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let's also remind ourselves of how apple's "official" repair process works: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-repair-workers-sweatsh...

if this was their only intention they would let third party repair shops access to genuine parts or software tools. the reality is that third party "apple certified" repair shops are contractually less capable than uncertified ones, so much so that calling their service repair feels too generous.

apple do this to sell you phones instead of phone parts. if any of what you're saying was true it's simply a happy accident.

in your case you got screwed up bc you got a bad part, but you're saying your solution to that is to screw everyone by disallowing even genuine parts for repair not blessed by apple?

Let's all recall that the gnome project started out as an alternative to KDE using then-proprietary Qt library. Whether you like GNOME or not is not important. In fact, you should be MORE HAPPY that gnome gets money if you think it sucks. Open source needs competition too. Monopoly hurts everyone.

In personal banking, at least of those I've experienced, the numbers are displayed in both plain language ("forty-two thousand sixty-nine") as well as numerals ("42,069"). Wonder if this would help prevent this kind of mistake as well.

Funny enaugh, once an update rendered my Silverblue install unbootable. I had to boot to a live image to fix GRUB misconfiguration. Now I know it's not invincible, but it does work well otherwise.

The NK government-backed hacker groups mostly operate in China.

The vast majority of north koreans only have access to the nationwide intranet. Those that do have outside connection are few trusted elites who are there to do business. And no matter who you are (this also applies to foreigners in the country), your device and connection is heavily monitored by the state. Merely posessing a non-state sanctioned device as a north korean is considered a serious criminal offense. At that point the only use case of a VPN for someone with a north korean IP is for cybercrime and not dissidents.

Pro-nuclear side seem to argue for science rather than feelings, and proceeds to downvote non-corroborating evidences anyway. Horseshoe theory?

I live in the spitting distance from the world's largest nuclear plant complex in the world. I do not live in a daily fear. In fact it's very easy to forget. The current government is very bullish on nuclear.

The government however is also betting on oil and gas and have recently annoucned, with funding from saudi arabia, the nation's largest oil refinary project. They are also redirecting funds from renewable energy like solar and wind to nuclear, citing fraud and immaturity of the technology. The plant operator has been under constant scrutiny from the locals for construction faults, waste fuel management, etc.

What people seem to forget here is that nuclear isn't a panacea. Just because a country builds nuclear doesn't mean it's succeeding at reducing carbon emmission. The world's 2nd largest, and also the fastest growing, nuclear energy producer by power is china, which still depends largely on coal for its electricity. Also consider nations too volatile to have nuclear power. If you argue that net zero is "impossible" without nuclear, you're basically arguing those countries don't deserve its existence.

Good luck finding an ARM tablet with an open device tree that you can compile/install mainline linux onto.

Surface lineup is a weird one because Microsoft uses a non-standard firmware, but even still the support on many devices are great. I have a Surface Go 3 and despite the poor processor it flies on Fedora and I use it daily to do light tasks. Perhaps try with linux-surface kernel?

> The phasing out of third-party cookies has nothing to do with the "remember this device" functionality, because those are almost always powered by first-party cookies, which are not being phased out.

Cookies are cookies, not a "device". You could theoretically copy whatever cookies they put in to authenticate in other place and get automatically logged in.

> The author has configured their browser to throw away cookies when the last tab closes

If web was supposed to be stateful, this would be a bug, and the author would have had to dig through experimental or advanced settings to enable it. But because web(HTTP) is fundamentally stateless, it is a feature, and it's a feature that every browser exposes to normal user. Your browser is not expected to keep your cookies, just like your browser isn't expected to support javascript to access a website, or that you should enable them even if you could.

