Anecdotally it seems to be the case for me. I switched from the A series to the Pixel and I’m pretty disappointed in how quickly my battery life has degraded.

Costco is publicly traded and has a maximum markup of 14% for selling you physical retail goods. Apple tries to charge developers 30% for hosting a bunch of exes in cloud storage.

Apple is a piece of shit company run by piece of shit people. They have for their entire history disregarded environmentalism or fair pricing, and have continuously built intentional incompatibilities to try and gouge consumers out of more money.

They still owe society at large hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in wasted time and costs for their decision to reverse headphone jack polarity for no reason 20 years ago when they introduce the iPod. Let alone every other walled garden bullshit move and 30% app store mafia fee they’ve charged in the two decades since.

Apple is such a piece of shit company.

You also have to remember to have that adapter with you

Uh, yes there is, by the inherent nature of how addresses (i.e. public identifiers) work.

An IP address, email address, physical address, etc, is a mechanism to have a string of text, become a unique identifier for something, so that you can just share that piece of text to refer to it.

Once you give out that piece of text, you no longer have control of it. I can give it to someone and then someone else could ask them about it, and they pass it on, and now I have no idea who has this unique identifier that represents me anywhere out there in the world. I can ask the first person to update their records but I have no guarantee that they’ll do it successfully or that they’ll remember every single person who they gave it out to you update.

By the very nature of being an identity provider, you are inherently offering your users something that they should be able to fully own in perpetuity. In those circumstances, it’s problematic if an identity provider insists that you always have to pay for its services, just to have communication from your old identity forwarded.

I think OP is overblowing things, and is especially misguided in recommending gmail, but at the same time, they do have a valid point and I think you’re somewhat misrepresenting what they said.

For one, they specifically said that the proton domain email addresses are problematic (protonmail.com, pm.me), and weren’t talking about custom domains that sit in front of Proton mail.

For two, their point is valid. Auto-forwarding being paid, does create vendor lock-in and make it hard to switch away from Protonmail if you use the OOTB addresses. It’s something worth considering.

As you said, the recommendation should be to use a custom domain that sits in front of Protonmail rather than switching to Gmail, but paid auto-forwarding is a valid criticism.

*Making sure their food is good enough food

No one cares about whether or not they use a dashboard to track signals intelligence data. The interesting part of this story is the unpublished assassination weapon, not how they selected targets.

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Yeah, it’s explicitly distinct from const a: String which says it won’t change, and var a: String, which means this is legacy code that needs fixing.

This is honestly a trash article. It can be summarized as:

“Microsoft, a trillion dollar corporation that makes around $150 billion in pure profit, every single year, is tempering expectations around AI, BUT then why are they still investing $12B dollars in it, that makes no sense!”.

Like, they’re tempering expectations around AGI revolutionizing the economy, not saying AI is trash and theres no value whatsoever in it.

Fellow AI-haters should check out the newsletter and podcast of Ed Zitron.

If you’re not a hater and want a balanced and rationale take, don’t.

Why aren’t the data brokers being charged with accessory to murder?

Writing stuff down with pen and paper is an objectively better way to remember things then digital files, also way more secure unless you really, really know what you’re doing.

Well if you’re going to give them another shot, you should try the Outer Wilds.

Much less abstract puzzle solving, and it tells quite a good narrative (no combat).

You don’t have to like it, but out of curiosity, why is this different from a 90s point and click adventure? Isn’t Myst and Riven and stuff basically this, but first person and without combat?

Because I was thinking of being a mystified child staring at Myst on my friend’s computer more than once while playing Tunic.

It never clikced with me moment to moment and the self-congratulatory aren’t-we-smart information discovery stuff just doesn’t work for me in most cases (this applies to Fez and The Witness, too).

I think the word you’re looking for is “puzzle”.

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Lmao, this is hysterical nonsense.

Hey everyone on Windows, is your machine filled with thousands of shady app stores because you have the ability to install Steam? No? What a shocker! Who could have predicted!

The developer I report to was in charge of that side of the code base and doing all the code reviews for it … I thought he had a handle on it :/