It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.
It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.
It's inescapable.
It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.
It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.
If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.
I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."
David Zaslav is the guy who started cutting content and killing films to "save money" and bolster the APPEARANCE of WBD's stock price. Seems his tactics were exactly what we expected, a short term gimmick, good for a single fiscal quarter, and disastrous in the long term.
He will absolutely earn MILLIONS from this terrible performance as CEO. There need to be more significant consequences for millionaire CEOs running companies into the ground.
There are jobs and livelihoods at stake.
The ridiculousness of iMessage is starting to cut both ways.
Mom - OnePlus
Dad and Sis - Pixel
Bro - Moto
Took a recent trip and set up an RCS chat. It was so nice not having any iPhones in the mix.
@SomeGadgetGuy iMessage is still the best with all the features and security but Apple just needs to support RCS. Keep the iMessage features only for Apple users.
And although WhatsApp and Signal and Telegram are popular are used world wide, I'd still want to chat with RCS for day to day conversations.
No need to download a third party app, is based on a standard and is end-end encrypted. Why make it unnecessarily tribalized
I just want to hear that Apple will finally include tracker notifications in iOS. They've held the Android network hostage for months now with no resolution in sight. https://somegadgetguy.com/2023/08/18/we-all-suffer-when-apple-products-dont-just-work/
Apple blew up location privacy with AirTags, but now Google can't fix that until Apple updates the iPhone.
There should be SIGNIFICANT regulatory reactions to Apple directly harming this competition.
WAAIT! Really? Threads is ALREADY joining Twitter on rate limits? What the heck???
If you have the means, donate to your mastodon server to help keep the lights on and the rate limits at bay!
Threads To Start Implementing Rate Limits Like Twitter As Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s “Optimistic” About Platform & Focused “On Growing Community” – Deadline
@SomeGadgetGuy this must be one of your most interacted-to posts on Mastodon, and it's because it's full of people pointing out your mistake 😂 the internet never changes
Watching #GoogleIO and there are some cool demonstrations of data center cloud computing, but there's also this fog of dystopia surrounding these demos.
The announcements for search are horrifying. Google is full mask off.
Phrases like "search for something, and we'll collect all this data for you" basically equates to:
"We sucked up ALL the data from people who really did the work, and we're going to give you the results of their hard work, but we wont take you to the site that generated the data. You can stay on the search page, and the site's traffic will plummet."
When I can only share anecdotal experiences of working really hard on smartphone reviews only to have that content buried by Google and YouTube, I'm often told I "just need to make better content".
Yet every day, we're hearing from more folks complaining about changes in search and algorithms harming smaller sites and publishers.
This write up from HouseFresh is WELL detailed on how larger publishers are banking on their reputations to game Google search and sell garbage to their readers. https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/
You can't "better content" your way out of a problem like this when audience search is rigged against you.
If journalists actually covered Apple with the scrutiny Apple deserved, we wouldn't see all these "Apple Supports Right to Repair" headlines.
It'd read more like:
"Apple Issues List of Demands Required to Prevent Challenging California Right to Repair Bill with Expensive Lawsuits That would Cost Tax Payers Millions, and the Demands Seek to Entrench Apple's Current Anti-Consumer Business Practices While Misrepresenting the Services Offered by 3rd Party Repair Shops, Because Apple is a Bully and is LONG Overdue Regulatory Market Corrections."
Admittedly, my headline here isn't quite as quick and punchy for that tasty SEO hit...
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Quatre années après l’achat de mon iPhone 11, jet eu un message me disant qu’elle devait être remplacé (sa charge maximale ne dépassait pas 78 % de sa charge originale) et cela m’a coûté une visite au Apple Store qui m’a coûté 136 $.
Ingénieur en électronique, Je n’ai aucun doute sur ma capacité à changer la batterie de montéléphone moi-même.
@lukechairwalker même situation avec mon iPhone XS mais perso, j’ai zérooo talent ou patience.
Le fait que seul le Apple Store puisse le faire sans que ça affiche des avertissement de sécurité par la suite me gosse, car je sais que les prix sont plus élevés à cause de ça.
Mutant Mayhem was adorable. Really fun romp. Probably the best way they could modernize the origin story for the turtles.
As someone who grew up with the ORIGINAL comics, this was a really sweet version to share with my daughter.
The newest most powerful chips from Intel and AMD don't qualify for Microsoft's newest CoPilot+ AI branding. We're already seeing INCREDIBLE deals on crazy powerful PCs, because of all the AI hype! Here's my review of the Geekom A8, with a BEAST of an AMD chip inside! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/45e
Winamp is going to publish their source code and go open source!
Who's going to take that nostalgic trip with me and start digging through skins and visualizers?
Google showed off new business AI solutions while promoting their water cooled data centers. Now we find out Microsoft is not only failing to meet their carbon emissions goal, their emissions are actually UP 30%.
I just don't see how this era of cloud AI is going to be a sustainable business model...
Just had a chat with a well respected mini PC manufacturer asking if I'd be interested in "reviewing" their products.
I said "sure!" and recommended one of their newer offerings.
They replied "we don't need promotion on that right now, we really need videos on this older less expensive system going on sale".
Red flag already, but it could make for a fun project video. I say sure.
THEN they reply with all the mandatory talking points to include, what kind of b-roll to shoot, a timetable of less than two weeks, and a list of links I'd need to use instead of my own affiliate links.
I tell them, "that's not a review, that's a promotional video you want to live on my channel". I don't charge for anything called a review on my channel, but I will produced sponsored videos to keep the lights on.
I tell them my rates for a sponsored video, and they IMMEDIATELY balk.
It's really changed my perception of this brand's reputation.
Apple was never going to "save" VR.
We've spent the last decade giving Apple an unlimited runway of speculation and hype to bring a face computer to market.
Instead of doing a better job earnestly and fairly covering the tech along the way, properly educating consumers on what these things can do, now even Vision Pro can't live up to the media's imagined narrative of Apple.
Apple did nothing to earn a DECADE of media support for XR products, but think of all the projects that were criticized for not living up to some kind of imaginary Sci-Fi standard.
"Wait for gen 2 or gen 3 instead!"
Techies expect everyone else to lift off like a helicopter, but Apple gets UNLIMITED runway...
@SomeGadgetGuy my point was it is the fanbois who hype it up and the media just caters to them as they know they will get clicks. Sure some of the media is paid for by Apple, but I suspect most is the former.
At some point, you should just watch the video, instead of explaining to me what's in the video I made, and trying to correct me on what I already said.
In the video.
Now, you seem like someone who really cares about clarity and good info, but you can't really live that so long as you make assumptions on what people are talking about, and don't actually listen to what they say.
So i'm gonna go ahead and mute this thread now, but hopefully you come around and we can chat some time.
I’ve used DT 770’s for YEARS now in my professional career, and it makes me nervous when a company says they’re going to update a classic piece of studio recording hardware. Using the new 770 Pro X for a couple weeks now, I have a LOT of thoughts.