flop_leash_973 7 days ago • 100%
Amazing that they can't seem to see that they are not going to win any customers by trying to out Apple Apple.
flop_leash_973 1 week ago • 100%
I'm sure the bears would allow you to attend, as the meal.
flop_leash_973 2 weeks ago • 97%
Sounds like they are just pissed that he found a way to beat them at their own game.
flop_leash_973 2 weeks ago • 100%
Yet another thing we have entire books and movie series about what will go wrong, and probably how. Yet somehow a way will be found to make it go wrong in exactly those ways.
flop_leash_973 3 weeks ago • 100%
Naturally the price for the cheapest model will also be going to up several orders of magnitude more than the cost of materials, labor, and healthy profit margin to account for that as well I'm sure.
flop_leash_973 3 weeks ago • 100%
Someone found something that still depends on the control panel that will not be easily moved or done away with I bet.
flop_leash_973 4 weeks ago • 91%
"Fringe" ideas are discovered to be fact a lot of the time. Nearly everything that is known to the true in the modern world started out as "some quack theory".
The difference is in how those that think of the "quack theory" go about investigating their theory and respond to the results of that investigation. And whether someone responds honestly or not to that has a lot more to do with them as a person than it does what field of study they come from.
flop_leash_973 4 weeks ago • 100%
Musk is learning the lesson Google and Youtube learned years ago with the "adpocalypse". If the whole house of cards depends on ad dollars you have to keep them happy.
Unless Musk is going to take X (Twitter) completely subscription only, or fund it exclusively out of his own pocket, he is not going to get that "anything I want goes" utopia he keeps crowing about.
flop_leash_973 4 weeks ago • 87%
That stance will change if they ever get acquired. Might even get the chance to see James Cuda try and walk back this stance in a few years.
flop_leash_973 4 weeks ago • 88%
I personally think the whole backlash against master/slave in the computing world is people looking for something in their sphere of knowledge to be offended about so they can feel like they are part of "a movement". Even if some mustache twirling racist was the first "computer guy" to come up with the term and meant it to be offensive, that is not how sane people view it today. So some of the advocates for changing it should stop trying to build it up into some Pizzagate-like conspiracy against black/brown people.
Having said that, I also don't have any strong attachments to the phrasing either. Phase it out in favor of something that makes everyone happy if that keeps the peace. It is just a term that made sense at the time to describe something. There is nothing stopping us from changing it to something else now if we so choose. It is not erasing heritage or some such nonsense. If anything, people having strong hangups about it if there are better or equally as good terms out there that doesn't make people uncomfortable is far weirder in my opinion.
The only thing I have somewhat strong opinions about is making it some high priority to go back and erase those terms from solutions that already exist. Change them as you update things, sure, but why create extra work to update something old that is currently working if the only change is not functional and just verbiage. Seems like wasted effort that could be better directed and solving functional issues to me.
flop_leash_973 1 month ago • 62%
Because the know the people that buy it either are stupid or have no choice (in the cases of the few that actually have to eat those kinds of diets for health reasons).
flop_leash_973 1 month ago • 100%
Cheap hookers that won't give me weird things on my junk are rigged.
flop_leash_973 1 month ago • 100%
"It is so secure we don't even need to check it anymore."
MBA idiot says right before something they are in charge of gets compromised because some hacker took such a statement as a challenge.
flop_leash_973 1 month ago • 98%
This kind of thing getting worse and worse at all levels of tech is increasingly pushing me to the fringes of tech solutions (with all of the handicaps that come with that) as those are getting to be the only places where this kind of thing is not pervasive.