It's not just an opinion, it's a physical reality. We only have the Earth's worth of biomass that we can use. And unlike former Twitter CEO's pipe dream we aren't anywhere near being able to venture into an exoplanet, and attempting to do so is hurting the environment yet again. About the only reason we're not changing course is because most nations on this planet currently subscribe to an ideology devised in the colonial age by some european dudes.

sorry, i tend to leave my phone out of my bathroom. not that IP rating is applicable for hot water (or extra chemicals like soap for that matter) anyway.

the exclusion zone of fukushima hasn't changed since the beginning even after 10+ years. same for pripyat and chernobyl, those already close to 40 years. UK had to test sheep for radioactivity in certain domestic areas up until 2012.

nuclear damages aren't just dead humans. they come in the forms of lost lands and untrustable food source.

I will throw another hot take: Most people don't want or need "waterproof" (read: IP-rated) phones. I haven't seen people washing phones in the sink, or using it out on the beach, (of course there will be some outliers, but they aren't designed for seawater anyway) nor is it that useful to have in our day-to-day lives.

In my experience, most smartphones, even without water-resistant ratings, do survive accidental spills or even drops. And for cases where it won't, splash resistance would suffice. Claim of water resistance is already kind of misleading, because it's only temporary and only applies to fresh water (river is not "fresh water" in this case). So it's more limited than what companies want you to believe, and people's habits haven't changed anyway. Unless you live in Japan, or you frequently expose your phone in non-fresh water (for which you would need a different kind of accessory anyway), there's practically no reason you should have a IP rated phone.

a lot of people seem to get this wrong so let me reiterate: whether a phone has removable battery or headphone jack, etc. or not has almost zero relations to its thickness, waterproofing, etc. it's simply a choice that manufacturers made. they know how to make it fit into their devices, they just don't wanna try. of course there will be non-zero costs involved but so is shoving in multiple cameras, motorized parts or even a fragile folding display with a water-resistant hinge. again, it's not even something they haven't tried before, and they know it. every manufacturers mocked apple for removing the headphone jack before doing it themselves because selling wireless earbuds was more profitable than saving their face.

See also: Stealth [https://gitlab.com/cosmosapps/stealth], which is a native Android app, and Teddit [https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit], which acts as a mirror of Reddit, and also offers its own API.

i've been following art communities on twitter, and while threads have indeed taken off massively, there's still a surprising amount of interest on bluesky, and there are people who are joining both, even after threads' opening up. there are several anecdotes of people not liking threads because of its corporate cleanliness.

so no, bluesky isn't as dead as you may think. if anything it's gonna be as big as mastodon, as much as it pains me to say that as a fediverse advocate.

fyi, yes, samsung monoculture is very strong. No foreign phone brands, especially Chinese, have gained significant market share (except apple ofc). Samsung with their 70% market share has been the undisputed champion in S. Korea for probably the whole post-iPhone era, even in the budget segment. Romming community does exist here and quite vibrant for its size but Samsung pumping out literal truckload of phone models (not to mention their carrier-locked variants which are more common like in the US), Knox (ew) and general public sentiment against modifying their devices means it's not really visible.

I don't think korean banks run safetynet. They roll their own checks with varying levels of strictness. Most of them were fooled by Magisk Hide, but not all.

I live in Korea and run the latest GrapheneOS on Pixel 6. I have 6 different banking apps (Citi, IBK, Woori, etc.) installed and all of them work flawlessly. I also have a few government apps running and they work as well. There are definitely some apps that don't run on it (Donbaekjeon, Busan's local payment app being one) but overall they work.

Text to speech is pretty much a solved question at this point, but nobody said it will replace voice actors, nor did it. It conquered TikTok, I'll give you that, but that's barely an accomplishment.

For me AI art is the same thing. It can give you serviceable material in a very fast time, but that's it. It's a Big Mac of the art industry. It's not gonna kill artists like how McDonald's didn't kill restaurants or even rival fast food chains or gourmet hamburger shops, because the only thing redeemable in AI art is you get variations of well-known styles (putting "trending on ArtStation" in the prompt to make it look good is a thing. let that sink in).

E-Bikes. The EV that almost nobody talks about yet brings multitude of benefits (virtually no congestion, less infrastructure/energy/environmental footprint compared to cars, health benefits, etc., all while being able to meet the majority of daily transport needs) if cities make way for them. The one especially absent from the discussion are cargo bikes.