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That is quite an angle you are describing, forcing you to roll your thumb under your palm exactly like Apple says you shouldn't do in its Mac Ergonomics document.

Resting your pinky naturally on control is quite easy because as it turns out, your fingers are not of equal length. So if you put your hand down on the keyboard in its most relaxed, natural position, most of your fingers may end up on the middle row and a shift. From there you only need to slide your relaxed hand downwards to get it in the perfect position for a ctrl-c/v action: Pinky on control, index finger on the x/c/v.

You may want to point your ire at the right parties, because that is not a GDPR demand.

I would also question the reliability of the sources. Who said so? Are they comparing the right numbers?

For example, in 2021 Twitter didn't report monthly users, but "monetisable daily active users", a metric that Musk did not understand.

I think that 650 million of X comes from a report of the SEC, but it also includes just users of Grok, not just the social media section.

So it's a different type of user, over a different time period, for a different service.

Please elaborate, because sibling comment explained exactly what you have missed.

If you think that something extremely basic seems something that is hard to grasp for other people, it's usually because you're misunderstanding the situation, not because other people are failing to grasp the extremely basic thing.

Macs are model of PCs of a specific brand that closes their PCs down. Continuing to treat Macs as different from other PCs is exactly what lifts scrutiny if they decide to implement notarisation on MacOS. "After all, it's not like it's a PC."

A typo? Twice in the same post? In both places where "he" would normally appear? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

The latter, obviously, and that is what's happening with the Digital Omnibus.

Because that is the joke.

Electing a dictator because you like their policies does not change the fact that you end up in a dictatorship.

Likewise, having voted for a corporation that takes away freedoms does not make your opinion relevant: you are still not the one in control, and neither is anyone else who bought in.

What you want is not relevant, because you have no choice.

Apple depriving you of that choice may not inconvenience you, but you are still being deprived of that freedom in the first place. I suspect 100% of iPhone users are in the same boat.

About a decade ago I worked at a water consultancy company (of which Thames Water happened to be a client) to build a catalogue website for pipe condition assessment technologies. Already at the time that I was building it, there were dozens of these finished products with all kinds of sensors for many sizes of pipes, be they dry or with water still flowing inside. Yes, there is some demand for these devices, but there is also a lot of technology out there already for many use cases.

All that to say: I too wonder what makes this one so special.

I wouldn't mind a subtle HUD if I need to find my way to some place. Sure beats having to peer at my phone.

Otherwise... Eh. I don't care enough. Yet.

He's a "Growth Engineer" from ElevenLabs. I'm not sure what that entails, but then I'm not familiar with that area of tech, so maybe someone else can explain it.

Why one would pay for such a privilege? Because it's the latest new gadget and it's very convenient and its users don't experience any immediate negatives of using it. That's how people will happily let you get away with (digital) murder.

I am curious, do you have the same anxieties about car drivers using maps applications to navigate?

You'd first have to make proprietary changes, which you are not allowed to release, and so there's nobody to sell those services to.

I usually just blurt out "cassis", a blackcurrant soda. I for one don't care about which brand. Does that count?

The parent comment is not making a causal claim. They're pointing out a double standard: "Anyone arguing this is about childhood IQ and wouldn’t similarly ban (not stop mandating, ban) soft drinks, chips and fast food for kids, they’re signalling this is about something other than kids’ health."

In other words, if these people are anti-fluoride because it's supposedly bad for children's IQ, they should also oppose bad food for the same reason. If they don't, the supposed (unproven) health effects are not the reason. That's the point that is made, at least.

A lot of slang comes from street language, so that thought may still be right. :)

It's a decades old word that used to mean trying to one up someone with tough talk, exaggerating, topping someone. That talk would be so high above the others, it would be the cap on top.

Now to have a good story, to have that cap, people could be... flexible with the truth, so eventually, over the years, to cap started to mean that you were telling a tall tale, a lie.

And what about the Butlerian Jihad? It was a war against Thinking Machines, devices that would do the thinking for people. People were becoming less critical, they stagnated, left all that thinking work to machines, which meant that the technocratic class that controlled these machines effectively controlled mankind.

I think Frank Herbert would have a field day with our modern era of algorithms.

Ah yes. Socialism is when intervention and subsidies.

...and because they want you to be on time, you end up waiting for another half hour at the gates to sit in a cramped seat near a narrow aisle.

I went by train to Germany during the autumn of last year and oh man, what a pleasure it was. I got there about 5 minutes before the train, got in, dumped my suitcase and had room to spare.

During the trip I sauntered between carriages, bought some (mediocre) food to scoff down in the restaurant carriage, which I opted to do at my seat rather than right there because I felt like some quiet time rather than the buzz.

Later I traveled by plane to Spain in the spring and as nice as Barcelona was, I couldn't say the same about the plane trip, which was a necessity rather than a pleasure.

No, I made no such mistake. Nor was I talking about a "cocoon" or anything "isolatory".

Taking what I said about a commercially sensical strategy about selling a - what was the word I did use? Proxy - through which you can experience the world, and then spinning some paranoid yarn about not experiencing the world at all... Now that is kind of strange.

I have a little unproven hypothesis that fits that last statement, that it would be absurd for a company like Apple to bring people together in the real world.

My hypothesis is that these companies want to make money by "taking" your senses. They want your attention to be with them at all times, by being in your ear so you'll hear them, by being on your wrist so you'll feel them, by being on your eyes so you'll see them.

I'm thinking these companies are building up technological ecosystems - Apple's specialty! - that they hope will eventually form a proxy for you to experience reality. Because if they can convince you to experience life through them, they'll have your wallet too.

Maybe it's just a silly thought of mine, but it kind of fits.

If being interested in something was contingent on whether or not you're planning on using it, this would be one dead website.

In German there's a similar word, "fahren", which means driving or traveling. In Dutch the word "varen" mean to sail or in an older sense of the word "to move".

I can only assume, but considering the Dutch "vaarwel" is so close to English, I'm going to guess it means "Go well" - or more poetically when speaking of one's path in life: may fate treat you well.

I did so too, and still had to reread and reinterpret the original comment after having seen yours. I didn't think twice about it, because if I would have my first date with someone and they would tell me they had this project running, I'd be immediately interested, knowing I found someone from "my tribe".

> Is Soviet Union and Russia the same?

Excellent question. Let's ask the person who justified Russia's invasion by saying that NATO contravened its non-expansion guarantee to the Soviet Union.

I for one am absolutely against features not existing for customers who want it just because the Apple deigns that they shouldn’t have it. I don't want Apple to take away my agency to make my own choices.

Good thing governments are on the side of the consumer at least, right?