Likely a condition from IP holders to make sure the play is counted and paid for.
Garmin watches can start Spotify playback offline just fine. You need to have synced your playlist within last 30 days, IIRC, and that's it.
Readit Newscrwll commented on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones ericmigi.com/blog/apple-r... · Posted by u/griffinli
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How is 4K support and fractional scaling? Does it work well?
In my experience, fractional scaling and 4k support is finally fine on at least whatever GNOME and Wayland Ubuntu 20.04 ships with, with two major caveats:
* Chromium-based applications (the browser and Electron apps like VS Code) still don't know how to render themselves with fractional scaling and end up ever so slightly blurry (but correct sized) on fractionally scaled displays. Think like very old applications (like Control Panel) on Windows 10. I use Firefox so it doesn't bother me that much. There's a issue in Chromium bug tracker following this, but I can't find it right now.
* Screen sharing full screen or other windows than browser tabs doesn't work on Google Meet / MS Teams. This is and has been an issue in Wayland since forever.
crwll commented on Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (2015) ramtin-amin.fr/#tristar... · Posted by u/walterbell
Not necessarily, considering Apple's market dominance. A good majority of accessory makers usually weigh either developing for USB or Apple's proprietary connectors (40 pin and Lightning). If Lighting were to become legacy because of this move, it would mean more competition between accessory manufacturers. And more competition means more innovation.
Apple most definitely has no dominance for its smartphones anywhere. Even in US where it's larger than anywhere else, Apple's market share is much less than 50%.
crwll commented on Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition blog.mozilla.org/blog/201... · Posted by u/Vinnl
crwll commented on Android N developer preview 2 is out android-developers.blogsp... · Posted by u/deepakkarki
Here is the Verge's take on the new emojis
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11423722/android-is-finall...
The Verge isn't doing its research (as usual): The blob emojis are not going anywhere (it's just the "people" emoji that are being changed). See screenshots at http://www.droid-life.com/2016/04/13/whats-new-in-android-n-... for example.
https://youtu.be/ryIQYYogQ8A
I've literally never owned a plunger in my whole life, and I don't know anybody who does. It baffles me everything I'm in the US and every toilet has a plunger!
I don't think any toilet built here in Finland since at least the 50's (some of those still exist, earlier I'm not sure of) have needed a plunger either, those things just work. The US plunger thing just baffles me. And banking too, sure.
crwll commented on Being ‘wasted’ on Facebook may damage your credit score ft.com/cms/s/0/d6daedee-7... · Posted by u/jackgavigan
Why would you keep your FB posts public and not limited to your friends or to some subset of those (depending on what you are posting)?
Comments here seem to once again indicate as if everything posted to Facebook was automatically and irrevocably public. I don't really see that going on at least on my group of friends.
crwll commented on Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online? rockpapershotgun.com/2015... · Posted by u/danso
To be fair, Doom did not use raycasting either, but yes, the underworld games were significantly more advanced at the time.
Agreed. What's even more staggering is that Ultima Underworld 1 was actually released before Wolfenstein 3D, the predecessor to Doom! (March vs May 1992). Doom only came out December 1993.
crwll commented on Pebble Time review: an underdog among smartwatches engadget.com/2015/05/27/p... · Posted by u/yurisagalov
> I had a Moto 360 and there were moments when I felt a glimpse of the genius of a smartwatch.
Adding a personal anecdote to this. The deployant strap on my 360 broke last week, so I had a week of enforced vacation from the 360 to compare before-after and see how much I really liked it. Too tell the truth, I'd actually been feeling kind of "meh" about the 360 and wondering why I really needed it, if I even did.
Here are some things I noticed:
1. Phantom leg vibrations stopped when I got the 360, but once I stopped using the 360, they came back with a vengeance. (I've never had phantom wrist vibrations.)
2. It really is a lot more disruptive to pull out my phone at dinner etc. if I get a call or e-mail from work (devops). The 360 lets me judge things quickly and relatively unobtrusively. Related, I also missed a lot of notifications for people trying to get ahold of me by chat (which I encourage people to do instead of phoning, since I have profound hearing loss).
3. The Fitbit HR (I wear it on my other wrist) is way better for telling time. I can hit the button and see the time faster than the 360 -- this has to change in some way for the 360 to be a smartWATCH.
4. I really missed being able to reply quickly by voice on the go when I wasn't able to pull out my phone.
> 3. The Fitbit HR (I wear it on my other wrist) is way better for telling time. I can hit the button and see the time faster than the 360 -- this has to change in some way for the 360 to be a smartWATCH.
This I find weird with both Moto 360 and Apple Watch - how can those be even considered as a useful watch if they don't show the time all the time? As a regular watch wearer I find it absolutely mandatory that the time can be seen always, even from small angles, without needing to touch the watch or do any wrist movements.
Any normal watch of course does this. Pebble, LG G Watch R and some other Android Wear watches do this.
> I do think calling those plug-ins non-standard is a bit of a joke, given that Flash had 90+% market penetration for years
Flash was also proprietary. It's closed-source, patent-encumbered, and has a single implementation. It's completely under the control of Adobe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard
> For those users, a lot of major sites still "don't work properly" today because of Apple's arrogance.
As Apple explained countless times, it is not because of "arrogance" that they did not support Flash. Adobe weren't able to supply them with a working mobile Flash runtime, and Flash's resource use was a big problem (memory, CPU, battery life), so it couldn't run on mobile devices. Recall that the first iPhones had severely limited RAM (128MB!) and CPUs, and even when, years later, Android devices with Flash bundled were released, they couldn't run it terribly well. Flash was also a massive security and stability headache: as Apple loved to point out, it was the single largest source of application crashes on OS X.
Flash existed for Symbian OS (think Nokia smartphones) way before there was iPhones, and those devices naturally had even lower hardware specs.
(I still agree that not supporting Flash was the correct choice for Apple, though.)