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That, and a practical process of elimination.

Balance always looks good, in all things, so it's desirable to have one hand on the left and one on the right, in a mirror of each other.

You don't want to obscure the 9 or 3 positions because that's where important elements like the day and date display will occupy.

You also don't want to get too close to the 12 position because that would cover up the maker's logo.

Wjth those constraints in mind, it's a choice between like 10:10 or 8:20. Of the two, 8:20 points downwards and looks 'sad' and 'droopy' whereas 10:10 is upward and positive, and also acts like a frame to give the maker's logo even more attention.

So 10:10 it is.

Of course they do, but let's unpack that.

When people buy a new car who already have one, they generally do it because either 1. they think it will bring some material benefit over their old car, or 2. they want a new car simply for vanity reasons.

Looking at the PS5 Pro, there will absolutely be people who think "I want to upgrade to the Pro just for bragging rights" but I'm pretty sure the majority of consumers wil simply think "This doesn't play any games my PS5 can't already" and pass on it.

Not if they already have a PS5, though.

Haha yeah. People are so accustomed to short TLDs that 'smith.technology' just intuitively feels kinda wrong, and it still feels that way to me, even as a tech person who knows it is perfectly valid.

You're thinking like "smith dot technology dot what?"

Another reason is brand identity.

Using '.tech' or '.flights' or .sports' for your site feels too "on the nose" and gives vibes of like browsing some directory where things are categorised and sorted. Even worse it implies there are other sites under the same category, and those other sites may be competitors, and this dilutes strength of brand.

lt also suggests strongly what the business does, and while that might seem desirable at first it actually isn't from a corporate perspective because it means the company becomes tied to their business area and can't expand and grow out of it into other things.

I think this is a major part of why descriptive TLDs continue to be less preferred over 'meaningless' two letter TLDs, because companies want the focus to be on the main part of the domain, not the TLD.

An allegory, perhaps.

Because then your browser would itself have to be a torrent client.

The way torrents download is fundamentally different from how a standard http download works, which is why they have a specialist implementation. Browsers dont want to bother bringing a whole load of new code and associated bugs into the browser to do a job which isn't really connected with the browser's main responsibility, which is browsing the web.

Just because torrents come from the web shouldn't make it the browser's responsibility to deal with them.

Thanks. I've been keeping my eye on colour ereaders, and the tech has improved so rapidly in the last couple of years I do wonder if I just hang on for another year then the colour reproduction could be even better.

Can't wait forever of course, that defeats the whole purpose, but it might pay to wait just a little.

I've had two kindles so far, but my next e-reader won't be from Amazon.

I'm trying to move my tech life away from closed ecosystems as much as possible, So I'll probably go for a kobo or boox.

For me the dream would be a really large colour ereader around 10 inches, where you can view even the densest manga or comics comfortably without zooming or scrolling. I think that's what I'm holding out for.

UK here and they are turned on.

Thanks a lot, Brexit :(

I had so many good times on forums back in the day.

The personal nature of them was great for being social and making friends, but it was also good for the quality of the content for and user behaviour too.

When everyone recognises you and remembers your past behaviour, people put effort into creating a good reputation for themselves and making quality posts. It's like living in a small village versus living in a city.

The thought of being banned back then genuinely filled people with dread, because even if you could evade it (which many people couldn't as VPNs were barely a thing) you'd lose your whole post history and personal connection with people, and users did cherish those things.

The worrying truth is that we are all going to be subject to these sorts of false correlations and biases and there will be very little we can do about it.

You go to buy car insurance, and find that your premium has gone up 200% for no reason. Why? Because the AI said so. Maybe soneone with your name was in a crash. Maybe you parked overnight at the same GPS location where an accident happened. Who knows what data actually underlies that decision or how it was made, but it was. And even the insurance company themselves doesn't know how it ended up that way.