Why are the Simpsons yellow, yet the black guy in the show is black?

There's no "neutral" rather its just "white without specifying it"

That is your perception. What is neutral is cultural, maybe personal.

I grew up in two multi-cultural places so do not have the same default perceptions.

Why should the Simpsons hold any relevance to emoji?

Graphene is a great product but their incessant mud slinging at any service that isn't theirs is tiresome at best.

Some of their points are valid but way too often they're unable to accept that different services aren't always trying to solve the same problem.

> their incessant mud slinging at any service that isn't theirs is tiresome at best.

100%. But you know, sadly I've noticed that non-experts are impressed by elitism. So you don't have to be good, you just have to shit on others, and passerbys will interpret that as being very competent.

Which is super ironic, from a project which about privacy but only supports hardware built by the biggest surveillance company.

I'm getting real tired of seeing Silicon Valley reinvent trains.

You are assuming a car is required.

The whole issue with car dependency is that it is a massive barrier for participating in society.

Public transit is orders of magnitude cheaper, and very viable and often the better option in the New York area.

> and often the better option

Even before congestion pricing this was the major factor. It's often quicker, more reliable, more pleasant, and has less variation in delays to ride the train/subway in NYC. Speaking from personal experience I could easily eat the congestion charge to daily commute into Manhattan, and I'd rather still take the train because I can do my mindless scrolling or read a book during that time.

The only time I've found that a car is better is during the weekends with a group larger than about 4 people. The train schedules are terrible, the commute time isn't bad, and the price per ticket (assuming you're coming from the outer suburbs) vs parking and tolls works out to be a wash.

Don't Steam Deck games run on Wayland?

AFAIK, Steam Deck runs a Wayland compositor, then runs most (or all?) games via XWayland, to the point that gamescope doesn't even expose Wayland to clients by default. How to count this is left as an exercise to the reader.

Man I hate Teams with a passion but if someone on my team said this I'd know they were full of it. I use Linux and the PWA is functional enough.

Which is totally fine IMO, it was weird to me that they weren't going with this approach when they first announced it.

Macs blocked launching apps from unverified devs, but you can override in settings. I thought they could just do something along those lines.

That's not fine at all. A developer who doesn't want to (or can't) distribute through the Play Store will now need to teach their users how to enable developer mode and toggle a hidden setting. This raises the barrier a bit more than the current method of installing outside the Play Store.

It's not fine. Some apps particularly banking apps have developer mode detection and refuse to work if developer mode is enabled.

I've switched banks for less.

Until there are no banks left to switch to

Maybe this sounds dark but see also how the net is tightening around phones that allow you to run open firmware after you've bought the hardware for the full and fair price. We're slowly being relegated to crappy hobbyist projects once the last major vendors decide on this as well, and I don't even understand what crime it is I'm being locked out for

We're too small a group for commercial vendors to care. Switching away isn't enough, especially when there's no solidarity, not even among hackers. Anyone who uses Apple phones votes with their wallet for locking down the ability to run software of your choice on hardware of your choice. It's as anti-hacker as you can get but it's fairly popular among the HN audience for some reason

If not even we can agree on this internally, what's a bank going to care about the fifty people in the country that can't use a banking app because they're obstinately using dev tools? What are they gonna do, try to live bankless?

Of course, so long as we can switch away: by all means. But it's not a long-term solution

I think pretty soon I'll carry a "normal" phone in my bag for things like communication and banking/ticketing, but I'll carry a device I actually like in my pocket. It'll be the best of both worlds - content I want to see often and easily in my pocket, and the stuff I don't want to be distracted by will be harder to reach on a whim.

Yes, I think I'll have to do the same. I've been in the market for a new phone but the one I had pretty much settled on removed the option to update the boot verification chain so I'm obviously not buying that. Might as well buy apple then

It seems like a finite solution though. Having a second phone is not something most people will do, so the apps that are relegated to run on such devices will become less popular, less maintained, less and less good

Currently, you can run open software alongside e.g. government verification software. I think it's important to keep that option if somehow possible

They could have a list of supported vendors then.

I generally agree though I have to say - Costco has proven worth it to me and them sticking to DEI recently has made me appreciate them more. I admit though if they were introduced today I'd probably scoff.