@macrumors The market for small phone was saturated after 12 mini, the sales of 13 mini were smaller. What if they’d release a mini phone every 3 years, like they do with SE? 6% of iPhone sales is not peanuts. I don’t want one, but there are clearly people who do. Not doing it at all is leaving this market to competition.
Boy would I love to know more about how Apple’s backend ordering system works. (I did get hit with this error for about a half an hour this morning — did you?)
Top Qs:
• What do they actually DO during the 12 hours the site is down?
• How do they decide how to roll out the site to various users? (I could access in Chrome while Safari was telling me “Coming Soon”)
• Is it true that all of the iPhone models are stored in the backend as iTunes Albums? (Classic joke)
@cabel When I finally got to see the Apple Store 7 past zero hour it still took me 15 minutes of errors trying it in the Apple Store app on an iPhone and Safari on a Mac. All on a perfectly stable network with good WiFi on the phone and Ethernet on the Mac.
My article at Forbes has been updated as the WebP zero-day issue is moving fast. 1Password and Signal join web browsers including Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi in issuing emergency security updates. I expect a lot more non-web browser applications will follow…
@happygeek@bazcurtis Yeah, these are the benefits of @1password basically running a browser engine - more attack surface, bigger resource usage and worse UX
@vwbusguy@happygeek@bazcurtis@1password@keepassxc I was using it for over a decade, because of good Apple native UX. now that they lost the benefit I’ve moved to Apple’s passwords solution which got way better over past few years.
What's the overall environmental message? The new watches aren't bad for the environment so don't feel bad about throwing out your perfectly usable 1 year old device?
@paul Nosimy throws them out. People sell them or trade them in (where they get refurbished or recycled). Of course it’s not neutral to the environment, but there are certainly worse things humankind does.
Halfway through the day and we are heading towards the perfect solar generation curve. Let's just pretend it is June and this will happen for the next four month. Unfortunately, it is September.
Retro #gaming is a massively popular Raspberry Pi application, and while loading your favourite old #videogames onto an SD card is pretty straightforward, building the physical shell of a gaming system can be daunting for those of us without 3D printers or design skills of any kind.
PiBoy Mini bridges that gap by providing partially-assembled devices to their customers. The rest is BYORP: bring your own #RaspberryPi.
Full text search has been merged in #Mastodonmain branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉
It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time.
We plan to deploy it to mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the coming days to have a bit more feedback on it and see how it behaves in the wild.
@frenck@Niek The user shouldn’t have to deal with this, but a federated network gives user a choice. With centralised networks the only choice is to stay or leave. And moving on mastodon is fairly easy and moves your content to a new instance too. Every social network has its own drama, but at least here you have an exit plan that doesn’t say „start over”.
@stpaultim@hermanronk I don’t think setting up own instance is a good idea unless you specifically need it and know down/upsides and enough about managing it. Most people will go to one of bigger instances and just use it.
@christianselig That’s why I use lightning connected to a 10W charger on my nightstand. Lets me pick up and use while it’s still charging. The only useful place to use it is in my car (vent mounted MagSafe like charger - ESR HaloLock), and sometimes at my desk.
