Agree with all of this, however there isn’t any need to tone down release schedules. There being a new product doesn’t force you to buy it, however it does mean that when you do come to buy it there is a fresh model available. For example imagine if they adopt a 3 year release cycle and you break your phone on year 2.9, now you’re forced to buy a model with a 3 year out of date feature that will itself be obsolete faster, especially since a new model is round the corner. This isn’t the best system. Better the phone companies keep making the latest tech available, so when you do need to buy you can get the phone with the longest life ahead of it.
Yeah the prospect of throwing down a couple of months rent… for precisely what value add (?) is going to be a hard sell for Apple.
Yeah you can watch a film, on your own, on a big virtual screen for $3500 rather than watch the tv that you already own in the company of your friends and family for free.
Or you can use your computer, but with a big floating virtual screen, which is a good thing I guess for $3500, or buy a large real monitor for $100+ dependant on demands, and not wear a heavy dorky headset with limited battery life.
There is nothing that other tech doesn’t do for cheaper (and often better) even when you combine the price of the multiple products you would have to buy to cover all use cases. Except maybe viewing weird 3D photos… great.
This product is isolating and antisocial with limited battery and it’s hugely expensive with no good usp. Looks to me like a rare Apple L.
That’s not apples to apples. If you spec a windows laptop, good luck getting the same performance and the same battery life and portability at the same price. Also build quality, screen, speaker and trackpad quality will likely not be at apples level from the windows machine. If that’s what you’re in the market for Apple machines are not bad. For instance a photographer/videographer working on location, truly amazing for them. Should everyone buy one? No. Are there a 100 better ways to spend the money if you don’t have that specific Apple favoured use case. Sure, e.g. your mum doesn’t need a MacBook Pro for Facebook / Amazon browsing and your cousin shouldn’t buy a Mac Studio for gaming. But use cases do exist, and for those people Macs are genuinely a good proposition.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, you can want whatever you want, but out of curiosity, why physical navigation buttons? They’re a point of failure over time, make dust and water ingress more of a problem. While I like physical buttons for some things; power, volume and physical mute switch are all great (I wouldn’t hate a shutter button too) but at least they have the virtue of living round the sides and top of the phone, not the front of the phone like nav buttons, which take up space that could be screen (or just a smaller phone). It’s not like a physical home or back button is actually any more responsive than a gesture based nav. What’s the attraction to them?
So. I just bought a new telly and to my surprise, not, the OS is rather bad and has very limited amount of apps. Therefore I’ll invest further in either Apple TV or the Firestick. Anyone got any recommendations, tips or hot takes on this? Which has more adds, and can it be blocked via DNS? Further read that Firestick could be...
For what it’s worth, I have an Apple TV, I love it. Really smooth, fast interface. Works really well. Voice search isn’t even terrible! For an Apple product. It really improves the TV experience. My only frustration is mixed app support, e.g. Netflix has an app that works fine but it doesn’t integrate into the rest of Apple TV which sucks. Also… apples walled garden can be annoying at times, so I also have a chromecast for the rare case I need to go around one of apples arbitrary restrictions.
“There’s no posse and there’s no retinue and there’s no family,” says Chris Hayes on Trump’s arraignment. “The guy is alone. He is solo rolling with the lawyers who hope his checks clear.”
Asahi: Successfully reverse engineers undocumented silicon and releases first of its kind firmware upstream where possible. You: (of the Asahi devs) “demonstrated sheer technical incompetence.”
Asahi devs: receive abuse, harassment and discrimination from a website, often personally directed at minority team members. Ask the websites mods to do something about it, get ignored. Asahi devs: Block traffic from said website (and some collateral traffic) to do what they can to protect their team from harassment. You: “childish pettiness … not worthy of being relied on”
Maaaateee… you got blocked from looking at a website, it’s at most a mild inconvenience to you. Maybe recalibrate your outrage. I’m sure someone of your technical competence can find a way to circumvent the pop up, if you care even a little.
I mean ooops, big error from that cleaner, but I kinda feel like this is on the lab. The lesson here is that it probably shouldn’t be set up so that it is possible to turn off sample freezers so simply. And if sample storage is so critical perhaps they should have distributed storage so one freezer loss isn’t such a disaster. What happens if that site loses power for a significant period of time? Why is there no alert system of temp rises?
In computing, if a data storage company stored all their data in volatile storage with an easy ‘power off’ switch (that makes an annoying sound) and no backups for their data I don’t think any one of their clients would be very impressed with them when the exceedingly inevitable happens and they lost all their clients data.
Loving the app. One thing missing is an option to hide the username in the bottom menu bar. Makes it easy to spot my username when showing stuff to friends and family and I would really like to stay anonymous.
I’d like to second this. Apollo had a nice feature where you could flip an option in setting to change the <username> text to just say “account”. Also while you’re reading, long pressing the account button to switch users was pretty nice too… Loving the app!
I have a ~22 inch torso. I bought the osprey poco plus child carrier which says it supports 22 inch torsos. I went a couple three hour hikes this weekend and my shoulders were done at the end of each. this isn't normal, right? I am thinking of trying another carrier, but i am worried there are no child carriers for tall people.
If you can, you should tighten the waist straps so that your waist takes most of the load, and slack off your shoulder straps so they are only just holding it steady you may find it more comfortable. Otherwise heavy bags over long durations can make your shoulders and collar bone sore, it’s an occupational hazard.