- No apps on phone, if the mobile site doesn't work it can wait until I am in front of a desktop/laptop
- No NFC payments as that requires the phone to be blessed by lord Google or father Apple
- No set top streaming boxes on the TV, just a small Linux powered PC and a cheap Logitech wireless keyboard/trackpad
- Only Linux OSes on desktop/laptop
It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.
flop_leash_973 1 month ago • 100%
Trump has historically been for or against whatever he thinks will be the best for him.
flop_leash_973 1 month ago • 100%
My complaint is not that the "appliance" solutions exist for those that want them. But that there is next to no room in the market now for options that are not those "appliance" solutions for those that do want them but also want to take part in the modern tech world with things like NFC payments without having to trick the services with Magisk modules.
flop_leash_973 1 month ago • 99%
The world of mobile phones is a real world example of what we avoided on the PC back in the day when the IBM BIOS got reverse engineered, allowing for someone to put out an IBM compatible PC without having to pay the tithe to big blue first. Not that IBM didn't do their level best to put those efforts in the ground with their lawyers and the courts as soon as they found out about it. Thankfully the legal system of the time didn't allow that to happen.
It has been pretty depressing to me that the tech literate have been so easily lulled into accepting such things in the name of "cool toys" and "security" virtually everywhere in modern life besides the PC/laptop/server spaces.
Phones, TV set top boxes, smart TVs, IoT gear. They are all a cesspit of locked down propitiatory and gate kept gardens where nothing happens without the gardens keeper getting a cut and having final say over everything.
This sort of control and gatekeeping from the likes of Google, Apple, and Qualcomm was not something that was hard to see coming a mile away, yet we all collectively let it happen anyway.
flop_leash_973 1 month ago • 100%
But in order to create a solution that will be mainstream enough to make in-roads into the hold Big Tech has on the market
Firstly, I doubt their users asked them to be "mainstream", only their want for a piece of the app store profit pie is asking for that.
Secondly, if the only way to make in-roads on big techs hold on the market is to become just like them, then maybe they should be trying to find a better way.
F-droid is not going to beat the Play store at its own game. And it shows how naive the maintainers of F-droid are if they really believe that.
flop_leash_973 1 month ago • 100%
Eh, no matter the phone I have had or the version of Android it has, it has more or less looked the same for years since I just install Nova and import the backup. Same thing for my lock screen. I will probably continue to use it the same way I have for years no matter what it technically supports.
flop_leash_973 1 month ago • 100%
I moved to esim for everything since my carrier (US Mobile) supports it and has a nice utility built into their mobile app to allow you to move your number to a new esim anytime you want to switch phones.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
I worked somewhere like that back in the 2008-2010 time frame. Thankfully, there was a extension, I believe the name was "IETab", that would spawn a new tab in Trident (IE's browser engine). So you could set certain sites to launch in one of those tabs and everything else would use standard Firefox. None of the people I supported were any the wiser. They just thought everything worked in Firefox.
Granted it was only that seamless because Windows already had that rendering engine built in. There are some extensions that do something similar with Chrome, but because of more modern security standards and whatnot you have to install extension helper applications which is gross.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
This kind of shit is why Googles (and anyone else that tries it as well) ever increasing push to put a layer of ads into anything is so off putting to me. Sure ads are annoying, but they are also probably second only to social engineering as the method for someones device and accounts getting compromised.
I personally will not go back to the days where just the act of visiting a website and clicking on nothing has a good chance of loading some Javascript and infecting my browser or whole device with the drive by malware of the day because the shit heads that run the site are to lazy to vet what they are letting their site call out too and the third party ad networks are to lazy to vet what sorts of things they are allowing their ad networks to serve.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
I would hope he would fade away. But between the need for grifted money and ego I doubt he will stop until he physically can't any more.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 90%
I think MAGA is an unspoken admission that there are a lot of easily swayed people in this country that have been failed by the existing system.
Even if deep down they know it is all BS they can't allow themselves to acknowledge it because that would mean having to face the reality that they don't have much of a future to look forward to for various reasons.
A lot of people can't take that mentally and keep going day to day, so they just go along with the crazy because it seems easier to go with the delusion.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
Gotta get that post nut clarity to make sure it is you and not the horny feelings leading you to making that decision.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
I take it the app will forever be on my Galaxy s24+. A system app that Samsung will never see fit to remove via one of the mo thy patches.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
I dream of working somewhere where this kind of effort is appreciated enough to motivate me to put in the effort of actually doing it.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 35%
They are just butt hurt that this whole thing really shines a light on how inaccurate the line of "the world runs on Linux" truly is.
