Anna Nicole Smith was already famous by 1996? I feel like it was a decade later when I was hearing about her in connection with marrying the oil tycoon, his death, then hers
I’ve long thought there could be a market for something like the pay binoculars you sometimes find at scenic viewpoints, except instead of allowing a better view of the current scene it would be a display of a historical view from that point that you could look around, with the display matching the movement of the device. I think with the current state of VR technology something like that is now feasible with a high degree of realism, even with animation, like watching steamships or sailing ships in a historic harbor view. I don’t know if they could be profitably made, though, especially factoring in the expense of creating a good VR model of the scene.
Even from a source that you would expect to be more sympathetic to the railroad, it sounds like they were being bad neighbors in this case and then whining when the government intervened on behalf of neighboring landowners.
Our family had a 286 PC-compatible running Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS, built by someone at my dad’s job; I think he built and sold computers as a side gig. Looking back I strongly suspect all the software he included was not paid-for, or he bought it once and kept reinstalling it.
iPhone longevity was one of the things that convinced me to switch. With all my Android phones I usually couldn’t wait to upgrade after 2 years, because they tended to get sucky when the manufacturer gave them their last update. Then I had a Pixel 2 that, other than having to ship it in for a warranty replacement about 18 months in, was still going strong after 3 years when Google stopped supporting it. I looked at my stepdaughter with a 6-year-old iPhone (her mom’s old phone) still getting updates, still easy to get repaired locally with parts readily available (needed when a kid is using it!), and wondered why I was spending so much money on something that would be abandoned so fast by the manufacturer.
I’m glad Google is promising longer support now on newer Pixels. It might someday switch me back, but my iPhone is working fine and has years of life left.
If it was pre-compiled that could also cause issues not just across operating systems but also the architectures, right? Like x86 on desktop versus the ARM architecture most mobile devices use?
I haven’t installed the desktop client nor have I tried the web version in desktop, but I could certainly see the appeal of that and keyboard shortcuts in general
I think there’s still value in offering some support for PieFed and Mbin, especially if apps are currently few in number or nonexistent for those services. Even if other apps come along that offer fuller feature support, there might still be a place for Blorp to offer limited support for the different platforms by allowing people to switch accounts. It seems to me like a lot of Lemmy apps let people sign-in to multiple accounts so they can quickly switch from one to another. Blorp could similarly offer that but more usefully let users easily switch from a Lemmy account to a PieFed account to an Mbin account. And if that proves popular perhaps later you could add support for more features unique to each platform.
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Anna Nicole Smith was already famous by 1996? I feel like it was a decade later when I was hearing about her in connection with marrying the oil tycoon, his death, then hers