[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For a long time it was ran on money that Durov made from VK and it's selling deal and had no ads, almost perfect development. It was a ton of money obviously, but we all knew it would run out sooner or later and then everything would change. I bought premium once because I wanted to support the project, and I still use it. Hopefully I won't have to use anything else, because I hate almost any other messenger.

Edit: forgot "would"

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

And it's dirt cheap

Before the war in Ukraine I had stable 1 Gbit/s for 5$/month with two dedicated IPs

Here in Ireland you get 100 Kbits/s sometimes because they can't pull you a fiber connection and 4G towers are overloaded to hell, and it costs 20-40€/month

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

That's the point, DRM would force everyone to use a "compliant" browser (Chrome, or extension-free Firefox etc), and the other browsers might not be able to show content; they may also lock the content from copying and editing without special tools, just like website video DRM works now

But we already see "sorry you're running adblocker so no content for you" websites, so I'm not sure if that's gonna change much

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

People used to call me little Einstein, next Bill Gates and next Elon Musk (eww lmao) many times because of my ideas. Many of them may be revolutionary, but I can't even start working on them because I feel like my day is 5 minutes long... I feel severely disabled by ADHD

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Chrome defaultism, and so websites are usually made for Chrome, often disregarding testing on Firefox completely, and so they work a bit worse here and there

Also no Google connectivity

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

If I recall correctly, Tesla was actually cash-negavite for like half a decade after Musk bought it, surviving off investors and SpaceX's success, I remember it was very big news when it finaly went cash-positive and subs like WSB were all over r/all

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure it's either a myth (that it doesn't work) or some US-centric thing, because when I worked as a delivery guy, I used to go through probably hundreds of different elevators in high-density residential buildings, and most of them have doors that stay open very long to allow baby strollers and heavy appliances to be placed inside, and on pretty much all of these the door closing button works, immediately closing the door

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago

This is what I and many other programmers have done (not the removal, but fake delays), because it improves user experience, actually:

1.When the user clicks a button that should take long in their mind (like uncompressing a zip file etc) but is actually fast, it might seem like something is wrong and it didn't work

2.When the user transitions between layouts of the application, if it loads everything too fast it will look too abrupt, a fake delay will be made here if a transition animation is not possible/doesn't fit

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Yeah, like, how do you even help someone in two minutes?? They probably just see "oh, it's a bot" and leave

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago

Mechanical keyboard. Almost had no money back then, but wanted to treat myself. It costed 100$, and I regretted it the next morning. Felt like shit, but it was so cool to type on.

After 5 years, this metal-frame keyboard managed to survive many outside gigs, long travels, literal war, and it's still with me. And I still love typing on it. Sometimes I code just to type. You can guess why I don't use code completion tools.

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Gaskets brother, waterproof phones existed for a long time, they have been there since phones had SIM cards under their batteries

Look at things like mechanical watches where a watch that is rated for less than 100 meters of depth in dry test chamber is called "delicate" even though you can unskrew both the crown and the back with your hands on pretty much all of them

[-] IDatedSuccubi@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I actually think OpenStreetMaps have much more content. In my town Google shows roads and houses. OSM shows me everything down to fences, entrances, beach boardwalks, positions of every single trailer in our nearby tourist housing and more. This is critical when you're a delivery guy and you need to know where the entrance to the gated facility is. I used Waze to drive, and then OSM Viewer to walk. Even when you zoom in on an empty spot in Google, OSM shows type of land, elevation, where the trees are if there are any, who is the owner of the land if it's owned by a company. I also like that it shows what factories are called and their land border, instead of just unnamed boxes. Worked for me both in Ukraine and in Ireland.

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