The world runs on a lot of different things for different reasons and that does not fit nicely into their Richard Stallman like world view.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
If all of the parts of the internet that the average person finds useful goes down, then it matters little that technically "the internet" is not down. If it can't be useful then it is as good as "down".
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
I don't think you have to worry about that. I don't think any Pixel has ever sold well by most metrics.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
This is not gonna stop until the consumer puts their money where there mouths are and stops using Windows until Microsoft back peddles. Money is all a company understands so that is where you need to hit them if you want them to listen. But as a group the consumer has a very weak constitution when it comes to having to do something that is good for them in the long term but causes them short term inconvenience. A lot of parallels to the modern corporate world in that.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
Tesla will probably be a case study one day in how to get the lead in a market that is hard to break into and somehow squander it.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
Mine stays on 24/7/365 unless I am going to be out of town.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 93%
In my experience you either have to trade one devil for the other with Apple or accept buying hardware from the ad company so you can use GrapheneOS.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 57%
Sure, I could. But I wanted to leave the original post as it was for transparency. I figured that was the most "open" thing to do.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
Scientists have figured out a ton of things in a lab setting. But most of that is not something that scales up to the real world.
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
Apparently this was a UI glitch or dishonest reporting by the person that told Android Authority.
https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
It has gotten to the point where if you work for a game studio that gets bought out or sold, might as well get ahead of the game and start looking for a new job before they have the chance to fire you.
Jesus, that is a gross way to inject advertising into turn-by-turn navigation. **Edit/update from 9to5google so this post does not spread what is apparently inaccurate information:** https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/
flop_leash_973 2 months ago • 100%
It has always been kind of funny to me that the painters of these official portraits had to at some point get directions along the lines of "I want it to be flattering but clearly me" for some of the portraits they had to do of what had to be pretty bridge troll ugly looking people.
Talk about going home that night after getting the assignment, having a stiff drink, and wondering how the hell you are going to get out of this one.
It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.
Well, at least they aren't outright throwing the functionality in the trash.
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.
Jesus, again already?
Funny how it is the worker bees that have to pull the over time to fix issues that are probably the result of demands from some management stooge that didn’t appreciate the outcomes of their demands.
Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people "bought".
A lot of people in the UK prosecutors offices and post office management should be going to prison.
And last year they were all saying some variation on "don't worry, AI is not going to cost anyone their jobs." Key take away for anyone is to never trust what an executive is saying. Much like a politician, if their lips are moving they are probably lying.
Seems like something that WFH would solve without having to upend so many employee lives.
Just what the world needs, more software subscriptions. /s Though we are talking about Broadcom, so I can't say I am surprised.
Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.
Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.
Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using it.
Thought it would be cool to share the plane made out of bullet casings from World War 2 that my grandfather made and my father gave me once my grandfather died.
Whats sad is it doesn't even take much knowledge of technology to know the whole of Sunbirds "product" was a terrible idea even outside of security concerns. "Hey! I've got a brilliant idea for a product that absolutely could not fail!, lets reverse engineer one of the prime services of one of the most protectionist and litigious companies in the world and publicly advertise and try to sell it to their competition and potential users as some sort of magic compatibility layer"! What could possibly go wrong? ~~It was a worse idea than Dolphin thinking they were going to get away with trying to monetize their Nintendo emulator.~~ EDIT: I was mistaken about Dolphin looking to charge for their emulator when they put it up on Steam, as pointed out by a few folks in the comments. They were just looking to distribute it on the platform. Still seems like wishful thinking to me though when talking about something related to Nintendo and IP.
Bet there was some good tokens in some of those customer HAR files.
Looks like Google is dumping the podcasts app and moving it all to Youtube music.
Right up there with the classic "sales guy vs web dude".
Right up there with "web dude vs sales guy" in my opinion.
Of all of the issues in the NC school system, surely there are better things for the legislature to be trying to screw with than to worry about if the school library is stocking books that might make the kids think..deity forbid, we can't have to much of that sort of thing. I am just trying to imagine how that is going to go: "sorry Jake or Jill, you don't get to check out books because your parents don't think you should be reading unless it is from the approved list you have at home". Talk about creating a legion of kids unable to think for themselves.