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"Apple calling in Google to help" is the image Beeper Mini trying to paint, what if it intentionally did it?

I regret my time spent on Ubiquiti devices at home use, in the past five years my view has changed from very positive to entirely negative. They are getting worse instead of better, I am seriously considering getting rid of all Ubiquiti devices from my home, Ubiquiti software updates lack testing and break things often, I simply don’t have time to baby sit them anymore. Their iOS app has become harder to navigate with feature loss instead of improvement as well.

My Ubiquiti setup (one LR and one lite) was done back in 2018, devices on the network is roughly the same in the past 5 years, only phones laptops changed due to upgrades. Since 2020/21 their firmware updates started dropping support of old device randomly, or support become worse (devices get disconnected frequently or full bar but not responsive). First was my Kindle 3G keyboard, then Fitbit Aria Scale, then quite a few smart switches/plugs. I literally scratched my head to understand the settings, but they just won’t connect to the Ubiquiti AP. I had to buy an Eero as backup and continuously migrate these older devices as they are unable to connect. Their most recent firmware update last week kicked my Sony TV off the network(bought in 2018), I have no idea what they are thinking and wasted 1 hour rebooting and blaming Sony, then found it connect to the Eero AP just fine.

Read this pattern through Google (they have PDFs provided), isn’t it describing the finger sensor pretty much every health care provider uses? Especially the figures they put in, non of them looks like a consumer daily device.

Not a typical pattern troll but an innovative one. Now they can pretty much go after any companies in this area! I feel they are after Apple just because Apple Watch succeeded.

If you are using an app for it, King County Library app already has the barcode anyway…

Zoning is probably the difference.

In Seattle, ADU/DADU are built in Single Family House zone, you can tear down a single family house, build 1 main + 1 ADU + 1 DADU which is total of 3 without zoning change, then you can sell all 3 of them as Condos, require buyers share something like water bill.

Townhouse has to be build on the areas that are up zoned by the city.

The author got almost everything correct except some minor parts. Using his charger as an example, it can be broken down as: DELL 00 AC090 195 046 CN09T2157161543835EAL 03 .

046 is the output current 4.6A instead of his partitioned as 46(there are power supplies output more than 10 amps).

The 22 bytes is the Dell PPID, which should be also present on the charger's label or the box: CN: Manufactured in China, some of them are TH which means made in Thailand. 09T215: Dell Part Number. 71615: Manufacturing factory code. 438: 2004 or 2014, March, 8th (Dell use YMD 3 bytes thus it is a lossy conversion always). 35EAL: This should be the serial number.

The last part 03 is a CRC16 (x16 + x15 + x2 + 1) checksum.

@dang The link should be pointing to the actual PayPal article https://medium.com/paypal-tech/unlocking-the-power-of-junodb....

Here is the archive link https://archive.ph/etRgW

Well, you have to put the human cost investment into the picture. When the cost to develop/maintain becomes significantly high, it’s a natural choice to deprecate it and move on to something faster.

Price increased significantly in 2010 I guess?

It is really worse. I have ton of USB-C cables doesn’t transfer data from flash lights, a lot of USB 2.0 speed cables with USB-C connector, then USB 3.0 cables rated at 5G/10Gbps without an easy way to know the difference, then Thunderbolt 3 / 4 cables one each.

Besides Thunderbolt cables, there is not a standard nor universal way to identity them. I had to test each cable by plug in an SSD then speed test the SSD.

Flash back 15 years, a cable with MicroUSB either transfer data, or not. The difference between high speed / super speed only lives in the device.

The issue could be coming from the AC-DC charger used with the MagSafe charger as well, maybe retest with an Apple charger?

Just contrary, cheap products / poor engineering team use them on devices such as low end laptop chargers, usually on the DC power cord to pass EMC compliance tests. A good designed product fix them in the electronic circuits.

There is a big possibility the author just bought a counterfeit, AFAIK all consumer electronic devices have standard EMC compliance requirements, these spikes showed should be easily observed in the 10M chambers during testing.

Gait recognition can identify you 50 meters away without need for facial recognition.

Cash is a superior technology for security -> Huh? The bullet proof glass cage protecting the cashiers is the “technology”.

Not a secret, it is even covered in the blog post. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/amazon-offices/the-surprisi...

Doesn’t seem to be inside stories after reading the snippet above, “made up” inside stories I guess?

Me neither, M1 MacBook Pro with Ventura 13.6, Control center is only 0.1% CPU.

After switching to M1 I haven't looked at Activity Monitor for a long time, as CPU was never my issue. I just realized Microsoft Outlook uses 43% CPU, very astonishing given just one exchange email account is in there.

Back in the old days Apple Maps was terrible and Google Maps was great, people laugh at you for using Apple Maps.

Then Google started using Waze recommendations which navigated cars to dangerous routes, also added those UX “improvements”, made Google Maps on a declining slope for years. On the contrary, Apple Maps is getting better on every iOS release, of course fewer people would want to install Google Maps.

Blaming a competitor taking traffic without a retrospective understanding what you did wrong, what can go wrong with that?

Probably not everyone, I hate QR coded based payment systems but prefer Apple Pay, so the apps won’t have my camera access. Same applies when folks from China claiming Alipay or WeChat is the best payment system.

No, we provide a CDK L3 construct that ensures your best practice.

Pixel 1 was released in 2016, you have to root to upgrade OS, but not able to upgrade Android major versions.

Here is my ICQ number and I promise it is better than MSN

Between 2002 to 2007, I recall a huge number of websites put small fonts in the footer says "For best results, view this website at 800 x 600 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6", it eventually get updated to something like "This website is optimized for IE and a resolution of 1024 x 768"

The text never got updated to IE7, by the time IE8 arrives, everybody seems moved on to Opera, Firefox or Chrome already, so all websites just removed that footer.

Exactly, the mentioned components used are not impressive if at all. Guess what, almost all named brand laptop power supply has an Onsemi chip, the only difference is big manufacturers like Delta or Flextronics use customized Onsemi chips made for them.

What made it even more interesting is mentioning Weltrend in a marketing material, almost 50% of projects I used to work on include a cost down part to switch from TI chips to Weltrend or similar. Whoever wrote this material doesn’t understand what they really implies.

Not sure what maps your friend was using, Nokia S60 series has Google Maps, it’s not bad compared to original iPhone. I could use keyboard to zoom in and out, after log in all the layered map stuff works. In comparison, iPhone’s Google Maps didn’t have turn by turn navigation till a while later.

I bought 3 Samsung EVO 256G cards last year for a dash cam, all of them failed around 36 days - no return but just warranty with Samsung. Samsung’s customer service for storage products is pretty bad that there is not even a website to submit a warranty claim.

Switched to Sandisk then it has not failed after a year, I probably will never buy Samsung cards.

Big companies would love to know what countries that they will never get sued and deal all shady stuff there, does it exist?

UTi260B is also a good option, price swing between $260-$360 depending on time.

My hypothesis: people who are already using VPN egress traffic in IAD (which has the largest AWS region), thus the results based on IP address is skewed by people who actually live in other countries or maybe even continents.