-evolved with.

(pixel alignment via lots of rectangular things - windows, buttons; text rendering w/ that in mind; "pixel perfect" historical design philosophy)

The VR PPD is in arbitrary orientations which will lead to more aliasing. MacOS kinda killed their low-dpi experience via bad aliasing as they moved to the hi-dpi regime. Now we have svg-like rendering instead of screen-pixel-aligned baked rasterized UIs.

I'm not sure most of us do anymore - see my 1080p/24 inch example.

No one who has bought almost any MacBook in the last 10 years or so has had PPD this low either.

One can get by with almost anything in a pinch, it doesn't mean its desirable.

Pixel density != PPD either, although increasing it can certainly help PPD. Lower density desktop displays routinely have higher PPD than most VR headsets - viewing distance matters!

If you pay with cash you’re going to be going to the cashier first anyway.

in the us, gas stations require you to pay before filling

I’ve found that self-checkouts in Canada are a great way to get rid of piles of change. You can pretty much dump it in. Curiously, it will reject all the US coins and spit them back out.

Same in Britain (except that the rejection of US coins is ... less curious). The funny thing is that sometimes they have these strange machines nearby that I have never seen anyone using[1] but which claim to be able to convert coins for you while taking a cut.

It's true that not all the self-checkouts accept cash but if you go when it's not too busy you can easily find one that does.

[1] OK, I've occasionally "used" one myself but not for putting coins into it. I just like to cheer myself up by reading the hilarious list of objects that I shouldn't insert into it.

> Curiously, it will reject all the US coins and spit them back out.

I haven't found them to be noticeably less accepting of American coins than Canadian ones. (Small sample size; American coins in change definitely are less common than they used to be, although it does happen.)

Especially dimes. Man do they just not want to take any kind of ten-cent piece sometimes.

I have to say, the ability to quickly copy and paste between macbook and iphone is such a great flow

Totally agree. It’s one of those features that feels like magic. So handy for those digital purchase codes you get with blu-rays.

Yup - I recall when this feature was released, maybe a dozen years ago, with KDEConnect. Real QoL improvement. Glad to hear some other OS's are catching up.

Apple's had Universal Clipboard since 2016 (so 9 years) with macOS Sierra and iOS 10.

> Today’s NG-2 launch is scrubbed due to weather, specifically the cumulus cloud rule. We’re reviewing opportunities for our next launch attempt based on forecasted weather.

HOLD

not sure why or how long