Mr. Sanglard's blog is one of my favorites. I hope the recent posts on Quake are indicative of his intent to write a Game Engine book on Quake. His others were excellent.

What hardware are you using? I'm not seeing near my advertised (and previously achieved, via Acer 'Gamer Router') with IDS on.

IDS is probably overkill for a home network anyway.

I recently replaced said router with a Dream Router 7.

The maximum routing speed Unifi Dream Router 7 can do with IDS on is 2.3Gbps according to their spec sheet

> I actually like TVs as a hardware concept, and am a happy paying customer of several VOD platforms, so I would seem to be the perfect customer for all these sticks and mini boxes and smart TV thingamajigs. But the UX is just so horrible. Everything about them screams, “We hate our customers”.

These things just spam analytics and ad requests 24/7 too. The only one that's tolerable (and quite good) is Apple TV.

> I wonder if the Vega stuff will be much better. There's really nothing to like about the Fire TV sticks.

I had one for a bit for the purpose of sideloading FreeTube via adb (I think it was called). That's the only good I can say about it.

> The modern Apple experience is defined by removing the head phone jack, the silent switch, and worse, the home button.

I only "upgrade" phones every 4 years or so, typically to a new old-stock model off eBay and I've been floored by how new phones don't include chargers anymore.

How is this considered acceptable?

> Dealing with files is nightmare (yes, people still dare to use files in a year of our lord 2025).

This is one of the largest detriments for iPhones for me, personally.

On Android phones I can just connect via usb and drop ebooks, movies, audio, pictures whatever quickly with no fanfare on Linux/Windows/MacOS (I think? with some android file explorer thing)

> The terminal menu driven interfaces were archaic but a dream.

MicroCenter (by me, at least) still uses what looks like some terminal interface for checkout and such in stores.

It's a riot cause it's all young kids and all the keyboards are RGB gamer ones. I've never seen a faster checkout at a register.

> I've wondered sometimes what software would look like if a crisis took out the ability to build new semiconductors and we had to run all our computing infrastructure on chips salvaged from pregnancy tests, shoplifting tags, cars, old PCs, and other consumer electronics. We'd basically move backwards about 20 years in process technology, and most computers would have speeds roughly equivalent to 90s/00s PCs.

Don't forget disposable vapes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252817

>, I discovered that NewPipe, an alternative YouTube client I installed through the F-Droid store, is actually much more reliable at downloading videos than the official client.

NewPipe is so good and so useful. It can even play 4K and watch livestreams now.

> On the desktop it breaks once a month, on Android NewPipe stopped working recently, and soon you won't be even able to install third party clients.

yeah, I often download things via yt-dlp to watch later and I'm encountering frequent failures that I assume are related to the whack-a-mole yt has been doing for the last two years or so.

NewPipe has been working for me as of late though, and I've not updated it in some time (although my use is infrequent)