I don't have a video doorbell so I don't know. What is so great about them? Has it changed your life in a positive way? To those who do have one that is.

I think this is unfair, they could be referring to proprietary projects at their job or something.

When you create a blog post about it though, I do agree that showing the projects will greatly increase the value of your claims.

That is what they meant

And it isn't an office suite at all

Indeed. I read a lot of comments like these one you are responding on HN. It seems like there is a type of person who thinks that writing down what their rules are has some magical power.

“This isn’t what it was intended for”. Who cares?

A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away I would encounter warnings on pirating websites saying “If you are an FBI agent you are not allowed to continue on this site”. Imagine their utter disbelief and shock if they were to be arrested by an FBI agent that clicked past the warning anyway.

I agree is must be programmers as a type that like rules a lot and, they think, what a perfect world it could be if people would follow them.

I'd ask who you think you have me confused for or where you got that quote from, but I know how little it matters insofar as getting you to recognize whatever delusion led to your comment.

I am sorry, I wasn't reacting to you I was reacting to the commenter who said:

"Programmers don't appreciate the fact that you can just violate terms of service."

What would be a good book to have in the house that could help me in as many emergencies as possible, but still be portable enough to actually bring when fleeing the house or something?

Alternatively, what would be a good bigger book for the same goal and/or be more about long term survival in case of being trapped in the house long?

Some people don't have a choice. Of course they could choose to lose their job over it, but for some that is not an option.

I also totally don't get why you would want to share your location, even with family. I don't want to know where they are either.

They could do the two phone thing. I did that for many years. I'd probably go back to it if my company tried to force this on me.

"just a whole extra framework"

"if you really wanna have dope components such as shad whatever - then of course you can always opt for Rails + Inertia React + Component library"

I don't think the target audience of RailsUI are people who want to use a front-end javascript framework.

A more suitable alternative is: https://railsblocks.com/

What was your reason to do this and how is it one of the best things you've done on your iPhone? I am very intrigued by the concept.

I felt like as soon as I opened my phone, everything on the home screen was clamoring for my attention: new text messages, new emails, new calls, new reminders, alerts, alerts alerts.

Now, when I open my phone, I get a peaceful empty screen. If I scroll right, I can see the ocean of alerts (if that's what I'm ready to tackle) or I can swipe left to a screen with a few shortcuts for phone or browser (Orion).

In short, I put the chaos in a box that I only open when I want to. Might sound trite but it's made a big difference. I also turned off the thing that opens the phone as soon as I pick it up. Now, half the time I pick it up, I look at, decide I can live without all the chaos and put it back in my pocket.

I guess my orig post triggered because with a blank home screen, I can't accidentally activate the phone camera.

An alternate strategy is to turn off most of those alerts. When I open my home screen I see a bunch of icons, but only two of them are allowed to show the little red circle with a number in it: Phone and Messages. I picked those since I am habitually up to date on them. So the number is usually quite low, usually below 5.

I also do not allow most apps to put banners on the screen (locked or unlocked), or beep, or buzz the phone. Almost all my apps have notifications turned off completely. If I want to know the status of my email, I open the email app. If I want to see what's new in Instagram, I open Instagram. Etc.

But the point is, those checks happen on my schedule, not when I'm prompted.

Hard disagree.

Sure the sound quality isn't great, but cassettes have a great user experience.

My kids listen to stories on CD and Cassette. With Cassettes you can just stop and continue later exactly where you were. On CD they have to remember the chapter and the number of minutes. Which they never do so they are less motivated to continue listening.

The same is true for VHS. One of the great benefits of Netflix is that you don't have to keep track of where you were in a series and can quickly continue. DVD or separate downloads never had this, with Netflix you can just continue. The same is true for VHS, you can just pop it back in and continue where you were.

Also, with both cassettes and VHS you could very easily record things. This was never easy with DVDs, so much so that it basically wasn't a feature. HDD recorders were also quite bad.

Quality of sound and image is just one part of the equation. I would never listen to a music album on cassette, but the medium, from a usability point of view, is great for specific use cases such as stories and creating your own mixes.

They are fragile, they sound terrible. Unless you had a very expensive player, they also introduced a wobble in the sound that drives me fucking crazy.

Yes, there is cover art, I miss decent cover art and the thought that some people put into it.

VHS can also fuck right off. Sure I loved the stuff that was on them as a kid, but I fucking hated them as a medium. A nice Humax from the early 2000s obliterated VHSs.

Don't get me wrong, everything else about digital media suck arse, the shitty player and bollocks practices. But the experience of the media it's self is far far better.