Lol go fuck yourselves apple.

Apple is such a piece of shit company.

Learn how to compete without behaving anti competitively or quit your fucking jobs. It’s not complicated.

Good. Go fuck yourself Apple. Do your job right or don’t bother doing it.

I understand the gripes about Meta, but I don’t understand how everyone clowns on this like the core concept is stupid or unwanted.

Easy $1000 sell: cycling / escooter accessory. People already regularly buy expensive sport glasses just for sun and wind protection. With a smart version of them like this, you add open ear headphone, and you add the potential for navigation directions, or even a Bluetooth rear view camera on the back of your helmet to get a virtual mirror.

It would be really nice if every country would enact digital privacy laws so that Meta’s business model was just forced to be better. They genuinely have some of the best and most accessible VR/AR hardware available.

It would of course be nicer if a more ethical competitor stepped up in a serious way but no one seems that interested. It’s interesting that the vast majority of Meta’s business model is being extremely good at copying or buying out competitors but with VR they’re basically the only ones actually sinking serious money into making it a thing.

Oooohh nooo look, that guy walking by just stole my Wifi name and Bluetooth information, how scary 👻! /S

So they’re phones that people hold slightly more vertically?

How are smart glasses evil?

Yes, and pizza with real crust reheats fine in any oven.

I seriously doubt it’s the most common pizza sold.

It’s thin crust nature makes it economical for selling hot slices, but horrible for delivery and for reheating.

I personally consider New York pizza to be A tier; S tier I reserve for pizza with a slightly thicker, slightly sour, focaccia-like crust, and regardless, the baseline should be B-Tier.

I feel like this graph needs a line that indicates your baseline normal pizza

Why?

1. Lack of Feature Parity

2. Stickiness of library transfer

3. Stickiness of social network effects

4. It’s still better ethically than Apple Music or YouTube Music, which behave anti-competitively

1: I’ve tried out Quobuz, it’s pretty good, but it does not have the Jam / Group Session feature which me and my friends use constantly while gaming remotely. It also does not have an Xbox app which I use while playing games. I find Spotify’s recommendations somewhat underwhelming, but Quobuz has a noticeably worse recommendation engine, at least for my genres and tastes. Those are the features that lack parity that matter to me, but for some others, it’s things like amplifiers having built-in Spotify, or there being a Roku or Playstation app or something.

2: Quobuz uses a third party service to automatically transfer your library, which worked pretty well, but did require jumping through a bunch of hoops and subscribing to a trial subscription that I then had to cancel. It also did not find matches for some songs. Could I make it work if I had enough reason to switch? Yeah, probably, but the lack of feature parity (/roadmap that includes them) is enough to dissuade me from really trying.

3: In addition to friends on Spotify all using Jams, there’s also an inherent niceness to just being able to text people Spotify links, especially since there’s no cross platform linking service that would otherwise make sharing music easy.

4: Supporting Spotify may not be great, but its still better than supporting trillion dollar anti-competitive corporations like Apple and Google.

They didn’t care about this system. It just got caught up in their news sources.

This isn’t funny, it’s just a thing that happened.

So it’s funny because the fediverse is so niche that no one designing automated copyright systems care about its odd and unique addressing system?

This is honestly a dumb post. It doesn’t say anything about “Microsoft” understanding or not understanding anything.

It just shows them using an automated system to try and take down an account that they think is infringing on their trademark. There are legal protections for parody accounts, but they are not absolute and it’s possible that Microsoft could get a court order compelling the owner to cease control of the account.

It seems a reasonable guess that a person whose hobby is building custom mechanical keyboards probably does keep it clean. I figured people using an encrypted messaging system with backups enabled would probably go to the trouble of ensuring those backups didn’t live in one place.

The point is that encrypted messaging is not a hobby for anyone but Moxie Marlinspike. It’s just a tool that people use for communication. WhatsApp and iMessage are both encrypted and have relatively seamless backup solutions and do not require any extra thought or effort.

Are people not copying their backup off their device periodically?

Do you change your air filter, clean your keyboard, floss your teeth, derust your tools, organize your files, respond to all your messages, keep on top of available tax breaks and deals, dust under your bed etc?

No one does every random maintenance task as often as they should meaning that everyone is letting some slip occasionally which means you should expect that no, not everyone is periodically backing up and transferring their DMs to a different device.

Honestly, pretty motivating if you think about it.

I mean, whenever you’re sitting there at work, thinking that your job is stupid and pointless, just remember that there are people out there trying to use the American court system to get fair and sensible rulings. Your job will never be remotely as pointless as theirs.

I don’t fault researchers for publishing novel research that might not go anywhere. I explicitly understand the scientific value in doing so.

I do not think it’s valuable to breathlessly regurgitate those claims to the broader pop-sci public though. A) It’s boring to read the same overhyped battery press release every single week. And B) it shakes people’s faith in science, in the same way that people’s faith in medicine has been shaken by bad reporting on every study that says X could give you cancer or make you live longer.

Not any more waste of time than reading 90% of other tech news (or any news in general). It’s basically entertainment, not education.

I agree, but if I want to read 90% filler I can just pick a tech news site and read everything.