Hard pass.

When I first started daily driving Linux in 2011, this was the default behavior of konqueror, Firefox, librewolf, and opera.

I would have to set a flag in the software to get it to autoplay videos and gifs. They would just load with a warning message in the render space that said click to load auto play video.

Not surprised that it’s gone.

The opposite is stated in the comment: “People are groomed and programmed”.

You’re revealing yourself. No one said they were at fault but you.

Malformed Software. or, malware.

that’s because they were. They needed to kill the career because we were educated, well off, fulfilled, and becoming organized. Turns out not all of us were either easily manipulated marks or unscrupulous money goblins and that was a problem for them.

Remember when Google employees stood up for what is right against the company? That’s when the powers that be in the industry decided to go all in on AI. They need to destroy the career and industry because we had to much power and intelligence.

I really didn't play, I suffered. I got motion sickness.

The core of your game is clicking, and the default action is unusable on the main platform from which HN is browsed. I would contend that since you did not even once open it in a desktop web browser, you cannot claim to have thought about the experience.

"Works on my machine" is a failure response, and is typically unacceptable. Part of software engineering (really the core of all engineering) has long been to think deeply about where and how an output will be used and by whom.

In the 80s-90s that was making sure your software was portable to different processor architectures you might not use. Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, Itanium, x86, z80, 68K. Devs would have multiple PCs at their workstation for testing different machines. In the late 90s-early 00s, it was all about making sure your site worked across Opera, Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Amaya, Konqueror and Safari. Then once again with apps across phone operating systems.

Especially in the responsive web era since 2012, it has been vitally important to make sure your site works with both desktop and mobile web browsers.

The only things that make Bentonville "pretty great" are available in all of the surrounding cities.

Rogers, Lowell, Springdale, Fayetteville, Bella Vista. ALL OF THEM are better than Bentonville in spades. Bentonville is riding on their coattails.

Bentonville DOES NOT have a single national retailer other than Walmart in its city limits. Walmart makes sure of it by owning over half the land in town. The only competing grocer is an employee owned co-op that Walmart could not succeed in starving out like they did all the IGAs and local markets.

It is car centric as hell, despite the meager efforts they've been making with the NWA Regional Greenway (which was started by Rogers and Fayetteville and Bentonville initially resisted). They destroyed a long standing low income community so they could widen 8th for Walmart. You might think, well they're courting mountain bikers with the greenway and the mountain biking trails, but actually try to get anywhere and live on a bike. I did. The greenway gets you around completely separated from anywhere you might want to go. You WILL have to get on city streets or ride in the grass, hoping that it's not hiding a 2ft deep ditch. If you get on city streets, you WILL be used for target practice. They might have built infrastructure, but the people haven't changed, and for 25 years I heard people joking about running down cyclists for shits and giggles. People in huge lifted trucks will turn right on red over you while you have a walk sign to cross.

It has gradually developed downtown to be a little more urban, but not without major consequences. They have in the past decade destroyed innumberable small apartment complexes, triplexes and duplexes in downtown so that out of town executives and magnates can come buy megamansions on Central Ave, the literal main street through town. There can be no thriving downtown, no business to support the square and its tax base, when these mansions are eating the density that was supporting the tax base.

But they added few bike paths and MTB trails, a building you can ride a bike up, and a bunch of Private Equity owned restaurants, so I guess that's worth the systemic displacement of longtime residents and the short sale of the city's future for some biking tourism dollars. OH, and that gaudy display of wealth Alice Walton built, Crystal Bridges. It's nice that they put an installation in specifically to remind the locals just how far above them they are. Crystal Bridges is the Walton's "Bezos Balls". I would have preferred that the woman spend that money at the time paving the ditches in town so people can walk around without stepping in the street. OR JUST PAY LOCAL TAXES!!!!

You want retail? Dick's Sporting Goods, Target, Best Buy, Whole Foods, Marshalls, B&N, Pier 1, Staple, Lowes, Kohls, Office Depot, Petco, Ross, Northwest Arkansas Mall and The Pinnacle Hills Promenade are all in Rogers.

