infotainment 4 months ago • 16%
Indeed I was! I’m not sure the studies you linked would either confirm nor refute that point. I agree with your supposition that studies on Indian call centers probably don’t generalize particularly well.
infotainment 4 months ago • 12%
You didn’t address my point at all — I’m talking about remote schooling, which I believe studies showed did not do well.
I agree with you that the WFH “productivity” studies are suspect since it’s difficult to measure productivity in any meaningful way.
infotainment 4 months ago • 11%
Why not? Remote schooling was generally viewed as a poor substitute for in-person schooling, so it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that there could be benefits to doing things in real life.
infotainment 4 months ago • 66%
Exactly, which is why I said “charging people to play pirated games” (though I suppose it was really just one game, so no plural was needed.)
infotainment 5 months ago • 36%
Internet people: NINTENDO IS DESTROYING ALL EMULATORS raaaaaaaa
Reality: Nintendo sued exactly one emulator that was literally charging people to play pirated games
infotainment 5 months ago • 94%
Seems about the same?
infotainment 5 months ago • 80%
The best cheese temperature is fresh out of the refrigerator and I will die on this hill!
infotainment 5 months ago • 80%
I downvoted it because it’s blaming the wrong entity; the real bad actor here is Apple.
The AltStore should be free and it should be available globally, but neither are possible thanks to Apple’s anticompetitive shenanigans.
infotainment 5 months ago • 90%
Agreed, most of the characters in the book are so flat, and only do things because the plot needed them to do that thing.
The Netflix series managed to make the character’s motivations seem more believable which I appreciated.
infotainment 5 months ago • 100%
Nice! Gotta catch em all!
infotainment 6 months ago • 66%
If only they had functional data backup and export on non-Android platforms…
infotainment 6 months ago • 80%
Ah, you’re right! I evidently mixed up the expensive Apple accessories haha
infotainment 6 months ago • 85%
My favorite post-Jobs keynote moment was the confused laughter when Apple triumphantly announced the price of the $699 Mac Pro wheels.
infotainment 6 months ago • 90%
So disappointed they’re still doing the prerecorded presentations. The old live ones were so much more fun!
infotainment 6 months ago • 100%
Seems they are aware of that problem, according to the article:
Taxis can use Market Street but Uber and Lyft can’t — an aspect of the system that even planners say has problems, since so many people use those ride-booking options, but there’s no obvious way to let them cross 10th Street without allowing all other drivers, too.
infotainment 6 months ago • 100%
Agreed. The problem was they had planned to redo the streetscape as part of the Better Market Street initiative, but the plans fell through because the Board of Supervisors spent so much time infighting that they lost the federal funds that would have funded it:
infotainment 6 months ago • 66%
I can finally follow ZUCC on Mastodon, at last
infotainment 6 months ago • 100%
In keeping with the Siri brand, Apple has to make sure LLM-Siri’s underlying model is bad at everything
infotainment 6 months ago • 100%
…does anyone actually have a stereoscopic monitor?
infotainment 6 months ago • 100%
Japan! It’s a stairway leading to the Toei Ōedo line, among the deepest subways into the world.
infotainment 7 months ago • 100%
At this point, I feel like Apple is just playing chicken with the EU. If this isn't "gatekeeping" (ie, the thing the DMA is supposed to prevent), then I'm not sure what would be.
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
Eh, I think the problem is the customers just take what apple gives them
I think this is true to an extent, but my argument against it would be to point to the period where Apple resisted making large phones, while Android phones were getting bigger and bigger. (This would be approximately the era of the 5/5S) In the more wild-west product lineup of Android, it became clear that bigger screens equaled more sales, for better or for worse.
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
Eh, I think the problem is customers just prefer bigger phones. I mean, personally I prefer the mini, but I think it's clear I'm in the minority.
Using a rebrand to try and downplay the compactness may work for sight-unseen buyers, but in the end if they're shown the bigger phone in-store, past sales would suggest they're likely going to pick the bigger phone. (Phones ended up so big in the first place because people preferred them, too.)
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
I just wish Signal had better history and backup features.
infotainment 1 year ago • 95%
Oh I wasn’t being sarcastic or anything, I think it’ll make a great addition.
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
This is absolutely the reason why Apple sticks with a rectangle, but that said, I'd still love to see them try for a round face.
Round faces look amazing for analog watch faces and only for that—but I'd still get one if they offered it.
infotainment 1 year ago • 92%
You just know this is going to get mentioned at Tim Cook's next iPhone keynote.
infotainment 1 year ago • 96%
Why not everything? Honestly even 25 years seems too long, make it 10.
infotainment 1 year ago • 90%
Wish the TouchID rumors were true; I have the iPad Air M1 with the side TouchID button and it works amazingly.
I wish Apple would bring it to their phones, but they really seem to like FaceID for some reason.
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
Yup. Lest we forget, Android is Linux-based, and it's the most popular consumer operating system in the world.
infotainment 1 year ago • 75%
Exactly! The great thing about Lemmy is that if your instance’s admins start doing stupid stuff you can just go to another instance.
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
As fun as it is to watch Musk do dumb stuff, giving him credit for killing HSR is a reach. There’s a really great article about it here — even Epstein was involved for some reason!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-rail-politics.html
infotainment 1 year ago • 95%
Well, to quote a classic film:
"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
All Elon had to do was stick to the rockets and cars!
But no, he has to go pick fights with random people online and espouse stupid talking points. It’s like a masterclass in killing your personal brand.
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
What did you think of the second one? I liked how it was open world, though the story itself left a lot to be desired IMO
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
New Coke was the 80s, not 70s — they actually briefly brought it back as part of a Stranger Things tie-in. Super interesting to actually taste it.
infotainment 1 year ago • 80%
Attitudes like this are much worse for the health of the Fediverse, IMO.
A popular instance with users and content? Kill it immediately, we can't risk people actually using the Fediverse.
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
I miss AskScienceFiction; it was always fun reading those in-universe answers.
There's one here on LemmyWorld, but it's pretty dead: !AskScienceFiction@lemmy.world
infotainment 1 year ago • 96%
Wow, the level of detail on this theme is really impressive!
As as aside, I didn't realize that GTK had officially banned theming. That seems...dumb.
infotainment 1 year ago • 100%
IIRC, my dad bought progressives from Zenni and said they were as good as the ones he got from an optician.
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What would you love to see in a future version of Apple Maps? For me it's got to be an option for always have the map be north-up when doing turn by turn directions.
/r/MovingToJapan had a ton of great content, and I thought it would be good to link to it: https://web.archive.org/web/20230315064604/https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/wiki/index/#wiki_general_advice
If so, which plastic option did you pick? And how did you like it?
This actually seems useful!
Back in the day you could apply custom themes using Cydia! I forget what this theme was called, but I liked the look! I wonder whatever happened to BtBx and Goalkeep, those were cool apps that just vanished.
Who can forget those *reflections*?