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Okay, but that's not really helpful if you're looking for something comparable to a firestick but still want to sideload Android apps.
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Or just don't fight it and get an NVIDIA Shield. It's a 10x better experience anyway.
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Some have been wrong. Some have been delayed but eventually delivered. Some have been right. What most people seem to miss is that by setting insanely optimistic goals, it creates the possibility. Teams across his companies seem to be motivated to deliver more often than not, even if the optimistic deadlines slip. So why not set a push goal now and re-calibrate when physics or some other issue rises as they dig further into the problem?
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Microsoft has progressively been making everything an instance of Chrome. They've seemingly altogether given up the notion of native platform rendering. The win32 api for native ui elements hasn't been touched in two decades. There have been a few failed attempts to move on from it like Siverlight, WinForms, UWP, LightSwitch, etc, but they never bothered to revisit their native UI library. So now everything is a Chrome instance.
My preference would be for them to focus on fast, native rendering again, maybe with a new 'win64 api'. But I'm not sure that talent or expertise exists at MSFT anymore.
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The rest of the industry will surely follow suit in short order.
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Ah, I remember this one. I also remember that the Guitar Hero tracks didn't have the insane loudness and compression that the official track had, so the community made a number of "remasters" that sounded miles better than the album. The Moderus III remaster was the most circulated I believe.
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I remember when Microsoft used to innovate and iterate on their existing products. Their UI components were a core part of the operating system and everything was instant fast. Now, anytime someone with enough political capital wants to take a product in a new direction, they're required to build something new rather than improve what exists, and everything is an encapsulated Chrome rendering and has just enough lag to drive someone familiar with "the old times" a little crazy.
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Sorta like the equivalent of explorer.exe in Windows but for your Android device. It provides the UI elements and interface to lay out your app icons and, well, launch them. I also like to think of it as the desktop interface to your Android device.
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Not everybody works like that, Tony. Some of us have hundreds of thousands of emails in their inbox (I use flags and read/unread to distinguish things that need attention).
Also rarely but sometimes you just want to scroll down 8 years back in an instant, just for fun to see what you land on, and delete a random spam email from 2016. That's information freedom.
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Screen sizes are bigger than ever, and now, in 2025, they use screen size as the excuse to kill a useful feature?

Really lame, Google.
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Yeah but once upon a time it was one or two color-distinguished links, now I have to scroll sometimes multiple pages before I get to the "organic" serps. Enshittification has been at work at Google for a long while now.
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The enshittification continues unabated.
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If you don't want to be imprisoned by Amazon's ecosystem, Kobo is the best available alternative. Plus, this isn't some LCD, this is a colored e-ink screen, which will feel more like an actual book.
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The update gives layer 2 networks like Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, etc. a special "blob" space to save when syncing their L2 to the L1. That's where the savings are, not on L1 transactions.
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Is a smartphone with a replaceable battery, expandable storage, and a headphone jack. I can't think of a better way to stand out in today's market without spending millions on R&D.
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