Yo everyone! I have questions about using cheap and generic mechanical keyboards. For example the Royal Kludge RK61 which has wired, Bluetooth and 2.4GHz connections. My host will be Linux machines. Do you see any security issues with using keyboards like that or were there any incidents of such devices being malicious?...
The boring answer is that you should always be cautious about any device that you use with your computer.
Any device you plug into your computer, if malicious, can cause all manner of issues. From outright bricking your mobo to injecting malware. This is why you should never plug an unknown usb drive you find into your computer. Any keyboard is vulnerable to keyloggers and other snooping techniques.
With that said, is it likely? No, not really. It’s quite difficult for a keyboard to phone home unless it’s quite sophisticated, also you’re on Linux, most malware is for windows anyway. I’ve not really heard of this type of attack being used against individuals.
To be honest you’re probably not a target! If you work somewhere that a bad actor may want to target (the government, the power grid, military, a bank etc) and you want to use the keyboard with a work device or on the same network, then yes you should only use devices your IT team have approved to be safe. Otherwise for you at home, who isn’t being targeted by state level adversaries, a keyboard off the internet is probably fine.
How are new users meant to know what instances federate with which other instances and which are blocked? E.g. that Beehaw defederated with the Lemmy.world instances?
What (most) users want is to be able to see a sane set of defaults and from there make their own choices about what they do and don’t want to see. But by the time they’ve made an account. Subbed to a few communities etc there is a wall to leaving for another instance if you don’t like the way something is being run given there is no easy way to migrate your profile to another instance that may suit you better.
Now don’t get me wrong, online harassment sucks to put it lightly. Nobody should have to put up with it and it’s entirely (to reuse my previous example) beehaw’s right to block harassment causing instances, but that doesn’t make it any easier for new people trying to get into the lemmy ecosystem.
For what it’s worth I have a Sofle keyboard, that’s a diy ergo split. And it’s a lot cheaper than a moonlander (especially if you already have keycaps and switches). Also it’s QMK so you can customise the layout to your hearts content. I really enjoy it. Very nice to use. The Sofle v2 looks to have a slightly more convenient thumb/mod key row, but I couldn’t get it with choc switches at the time, which I wanted.
I don’t blame capitalism for everything (though it is to blame for a surprising amount of stuff) but a private business doing things to optimise it’s bottom line is like capitalism: the basics.
Main takeaway: I like it a lot, greatly prefer it over the current one.
Minor suggestions:
Perhaps scale down the tongue. It’s a bit overwhelming.
I think the eyes should be a different colour, they’re a bit close to the background which with them them so big makes the eyes blend in. Typically you want eyes to be …well… eyecatching! Though I’m not sure what to suggest as you don’t want too many colours on the icon.
Personally I prefer flatter designs, but I don’t really mind a more skeuomorphic design.
Also I am not a designer, so ignore me with my blessing haha
Sony Playstation // Takara Roulette Controller (Japan, 2002) (64.media.tumblr.com)
Source: Buttons & Knobs — Sony Playstation // Takara Roulette Controller (Japan, 2002)...
A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades (www.straitstimes.com)
SO. MUCH. THIS.
Apple Store Down Ahead of iPhone 15 Pre-Orders (www.macrumors.com)
Apple's online store is down ahead of iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro pre-orders, which are expected to be available at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Time in the...
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)
Cope Curtain (lemmy.ml)
Hairy Mary armored train with hemp rope armor from the Boer War.
Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2 (www.ispreview.co.uk)
Apple TV vs Firestick.
So. I just bought a new telly and to my surprise, not, the OS is rather bad and has very limited amount of apps. Therefore I’ll invest further in either Apple TV or the Firestick. Anyone got any recommendations, tips or hot takes on this? Which has more adds, and can it be blocked via DNS? Further read that Firestick could be...
‘He’s alone’: Trump arraignment sees no family, no posse, no protests (www.msnbc.com)
“There’s no posse and there’s no retinue and there’s no family,” says Chris Hayes on Trump’s arraignment. “The guy is alone. He is solo rolling with the lawyers who hope his checks clear.”
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix - Asahi Linux (asahilinux.org)
Annoyed janitor turns off super-cold freezer, destroying decades of scientific work and causing at least $1M in damages: lawsuit (nypost.com)
Minor request - Hide Username
Loving the app. One thing missing is an option to hide the username in the bottom menu bar. Makes it easy to spot my username when showing stuff to friends and family and I would really like to stay anonymous.
Trump Melts Down as DOJ Turns Over Evidence It Plans to Use Against Him (www.rollingstone.com)
My backpack wears down my shoulders
I have a ~22 inch torso. I bought the osprey poco plus child carrier which says it supports 22 inch torsos. I went a couple three hour hikes this weekend and my shoulders were done at the end of each. this isn't normal, right? I am thinking of trying another carrier, but i am worried there are no child carriers for tall people.
Do you have security concerns with cheap mechanical keyboards
Yo everyone! I have questions about using cheap and generic mechanical keyboards. For example the Royal Kludge RK61 which has wired, Bluetooth and 2.4GHz connections. My host will be Linux machines. Do you see any security issues with using keyboards like that or were there any incidents of such devices being malicious?...
I've seen our future (lemmy.sdf.org)
Overwhelmed by options of ergo keyboards. Please send help.
I've been wanting to try an ergo split keyboard but there are so many options....
French Senate gives green light to surveillance through cameras and microphones (cybernews.com)
This doesn’t sound great…
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An icon designed with input from the developers. What do we think? (lemmy.ml)
Nova Kakhovka dam in Kherson region blown up by Russian forces - Ukraine's military (www.reuters.com)