Agreed, the specialist I saw recommended Airsense (I have the 10) with the water tank (and I also got the heated tube, highly recommended) above most everything else for the machine, but the mask is actually a Philips respironics which are the most comfortable. They are all intercompatible.
Been using for about 5 months now and it's been great
World of Books is a second-hand book retailer with free shipping in the UK. They don't have every possible book in stock, but you can usually find what you need there.
no, you're SOL on that one, but fortunately strategy games don't (usually) have very high spec requirements. I have geforce now and used Stadia before, and use them to play the high-end games I have on steam that I wanted to play but would never bother getting an actual machine for. A decent gaming rig is worth more than I'm willing to pay for, so this is a good compromise.
As referenced above [1] multi-user is a non-feature so I wouldn't expect development on that any time soon.
Not sure how good Obsidian [2] is, multi-user support seems to be in dev as well but it might work on a shared drive folder. Also doens't seem to be free/libre.
We use Zoom and it's great for ad-hoc video calls or screen sharing and commenting.
But last week we were wondering what would be a good remote alternative to sitting around at our desks and asking a quick question to the room. You know what works really well? Teamspeak. I hadn't used teamspeak in ages, but the simple fact that you can set a global push-to-talk button makes it perfect. Ask a quick question to someone in the room, they answer, if it becomes an actual convo you switch to a zoom call to not bother anyone else.
Discord is also good for that and seems to be taken over teamspeak in some teams I work with. I can't tell really if it's better though since I never used teamspeak.
This model wouldn't work well for Uber (or any other ride-sharing company).
Searching for an accomodation usually takes time; you compare location, facilities, size, and price, which is usually non-negligible and so makes you compare choices for longer (maybe hours or even days) to make sure you're getting more bang for your buck. This means that Airbnb's focus is on the aggregation, rather than the actual stay/experience.
Uber does the aggregation for you; it lets you choose the type of experience from a preset, but that's about it. Most riders don't plan their trips hours or days in advance, but immediately (imagine taking longer to go through the choices of all possible drivers than the actual trip you're going to take).
Why would it not work? Some customers can set the option, choose the cheapest car within 10 min of me. Others can set the option, choose the highest rated car within 5 min of me. Or option of closest car for me. Or whatever other criteria they want. It is not going to be that difficult from a UX point of view.
I would probably pick the closest car option in the mornings, highest rated car when heading out for evening entertainment, and cheapest car when going on some long-distance errand.
Also as a recent iOS user, I don't understand why. Other than live captions, sound amp and family link, most new features have been on iOS for a while, and will actually improve on iOS 13 (e.g. apps have to ask for location access each time, besides the current 3 options). Seems like they're trying to catch up to iOS.
Android still has far superior notifications, both on the control side and the display side. You also basically named half of the features in "other than" list. iOS is also just getting dark mode too so not "for a while". The only thing they've had for a while is better permission control.
Its more the massive privacy, security, longevity, and performance penalty you pay switching to Android that causes concern.
Android has some nifty features depending on device, but the core experience just isn’t there. (E.g. I figured chrome on Android has to be faster than Chrome on iOS - nope, my XR consistently beat a Pixel 3 side-by-side)
My iPhone 6S from 2015 is still in service and fast; I gave it to my mom when I upgraded and she’s very happy with it. It still gets updates.
I know, if anything that makes it more embarrassing for Android - Google controls that whole system and they're still not beating WKWebview on their flagship device.
Going between Android and iOS, that's one of the hardest aspects that I think gets overlooked - the browser is just slower and its noticeable. I pointed out the flagship device in this case, but its no better on the lower end devices.
Holy shit I’m not crazy. I switched to iOS almost entirely for Safari. I’d been an Android user for so long I just thought that Chrome was just how the web was until someone handed me their iPhone.
It’s interesting to note the different behavior; Android/chrome is putting something on the screen first, while safari tends to finish rendering and show the completed result before chrome. Tends to vary a bit by site.
App startup is a bit slower on iPhone but note that the preferred way on iOS is to keep apps open and not manually close them. Manually closing apps isn’t really required on iOS except to declutter the task switcher. Supposedly faster startup times coming in iOS 13.
Can you elaborate on what you found most unconfortable or difficult to adapt to?
I switched to Firefox ~1.5 years ago and it does everything I need, actually never picked chrome up again. The android version is very good as well, but I just switched to iOS and it's not a very smooth experience there.
I'm a long time Firefox user but unfortunately Firefox has bad issues with performance/battery usage on MacOS. Multiple long standing issues are open. (such as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 - open for 2 years)
I love Firefox but I had no choice and had to ditch it on MacOS.
It seems Mozilla does not have the resources to fix these problems.
Firefox has performance and general software bloat issues on all plattforms. They sacrificed their original "tailor the browser exactly to your needs" approach on the altar of keeping up with Chrome on features.
To be fair, Firefox actually has a lot of good stuff and you can get its UI to match the Chrome experience quite easily. The Developer Tools are also quite good.
Biggest issue for me is not being able to import passwords from Chrome. I have to switch back to Chrome if I need to access some web services quickly, so building up saved passwords in a browser makes it more sticky. There's probably a reason for not being able to do this though.
It also starts to get a bit sluggish when you have a couple (6-7) heavy JS/DOM tabs open.
File download UI could be better. Skip the confirmation dialog, show file and progress at the bottom of the browser window.
Firefox developer tools are awesome and they get better with every release! Lots of cool stuff recently added for debugging CSS related issues.
JS sluggishness might be because of a recent Firefox Pioneer study. I've experienced it for the past week and in the end I uninstalled Firefox Pioneeer completely because of it.
imho, file downloads are actually great. When you have active or recent downloads - you'll get a nice litle icon on the right from the URL bar. For active downloads it'll show the total progress for all downloads. Once clicked, it will open a small menu with your downloads. When you don't have any recent/active downloads it just gets out of our way. Much better than that ugly bar at the bottom of the window.
You can browse to https://passwords.google.com from Firefox if you want to look up one of your Chrome saved passwords (provided they're synced with your Google account of course). Not quite as convenient as a bulk import I admit but it's how I slowly migrated my passwords across as and when I needed them.
Consider using a third party password manager - helps in not being locked into any particular browser. I find LastPass to be quite good for my purposes
I switched to Firefox at home about two months ago due googles plans to restrict ad blockers. It's mostly okay but there are some things that bother me. Like some pages will never get auto completed. I can visit those pages as often as I want, I always have to type in the full URL each and every time. This kind of sucks because auto completion is often far faster than looking for the respective bookmark within a hundred others. It also frequently crashes not just the tab, but the whole browser during WebVR development and debugging.
Been using for about 5 months now and it's been great