I don’t know why but they don’t feel like never ending soap operas

If you haven’t already, you should give the spin offs a chance. Neither my wife or I can stand Yellowstone (we struggled through the first season and then gave up), but 1883 and 1923 are both fantastic shows.

I generally consume on my phone and produce on my computer. Phones are still mostly horrible for producing anything with a slight complexity.

When they dropped sms support I was no longer able to convince people to migrate to signal.

Before I could make the argument that you need one sms app anyway so that app might just as well be Signal instead of the one that comes preloaded with your phone. That way people would gradually get more and more secure messaging as time went on. When sms support was dropped, Signal could not replace an existing app and adding another messing app is much less appealing than replacing one.

There was an EU rule about ten years ago that stipulated that rear lights are no longer mandatory in daylight. The reasoning being to save on fuel. Which is a ridiculous reason, even more so with today’s LED lights.

I don’t know about other EU countries but this was the reason that Sweden removed the requirement. All cars in Sweden used to have the rear lights turned on at all time, even if the light switch was in the off position, but that changed around the same time.

It used to be mandatory with always on rear lights in Sweden (you couldn’t even turn them off). But an adaptation to EU rules removed that requirement. 😓

Spark, it reminds me of Google inbox (although I’m still bitter over Google killing inbox).

I use the free tier of Spark, and have never felt a need to upgrade. The free version contains all the features I need.

That makes a lot of sense actually.

I never understood the benefit of this. You need to go backwards at some point regardless.

Kalles kaviar, ägg, knäckebröd.

Whitney Houston’s “I will always love you”. I love Dolly Parton but Whitney slayed this song.

Tracking

Their eCommerce platforms are not changing from a technology perspective. They are raising their prices. There is no technology related news here.

It’s a pain to get other app stores to get uptake on Android since Google refuses to let other app stores be distributed via Google Play. So if Steam starts to distribute games for Android, the Steam app would be thrown out from Google Play.

It’s the same reason why the F-droids user base is so small and will never reach the main public. As soon as your app store needs to be installed via a third party web site, you have lost.

I hate articles that are just a tease for a YouTube video.

Yes, if you want it to. There is a pwa button that appears on pwa supported sites that lets you toggle between app window mode and normal browse tab mode.

Fullscreen will hide the window decorations, but that won’t solve the use case of “behaving like a desktop application”. I use PWAs for websites that are applications (Outlook, Teams, Spotify etc). I want these windows to be dedicated to those applications and nothing else. They should appear in my window list on alt+tab, not be able to navigate away to something else etc.

Similarly, Rubino says web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, extensions, bookmarks

But why, the whole purpose is to behave like a stand alone app.

Since they specified “falsely” does that mean that there is legitimate witchcraft going on?

They disappeared for a reason. It was a crappy gimmick.