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At least the system preferences icon has improved, the 2020 one looks like it's AI generated.

Honestly the 2001 one looks the best. It’s clean and obvious with no fussy gear detail.

But designers don’t get paid to keep things the same.


They can still keep the 2001 aesthetic while giving themselves more work: we have higher resolution screens now so a 1024x1024 icon is probably in order; we have pervasive OS-level dark mode support now so they can create dark and light versions of the icon; as UI fashions change they can add or reduce the amount of shadow and glass effect.

I've had good experience with linux on thinkpads. Booted kubuntu on a framework 13 recently, connected to wifi, all good. Ultimately, if you choose well supported hardware with good drivers, it should work fine, even better than windows. One should be picky about which laptop to buy, avoid broadcom wifi chips, avoid screen resolutions that require fractional scaling, etc.

There is separations of concerns and separation of technologies.

A component with its styling, markup structure, and behavior, is one concern. These components can than be combined and nested in every which way you need, they are very modular.

If you separate concerns into markup, styling, behavior, than this form of component-based reuse is difficult. But it could conceivably be easier to reuse an html template or css class for different features.

Hooks are also a way to separate concerns in a different way than lifecycle methods. Lifecycle methods group code by specific points in a component's life, but then the logic can't be extracted and reused. Hooks on the other hand encapsulate reusable logic that can then be used in different components.


Thank you for saying this so clearly. I find React to be one of the few systems that actually allow separation of concerns when used idiomatically, rather than drawing boundaries based on technologies. (And I dislike frontend programming, to be clear!)

https://entropicthoughts.com/mvc-mistake


As someone who has a person with psychosis in my family, I don't think you can find any interesting insights from the details of their delusions. It's like dissecting dreams or AI slop, there is no hidden meaning behind it. Usually best not to discuss it.

I doubt that it does any advanced HDR stuff like modern phones do so it's going to clip unless exposure is controlled. It's a shame that in this day and age camera companies can't achieve as great instant results as modern phones even though they have much larger sensors and better optics.


I don't think anybody in my non-tech circle even knows that messages are encrypted. It's just a convenient way to message people and share pictures from android phones. At some point in the past it was viber and before that fb messenger. I know older people who wouldn't know how to attach a document to an email but can share vacation photos via whatsapp, and we have group chats between friends and family. People also care about their chat history, and if they don't know that the data is encrypted and needs to be backed up, they loose it when transferring to a new device. It's happening all the time, a lot of common users would expect chats to just stay in the cloud somewhere and be available.


The needle is all wrong, the thread doesn't go through the eyelet.

https://www.thiings.co/things/needle-unott0


Take a look at the scissors on the cross stitch kit: https://www.thiings.co/things/cross-stitch-kit


The puzzle cube is colored wrongly

https://www.thiings.co/things/puzzle-cube


Only half of all wall outlets need the ground prong: https://www.thiings.co/things/wall-outlet

And this decidedly is not a square not: https://www.thiings.co/things/square-knot


Some wall outlets in some regions do combine a two-prong and three-prong socket.

Though I don't know if that applies to the region that has the D: face sockets.


The image for Physics shows an impossible Newton's Cradle. The balls should be, well, cradled between two strings.

https://www.thiings.co/things/physics


It instead goes through the needle itself... Just AI things


Windows is only getting worse because of all the bloat like ads, telemetry, react ui, frequent updates (needs to restart like every other day), recall and so on. Software from 20 years ago feels snappier, even though they didn't add anything new.


Let's hope they won't just flip-flop like Munich, the poster child for linux adoption.


There is a great netflix documentary made in 2018 called "the long road to war". By the time the shooting happened a lot of other pieces had fallen into place. Basically, there were people in military circles and in the government that dictated the geoplitics game based on which country has leverage, who has the train tracks or a port to handle the logistics of war, and there was a certain zeitgeist, an egregore if you will, and things were ripe for conflict.


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