I just looked it up on ebay and found quite a few sellers that had touchpad replacements so I’m not sure what you’re talking about…

There are tons and tons of websites where you can create an account with just your email. I wouldn’t expect a third party account to be mandatory. Specially from a product like this one.

Maybe this is a pet peeve but it’s a vpn tool that forces you to log in with an “identity provider”. Yeah, no thanks.

You’re missing the forest for the trees. It’s one thing to have your phone stole but it’s another completely and unrelated thing to have someone force you to do something on your phone at gunpoint.

How the hell is any type of security system ever going to be able to help you in the scenario you described?

In case you don’t know what your type of comment is called, it’s “moving the goalpost”.

There’s a significant difference between your phone being stolen and this random scenario you just made up.

you don’t need permission from the company to model your own replacement parts. It’s nice if they provide the models but it’s not necessary.

That’s no longer an exclusive, there’s a PC remake. You could’ve picked a better example.

Maybe, just maybe, the context in which you use regex isn’t the same as everyone elses. But hey, who am I to deny you the disservice of thinking you’re the center of the world?

Maybe for your very specific use case that’s true. However, other use cases exist and for many of those RegEx is the better option.

You’re discussing a completely different use case from what I said. RegEx can be increidbly useful but it’s not always the only/best option.

Not even close. Sometimes you can have a large text file where you need to do a find replace with a pattern. For example, in the translation world this can be a common occurrence for translation files (.xliff) or translation memories (.tmx).

There’s a reason why this is widely used and it’s not because everyone else but you is dumb.

Hard disagree. The function regex serves in programs like Notepad++ can’t be easily replaced by “writing it out in code”. With a very small number of characters you can get complex search patterns and capturing groups. It’s hard to read but incredibly useful.

Yes and no? Being a niche product, I feel like there should be a diy option where you get all of the parts as a kit for a reduced price. Maybe 30-35USD would make more sense. At 70 I would not even consider this product tbh.

$70 for a macropad? You can buy an entire kb for that price.

Also, I rarely use Firefox on my phone and my links are still all from websites I’ve visited.

*pseudo

Sudo is a linux command-line tool.

I did that. Brave is like 19th on the results list and there’s no “forget the fox” in the app name.

With a battery*

*per se

I would hope 16C/32T CPU from 2017 could handle software transcoding

I didn’t say it couldn’t handle it. Just that it was very inefficient.

peak power consumption while playing a movie does not really matter compared to idle power consumption

I mentioned both things. Did you actually read my comments?