Irina

https://www.pcgamer.com/discord-is-doing-reverse-twitch-drops/

They’ve also done it with Halo and Fortnite that I’ve seen.

“promotions” telling me to play a certain game on stream in discord (and get some cosmetic item for it) are ads for that game. I don’t have a screenshot of it on hand, unfortunately.

without ads.

only if you have a very strict definition of Ad

A good article, a lot of those advantages I wasn’t aware of! I think DisplayPort unfairly got a bad rap as “oh, I have to buy another cable now” when it was new, but it’s obviously the better choice now. Although I still hate DisplayPort’s latching, makes it so hard to unplug cables in tight spaces. I’d rather old-style screws than the latch on all the DP cables I’ve used.

Is there any market research at all indicating that customers want 6"+ displays?

Unfortunately, yes. People who buy smaller phones are the people who buy a new phone less often, and small phones tend to sell worse than the big models (see S10e, iPhone 12(?) Mini) so don’t get renewed. Would be nice if they did.

Wouldn’t it end up implemented somewhere inside Chromium?

If you know the team, then that’s a pretty good reason to trust them. Only works if you know the team, though.

My worry would be who is funding it and how they plan to keep operating. Venture Capital startups will always betray their users.

Beeper is Matrix in a trenchcoat, judging by their Github page.

In the back of it, it seems to be a series of Matrix bridges https://github.com/beeper

even at US$5 a month, I don’t know. I feel like most searches I do are just to get to the website I already know the name of, and I’d blow through 300 pretty fast.

I’ve heard good things about Kagi, but I can’t justify the cost (especially as its USD)

They have “AI” twelves times in their bio! If they don’t understand it who does?!

That’s usually a good sign they don’t understand it at all