Highly recommend browsing while keeping the js on your browser disabled. I know it's impractical for pretty much most web users, but you can eliminate 95% of the annoyance of the modern web in one whole swoop with just this one option.
- WordPress: "WordPress is actually very noscript-friendly"
- Amazon: "At first glance, Amazon does a cracking job with its non-JavaScript solution...On closer inspection, quite a few things were a bit broken"
- Google Calendar: "I was disappointed that there wasn’t a noscript fallback"
- Facebook: "flat-out refuses to load without JavaScript, but it does offer a fallback option... a site which offers a separate version of its content for noscript or feature phone users."
- LinkedIn: "LinkedIn...never loads, so all I could do was stare at the logo."
- Instragram: "Instagram gave me literally nothing. A blank page."
- GitHub: "GitHub looks almost exactly the same as its JavaScript-enabled counterpart."
Note: some of these sites may have changed (improved?) since 2018.
I guess it depends on the annoyance? I use NoScript, and it's true that sites load a lot faster. Because an empty page that reads "You must enable JavaScript to view this app" would qualify as a very small payload by almost any standard.
I use noscript too. I try to avoid such websites as much as possible, because they obviously don't want me browsing their website. We need to apply pressure on webmins so they make sure the experience stays good with JS disabled.
Can you blame them for not wanting you to browse their website? Using noscript is probably a pretty decent litmus test for non- or anti-consumerist values, which, in turn, implies being a low-value audience for advertising. Why waste any more bandwidth and server resources than you have to on someone who would be, best case scenario, negatively profitable?
Third party Javascript is the problem, and adblockers take care of that. Turning off JS entirely often blocks content on sites, be it images or something else.
Third-party JS isn't behind sites that perform so badly they make the whole system slow down even when you're not on the page, or eat memory like it's free. Both those things can happen on sites that aren't "apps" at all, or that don't need to be as huge and wasteful as they are to achieve the same levels of "app-ness" that they have (gmail is a notable offender in the latter category, but it's far from the only one). Those problems are largely due to really bad judgement, in first-party code, about where (and whether) to attach Javascript event listeners, terrible use of timers, and all manner of programmer-productivity-and-QOL enhancements that invariably (it seems) manifest as much higher end-user memory use and lots of bad (for performance) memory access patterns.
I'm not a free market apologist by any means, but we also didn't see "poor people" or folks in the lower economic strata buy mobile devices and smartphones when they became first available, at least not the scale we're seeing now (without mentioning the fact that the devices were crazy expensive when first launched, adjusting for inflation).
Economy of scale is a thing, and imo it's OK to use the rich and the wealthy as 'guinea pigs' of sorts (which mostly is voluntary as the wealthy are more likely to make riskier bets on new tech than people living paycheck-to-paycheck).
As EV market extends downwards on the economic 'pecking order,' I'm really hoping even more drastic cost reduction and lower barriers of entry into the EV market for folks that are not rich.
An expensive phone is about 500-1000€. A cheap EV is in the 20K neighborhood, and the functionality is pretty bad compared to a cheap second-hand utility car (pretty hard to travel outside your city). Even when regulations push prices up, it's still far more economical to buy a cheap gas car than a cheap EV.
Even in Europe there are plenty of countries where many people can't afford an EV. They can afford second-hand ICE cars. So unless there can be a second-hand market of EVs for about 6K without worrying about the battery, and with a similar functionality of a second-hand ICE car, then yes, EVs will be for upper income brackets.
And I'm not even mentioning that most people lives in apartment buildings, and it's very likely that your car sleeps in the street.
I've seen this discussions around here. People won't buy EVs in the near future because they are expensive, have very low range, you have to have a house, or own a flat (because nobody will pay for a charger installation in a rented flat) with garage, etc.
What people is buying is little electric Scooters. Most of them are <500€ and you can charge em everywhere. It makes sense for travelling inside a city. Spending 20K for not being able to go from Santiago to Madrid, doesn't make any sense.
Nissan leafs are get into the price range and they're basically first-generation mass-market EVs. Yes people do buy these. And in some european cities street-side/lamppost chargers already are a thing. Multiple conditions are only going to get better, not worse.
Nissan Leafs are ~20k for Km0 offers in Spain. They are very limited cars in range, functionality is behind than a 10K Km0 Fiat Panda. Street chargers are scarce, and usually expensive, and I have a hard time picturing a charger in every parking space in my city.
That hardly qualifies as a second-hand market car.
> Street chargers are scarce, and usually expensive
In the past they didn't exist. Today they're scarce. In the future it'll look different. This thread is about trends after all.
> And I have a hard time picturing a charger in every parking space in my city.
We can start smaller of course, it only needs to be scaled up with EV adaoption, not reach 100% penetration immediately. The electric scooters you mentioned would benefit too.
"because nobody will pay for a charger installation in a rented flat"
Where did you get this idea? People pay for an AC, a conciege, a cycle room, a roof terrace, a fucking gardener but they wont pay for a charging point? Also why does it have to be rented?
True. This opinion is controversial, but I do feel if the United States doesn't invest in military tech R&D, someone else is going to do it.
And that someone else is an authoritarian, one-party state that has a completely different set of values from the West.
Of course, military efficiency can be made better, but it's super important to keep tabs on the 'enemy,' so to speak. We're in an arms race, whether we like it or not.
As a 24-yr-old looking to emigrate within the next year or so, I couldn't agree more with your take.
I feel India as a country (I know I'm homogenizing India; but I feel exceptions are rare, if any) has decayed to a point where there's pretty much no hope left for folks with progressive views looking to lead a life (especially one with intellectual pursuits) on their own terms instead of conforming to incredibly regressive stuff that an overbearing "society" constantly howls into your ears with a bullhorn.
What options can you take for immigration?
I am curious as well as I am an Undergrad aged 20 who wants to live in different countries (especially EU and Canada).
I was thinking of taking a masters as I can then make connections.
Are there any other ways which can be taken?
I can comment wrt the United States, as I already have members of my family there who've established themselves there for a few decades now.
The most common route would be going there for Master's degree (MS or equivalent) and then later finding a job either before or immediately after graduating from your course.
But you can also try other avenues like directly trying for a job via work visa, get someone to sponsor you (via an immigration petition -- but you need a present a valid argument for this and also find someone you trust who've established themselves there), or find a partner there with whom you're willing to cohabitate.
I'd highly recommend trying for EU/Canada (as you mentioned yourself), Aus/NZ over the United States of America-- at least for the next few years until something resembling an immigration reform takes place -- unless if you have folks in the States who're willing to sponsor you or get you a good, well-paying H1B job.
As a non-Brit, I'm quite impressed by his ploy. I feel the comparison between him and the POTUS are unfair to him. He's way smarter and more tech savvy than his counterpart across the pond.
Curious about the weight of X210--couldn't find it mentioned anywhere. I'm guessing such a feature-packed device must greatly compromise on the portability factor.
Probably works out a tad lighter than the X200 with whichever battery the user decides to use. The unmodified X220 I'm writing this on weighs 1.6 kg with the 'stick out' battery and I recollect that my old X200 was about the same.
Interesting. Assuming this theory gets verified in duplication studies, I feel there's a good market opportunity for vocalization (voice) therapy in the weight- and inch-loss industry
Can confirm anecdotally. Used to be super addicted to the online MOBA game, "DotA 2" back when I was in college. Stopped playing it after moving out from home (deleted my Steam account, in fact), and I haven't touched the game ever since. Guess my prefrontal cortex wrestled back control away from my "monkey brain." [0]
See also: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-...