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Because 12pt text becomes 8pt text and it's a hassle to scale the entire UI... for the apps that even a allow that. Imagine playing Quake (why the hell not) at a gajillion by bajillion pixels: glorious resolution, but what's my health again? Better to stay in the original SVGA or whatever it was. Exaggerating, but I'm sure you follow.

...and then you're locked out of using your phone to pay for things, can't install banking apps and marginal ID apps, et cetera. 😢

Consider that the (in electric cars, obviously next-)most power hungry item on cars back then was the wind shield wiper motor. Modern cars easily put out 100kW, but then spend most of that in a thousand little ways. Back then, a 20W engine would be plenty.

There's a bit from Clarkson where he compares an old school aluminium-bodied Land Rover to the newfangled SUV things of the same brand. Used to be, switching to 4WD involved pulling a lever connected to a ferry-sized piece of metal going ka-chunk. Nowadays, you press a button and a red light comes on. How is that going to get you out of a ditch?

I want to see a MUCH higher resolution version of this photo. To study both that Wall-mounted proton pack and that exquisite hat.

In my experience, neither Slack nor other apps (that all blow Teams out of the water) can do that - except Discord, which isn't exactly a common office meeting app.

Wait, that's a dumb design. On a (way) older phone I had some automation running and all that location triggering was done on the phone and only connected to my home when I was in fact near it. Google (or any role party) shouldn't need to receive live geo location updates.

There's another origin story that revolves around someone having a pet leopard, got mauled by it, and still refused to see that a leopard is probably a terrible animal for a pet.

Let me tell you something

Don't be too hard on yourself

Could I trouble someone to give an ELI5 for this?

I don't understand any of it so I'm curious what makes it so desirable.

Well yeah it's mandarin, but in the show Mandarin is pretty exclusively used for very creative swear phrases, such as "The explosive diarrhea of an elephant". Things that might be fun to learn to say...

See: https://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/

I'm just running a pain Linux with the MATE desktop, with increased sizes of mouse cursor and UI elements.

The big thing is using VLC with a wireless keyboard, and using a white sharpie on the keycaps to show the quite customised VLC shortcuts.

It's been years since I tried Kodi et al, and I always found the actual media playback to be lacking some customisation (eg. audio or subtitle timing offsets).

In lieu of a media database, I simply mark the movie folders with file emblems when I've watched a movie or episode (VLC keeps track of partial viewings, resuming where it left off).