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> Also, nothing is worse than the folks who didn’t pay up ahead of time who bug one, ‘may we switch seats so we can sit together?’

Some of us parents ask that question for your benefit, not ours. Do you want to sit next to my three-year-old?

Ditto. If you’re able to run an old version of the Android app, then you still have access to all of the Miku features. I haven’t found a similar workaround for the iOS app.

https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/comments/17iuh6r/miku_camera...

One thing that a lot of people are missing is that the iPhone 15 Pro is using the "A17 Pro" SoC. It'll be interesting to see if the base iPhone 16 will also have the Pro SoC or if they'll be using a non-Pro version.

Will the non-Pro version also be 3nm? Will it support USB3?

Panda <https://bear.app/panda/> is Bear, but with their new features and markup engine.

Scary obligatory warning: Panda is alpha software (and probably not something that you should trust with your notes). The table support in Panda is nice though.

I still remember WikipediaFS from almost two decades ago when FUSE-based filesystems were popular (and that project allowed editing Wikipedia too).

https://api.ipify.org/?format=json and https://ipdata.co

Yup. Just watch what happens when the tools reach end-of-life. No more security patches and they will stop working, like all of those early smart TV apps that have been unsupported for years.

You could buy a third-party manufacturer's tools because they're cheaper, but when they can't keep the lights on and they shut off the authentication servers, well you're SOL

If that is based on calendar month, and not rolling 30-day period, then quit at the beginning of the month

IAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_(company)

Your second question is valid though

The publication is still paid a bit for the article when money in the fund is distributed to "all publications participating in the payment system". This presents an opportunity for low-effort publications to crank out oodles of articles in the hopes of getting people to either pay for articles or get paid out by the fund.

Why would I, as a reader, choose to participate in your Kafkaesque payment system when the prevailing solution is to contact my card issuer and dispute the transaction? Certainly that takes a lot less time than having to phone the NY Times (because they do not allow you to cancel a subscription through the website).

Like many data-collection companies, unless you live in the European Economic Area or the state of California, you are not allowed to see the data about yourself that these companies are collecting

https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/data-subject-rights/

If this project takes off, I see a lot of people mis-typing gitdick instead. Probably should either look at changing the name or at least also registering gitdick.com pre-emptively

> Datacenters are the highest-binned parts, and therefore the highest margins.

While I recognized that this is indeed the case, I'd not considered some of the recent plays that Apple has been making. Forget those Gravitons. Forget those low volume datacenter ARM chips too. Also forget those high-binned EYPC and Xeon chips.

What happens when those rackmount Mac Pro machines go to Apple silicon? Datacenters are already paying a premium for processors, but these are much better at performance-per-watt, and Apple can afford to cut the prices on the first and second generation ones to make it up in volume and then ratchet up the prices later once they've got the marketshare.

My Hey app is also providing me with zero functionality as well. I'm not being dismissive of your issue.

You know, maybe you do have a point (HEY should be using Apple's in-app purchase system). They should set it up as a weekly auto-renewing subscription at the most expensive price point possible ($1,299 USD). Maybe then Apple would leave them alone.

*(@dhh has said that HEY will be removing the invitation-only restriction in July).

I'm with HEY on this issue.

As of a few months ago, Netflix abandoned in-app purchases entirely on Apple platforms. Try it yourself: sign out of your Netflix account on iOS and try and create a new account. There is no option to pay for a Netflix subscription within the app on iOS. It just isn't there.

Fastmail is another app already on the App store that requires an account (but has no option to sign up within the app itself). Salesforce Inbox and GMail are two other email apps currently on the App store that do not allow the user to sign up within the app itself.

(An aside about Gmail: I'm now receiving almost-daily emails from Google

> Your Gmail is full. Get more storage now with a Google One membership. Plans start at $1.99 a month.

How much of that money do you think Apple would like to get? How much of that money goes to Apple? None. That is not implemented as an in-app purchase. )

Ditto :/

So would everyone else. Part of the problem is that hey is still in invite-only, and everyone who is able would just pay $1 or $2 to get around the invitation list.

Don't drag the GDPR through this mess. It's not the fault of the GDPR that everyone decided that these cookie consent walls are the new normal.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-an...

Looks like the only U.S. states without them are Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia

Apple happened. When iTunes was new, the music industry was more than happy to give up digital distribution, because they were more interested in selling discs, and any revenue they captures from Apple was extra. The movie industry saw what Apple did to music and so movie licensing and distribution became an entrenched mess.

We had one earlier this year about staff raises

Extending the warranties on SMR drives does _nothing_ to solve the performance issues. The drives were marketed for use in NAS RAID systems, but the abysmal performance (due to the drives' SMR) in many cases will cause the NAS or RAID system to kick out the drive as a bad drive.

Given that RAID rebuild times are increasing as the size of the drives are increasing, and SMR exacerbates the longer rebuild times, these drives should not be used in the NAS or RAID systems for which that they were marketed.

By obfuscating the use of SMR in their WD Red line, WD willfully and intentionally harmed their customers.

There are various lists all over the interwebs. It will be interesting to see the manufacturers responses in market segmentation and product lines in the future.

> The easiest way to detect whether it is a SMR drive is the cache size. Old drives (WDx0EFRX) had 64MB cache whereas new replaced drives (WDx0EFAX) feature 256MB.

This information will become less useful as newer drive models come out and cache sizes for non-SMR drives are bumped up.

Source: https://nascompares.com/answer/how-to-tell-a-difference-betw...

I have several Lian Li cases as well. Most (if not all?) of their cases are aluminum.

https://donotpay.com is an automated service that will collect the information you obtain from illegal robocallers and allow you to craft a demand letter.

Source: I've sent demand letters to vehicle extended-warranty robocallers using DoNotPay