I'm an eager and early adopter of Deno. I however look forward to ecosystem improvements, and the interop with npm is helpful. I was working on a side project recently that was a simple CRUD app and I just ended up going with Express on Node after fighting with Oak on Deno for a few days. It was still in the way enough to slow down the rapid fire development process that happens when you're still figuring out an idea.
I adopted Apple Music pretty early in its life and actually liked it in the beginning. But I've noticed the quality is deteriorating.
The UX is slow. It takes 5 seconds to add a song to my library now. Half the time images don't load - so I have a bunch of black squares with words underneath. Sometimes music just doesn't play. 5G/4G handoffs confuse it, forcing me to force quit and restart. The shuffle/repeat options are buried in a weird location. Should be right next to the play button. These are all relatively new problems (the last 6 months or so.)
I don't mind paying for software. But I'm not going to pay for half-baked efforts like Apple Music is quickly becoming, especially if the price keeps increasing.
I considered Lychee but went for Photoview [1] for internal exploration of my photos [1], which follows the 4-facets principle (who, what, when, where). There's a map (where), an album view (what), face recognition (who), and a timeline (when). All of these make it pretty convenient for different purposes. It is also folder-based and I set it up in read-only mode, so Photoview doesn't modify my files or structures.
I researched my options for self hosted file storage that would include (modest) photo viewer and audio player. I tried, among others, Lychee and Photoprism.
I found not so popular web app - FileRun - and have been very happy with it so far.
I love Fujifilm cameras. I moved from Canon full frame to Fuji, because of the physical controls on the X-T line. The ergonomics are superb.
The X-H handles nice, but as a still (amateur) photographer, the X-Ts are where it's at. Having separate, physical controls for exposure compensation, speed, ISO, and aperture is a delight. The tilting screen on the X-T line is also a better fit for still photography than the articulated one on the X-H lines. Here's hoping they keep it.
I have an X-T3 now, I'm waiting for the X-T5. It should come out in a few months, and cost a bit less than the X-H. The main advantages should be the 40 MP sensor (vs 26) and sensor-based image stabilization (introduced in the X-T4). They also offer a pixel-combining mode now that shifts the sensor very small, precise amounts and then combines images to increase resolution up to 4x in the final result. You need a tripod and some time, but I'm looking forward to playing with it.
It's hard to explain exactly how, but the color rendition straight out of the camera on Fuji kit is also second to none. Other posters commenting on RAW files are right, though - they're a pain because of the non-standard sensor. Only Fuji's terrible software and commercial offerings like Lightroom do a decent job. Darktable, for example, doesn't. I stopped shooting RAW partly for this reason, but also because the JPG engine on Fuji kit is outstanding. It makes the best JPGs straight out of the camera I've ever seen.
The APS-C sensor size across the entire line also means that high-quality glass is a bit more affordable, smaller, and lighter than some of the competition.
I guess I became a huge Fuji fanboy along the way.
Pi's can also be used as servers and receivers for the open-source Logitech Media Server software. I've been successfully using it for synchronized multi-room audio. It has support for both local music and streaming services.
I am using Tauri + Preact [0] for a private project. It's wonderful.
With Preact + htm [1], I can have a really complex UI, that still feels snappy, without having to deal with webpack or any other build pipeline (after all, it is a hobby project and therefore should spark joy).
The backend is entirely written in Rust.
I did some electron apps before, and I have to say, Tauri really feels snappier.
I won't disagree that medicine has come a long way but I'm going to say that this is a giant disservice to some very great doctors in history.
My favorite example is John Bradmore, who saved the life of King Henry V after he was shot in the fucking head with an arrow. Not only was John Bradmore a surgeon, he was also something of metalworker (and in fact, was arrested for making counterfeit coins; he had to be pulled out of jail to save the king's life). He used that skill to design a bespoke tool to pull the arrowhead out of the king's head, creating an antibacterial environment with honey and disinfecting the wound with alcohol (though this was before germ theory). Henry V would later go on to rule for 19 more years (he would die for seemingly unrelated reasons, heatstroke). By the way, this was in 1403.
There's also a problem with your criticism in the sense that it implies that doctors were blindly confident, and not for a particularly good reason. While obviously certain incorrect beliefs persisted for quite some time in history, it's from within medicine and from other doctors that these views were more often than not corrected and updated. Obviously, Galen believed incorrectly that the human heart has sinuses from which blood flowed across and was filtered, but to his defense he was not allowed by the state to perform human dissections. If anything, the neo-Galenists were to blame (as Andreas Versalius so often harshly criticized, to the detriment of his Latin grammar, funnily enough). But it's only through the work of people like Ibn al-Nafis, Vesalius, and William Harvey (the latter two's frustration with Galen comes across pretty clearly in their writing) that we have the perspective to say that beliefs like Galen's were wildly off the mark. What I mean to say is, that it's very easy to say that those early doctors were far too confident in their pseudo-scientific theories, yet that's the nature of scientific knowledge and the epistemology of medicine; we know better only because of social changes, technological improvements, and/or particularly clever insights.
