The most interesting part for me is the relationship with the parents and children.
Compared to what I was brought up with (The Simpsons etc) it's nice that children are not only taught interesting values but also what the values of parents are
There's a YouTube video essay I watched a month or so back that touched on this. It looked at parental figures throughout the history of television and used them as a reflection for generational ideals of what a parent should be
The boomers parents made shows like Father knows best, leave it to beaver, etc, where the father was an almost unimpeachable authority figure. Boomers (and gen x) made shows like the Simpsons and family guy, where the oaf father comes in, and family is mostly viewed as dysfunctional, an obligation rather than something to be enjoyed. Gen x produced shows like Bob's burgers which removes some of the physical violence of the family but maintains the Father as an aloof oafish character. And millennial fathers, as depicted by TV, are like bandit. The oaf is gone, but so is the dictatorial authority figure.
I feel like this extends to other genres but in a more abstract way. I have spent a long time engineering a build order in an rts or a load out in an MMO (I'm thinking EVE Online as an example)
Either way, thank you for putting this list together
I really enjoy using RSS. One benefit I have noticed is that I spend less time browsing websites, scrolling and generally wasting time online.
If I value some content, there will be a way to get or create an RSS feed. Pair this with a read it later service and I have a better curated collection of items to actually look through
I use the RSS feeds from Youtube channels to not get bothered by their algorithm that boosts clickbaity videos on the homepage. I just can't stand looking at these stupid thumbnails anymore, with pictures of outrageous and screaming people and all these in-your-face colors.
That's why a love Readwise's Reader. I can store stuff to read later, but also get all the RSS/Atom feeds, plus can even funnel newsletters into one place. In addition to having my highlights there as well and being able to easily export them to Obsidian.
Yes, this! Readwise Reader is fantastic! I use it for reading web pages stripped of ads and other cruft -- and for collecting highlights and notes (eg kindle highlights, captured while reading, trivial to "tag" with eg .vocab or .quote) -- and routing all this great content into Obsidian (my PKM / tool for thought / second brain)....
> Part of that strategy is ... not including those that are becoming less pervasive, such as the headphone jack.
For a phone with a mission like the Fairphone, the headphone jack will not become less pervasive. An audio standard that has existed for over 100 years will not vanish in 5, especially not without a valid alternative. On the contrary, it's a must have feature to support their mission. So this whole line of reasoning is just wrong.
> To support maximum longevity and because of the IP rating, Fairphone 4 does not feature a headphone jack
If you look at other phones with a good IP rating, they can come with a headphone jack and be fine. The Sony Xperia line has some modern examples.
> Including the headphone jack would have made the phone longer and thicker.
Given how big the phone already is, and how small phones with the headphone jack are and have been, I do not believe this. I believe that it made their job easier and changing nothing else, it would have made the phone bigger. I refuse to believe there was no alternative method to fit it in.
To note there that other vendors made the same claim, sometimes specifically for phones where there then was empty space where the headphone jack would have been. So there is a history of lies in this area, which makes this claim not trustworthy, regardless the different source. Apple lied about this with the iPhone 7, the most prominent example.
> For a phone with a mission like the Fairphone, the headphone jack will not become less pervasive
I'm not sure what this means. The oal of Fairphone is to be environmentally friendly and modular. A headphone jack being absent or present isn't directly related to either of those things.
> An audio standard that has existed for over 100 years will not vanish in 5
I mean, how long ago did Apple first announce they would be dropping it? Many other phones, tablets and laptops have also dropped it. It decidedly is vanishing, at least from consumer electronics.
> If you look at other phones with a good IP rating, they can come with a headphone jack and be fine.
Because they made different compromises than Fairphone had to.
> Given how big the phone already is, and how small phones with the headphone jack are and have been, I do not believe this
Why would they lie?
> I believe that it made their job easier and changing nothing else, it would have made the phone bigger. I refuse to believe there was no alternative method to fit it in.
I mean, they were pretty detailed in their reasoning, and you can look at their schematics online. I don't think they could have included it without making the phone chunkier and less competitive.
> which makes this claim not trustworthy, regardless the different source.
That doesn't track. Someone lie about it once so no one making the claim can be trusted? I'd say Fairphone are being pretty open and trustworthy so far.
> The goal of Fairphone is to be environmentally friendly and modular. A headphone jack being absent or present isn't directly related to either of those things.
The phone is decidedly less environmentally friendly if it leads to user ditching their existing headphone and buying ones with batteries instead. This is directly related.
To your other points, check the video by Louis Rossmann about the impact and feasibility of the headphone jack, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bRdL0StldJM&t=0s. I would only repeat myself.
> The phone is decidedly less environmentally friendly if it leads to user ditching their existing headphone and buying ones with batteries instead. This is directly related.
EH, that's a stretch. Due to the way the industry is going, most users are going to have a pair of wireless headphones anyway. And if not, they can buy a cheap adapter that they wouldn't get rid of until they got rid of their headphones.
> To your other points, check the video by Louis Rossmann about the impact and feasibility of the headphone jack
My other points are not against the impact and feasibility of the headphone jack though. I don't have anything against it myself.
I just don't think it's reasonable to assume Fairphone is lying because Apple did, and really that seems to be the crux of your argument.
2 stripe blue belt here! I used to use Vim for everything other than Java development and have now adopted Emacs in the same way. I am using it for Clojure and Common Lisp development along with org mode, irc, rss, git and file management
I started with Evil mode and then moved to Xah fly keys before sticking to the emacs bindings. Having the caps lock key bound to CTRL helped me a lot. I don't know if it makes that much of a difference for Emacs but using the DVORAK layout has helped my fingers
There are other bindings you can try like Meow or God mode but I don't know what the adoption rate is like for them. Emacs gives you the flexibility to set it up as you please. As others have mentioned, there may be other keyboard options that might be more helpful as well
And yes, the Hacker News minimal style of the website is very much appreciated! well done