✪⍟Lord Galaxy⍟✪ Technology’s Tweets

Jan 27

Quote: "How many times do you hear people complaining that their phone's battery dies too fast, versus how many times you hear people complaining that they wish their phone was a millimeter slimmer." ––

@Mrwhosetheboss

, August 2019 youtube.com/watch?v=xmalvG AMEN.

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Your Smartphone is too thin. Here’s why.

Smartphones in 2019 and beyond need to be THICKER -And it's not just about battery life - Let me explain. More smartphone news: https://www.youtube.com/watc...

Jul 14

Whenever I read or hear "slim design", "streamlined", or similar in a smartphone advertisement or product description, my inner alarms go off. It just screams "planned obsolescence" and "sacrificed utility value" at me.

Jul 14

OK, by all means, remove the "bloat", but don't deny the option of having the "bloat" to power users who do not see it as such but as useful.

Apr 17

Dislike counts, † November 2021. And video categories were removed in 2020.

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✪⍟Lord Galaxy⍟✪ Technology

@LordGalaxy7

· Nov 30, 2018

Replying to @LordGalaxy7 @textfiles and @YouTube

Features YouTube potenitally removes in future: - “Search inside channel”: Low usage due to main search feature. Removed. - Video categories. “Who uses them anyway?” - Video tags. Existing tags will be deleted. - Like/dislike counts. As if Hyun Yeul Lee worked for YouTube,

Mar 5

Looks like YouTube has at some point removed the age restriction on Kony 2012 that was instated in late 2020. Today is the tenth anniversary of the movie.

Jake Archibald

@jaffathecake

May 28, 2012

"We don't have any non-JavaScript users" No, all your users are non-JS while they're downloading your JS

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Feb 25

I consider smart home an extension and not a replacement to the "manual" home, since the former allows falling back in case of technical failure, whereas the latter does not. It is like progressive enhancement in web design. "Smart home" is an enhancement, not a replacement.

Feb 22

Tweet took a long time to be sent. Perhaps many people tweeted at once?

Feb 22

2022-02-02 22:22:22

Jan 30

So far, Microsoft appears to have made surprisingly little adverse change to GitHub. One deterioration is that some menus use subsequent AJAX-based loading ("include-fragment") rather than HTML inclusion, but it looks like there are no major feature removals like on YouTube.

Jan 27

I believe that the adage "the Internet never forgets" is untrue. It forgets all the time. Good web videos get memory-holed because, for example, uploader decides that they are "past them" or similar ambiguous emotional nonsense. Also, much of Yahoo Answers could not be rescued.

Jan 27

Previously pinned tweet: twitter.com/LordGalaxy7/st .

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@LordGalaxy7

· Jul 25, 2018

It is time for a #newPinnedTweet. Previously pinned tweet: Twitter.com/LordGalaxy7/st .

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Emil Björklund

@ThatEmil

Jul 2, 2013

Since Twitter was acting up earlier, I'm gonna be cheeky & post this again: Progressive Enhancement: Still Not Dead. thatemil.com/blog/2013/07/0

Progressive enhancement is still important

Nov 7, 2021

I have always preferred progressive enhancement web design since years before knowing that term. • sighjavascript.tumblr.com • jakearchibald.com/2013/progressi .

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Nov 1, 2021

"All unlisted videos will be [made] private." This prediction from me in 2018 about YouTube turned out to be correct within a time range: All unlisted videos dated before 2017 were switched to private in July 2021. YouTube's explanation, as often, sounds implausible.

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✪⍟Lord Galaxy⍟✪ Technology

@LordGalaxy7

· Nov 30, 2018

Replying to @LordGalaxy7 @textfiles and @YouTube

YouTube feature removal prediction list for the future: - All unlisted videos will be put into private. - Total view count of the channel will be removed. - 80% of analytics features will be chopped off. - “Channels” tab will be removed. - “Search in channel” [next…]

Oct 19, 2021

Testing "twidge" debugging output.

Oct 19, 2021

Testing if the "twidge" command-line client for Twitter still works.

Jun 28, 2021

Video by #kenyue2006: youtube.com/watch?v=ngXAkV (from June 2010) The nostalgia is real.

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WTF? - Microsoft Windows Error Remix (HD)

Please "LIKE" our facebook page! https://facebook.com/KenYueProduction

Jun 15, 2021

W00t! I totally forgot about this! It worked!

Jun 12, 2021

This tweet is a scheduled tweet on TweetDeck. Schedule set on 20190612.

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How it is still allowed to sell products that have non-replaceable batteries is beyond me ...

May 29, 2021

280±0 characters! Yay!

May 29, 2021

Hello,

@JasonRussell

. I suggest you release a “KONY 2022” follow-up film on 2022-03-05, on the ten-year anniversary of KONY 2012, which is nine months and few days away. It's difficult to grasp that #KONY2012 was aired nearly a decade ago, yet has such amazing production quality.

Dec 15, 2020

Rest in peace: Twitter M2 mobile version, the most lightweight and last standing AJAX-free front end.

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Thanks to Apple you can't replace the battery on your smart phone. Thanks to Apple you also can't replace the battery on your laptop. Thanks to Apple you can't plug a headphone on your phone. Thanks to Apple laptops don't come with the most basic ports. Yes, I am blaming them

Alex Roddie

@alex_roddie

Dec 8, 2020

Three words: 'sealed', 'lithium', and 'battery'. (Actually let's add a few more for clarity: 'destined for landfill when the non-replaceable battery wears out in a few short years'.) Apple can boast all they like about environmental cred, but actions speak louder than words.

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Paul Thurrott

@thurrott

· Dec 8, 2020

Apple Announces AirPods Max - thurrott.com/music-videos/2

Scott Hanselman

@shanselman

Dec 31, 2014

We need to stop building non-replaceable batteries into electronics if those batteries die in a year. It's a poisonous design culture.

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Aug 23, 2020

An improvement I very much appreciated about Windows Vista has been its rich UDF support!

Aug 18, 2020

Long live Galaxy Note 4!

Aug 17, 2020

I once tested renaming mspaint.exe to mspaint.scr, and it required a C:\S.BMP file to open. Strange.

Aug 15, 2020

Twidge test

May 31, 2020

The legacy desktop version of Twitter will sadly permanently be unavailable as of tomorrow instead of being optional. Good-bye.

May 22, 2020

Mobile phone image sensors have crossed the 100 Megapixel barrier. 132.7 MP at 16:9 aspect ratio = 16K video potential.

Apr 16, 2020

The Firefox total add-on download count (discontinued feature) for the add-on store once got stuck at 4294967295, which is 2³²-1 one or two years ago.