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I miss WWDC several years ago
Also this set so far is very dry. Probably the least exciting WWDC I’ve seen in the last 15 years
I enjoy automating and doing sysadmin things for fun, but I have a life and young children. I don’t have time to tinker as much.
Home Assistant has come a long way and has been extremely reliable the last few years. I mostly use it for automating camera detections and motion/contact sensors for security.
You can be as hands on or hands off as you want to be.
In general I’ve found if you want to do any sort of automation whether store bought or tinker-level, you’re going to be wasting some time.
Home assistant can run on a pi and is actually decently lightweight. Just because behind the scenes it uses containers doesn’t make it complex and difficult to maintain.
My home assistant hasn’t needed and babysitting and is my least involved support project. Upgrades are stable and one-click and you can use as little or as much of its functionality as you want without the sacrifice for performance.
[EDIT]: He's a Phd for chrissakes!
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Anecdotally, my wife and I used FSD out in Oregon while on vacation a year ago and had these these "phantom brakes" occur two times on the same stretch of road. It was very sunny day through the gorge to Hood River from Portland and I'm thinking there definitely would have been sharp contrasting shadows from the trees and sunlight.
I have no trouble figuring out how to pick by year because the rest of iOS follows a standard UX.
It seems more important to me to support the native accessibility of the phone than use an external UI vendor.
I am a huge advocate of family members and elders to purchase devices they are comfortable operating. This is why my grandparents primarily use their desktop computer for any important things, and their iPhones for messaging/video chat.
Using the date input field should always adhere to the UX of the browser OS.
If I'm on Android and I spend my whole life learning the UX of Android's date picker, wouldn't you want the web's date picker to follow the same UX?
This is less a problem the website should solve and more of a problem that end-users need to learn.
If my grandma doesn't know how to use a feature on her phone you bet she is contacting a family member first. Maybe we should encourage our family to use tools that they are proficient in...
I'm an iOS user majority of the time and it is very intuitive to tap the text with the > symbol. Like others state, Android's UX can be just as confusing.
I'd say you're following UX best practices and are supporting the native accessibility features of the phone so :shrug:... close and move on
You can like the hardware and not care for the software. It really is A/B at the moment. It's difficult for the average user to choose C. You either allow Google to peer into your life, or trust that Apple's marketing isn't a gimmick and a lot of Apple is e2e encrypted.
From what I read, iCloud backups are finally getting e2e encryption. I see this as the biggest reason to stick with Apple. I trade off full-customizability for better security/experience.
If a jailbreak was available for my iPhone, I'd be on it though.
However, as someone who doesn't deal with these big companies to begin with, it wouldn't affect me at all if they move out. It would just fast-track me to recommending alternatives to everyone I know.
I already migrated my whole family into iCloud for photos and own Nextcloud server for Google Drive alternative. It's been great. Obviously not the average user, but I could see people sticking with Apple's services over Google's.
Might get a huge base of older adults off of Facebook for good if they decide to leave the App Store.
I've jailbroken my iOS devices since the first iPod touch. There are lots of tools and features that Apple doesn't allow developers access to which limits what features are ultimately available to the end-user.
Nearly every big feature release on iOS came first from the jailbreak community. App switching, call overlay, PIP video, Shortcuts, lockscreen widgets, home screen widgets... and an endless list of others.
Non of these features would exist without designers and developers having access to the core functionality of the iPhone.
I love iOS. I currently own an iPhone without a Jailbreak (doesn't exist for my iPhone). I'm also an engineer and there is a whole lot of potential that Apple limits strictly under the guise of security. You can have alternate stores without compromising those that choose not to install them.
I understand that Google may decide to create their own store and take all their apps with them... this I can see being a very negative thing which may be needs regulation in itself. IDK what that would look like, but I don't use Google anyways because I have no trust in them. I don't trust them in the App Store so I wouldn't trust them with their own store.
I don't vape anymore, but it was fun and passed the time. I'd much rather see FDA approved vape formulas than random suppliers with who knows what inside them.
I self-host Plausible which is GDPR compliant and gives me all of the features that Google Analytics is actually good for. There is so much bloat in GA that provides absolutely no extra value.
I'm skeptical that this is a bad deal for EU citizens.
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Just like everything, it would depend on the project, team, and individual.
I personally was against it until I used it.