New comment by sussmannbaka in "Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal"

sussmannbaka — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:06:02 +0000

So after years of being gleefully told that AI will replace all jobs an omniscient state of the art model, with heavy assistance, takes more than two weeks and thousands of dollars in tokens to do what child me did in a few days? Huh.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "New layouts with CSS Subgrid"

sussmannbaka — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:20:37 +0000

They don't! Layout grids are less about the rows and columns and more about the lines separating them (which is why those get a lot of attention in CSS grid). Take a look at how layout grids are used in design and you will quickly find examples that are extremely inconvenient to realize with HTML tables. I'm sure it can be done and I'm sure some poor email marketing dev had to, but the result would be entirely static and not able to reflow.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "New layouts with CSS Subgrid"

sussmannbaka — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:17:37 +0000

I think CSS grid is too powerful to be represented in markup. I rotated the idea in my head for a bit but the most I could come up was elements that covered a small subset of CSS grid and which completely lost the entire appeal of being able to handle tracks dynamically.

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sussmannbaka — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:58:04 +0000

Yes and no.

layouts were a hack that solved a real problem but came with massive downsides. People didn’t tell you to not use

to lay out content because grids are bad (they are quite handy! take a look at Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockmann) but because

both posed technical and accessibility problems. A layout grid is not a table (or a

). A table (with and without <>) comes with attached semantics, hierarchy, reading direction etc. and is extremely rigid, which makes it a bad fit for differing screen sizes.

It’s true that this was a blind spot for a long time and that it was frustrating to not be able to efficiently lay out content in 2D when

was just there. But it was the wrong choice then as it is now and it has been baseline available for 8 years now. I hope it won’t take another 8 years until the comparison stops :o)

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

sussmannbaka — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:14:19 +0000

The history lesson is appreciated but how does this relate to the current state of the stock file explorer that ships with the OS? I’m using my phone now and not ten years ago.

edit: oh, I think I get it. My original post wasn't intended to be read "iOS invented the file explorer, has Android also a file explorer app" (which would be silly, of course) but "when Files app released, the AOSP file explorer that commonly ships as the default was lacking, has this improved (caught up to Files app)"

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

sussmannbaka — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:09:26 +0000

While I bet there’s some technicality I’ll get gotcha’d on, iOS apps do the exact same nowadays.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

sussmannbaka — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:04:28 +0000

Ghost Commander was better but I think I still prefer the iOS Files app.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

sussmannbaka — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:02:06 +0000

I used the AOSP app I think? I’d usually agree with you but in this case I really wanted some more bloat because that one was dire :)

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

sussmannbaka — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:43:21 +0000

Am I supposed to be mad about them not supporting a feature during a time when I didn’t use iOS or is this somehow supposed to impact my current day use of Files app?

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

sussmannbaka — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:38:01 +0000

I don’t have one of those! I do have an SMB share mounted that I’m currently playing music from, though, and it’s working perfectly fine.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

sussmannbaka — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:18:01 +0000

That’s entirely up to the app developer. Of course apps can see files if they’re developed to do that.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

sussmannbaka — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:15:19 +0000

Certainly wasn’t ahead with the stock file manager that came with my last Android phone.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

sussmannbaka — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:58:54 +0000

Im not sure if Android has caught up but the iOS file explorer app is excellent.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

sussmannbaka — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:14:29 +0000

I can only navigate to a video by long-pressing, copying the URL and pasting it into the URL bar, otherwise I get a meaningless "something went wrong" type error message. Mobile Safari, no content blockers, not logged into a Google account. After almost two decades of making the website worse they finally succeeded in breaking "clicking a video". I wonder what the hotshots at Alphabet manage to break next :o)

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Let's Unify Linux Desktops"

sussmannbaka — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:30:33 +0000

Why, Windows itself ships with multiple Windows desktops these days.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

sussmannbaka — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:19:28 +0000

even better: those will be spam guaranteed and can just be filtered by rule then

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

sussmannbaka — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:44:45 +0000

Did you try before or after Valves push for proton? Both of those are rated Platinum.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

sussmannbaka — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:36:46 +0000

Every frog will be boiled. Remember this when you argue “oh but it will still be possible to sideload via adb” “oh but you can turn it off” “oh but you only need it on the first run” “at least they don’t…”

You won’t be able to. It will be mandatory. They will do it. If you give these companies an inch, they’ll take a mile.

The moment they don’t actively work entirely aligned with your interests, they work against you.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

sussmannbaka — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:19:02 +0000

Trying and doing aren’t the same thing. I’ll take competent community members over incompetent leadership any day of the week. And I am right to think so, seeing how they entirely bungled even kicking out the people they wanted kicked out. They literally had their first security incident at second zero of their attempt to “bring security up to this decade”.

New comment by sussmannbaka in "Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?"

sussmannbaka — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:16:10 +0000

I'm not sure if you just didn't understand what I'm looking for. If I'm searching for a good rails screencast to get a feeling for how it's used, a blogpost consisting of "rails new" is useless to me. I know that these tools can oneshot tasks, but this doesn't help me when they can't.

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