The sad part is that Speed Queen, while absolutely worth it, costs 2-3x the price of the average pile of junk sold in [Home Depot, Lowes, etc]. Buy once, cry once and a legit example of the boots theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
Terrible article. Broch's story is a tragedy but one that's tenuously linked to that famous painting. I kept reading waiting for the substance promised by "life imitating art" and all I got was a set decorator's coincidence and a Goethe quote to paper over the gap. Which is kind of ironic because that quote ("you work out what their intention is and it breaks the spell") applies to the article itself: once you see the author struggling to connect Kramskoy's painting to Broch's death, the spell breaks and all you're left with is empty padding.
In my opinion, replacing ads is worse than simply ad-blocking.
Imagine a scenario where a replaced ad actually degraded the website's performance more so than the website's own ads, which is not all that far-fetched, and users end up blaming the website for having crappy ads.
Additionally, what if Google and Mozilla started doing that with their browsers, would you still be okay with it?
No, I don't use NoScript, just uBlock. It seems to be sort of intermittent, as when I pulled it up again, I got the title loaded, but still blank page.
I think all the HN traffic might have crushed the website - I'm getting a blank page and when I refresh it seems to be stuck. Not very encouraging, assuming they're using it to serve their main page.
I was also expecting a new GUI shell and used to run GeoShell and Litestep. I got somewhat excited and hoped that there might be a resurgence in the popularity of Windows shells but it seems like that time is gone for good now.
If I recall correctly, the Windows XP release managed to stabilize the Explorer shell quite a bit (compared to Win9x) which in turn decreased the demand for a lightweight, stable and customizable replacements.
But this wouldn't affect Apple as much. By destroying the phone, they're effectively reducing the number of users. If they sold it, the number of iPhone users stays the same. Not to mention that it makes quite a dramatic statement: "I'm so upset, I'd rather lose $xxx dollars than continue passively supporting Apple's policies"
What if they made the door-to-door delivery a premium subscription that one could opt-in? That could provide some revenue to offset the losses they are posting. If you decided not to get it, your mail goes to the community mailbox.
What you have is a plan that provides _up_ to 20Mbps. Since you're most likely a residential customer, there are no service level agreements that you can hold your ISP to.