You want a night out? Good fucking luck in Bentonville, it's a company town, people are gone in the evenings and your options for dinner suck. There are basically no entertainment options in town. There's the movie theater that serves drinks, and I think Great Day Skate Place might count if you don't mind being sober and surrounded by families with kids. Fuck you if you want a club or lounge though. Double fuck you if you can't afford to pay rent in Bentonville (don't forget Walmart has spent half a century depressing real wages in Northwest Arkansas) and have to live in Centerton, Gravette, or Highfill. All the bars and night life are in Springdale and Fayetteville.

Want a fancy night out? Ruth's Chris, Theo's, Oak, Bordinos, and Atlas are all in either Rogers or Fayetteville. River Grille technically counts for you, but you have to drive like you're leaving Bentonville for Pea Ridge to get there.

Wanna go hiking? Fayetteville. Wanna go golfing? Bella Vista and Rogers. Wanna see a movie that isn't the top 4 newest releases? Rogers, Springdale, Fayetteville. Wanna buy health food? Whole Foods or Cook's in Rogers.

You want local history? Go to Pea Ridge National Military Park. Go to the Daisy BB gun museum in Rogers, go to the Shiloh Museum for Ozark History in Springdale. Go to the Siloam Springs museum. Go to the Clinton House in Fayetteville. The Museum of Native American History has only been there for a few years. All these other museums have been entrenched. I guess the Amazeum is cool for kids but you probably look weird if you try to go in yourself.

Rogers has the water park, the aquarium, the AMP (major concert venue). Fayetteville hosts the performing arts at Walton Arts Center and the UofA Theater. Fayetteville has all the live music at small bar venues like George's Majestic Lounge. All the karaoke is on Dickson St.

There is not even a bowling alley in Bentonville.

Bentonville is not great. Bentonville is a shitville void smack dab in a region it refuses to participate in. Bentonville is a puppet of the Waltons and they make it no secret in the Walmart Home Office orientation, that Sam Walton wanted the city to remain small and the lack of any resources to actually live life has been by design. Only in the last 10 years have they even sort of kind of started to renege on that and start to actually build it up some, and that was only because there was major brain drain because no one wanted to live there.

Whatever caused you to think Bentonville is great has been the result of a relentless marketing push.

The first two words of the first comment are “You should” then your follow up grammatically evaluates to “I’m not telling you what should happen”.

All they did is point out that suggesting people should post to YouTube exacerbates the network effects you allude to.

Clicking is so overloaded I found myself getting motion sickness just trying to click squares. Why? Because when I click, I do not perfectly release the button when I am moving through a grid and clicking. This causes the entire canvas to be dragged while I click each grid. Sometimes that led me to tilling a square, because the grid moved and the next click was the square I just clicked. Then I do that again and I wasted a resource.

Would be great if you had hijacked right click, or left dragging to be handled by Ctrl+LMB.

The zoom out to the pixel globe was neat. That doesn't make up for the fact that this was painfully frustrating to use. I only cleared a 5x10 area before I couldn't take it anymore.

Wood was so hard to come by I never even made it to crafting anything.

The AI datacenters are making things more expensive and at the same time destroying existing electronics. All this is happening at the same time that the major OS vendors are locking down their operating systems and creating device attestation frameworks.

Whether it is a coordinated effort behind the scenes is irrelevant, the real outcome of all of this is that the average home tech prosumer will not be able to afford to maintain personal hardware that remains compatible with mainstream services.

In light of the consumer market RAM shortages, all the consumer devices will transition to thin client architectures that offload all their real compute to the centralized cloud. You will not be allowed to modify these devices, and there will be nothing you can modify them to do. They will have no ports, using wireless charging and wireless connectivity, and likely even any UART will be left off the board, if you can get them open at all. Like the Apple Watch or Airpods, they will not be built to be openable, and opening them will be an irreversibly destructive act.

You will not be able to buy these devices, they will only be available on a subscription basis. You will own nothing and be told you should be happy.

Online major digital services will only be compatible with these devices, offering no endpoints for third party devices to connect.

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