infotainment

infotainment, 22 days ago

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, 22 days ago

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, 22 days ago

Keeping commercial real estate values up is the main goal of in-person public schools?

I was making a point about remote schooling, and based on the responses I’ve gotten, I feel like most people here didn’t even read my comment

infotainment, 22 days ago

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, 23 days ago

Internet people: NINTENDO IS DESTROYING ALL EMULATORS raaaaaaaa

Reality: Nintendo sued exactly one emulator that was literally charging people to play pirated games

infotainment, 22 days ago

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, 1 month ago

Seems about the same?

infotainment, 1 month ago

The best cheese temperature is fresh out of the refrigerator and I will die on this hill!

infotainment, 1 month ago

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, 1 month ago

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, 1 month ago

Nice! Gotta catch em all!

infotainment, 1 month ago

If only they had functional data backup and export on non-Android platforms…

infotainment, 2 months ago

So disappointed they’re still doing the prerecorded presentations. The old live ones were so much more fun!

infotainment, 2 months ago

My favorite post-Jobs keynote moment was the confused laughter when Apple triumphantly announced the price of the $699 Mac Pro wheels.

infotainment, 2 months ago

Ah, you’re right! I evidently mixed up the expensive Apple accessories haha

infotainment, 2 months ago

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:

planetizen.com/…/119462-san-francisco-returns-15-…

infotainment, 2 months ago

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, 2 months ago

I can finally follow ZUCC on Mastodon, at last

infotainment, 2 months ago

In keeping with the Siri brand, Apple has to make sure LLM-Siri’s underlying model is bad at everything

infotainment, 2 months ago

…does anyone actually have a stereoscopic monitor?

infotainment, 2 months ago

Japan! It’s a stairway leading to the Toei Ōedo line, among the deepest subways into the world.

infotainment, 2 months ago

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 would would be.

infotainment, 8 months ago

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, 8 months ago

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.