I gifted a Brick Hammer[1] to my
brother-in-law for Christmas. It's an amazing little device, form factor of a Gameboy Pocket and can run games from the PS1/N64 down to NES. The build quality is extremely high too (I got him the metal chassis version). I think it can even run 3DS games, but don't quote me on that.
Thanks, but same problem. I meant "NES" as a stand-in for "retro games".
Now, what I would almost certainly buy is a Steam Deck in that size. It doesn't need to be as powerful as a Steam Deck (impossible, of course), just enough to play 2D indie games.
You misread the README. Although it suggests using Edge at the very bottom, the extension doesn't require it and actually spoofs Netflix into thinking it is Edge via changing the user-agent.
I understand it spoofs all of the checks it can, but the only Chromium browser that supports Widevine L1 (a requirement for 4K) is Edge, so even if all of the check spoofing works, it still won't do 4K.
There's even a table in the README that describes this exact scenario.
There would've been an RFP for this, surely? Which means PwC was chosen to deliver this ahead of n number of other tenderers. I'd be curious to see what other proposals there were and the decision-making that went into choosing the winner.
Having worked in large corporates (and some government projects) issuing out RFPs, the final decision tends to go: let's just go with an established name like PwC even if they're more expensive (and given we have the budget approved already) as opposed to a small firm down the road that has a great portfolio, because if something goes wrong, I can say I relied on this big, proven firm, and not be criticized for using an unknown firm for such crucial work.
It's frustrating, because these larger firms most always churn out subpar work and this mindset just keeps funding it so they don't improve.
I've seen some small firms crash and burn too, though. The problem is small firms are easy-come, easy-go; they don't have enough reputation at stake. Not sure what a good solution is.
You could have contracted 5 small firms for £400k each (which, for this project seems frankly seems excessive) and even if a couple failed to deliver you'd have gotten 3 separate products to choose the best quality one from, £148k to legally chase up the firms who failed to deliver, and still had £2 million left over.
I agree a good solution isn't easy to come up with, but the status quo is certainly an outrageously awful one.
There are dozens of "small firms" with plenty of reputation at stake. Or how about a "medium-sized firm". There's quite a few, probably a few hundred-thousand, options inbetween "PWC" and "my mate's nephew studying computer science".
As someone who just set up mitmproxy to do something very similar, I wish this would've been a plugin/add-on instead of a standalone thing.
I know and trust mitmproxy. I'm warier and less likely to use a new, unknown tool that has such broad security/privacy implications. Especially these days with so many vibe-coded projects being released (no idea if that's the case here, but it's a concern I have nonetheless).
Agee! This was a fun project that I build because it is so hard to understand what "really" is in you context window... What do you mean by plugin/add-on? Add-on to what? Thinking of what to add to it next... Maybe security would be a good direction, or at least visibility of what is happening to the proxy's traffic.
What would you think of simply using an http relay for all providers? Would that make you feel better secutity wise? also could extend the tool to change the context you are sending and make it more granular to what you want/need...
You can really feel the stress in Adam's comments. It must play absolute hell with your mental health, it's anxiogenic from the sidelines just thinking about it. Stay healthy and safe mate.
500+ comments and no one's mentioned the jack of all trades "share" button? I would really love to see the internal metrics around how many users press share because they're actually sharing something versus wanting to use any one of the myriad of other functions it hides.
Exhibit A: In Safari I had to "share" this page to use the "Find on Page" feature to search whether anyone had mentioned the share button yet. Bonkers.
> Exhibit A: In Safari I had to "share" this page to use the "Find on Page" feature to search whether anyone had mentioned the share button yet. Bonkers.
You can also long-press on the address bar to see a whole slew of even more hidden functionality
It's very hard to reply without making a snarky sarcastic comment at Apple's expense. Thanks for sharing that super intuitive interface trick, it's so obvious now I know it's there.
I will never understand why adding a page to your homescreen in Safari goes like:
1. tap three dots
2. tap "Share"
3. tap "More"
4. scroll down
5. tap "Add page to home screen"
6. tap "Add to home screen"
other than that apple really doesn't want you to do this because they loathe PWAs and their entire services business model is built around the app store being the sole place of app distribution
Feels like this could be a riff on Android's 'Share' functionality, which is actually the user-friendly name for "send an Intent". And that means that any inter-app handling ends up stuffed into a "Share" menu that pretends only social media apps exist. So you do "Share -> Edit with Photoshop" or similar.
Sounds like Android's share button is exactly as ambiguous as the one on macOS/iOS... A dumping ground for all the misfit utilities and functions that couldn't find a home anywhere else on the system.
Interesting. I'm currently looking to migrate from Hugo to Zola. Personally I feel like I grok the configuration and templating options for Zola better than I do for Hugo.
[1]: https://retrohandhelds.gg/trimui-brick-hammer-review/ (most links are to third-party resellers, so a link to a review is probably safest)
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