LexGray

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by LexGray 1mo ago
I want to say I’ve broken every headphone jack I ever had. Yanking on them, debris getting in the switch, debris triggering the optical if it had one. 3.5 was never a great design. Too many physical ways for it to break, from static from a
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by LexGray 5mo ago
Agreed. I agree with the iOS lockdown as I do most of my financial and medical there. I can see it for iPad as a sort of locked down computer you can’t break typing random things into terminal some website said to. Vision Pro, however, shou
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by LexGray 5mo ago
There may be one or two good examples of companies who do not depend on dark patterns to keep subscriptions, but plenty of the big names are associated with absolute horror stories of numerous hour long phone calls fighting retention specia
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by LexGray 5mo ago
I presume you mean how you can upload CSV or XLSX spreadsheets but not view them? It does seem an oversight they do not have conversion on the website or the ability to import into a spreadsheet. More interesting is how Pages gives a nice r
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by LexGray 5mo ago
Yet they completely failed to do so for Mac 32-bit apps. There is a huge library of apps that have not been updated to 64-bit to this day and it is a travesty they never released a virtual classic mode to run 32-bit and even OS 9 apps. It i
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by LexGray 5mo ago
Because Apple dropped 10 billion on car research which was an apparent fail. Far simpler and cheaper to snipe startups where you know you are getting a proven product. That comes with a fresh batch of engineers in most cases who specialize
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by LexGray 5mo ago
I will admit they change and depreciate APIs like crazy, but do you have any examples of features or AppleScript being jettisoned that were not fixed? The issue that stands out to me was the once in 17 year 2019 cut-off for 32 bit apps with
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by LexGray 5mo ago
Disagree. Trump is 100% willing and apparently able to crush American businesses unless they kneel. If watching a movie and giving him a gold toilet seat bought off that extortionist it was probably the cheapest any tech firm got off. Cook
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by LexGray 5mo ago
They were touting ultralight ultra light thin metals for a while there, but never really followed up past the SIM ejection tools. The main reason I haven’t purchased a Vision Pro is they have all sorts of glass on the front. I live alone an
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by LexGray 5mo ago
Abandonware at this point I enjoyed Microsoft Pandora's Box as plain old jigsaw fun. It seems to scream for multi-touch support and higher resolution but it was left to rot.
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by LexGray 6mo ago
I think it falls under the article yesterday about male German citizens having restrictions on their travel. Electronic ID is a step toward “papers please”. Germany at least seems to feel international war is only a few steps away and from
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by LexGray 7mo ago
I am sure prosecutors have AI expert witnesses on speed dial. Would probably testify under oath they ran it through their own AI analysis and it came back as not AI. Even public defenders don’t bother with their own expert witnesses, much l
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by LexGray 8mo ago
There is just too much money being burned in AI for Apple to keep researchers. Also models have no respect for original art which leads to a branding issue of being a platform for artists. Apple is competent at timing when to step into a ma
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by LexGray 8mo ago
I thought it was Google refusing to provide turn by turn directions? Apple announced last year they are putting their own ads in Maps so if that was the real problem the corporate leadership has done a complete 180 on user experience.
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by LexGray 9mo ago
Sure the old social there was the kid with porn mags and cigs in his treehouse, but you were never at his house 24/7 and that limited exposure almost inoculated against long term addictions and you experienced it with peer input. Paren
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by LexGray 9mo ago
Typically pure spam not even from MAGA phishing cc info from the most gullible. Replying STOP usually does the trick. I think of it as the side effect of first amendment protections that people do not report it for what it is.
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by LexGray 9mo ago
Does sole intent to advance scientific knowledge even exist as a category anymore? I was given modern research is all pay to play where the grant sponsor decided the topic and what can be done with the results.
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by LexGray 9mo ago
Apple will take back all devices and recycle them. Please do not let her put it in a landfill.
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by LexGray 9mo ago
Make the failure billable for failures in the contract as it is a significant downtime. For every false alarm you need to pay the salaries that were wasted and the snacks and therapists for the kids. Likewise for every missed gun hazard pay
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by LexGray 9mo ago
Issue with LLM with Siri is bad press. There are articles every day about LLM pushing suicide, drugs, violence and the like. Stability and security are issues too if it was given any sort of system write access. However much value it may ad
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by LexGray 10mo ago
Illogical may not be the right word. We have already reached the point of passible. WiFi speeds are decent for data. Wireless charging is 2 hours to a full quick charge and efficiency gets better every generation. As for wired CarPlay someb
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by LexGray 10mo ago
Public interest does not seem to be the driving factor. Everyone owns kitchen appliances and even if there is network support it generally requires a specific app that is out of support very early in the device lifetime. Vehicles barely sup
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by LexGray 11mo ago
Perhaps bad taste, but bots could also be legitimately purposely violating the most private or traumatizing moments a vulnerable person has in any exploitative way it cares to. I am not sure using bad taste is enough of an excuse to not dis
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by LexGray 11mo ago
That sounds like a fun thought experiment. What exactly would happen? I think is why the EU and UK pushing so hard to open the gates is so they have the excuse to take control themselves and slam the gates back shut hard. I predict the outc
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by LexGray 11mo ago
It is not just Apple. The UK is going after every company with their porn filtering laws. Imagine the response if people did not stand up to their tyranny and the Uk kept pushing their agendas further and further. This is why the UK needs t
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by LexGray 11mo ago
It is a strange definition of relatively trivial to ask each and every person on the planet who has served content to be aware of all constantly changing local judicial content restrictions, to identify the location of their users, and to i
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by LexGray 1y ago
The tragedy of Alien 3 is that there was far better lore in the comics world. Newt had been returned to Earth but was kept in an institution to keep her experience secret and made to think she was crazy. That could have been a full TV serie
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by LexGray 1y ago
Animatrix is certainly worth a watch. More or less it follows our current trajectory of humanity trying to offload anything resembling work onto AI. It is becoming a batter series than The Matrix over time.
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by LexGray 1y ago
Wikipedia says unmanned underwater vehicles fall in the drone category as do unmanned surface vehicles. Speaking of which does Ukraine use weaponized RC vehicles and roaming unmanned anti-ship subs? I would think you would get a larger payl
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by LexGray 1y ago
China can set the fertility rate to whatever they like. It is tied to taxes and penalties. They can move the slider to make it fiscally impossible to be childless.

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