I also heard Psyonix was considering bringing Rocket League to the platform. If they do, that would be another very good reason to get it. But I agree that BotW would be the only reason I'm interested in the console at all -- similar to how cooperative Monster Hunter experiences with friends would be the only reason I would consider one of their traditional handhelds.
For some input from someone who's never been a Zelda fan (me), when watching this game, I think I understood the hype. Previous Zelda titles never interested me, but this one looks like it takes some of the best elements from the Dark Souls and Monster Hunter series gameplay and applies them to the Zelda universe, with the bonus of a huge open world ready for exploration. It has me considering a Switch just for this one game as well. It looks like an incredibly enjoyable to me as a fan of those aforementioned game series, though of course I haven't personally played it yet.
I use this combo whenever possible, though the number of services yet supporting FIDO/U2F is still a bit disappointing. It's been incredibly convenient to be able to use my bitcoin hardware wallets to double as U2F keys wherever I need them. Given that any device I would use an OTP or text 2FA solution with already requires time to unlock, it's far less convenient on top of being more exploitable.
Are you using the ledger as a wallet? Doesn't plugging the device into an untrusted PC worry you at all? Leaving all that aside, the biggest issue for me an u2f is the mobile problem I have a yubikey neo, but u2f does not work over nfc, so I'm still stuck creating application passwords for things.
The Ledger is designed to plug into an untrusted PC, that's the whole point. It's running secure hardware and never reveals the private key. It also has a display that tells you how much you're sending and to what address, so you're protected even if you have spyware that attempts to spoof those parameters.
According to Yubikey, "All YubiKey NEO devices manufactured as of February 10, 2015 supported the current FIDO U2F specification for NFC."
Maybe you have an older device? Or, if you have an iPhone, it's Apple that's the problem, since it restricts NFC to Apple's own payment system. With Android, NFC is available to any app.
You're correct, but the implementation is limited. Chrome supports it, I think via Google Authenticator, but even their Gmail app doesn't support it directly. Nor does Dropbox, which are my primary two use cases. I highly doubt most other apps do either. The Google Authenticator support is a step, but it really needs to move to "enter password, tap token" in any app to really be useful.
They do sell just plain oats with no other ingredients, but the instant oatmeal has a whole bunch of added sugar and the marketing deliberately conflates the two.
I'm not sure why you would say something like that. The original TextSecure and Redphone apps were exclusively on Android until it got bundled into a single app and released as Signal on both platforms. Android is still often ahead, and seems preferred much of the time.
What about a lifestyle where you have time to take a break, but you don't want to spend that break preparing, eating, and cleaning up after food? You'd rather spend it, say, reading a great book, working on an interesting side project, playing a tabletop game with friends you invited over, or just laying in a hammock reflecting on life?
Due to how cultural values vary, I'm not surprised that many HN readers are repulsed to some degree by the idea of not preparing and consuming a traditional meal. It's just a kind of conservatism, a recognition of traditional values that help us find another way to enjoy life.
In my own time growing up, my family had traditionally prepared meals almost every day together, and yet even as a child I had little patience for it. I was endlessly curious, wanted to explore the world, play with dad, tinker with my computer, read something, write something, draw something, make something. My life was incredibly full of worth and value to me, and I enjoyed it immensely -- and yet, meals were only ever a distraction, merely one of the lesser chores I had to take care of to keep enjoying the rest of my life.
This sentiment is still largely with me today. Today, meals either serve as a mechanism for me to guarantee people I want to spend time with will be in the same place at the same time, or else I'm alone, in which case I simply see no point in all the bother. There are still many things much more interesting and spiritually fulfilling to me than preparing, consuming, and cleaning up after a traditional meal. Gladly would I accept a solution that successfully meets all of my nutritional needs while also allowing me to do any of those other things instead.
> It's not just eating it, it's all the flavours and ingredients and cooking with friends and loved ones and parties and such.
One possible angle for explanation is that if you're already missing these things, there's only upside. Additionally, it seems most who use soylent don't use it to replace all meals, but only some where time savings is the primary consideration. Anecdotally, I searched for bars that would do the same thing some years ago, because I had no patience for cooking anything, no friends or family to enjoy it with, and always something more interesting to use my time for.
That's still largely true today. Cooking anything more than a very simple meal is a big indulgence, and will leave me questioning why I spent all the time I did preparing it. When cooking these days, usually I will prepare a few days' worth of food at a time, sacrificing time in the short-term for savings later without feeling pressured to eat something quick and unhealthy (and potentially expensive).
Soylent -- the idea, not necessarily any particular product -- seems very attractive in this case.
Lenovo Thinkpad T-Series here, all hardware functional out of the box. Additionally, any Dell I've tried it on works just fine (XPS 13 has explicit support for it, too).
In fact, in most cases it "just works" these days, but the range of hardware I attempt it on isn't great. I've had trouble with a low-end Toshiba of a friend's in the past, and even on the Thinkpad I'll sometimes have issues with rarer configurations - namely a complicated multi-display setup using the Lenovo dock/port replicator.
It certainly isn't the Apple "don't make me think" experience I would love to present people with, but it's been far from a nightmare for years in my experience.
> Lenovo Thinkpad T-Series here, all hardware functional out of the box
Indeed! Lenovo Thinkpads in my company as well, and everything mostly "just works".
There are also some Samsung Ultrabooks (I heard they have some trouble with the boot partition) and some poor quality local brand clones which break down if you stare at them too hard (but that's independent of the installed OS).
The Thinkpads give no trouble. No idea why they're phasing them out. Cost savings maybe? :(