Urban Dead was what came to mind for me too! That was going to be my rebuttal to the comments saying “The only reason to limit stuff is paywall.” Kids these days can’t imagine life in the Internet’s “make some shit just because it’s cool — if it gets too popular we’ll sell t-shirts” era.

It’s like a second, separate clipboard. You “copy” text to this one by simply selecting it, then “paste” from it by middle-clicking.

I thought you were exaggerating, but… no, wow.

We are all Mercutio on this blessed day.

Yes! I’m always scrutinizing this, and most actors do not fake it very well.

I think you should be able to do whatever you want, maybe by changing a setting or placing a convenient symlink to a more obscure directory or whatever.

But I also think the way desktop functionality has been implemented in various operating systems has prevented a whole lot of people from learning how to use a hierarchical filesystem.

It’s a user-education issue, and a lot of PC users still have no concept of storing files anywhere else but their desktop.

If you have to have a toolbar, at least make it go away when you scroll.

This is one of my least favorite modern trends — UI shouldn’t go away.

First, even if you’re not actively using the bar, if it contains access to a menu, buttons or title/context of any kind, it should remain glanceable. If you’re going to tap it, you first need to see it, and having to unhide it adds extra effort to every interaction. What’s more, less experienced users may not even remember that the hidden functionality exists. And if I’m scrolling a feed of some kind, in an application with multiple feeds, being able to instantly glance at where I am is useful.

But also, the idea that scrolling the content down a little to make the UI appear makes no sense. I have the content scrolled to where I want it, and scrolling it a little in a particular direction to make more features show up is absurd. The content and UI have nothing to do with each other.

You shouldn’t be able to save documents, or files of any kind, to your desktop. It should be a special place that allows application launchers and shortcuts to files, but not as an easy-to-find regular folder.

Designers: “Now you can put your most important feature or two right in the bar!”

Developers: “Eight. I will add eight.”

Hamburger menus are fine if the developer has the restraint to truly limit the number of items, but it can quickly become an unsorted “junk drawer.” And you sometimes still end up with submenus anyway!

I think that’s actually a popular opinion. I’d have to disagree, though! The amount of title I’m able to see on a tab, and the amount of space I have to interact with it, shouldn’t be dependent on how many other tabs I have open.

The way I see it, double-clicks are optional — if you already know what you want to do, they’re a quick way to do the default interaction. The “real” way to interact with such an element is to single-click to select it, and then further interact with it via menus, which reveal everything you can do with it, including opening it. Right-click context menus are also optional, providing a subset of functionality pulled from the full menus.

Except no one is ever taught that, and Windows 95’s desktop made sure of it.

What does it mean?

as a bookstore

That’s important context. Every chapter of Little Brother was dedicated to a different bookstore, which is a little different than “Hey Amazon, btw I love you.”

Wow, AI got the number of strings right… but then you notice the belt buckle.

Yep, this is correct. It started as a “friendly fork” that added a few quality-of-life features that the official version didn’t have.

I know it can be done, so it wouldn’t shock me at all to find out that it does happen, but do you know of any manufacturers who have been proven to do this?

Keeping it offline some of the time isn’t effective against passive data collection unless you’re willing to take the inconvenient step of factory-resetting it each time you’re about to use it. Anything it collects it can just hold onto until it next gets the chance to upload.

All good! Since RSS doesn’t really have modern levels of polish and usability, I just wanted to make sure we were being precise for OP.

it downloads a file that you can then import into your RSS reader of choice

That’s not how it works — the feed isn’t a file that you download. You copy that feed URL and paste it into your RSS reader’s ‘subscribe’ feature. Then your reader application will regularly check that URL for new posts.

By the way, there’s an RSS community: !rss@lemmy.ml