Similarly naive outsider, but I've read things here and there. My understanding is that they should have declared mayday (emergency) and landed (potentially at another airport, potentially in the middle of nowhere) _way_ before so that when they have landed they still had 30 minutes or more of fuel in the tanks.
As a vinyl enjoyer, the sound quality is absolutely not why I buy it. I also use film cameras, and image quality (meaning, definition, color accuracy, etc) is definitely not why I use it.
There definitely are those that fit your description, but they are a minority.
Serious question — is there a way to defend from this "stealing the API" thing? E.g. building an authentication of some sort and then including a key with your app?
Of course HN doesn’t like anything that’s reminiscent of DRM, but Apple’s App Attest and Google’s Play integrity API can help dispense online services to valid clients only.
I own Lightroom 4.0 from 2012 (that's 10 years ago). It doesn't have the latest features, but it's still a very capable RAW processing software. I don't use it anymore because I've subscribed to the current Lightroom. I've subscribed last year, because (finally!) the new features were compelling enough for me.
The old version still works well, even on latest-ish macOS. It still produces great pictures now, as it did 10 years ago.
10 years is not that long ago. In computers and software the difference between 2022 and 2012 is not as big as it was between 1992 and 2002.
