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That doesn't seem very "clear" to me. The article you linked mentioned those were made to go into defrost mode (and it didn't mention any brand). Meanwhile the affected Samsung devices are located in Korea and Samsung admitted it was due to their firmware update.

Also I don't see how it's unfair to expect refrigerators that cost a grand to do their one job without firmware.

"Or I have to learn how to close Firefox tabs"

I use about:processes to stop processes that eat up too much memory over time. The tabs stay open but get unloaded. YouTube especially acts like a black hole for memory if you let it.

No driver problems (well, first party ones at least), good performance and I can still run any software I like.

I do prefer and run Linux on my desktop, and could complain about Apple and Mac OS all day. The level of polish is very inconsistent. But despite everything it's still not as user hostile as Windows got nowadays.

"Linux won't even run on these machines until in 2-3 years, if you're lucky"

I have yet to buy a Windows machine where Linux works perfectly with no issues whatsoever. My most compatible machine to date needed a USB-C ethernet adapter to get a network connection for more than 10 minutes at a time. So ironically old M series Macs might not be the worst choice given Asahi doesn't need to target every hardware configuration of the last couple decades.

If I remember correctly the language promised automatic memory management without downsides, but then instead of implementing that magical feature they started working on a GUI library and whatnot. Apparently now they've moved onto a whole OS while the autofree feature is still "experimental"

Nothing, because that was written by an LLM.

Or the company is grown in an organic way that leads to lower but stable demand.

Designing a UI for left-handed people too is cheaper than losing out on 10-15% of your target audience.

It's sad no one bothered to copy ideas from Windows Phone 8, its UI had a lot of thought put into it and was exactly as efficient to use for left-handed users.

The term "Self-Repair Service" already sounds so wrong.

I genuinely can't tell if this is a real thing because they re-released it so often they even made a joke version called Very Special Edition once.

Just calling it bad does not include the intent of improving it. Verschlimmbesserung does.

Smartphones and tablets support keyboards, and often even have official ones to buy.

The fast machine lacks the most important element: the incentive to do optimizations in the first place.

That's not how the human mind works. People still get skewed views on body standards even when they know that what they are looking at is biased and/or photoshopped, for example. When an AI fake stirs emotions just right, half the people will not even care about the truth.

On YouTube I reported bot accounts for a couple days, the only reaction I got was that at some point it showed a popup that told me too many false reports would lead to a ban. Not sure what Google gets out of it, but there is no way they could be that bad at fighting bots unless they're not even trying. Even trivial tricks like copy-pasted texts keep working.

Great! So they'll fix the back button bugs on YouTube, and return me to the previous set of video recommendations when I use it on the homepage, right? Right? And let me return to the actual site when it detects that I lost the web connection for 0.01 seconds and hides all the content, and I then press the back button?

Why would anyone with a sound mind envy billionaires?

That you give random people on the internet the power to decide who you vote for is kind of sad. Calling them low intelligence for it even more so.

He doesn't trust it for anything else either as far as I can tell. In an interview he's boasted about how he uses a paper notebook for everything all day.

They probably want to avoid situations where a customer turns off backups, then loses data and makes it the problem of support.

But it would be nice to have a "don't ask again" option regardless, even if it's hidden in settings.

The Amazon version of this story I heard was support advising to create a new account, and then the person got permabanned for creating multiple accounts which is against TOS.

> I'm still impressed when switching between programs isn't stuttery

It is stuttery when you use the magic touchpad via Bluetooth, same applies to the cursor. It's very noticeable with slow movements.

I live in the EU and have read this in the terms for my region.

> they have no legal obligation to follow through and give you what they promised

Yes, they do. Contracts are contracts. They just don't promise you ownership of anything but a revocable license. Like every platform offering DRM protected content.

Some companies like Activision clearly state in their terms that chargeback means you will be permanently banned, no exceptions. You'll lose your account and access to all digital "purchases" forever.

They don't need to prove anything to stop doing business with you.

Do you seriously expect other companies not following suit? People need lawnmowers, so this can quickly turn into the same situation we have with the inkjet printer market.

MS could literally double their global employee count with a fraction of what they spend on AI annually.

This is for sending a message in case something happens to you and you're not able to send anything yourself anymore for whatever reason.

Hence the term "dead man's switch"

I could get used to touch gestures if they were more consistent and tolerant enough for wrong inputs. It may work in one app but not another. One app expects me to swipe from left to right to go back, another wants me to swipe from top to bottom for the same thing. It may mark an email as unread if I start the swipe a pixel too far away from the screen edge. On Android swipe gestures may vary even on different phones from the same brand. In iOS, tapping the top edge of the screen means scroll to the top. Except in the Photo app, where it means "scroll to the top of the current section, or almost the top, or do nothing and make the user guess if they just tapped the wrong way".

Meanwhile when there's an X button or arrow to the left I always know what it's going to do aside from one or two overly creative Android apps.

You kind of do need Emacs though, as far as I know it is the only existing fully compatible implementation. As soon as the file is outside that environment, all bets are off. I tried using org-mode instead of Markdown once, not for long.

Yes, it's obviously "against common usage" given HTML support exists specifically for less common features that Markdown does not support. Like tables, which are supported by some implementations but not all, and iirc not even all Markdown variants that support tables use the same syntax for them. The only way to be 100% sure is to use HTML. Of course you wouldn't do that if you just have the file on Github, but in general HTML is supported in Markdown for a reason.

This has been a thing long enough for online guides to exist that explain how to get rid of it. Fortunately, because setting the default program in a second place to get rid of a security barrier wasn't my first guess. When does a bug start to become an undocumented feature?