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hexa22··on COVIDSafe: Australia’s digital contact tracing failure
Don’t forget the detail that the app just flat out didn’t work on iOS and the governments advice was to open the app, turn off auto screen locking and leave the app running, screen on in your pocket.

Shortly after, Android and iOS released a proper API for doing this which worked in the background but the government did not use it.

hexa22··on Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever
From what I have seen of American cars, this one is completely compliant. The horrible part about this car is that the signals are red and that they are the same light as the rear/brake lights. Which is apparently extremely common in the US.
hexa22··on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
I have never had a phone charger fail on me so if we assume that it lasts 3 phones and I buy them every 3 years, that comes out to about $1.66 per year for phone chargers.

It’s not a surprise no consumer cares. The average consumer would pay an extra $100 for their phone to get it in their favourite colour. The cost of chargers doesn’t even register.

hexa22··on Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers starting 2023
My state of South Australia banned a lot of plastic last year. I don’t think even “ecoplastics” like PLA are allowed. It’s all cardboard, paper, bamboo, light wood or other odd things like sugar cane pulp.

The vast majority of the containers work just as well as the plastic ones did.

hexa22··on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
The charger probably costs about $1 to the BoM. I wouldn’t expect to see any change.

But this is not the biggest thing which is that the parts of the iPhone do not determine the price. The price is already set and determines what parts go in. If something somewhere else becomes cheaper, that’s more room in the budget to spend elsewhere whether that be better hardware, hiring more software developers, higher skilled retail workers, etc.

In the end it’s up to the user to decide if what’s in the box provides enough value to justify the price. And from the sales data of the last year, that’s an astounding yes.

hexa22··on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
I have never seen a lightning dock ever. Docks seemed to die after the 30 pin was discontinued. Every car I have seen now uses Bluetooth and has a usb A port for cables.
hexa22··on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
The lightning connector only supports usb 2.0 so even apple binned it on the iPads now.
hexa22··on Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites
This is likely more accurate than the OP link. My experience is that Ruby jobs are less common but that they seem to pay far more.
hexa22··on Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites
How much of this is just the millions of Wordpress or Nextcloud installations? I’d be more interested in knowing how many unique apps or developers work on each language because in my experience I haven’t actually seen a single php developer other than Wordpress tweakers.
hexa22··on The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
People complain 50x more when there is no mac or Linux version. There is no realistic solution that suits everyone.
hexa22··on Apple iMessage Zero-Click Hacks
And you still need them because some services only provide sms verification.
hexa22··on Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years
The iPhones are currently at 6 years and the iPads at 7 (and counting)
hexa22··on Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years
Given that 2012-2013 was the year of 4G. I doubt that law would relate much to 3G phones.
hexa22··on Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years
It’s so reasonable that Apple has already reached that level. My iPad Air 2 from 2014 is on iPadOS 15 right now and it works well.

This will hit android OEMs hard if it is implemented.

hexa22··on Windows 11: a survey of text boxes
Tbh some of these even look better in context. I’m not sure why it even matters that every text box is pixel perfect identical rather than suitable for the environment.
hexa22··on Please don’t theme our apps
Especially when you have a wave of users complaining to you about it being broken or saying your app is bad but the broke part was a downstream patch.
hexa22··on Apple Watch production delayed as engineers wrestle with quality issues
It’s not a second source, it becomes the only source as it turns off your phone notifications. It also leads in shorter distractions as you can quickly check if a message is important without pulling out and unlocking your phone.

It also does a billion “nice to have” things like card payments which work with your mask on, walking directions with convenient and easy to read arrows, and so much more.

It’s certainly not essential but I have worn mine every single day as it certainly provides value.

hexa22··on Music streaming payouts comparison
It doesn’t matter because it would average out because you will have queen fans who listen at a high amount as well. Unless for some reason an artist has a fan base which majority listen to less music than the average person for some reason.
hexa22··on Google’s new ad goes full Jony Ive on the Pixel 5A headphone jack
Why not just leave the adapter on the end of your headphones? That way the convenience is about the same but you don’t massively limit your choice.
hexa22··on My Tungsten Cube (2019)
You wouldn’t want to be handling it like a desk toy..
hexa22··on Apple manually boosted its 'Files' app ahead of 'Dropbox' in organic search [pdf]
Alright but the files app is not a competitor to Dropbox. It supports all cloud storage and external storage setups.

It’s also a preinstalled app.

hexa22··on Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
I had to look at mine once in 5 years because acme v1 shut down.
hexa22··on Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
3 months was an excellent choice because it means you _have_ to automate so it will never expire. While the 1 and 2 year certs always end up expiring on production because someone forgot about them.
hexa22··on First Beta for Krita 5.0 released
Gimp has a way to draw circles. You use the circle selection tool and then use the trace selection menu button which draws a line around the selected circle in your choice of brush.
hexa22··on Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping
I have once had a phone call about an online purchase telling me I had to pay extra taxes for the import.
hexa22··on What we can learn from Google Plus (2014)
Google drive and google photos are after that time and they both seem to work really well and be core products.
hexa22··on What we can learn from Google Plus (2014)
They did a terrible job of it. They broke all existing comment trees and pushed google+ really hard and automated posting. I seem to remember that commenting on YouTube would then make a post on google+ with your real name and likely notified your contacts about it.
hexa22··on The EU Wants a Universal Mobile Charger, but Apple Doesn’t
I took my pixel 2 to a repair store and they just told me right away “there is a 30% chance that the screen will smash if we replace the battery”

Pixels have become so much worse than the iPhone ever was.

hexa22··on The EU Wants a Universal Mobile Charger, but Apple Doesn’t
It would make it difficult to cram as much battery in as they do currently. The iPhone has L shaped batteries so they fit around the pcb.

I’m not convinced standardised batteries are required. The vast majority of people are using only a small number of phones. A battery store could easily stock the batteries for every iPhone model. The real problem is how hard it is for the average person to replace them.

hexa22··on Reddit Is Down
Reddit used to go down all the time but in the last 3 years it has been very stable and hardly ever goes down.
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