I've had a MacBook Pro USB-C cable, it lasted around 2 years. An iPad USB-C cable, lasted for less than a year.
I don't even move them around much, but now I'm forced to use my Switch's USB-C cable to charge both. At least there are a lot of USB-C cables now that many things use them. Hopefully I don't end up using my headphone USB-C cable to charge everything.
Is this why people complain about performance issues with browsers?
I have some perpetual habit to "clean" my desktop - I get annoyed if I have >15 tabs across 2 windows which easily happens.
> >5000 tabs among all of them
Not to be antagonistic but ... just why? There is no chance you are actively managing and keeping track of these? Is this because it doesnt matter if they are open or not? I am genuinely baffled and confused.
As a fellow multi-thousand tabber, I can explain what happens with me. So you're browsing, say, Reddit (maybe last month). You see something interesting. Two tabs: One for the content, one for the comments. You read the content and come across something you want to comment about or see if others are talking about. So you switch to the comments. Oh, somebody linked to something else. Another tab. And then you go down that rabbit hole and back to your original Reddit tab. Repeat.
Then you start to work on a project. You have various relevant links open for that, which of course results in opening even more tabs that branch off from those. But then you get distracted and there's another group of Reddit or HN tabs. Oops, right, I was working on that project. A few more project tabs. Then a bunch of Reddit / HN tabs. Then you start a new side project. Etc.
Why not close those comment tabs? Because you're interested and want to see all the new comments! Or you got halfway through and walked away and opened a new tab when you got back. Or you think 'that'll sure come in handy when it's time to work on <some project>, I'll come back to this later for sure!'.
Now, rather than doing the sensible thing and going through all of the previously opened tabs when you're bored, you open a new Reddit / HN window.
> Alert readers will notice that Moser managed, in one paragraph, to dismiss the efforts of all three major luxury watch groups – Richemont, Swatch, and LVMH – as somewhat lacking in intestinal fortitude
The paragraph they are referring to is the press release further up the page.
They are basically saying none of the major manufacturers had done anything serious in the realm of smart watches.
The reason it’s a “dangerous game” is because the watch industry was disrupted once before by the quartz crisis (cheap quartz watches flooding the market) and many manufacturers went out of business or had to merge with others to form larger groups to survive. So the danger is that smart watches will do the same.
Watches had a rough time for a while after quartz became a thing in the 80’s.
Now they are seen a jewellery more because every has a smart phone for time telling. But watch collecting as a hobby is making a comeback in the 2010’s to now with the internet and hype generating content like YouTube, instagram, Hodinkee, and consumers are keeping a multi billion dollar market afloat with products from million dollar Patek phillipe to 5 dollar casios.
Sure, for a well built standards compliant website making appropriate use of HTML elements. There are a lot of websites that do their own thing, use lots of custom Javascript, where standard browser features like tabbing through their elements don't work, and they don't work well with existing accessibility tools. I'm skeptical that an OS or browser level feature is going to be able to make sense of them. That's their fault, but it's the reality of a huge part of the web.
I don't even move them around much, but now I'm forced to use my Switch's USB-C cable to charge both. At least there are a lot of USB-C cables now that many things use them. Hopefully I don't end up using my headphone USB-C cable to charge everything.