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The Netflix Windows app and my 4K monitor at 125% do not work together. The UI elements are tiny and the padding is wrong.


Joplin does not encrypt notes at rest. Only data being synced is encrypted; when it gets to its destination it’s available unencrypted in an SQLite database. Any program running on your computer can read your Joplin notes at any time. The developer has come out against implementing encryption-at-rest many times throughout the years. Their suggestion is that you use another form of encryption, like veracrypt. Notably, this makes using Joplin with encryption-at-rest impossible on iOS.

https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/requesting-encryption-of-l...


For information, iOS is not an issue because all data is encrypted by default anyway. So app-level encryption would be unnecessary.

Those who ask for encryption at rest mainly want it on desktop, as they share their computer with people they (apparently) don't trust.


Money is fungible. Aid that goes to paying non exec employees frees up money to be used for bonuses, so aid went to bonuses.

I think people are more mad at the idea that companies that didn’t need aid got aid.


Google Pay on the iPhone XS had so much jank and UI lag when I last used it a month ago.


[Flutter Eng. Dir here]

I replied above as well. My team has also not been satisfied with the performance of the GPay app on all devices. We've been working with the GPay team since release and made many improvements in both Flutter and the GPay app. I expect there will be an updated GPay app soon, with still more performance improvements in the pipeline.


Maybe publish a Flutter showcase app on both appstores? With Apple's store you'll probably have to jump through some hoops to provide some useful functionality, but it should be doable.


Why can't y'all just fix Android development instead of this flutter stuff that will be deprecated and killed off in 2 years because nobody uses it?


> I think a real reason we should ban depictions of crimes and violence (often where the player is the one perpetrating it), is that it simply is distasteful

I find this to be incredibly distasteful, but I would not advocate for speaking this aloud to be banned. You, on the other hand, might be inclined to ban your own opinions, if sufficient numbers agree with me?


> And it also makes sense why Apple doesn’t want you to be able to fully disable wifi on your phone.

If you're referring to the lack of a hardware kill switch, that's true for 99.9% of Androids too.

If you're referring to the temporary WiFi off toggle in the Control Center, the reasoning is that most people don't remember they turned off WiFi (my parents for example) and won't remember to turn it back on. But you absolutely can disable it by going into the Settings app.


Maybe that’s new in iOS14. I remember last year seeing a Shortcut for turning off wifi completely. But even then I thought it turned itself back on randomly.


You've always been able to ask Siri or go into settings to disable wifi since the first beta of that feature; I ran it.

I think it's nice since I frequently need to tell my phone to hop to mobile data while walking around campus since it's hopping from AP to AP and the control center switch is geofenced, so when I stop walking I'm almost always outside the geofence and wifi is back on like I wanted it to be.


At a 10x difference, it should clue you in that something is wrong. Choice quotes from a UK Gov page:

> A report published by the FSA has found it is not possible to compare foodborne disease rates effectively between countries.

> The report concludes that attempting to accurately compare different countries’ foodborne disease rates is an almost impossible task. The only way you could attempt this would be for different countries to have the same type of study with the exact same study specifications, over the same time period. Even then, differences in underlying surveillance data available in each country could cause issues, particularly in terms of determining what proportion of IID cases are due to food.

https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/news/report-into-interna...


"That's a weird way to greenwash profit reasons."

"I mean it helps them lose new first time customers and lose previous customers as well (once you're off the wagon, you're off). I'm all for this."

Pick a narrative and stick to it.


My narrative is that Apple is a market company that'll say anything to make a ridicious profit on their often times subpar technology.


> Alphabet made $86b last year.

They did not, and I'm curious where the mixup came from. They did $46.1b in revenue fiscal year 2019, and $10.7b in profits.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/alphabet-earnings-show-goo...


https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/gros...

Alphabet gross profit for the twelve months ending September 30, 2019 was $86.264B, a 16.62% increase year-over-year.


Swipe from the very edge of the screen, and it takes you "up" (or "out", however you want to term it) a page.

So if you've selected a photo, a swipe down dismisses the photo. From there, a swipe in from the very edge of the screen brings you out of the current album and back to viewing all albums.

I will make a video demonstrating it if you would like.

Initially, this behavior may seem weird to some from outside the iOS ecosystem? But dismissing photos by pulling down seems to be common UX with modern apps. And swiping from the side feels so natural, that apps that don't implement it (10%?) are jarring. It could be said that a weakness here is that Apple does not enforce universal usage, but most apps have implemented it well. When it does work (90%?), my thumb appreciates not having to reach the bottom left of the phone.


There's a high possibility that many people haven't discovered that feature because covers often interfere with the swiping from outside gesture. Or anything related to touch at the edge of the screen, like dragging apps onto the next screen.


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