When people talk about Zeta's OP, I always have to check whether they mean this one or the original Japanese opening. Replacement international soundtracks usually make me sad, but Saegusa did a great job here. I like them both.
Why do you find that such an important factor? Is it just about the principle of having a choice, or is there a particular third party app store you consider essential?
This comment thread is behaving very strangely right now: comments with the same ID are showing up multiple times in different places, and I just received a notification about a reply that I don't see in the thread.
I don't think it's meant to seem concerning, just interesting, and a different perspective on Apple decisions that affect device transfer and repairability. These days I really don't worry about Apple making ends meet.
This bit could become a problem:
Since 2012, the Indian government has mostly blocked imports of used iPhones over concerns about e-waste and domestic production. Apple repeatedly pushed to overturn the policy in the years that followed, according to reports, but the government held firm. With no old iPhones coming into the country and few new models being sold, there's a limited number of phones that can be refurbished.
It's easy to imagine scarcity further incentivizing iPhone thefts and expanding illegal import markets. Those are problems that would exist anyway of course, but it could make them worse.
If someone sets up a Kbin/Lemmy community for iOS/macOS beta discussions let me know and I'll add it to the sidebar and pin a sticky for the beta period!
I guess that clinches it. I'm AFK right now but later today I'll be checking out PowerDeleteSuite (thanks to @solidgrue for mentioning it in this thread).
Blockchain technology hasn't contributed anything of lasting value, and too much money, energy, and good will has been burned by people trying.
Its most popular applications are cryptocurrencies, which are used for gambling, money laundering, and for collecting payments from ransomware victims. Someone once bought a pizza with them, but since that time their transactions have become too slow and their value too volatile to exchange them for anything so concrete.
Various attempts have been made to use blockchain technology for public or shared databases, but it turns out to be worse than all the other faster and much simpler existing solutions in that space.
Others have attempted to bolt it on to various business and social systems, but it hasn't provided any practical benefit there either. It remains a slow and cumbersome alternative to every problem.
Its unique superpower is that it can be used to make contracts between parties that have no trust in one another and no social or legal system of enforcement, so long as your definition of a contract is sufficiently narrow, can be reduced to terms understood by the world's slowest logic engine, and is perfectly encoded the first time around and doesn't require any adjustment thereafter. If one or more of those conditions fail, you'll find yourself turning to the social and legal systems of enforcement you thought you didn't have.
It's interesting: Vision Pro is the first headset with so many features intended to reduce isolation – EyeSight, Breakthrough, AudioPods – but it seems to get this criticism much more than others. (It's not just you: a lot of people feel this way, and Apple's attempts to address the issue don't invalidate the viewpoint.)
I wonder if it's because Apple's marketing is the closest most people have come to seeing a headset used in actual public spaces or in everyday life, as opposed to seeing it in the isolated rooms and workspaces of Meta, Microsoft, and Sony's marketing. By drawing attention to their workarounds, Apple's also drawing attention to the issue.
It reminds me of the increase in public concern about stalking after Apple released AirTags – the first keychain tracking device with features intended to combat stalking. Tile had been on the market for years at that point, but it was Apple that received the criticism because they'd drawn awareness to the issue.
I'm also old enough that I remember these same concerns being raised about personal stereos, and it was certainly true: earphones are still my favorite way to shut out my surrounding environment, especially somewhere noisy like a bus or train. But it's not as though the older generation complaining about them were engaged in empathy-expanding conversation with each other: they'd bury themselves in books and newspapers in the surrounding seats.
I downloaded all my old comments and I'll certainly use them as a resource here if the same questions come up again. It'll be a while before kbin.social shows up in search engines the way Reddit does, though.