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by astafrig 19d ago
In addition to the third-party installation capability mentioned by siblings, Japan also has a regional capability for reassigning the side button to a third-party voice assistant (`com.apple.developer.side-button-access.allow`).
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by astafrig 22d ago
The only thing Safari seems inferior at is draining batteries.
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by astafrig 2mo ago
If you’re trying to quantify fun, you’ve already well and truly missed the point.
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by astafrig 2mo ago
Doesn’t it? I do trust the manufacturer of the thing that I keep within arms reach from the moment I get it, and which knows more about me than I do, to have better security than whatever the hell a TUYA is that controls the lights.
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by astafrig 2mo ago
My experience with phones like that are that they tend to fall apart when subjected to impact, which is pretty counterproductive to features like, I don’t know, being able to use the phone immediately after an impact (car crash, fall).
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by astafrig 2mo ago
> google's ai says Copy-pasting AI output is uninteresting and rude.
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by astafrig 2mo ago
'Solved' by having measurably worse ingress protection than leading smartphones?
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by astafrig 3mo ago
How do you think that this wouldn't "work in the current timeline"? This sounds like a deep misunderstanding of media.
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by astafrig 4mo ago
How is the title misleading?
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by astafrig 5mo ago
Everything involving geography is a regional feature because it takes time to create things for physical stuff across the physical world; its not just some arbitrary limitation like streaming media.
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by astafrig 5mo ago
> no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch I regularly use hiking and topography maps on my Apple Watch with the first party maps app, so it sure what you’re talking about
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by astafrig 5mo ago
Some of these are questionable, but 3 and 5 stick out. Being included makes it sound like whoever wrote this list doesn’t really know what Zed is? It’s a local text editor. The only thing an account gives you is access to their specific fla
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by astafrig 5mo ago
> Your statement uses the presence of bugs to indicate a product is worth using. This is not correct; "If a product is worth using, then it has bugs." (P→Q) does not imply its converse "If a product has bugs, then it is wo
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by astafrig 6mo ago
The thing they “didn’t want to [do]” was infringe on the Linux trademark.
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by astafrig 6mo ago
> including a new option coming this summer that will enable businesses in the U.S. and Canada to place local ads in Maps during key search and discovery moments. The enshittification knows no bounds.
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by astafrig 6mo ago
What else is a shame is claiming that some single language feature supports a foregone conclusion that the writing's been 'molested'. It's hard to imagine what a constructive comment this could've been with the mini
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by astafrig 6mo ago
I think this’d be a good comment if it weren’t for the superiority complex :/
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by astafrig 6mo ago
I’m fairly confident that the Venn diagram of (a) nine-year-olds that are playing with a computer and (b) people who claim that access to kernel source code is a prerequisite to “learning about computers” is two circles that are barely touc
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by astafrig 7mo ago
> about money in the bank? Yes, generally. That's the entire idea behind the stock market.
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by astafrig 7mo ago
as an end user it is my problem when trying to complain in the right place
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by astafrig 7mo ago
Not what iBeacon does but an entertainingly dramatic description nonetheless.
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by astafrig 8mo ago
It is trivially easy to know that this isn’t true.
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by astafrig 8mo ago
The API surface becomes the lowest common denominator of all the platforms it supports, possibly with a path to support platform-native features, but probably in a way that’s necessarily not as good as native. I think we already have plen
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by astafrig 8mo ago
> locally-installed software you own is usually a better choice. It’s a good thing that’s exactly what this is, then.
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by astafrig 8mo ago
Up Bank provides an API that enables these use cases: https://developer.up.com.au/
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by astafrig 10mo ago
Making privacy some end-goal that PMs cut to meet targets is how you end up with Google redefining privacy to mean "only we have access to every aspect of your life, now and in the future". If Apple takes the position that the U
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by astafrig 10mo ago
> nominally "selling" plots to people but with terms of service attached that restrict what you can do with the land you bought and that allow the company to change the terms at any time. So, a lease.
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by astafrig 11mo ago
It’s not misleading to measure the performance of Web Assembly in a web browser .
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by astafrig 11mo ago
Then you can only adjust one thing at a time—so you’ve just created the worst of both worlds with a multi-touch display and live music software.
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by astafrig 11mo ago
Cool, great. That’s got nothing to do with Activation Lock.

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