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kumarharsh | 4 years ago | on: I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress

Back in the days, I used to watch Spiderman cartoons, and was amazed by the small trackers Spidey put on people he needed to track, and got the location in real time. I wanted to see something like that someday.

This AirTag does seem very nice in that respect. But then I realize what a gigantic privacy nightmare this can be for a large portion of our population.

Stalkers can put a tracker on you, and you'll never get notified if you don't have an iPhone? What if the user doesn't even have a smartphone?

How does Apple think they'll handle this scenario? Can it even be handled?

kumarharsh | 5 years ago | on: UK 'Right to repair' law to come in this summer

I thought the same too, until recently.

We had an old mixer-grinder which ran for a decade or so. After it broke down, I went to an official repair shop, and they quoted an amount which make buying a new one a better option. So we did - from different company. It turned out that the new one constantly gave us problems, but we stuck with it for years. And one day while cleaning up our home, we found the old mixer and gave it to our domestic help to keep if she could get it repaired.

She did get it repaired. For less than a DOLLAR! And it still runs better than the new-fangled mixer.

kumarharsh | 5 years ago | on: The Last Message Sent on AIM

I don't know about other countries, but in India at least, SMS's are generally paid and won't send if you don't have balance.

While WhatsApp/Telegram messages are actually free if you have got data.

And nowadays I get absolutely zero SMS's from people. All senders are now just bots and notification services.

kumarharsh | 5 years ago | on: Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

This article reads like senseless hate-mongering.

The email this article is talking about is for users of the Google One subscription only. Of course they'd like their users to know that they can upload full quality photos to Google Photos - that's one of the main reasons I bought the subscription too!

Disclosure: I work at Google, but had bought the subscription before joining.

kumarharsh | 5 years ago | on: Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time

It is stunning to see this brought in the open - and in such a clear and seemingly easily reproducible way. Kudos to the OP for digging into this as much as he did. In a world of 8 billion people, I don't think anyone would have dug so deep to reproduce this problem affecting a large portion of population. I'd love to see this fixed. Hope Microsoft pays attention and fixes this, rather than ignore it like they do all the Feedback Hub/Uservoice feedbacks.

kumarharsh | 5 years ago | on: Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking over Time

That's positively the worst UX for logging in I've seen. Having to connect switch between apps and waiting for/fishing out the login email over 3-5 folders is so painful. And oh yeah - doesn't work in Incognito/non-default browser because the email app always opens the default browser in full cognito mode!

kumarharsh | 5 years ago | on: Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking over Time

I doubt that's because Windows wants you to use it more. It's the freaking OS! I think it has more to do with UWP and the Settings app itself. On the (slight) plus side, they have improved their search so much over Windows 7.
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