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71bw
1mo ago
>And despite all of this, I am still stuck playing IT boy with my parents’ computers because they refuse to use an operating system that isn’t complete dogshit. There is no such operating system.
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71bw
1mo ago
Anything modern (as in, released within the, let's say, last month)
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Run full-blown macOS on iPadOS 16
(github.com)
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71bw
1mo ago
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VPhone Workstation – create and use virtual iPhones on Mac
(github.com)
2 points
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71bw
1mo ago
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Nokia DCT3 Emulator
(github.com)
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2mo ago
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71bw
3mo ago
But it's how the people outside of our circles see it. We tinker with our devices, which is not understandable to them - their phone just works, why would they change anything about it?
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71bw
3mo ago
...and the iOS 27 features are not anything actually important, while China never was an established market for Google since 2009. Things have changed.
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71bw
3mo ago
...how does that align with what the EU government is doing? The whole point is for you NOT to be sovereign!!!
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71bw
3mo ago
But this does not allow tracking nor marketing, so why would they do that?
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3mo ago
Oh they sure do, because Google/Apple have to bend over backwards for the EU as they are not stupid enough to suddenly lose 500 million users.
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71bw
3mo ago
The lawsuits, sadly, won't matter. "Security" (or, rather, totalitarian control!) is more important than the 1% of nerds who care enough to tinker with their phone.
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71bw
3mo ago
...attendance? I landed a spot in likely the best economics uni in Poland while having 52% attendance in my final HS year, out of which perhaps 10% of the absence was due to illness.
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71bw
3mo ago
And yet it is China who has, for the last 40+ years, successfully used the "start cheap, destroy competition, rise prices" tactic.
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71bw
3mo ago
And yet, as per usual... Not yet available in the EU/EEA while we work toward compliance with GDPR and EU-specific regulations.
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71bw
3mo ago
Truth be told, the Wii U gamepad is basically h.264 and Wi-Fi as well.
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71bw
3mo ago
I can't even get Gemini to properly call somebody - it is a mess.
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The Polish government approves a law banning all phone usage in primary schools
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4mo ago
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71bw
4mo ago
Does it work nowadays? Back in High Sierra days whenever I tried turning this off it did absolutely nothing and still reordered my shit.
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71bw
4mo ago
We seem to work in very similar fields. I tend to work on the back-end line. To put it lightly: it is all a big shitshow. Vendor lock-in, non-standard communication, network admins who have no idea what they are doing, radiology imaging cli
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71bw
4mo ago
Switch to a backpack or just leave the laptop in your car...?
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71bw
4mo ago
How much of your current knowledge would you simply lack were it not for the Internet?
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71bw
4mo ago
...unless they go and visit Mikey over the fence, whose parents are cool unlike you and let him – willingly or not – wank to hardcore porn at 11.
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71bw
4mo ago
What did you use to ship the laptop?
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71bw
5mo ago
I presume the 968 was chosen because it all seems like the Neo is only the first hurrah into this whole entry-level field for Apple.
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71bw
5mo ago
My 2015 MacBook Air, purchased new in 2017, was already practically dead by 2021.
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71bw
5mo ago
Not even a month ago, according to my IM logs it was during the last week of March 2026.
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5mo ago
I have my iPhone set up in a way where I have "Apple Intelligence" and that, somehow, manages to pick up Polish VERY well. Might want to try it. Never have expected "play "Oddałbym" by Slums Attack from Spotify"
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71bw
5mo ago
So does my father - but then again, it is important to remember the context. It's not going to be an issue if you only drive in big cities or on main roads. The only time I really need to use GPS to navigate is going out into the compl
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71bw
5mo ago
>And Apple Maps today is absolutely amazing. Perhaps that is the case in the US, but in Poland, I haven't had a single app guide me into the literal bushes as many times as Apple Maps does. The straw that broke the camel's back
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71bw
5mo ago
Would not trust any of these tools in the slightest.
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