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helpImTrappedOnline, 2 days ago (edited 2 hours ago) to technology in Humane is said to be seeking a $1 billion buyout after only 10,000 orders of its terrible AI Pin

“MKBHD takes out another company” /s

helpImTrappedOnline, 3 days ago to technology in Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment

I think the main issue (amongst the tech community) was that they did this with out making it known to users (patch notes don’t count - especially with autoupdates, who reads them?) the device just started getting slower.

If there was an option that was presented to users once the device got below 80% battery health to slow down the system to make daily batter life longer, then that would be an actually welcome feature. The problem was Apple just went a did it, and to a normal non-technical user, that means their phone is dying and they need to upgrade.

helpImTrappedOnline, 3 days ago (edited 13 hours ago) to technology in Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment

This isn’t new at all. Apple has been consistent with long term updates for a while.

iPhones have been getting at least 5 major annual updates sense the iPhone 4. The average is 6 updates.

If anything, it gets to a point where the old hardware can barley handle the newer OS.

This is the equivalent of them promising to be called Apple in 5 years - it changes absolutly nothing.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history

Edit: thinking about it, this gives them an excuse to reduce the number of years they support phones. Instead of 6-7, can we now expect that to become only 5 years?

This could be a huge loss disguised as a win

helpImTrappedOnline, 4 days ago to lemmyshitpost in I'll just leave this here...

Some dude who plays football all day, and a lady that loves to fly in air planes.

helpImTrappedOnline, 6 days ago to microblogmemes in Understandable

Those ones are fun

helpImTrappedOnline, 7 days ago (edited 1 hour ago) to microblogmemes in Understandable

As funny as those subs were, imortalizing a child on the internet doing something stupid is pretty fucked up.

If they’re not old enough to have scocial media, they certainly are not old enough to be on scocial media.

Although, I suppose anonymous stories like this one are fine.

helpImTrappedOnline, 7 days ago to technology in In case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installs

Well, I did miss that, I was skimming for something like a large list or table. That still leaves 86/90+ unlisted.

helpImTrappedOnline, 8 days ago (edited 5 hours ago) to technology in In case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installs

Am I just missing it, or is there no list of of these infected apps on the posted article or the reference the article links to. To me, that is the most important information.

helpImTrappedOnline, 8 days ago to asklemmy in Should I stick to the Fediverse or mainstream media?

I’m honestly disappointed that wasn’t a rick roll.

But thanks anyways lol

helpImTrappedOnline, 8 days ago to technology in Is Firefox still good ?

IE is the best!

Unrelated, would you mind taking a few facebook quizzes and how’s your bank accound doing?

helpImTrappedOnline, 8 days ago to asklemmy in Should I stick to the Fediverse or mainstream media?

Is this true? Where’s your source?

helpImTrappedOnline, 9 days ago to lemmyshitpost in Liberals don't want you to google this

Nah, she’ll call harassment of her beliefs or something and twist so OP is the bad guy.

helpImTrappedOnline, 9 days ago to technology in Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users

Yup and a significant portion of those ads are definatly not school appropriate… From the mobile game ads that show a mostly naked lady, alcohol, soft-porn (chatbot type stuff), jump scares and whatever other crap google exempts from their “guidelines” for a quick buck.

The only (official) way to have all kid firendly ads is to use YouTube Kids, which also blocks all the usefull educational videos for anyone older than 4.

helpImTrappedOnline, 9 days ago (edited 5 hours ago) to technology in IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax

Funny thing is, in a way our employers already do our taxes, they send everything to the IRS. We just have to manually input the same data into forms to send to the IRS. If you get it wrong they’ll know and can fine you. That being said, individuals filing their own taxes does have its place, people have multiple jobs, children, houses, debt, bank intrest earned etc. An employeer should’t have to keep track of all that. The individual should just be able to collect all the approiate forms and send them in, not have to transfer info from form w4 to form 1090.

Private tax filing companies like Turbo Tax have heavily lobbied with campaign contributions bribes.

Any attempt to fix the system was blocked. The silver linning (if you can call it that) was they had to make a free version availbe to low income individuals.

However that “free” version is completely burried and not advertised anywhere. They’d rather you use the free version of TurboTax which only free for the basic person with a job, house and maybe a kid. Anything more will cost (my info is a bit outdated and skewed, I’m not really looking at the exact service).

Then it’s filled the dark patterns and scare tatics to get you to pay up every step of the way.

Welcome to land of freedom and the illusion of taxation with representation.

helpImTrappedOnline, 9 days ago to lemmyshitpost in Pencilvania

Close, different pit though.