I've never had to do this sort of thing in a lab, but I now feel I know exactly what that feels like! You have my sympathy!

Great article. Similar to "NASA's booster size is the result of the size of a horse's ass": https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/4-feet-85-inches-space-shuttle-horses-ass-william-batch-batchelder

Like the sibling comment it feels the opposite way round to me. The Switch feels like a child's toy - light, small and not wildly comfortable to hold for a long period of time. The Deck feels much more ergonomic and solid to hold in my hands - I still enjoy the feeling of just picking it up (had it for 7 months) because it just feels like it fits.

Some of this is because I have big hands and the Switch obviously has to work for kids hands and the Switch being lighter is actually better for longer sessions but when I got back to the Switch now it feels cheap and flimsy.

Carrying cash - particularly coins - is such a pain in the neck. I pay for everything on card whether I'm in this country (UK) or travelling abroad.

I'm almost at the point where I don't need to carry a wallet at all - contactless on my phone takes care of a lot.

I'm lucky enough to be able to have a lot of choice where I work - in a software engineer and there are any number of places where I could work and be paid well. Given that I feel some responsibility to work somewhere ethical - not everyone else has the opportunity to decide.

I think we need to be realistic that we aren't going to do much better than this price point. Instead, I'm hoping that they can stay at this point and periodically improve the hardware.

Yeah, this is the rare case where you do actually want the direct link. In general though the bot is very helpful.

Which he is now also doing - one time payment to remove ads permanently.

It's moderately expensive actually at more like $20 (depending on location) but I'm happy to pay it - it's a great app.

On a big SD card - 100s of Gbs like you'd use in a Deck - the silicon will go very close to the edge.

Even if it didn't though, the force put into the card might have flexed other bits and broken them.

There's an absolutely practical reason for doing it that's consistent with everything they've done so far - they want to control how we get to and see Reddit. So that they can advertise in the feed etc.

RSS means you can skip the normal feed (where they would advertise) and go straight to the post.

It's not a good idea - they seem to have forgotten that user hostile decisions reduce the number of users - but it does make sense in their twisted world. I'm amazed they still work.

Yeah, after I started using Sync and they did the redesign, desktop browsing felt so slow. Even old.reddit felt clunky compared to Sync.