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MrSpArkle

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MrSpArkle ,

It’s a weird moral grey zone. Everyone has forgotten the hundreds of people Boeing murdered as a result of their desire to skirt modern safety regulations. I just flew my family across the country yesterday on one of these end-stage-capitalism products for lack of any other option.

Were I to be ash this morning, I would be forgotten too.

But if astronauts were killed, maybe the outrage would finally be enough for all the greased palms to be sheepishly shoved in pockets just long enough to get justice, ground all those affronts to safety, and jail enough executives to maybe make Boeing stop being a global safety risk and a national security concern.

MrSpArkle ,

Apple couldn’t get the carriers to do shit. They blocked eSIMs for years on iPhones, meanwhile the iPad eSIM implementation was happily allowed.

Even up to the iPhone launch nobody wanted to collaborate with Apple(especially for the voicemail) except Cingular.

MrSpArkle ,

HomePod is still mid. But people really sleep on how terrible the first Apple Watch was, and how AppleTV is a media juggernaut now.

MrSpArkle ,

This is unhelpful and reductive.

MrSpArkle ,

Get a Porsche Maccan.

MrSpArkle ,

The real nightmare here is that her girlfriend is a Uyghur.

MrSpArkle ,

They wish. Nobody is gonna replicate that effort successfully any time soon.

You’d sooner get the cloud providers to standardize on an api.

MrSpArkle ,

Crossplane has also had internal providers in development for 3 years. Bottom line is unless the actual cloud provider is devoting developer resources to a provider(like they do for the TF providers), it's unlikely to happen.

MrSpArkle ,

Open sufficient shelter and then ban camping.

Sorry, but I’ve worked in SF and Portland and getting yelled at while avoiding shit and syringes is not great.

MrSpArkle ,

What are you asking for? For iMessage to become the standard for messaging?

It’s the telcos fault SMS sucks and it’s the telcos fault RCS is a joke unless you use Googles implementation on Android.

MrSpArkle ,

How would a third party client guarantee e2e encryption with iMessage?

And by what mechanism was that company enabling that bridge? Did that mechanism store iCloud credentials? Did it encrypt the drives the users iCloud data could have been downloaded to? Did they have access to iMessages in clear text before forwarding them?

MrSpArkle ,

And what data would this client be handling via the API?

Even Signal discourages third party apps for this reason you are indeed missing.

MrSpArkle ,

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/fake-signal-and-telegram-apps-sneak-malware-into-thousands-of-android-phones-delete-these-right-now

The signal code is there for transparency and individual use, not for redistribution. Again, this is signal themselves discouraging users from third party apps for things that have and will happen.

MrSpArkle ,

I think Darwin is still open source, and WebKit is still open source.

MrSpArkle ,

This doesn't seem so bad. I live in the PNW and have seen people absolutely hauling ass on home-made e-bikes and scooters, easily 40mph and passing traffic in the bike lane.

I'm not against people building their own e-bikes, but at some point it's not an e-bike, it's a motorcycle, and they need to be in traffic and ideally have the brakes to match.

MrSpArkle ,

Oh no! Other problems exists that we should also tackle! You’ve won the argument!

MrSpArkle ,

And as we reduce car dependency, should those cars keep burning gasoline?

MrSpArkle ,

Because it’s IBM. They’ll roll this into “Watson” and send a team of consultants to implement it on a 2 year contract, and then one of the contractors will be socially engineered into giving away your data.

MrSpArkle ,

The VR wanking and gaming markets are too saturated for Apple to bother with. They want the VR computing market, which is essentially vacant.

MrSpArkle ,

I mean, it did. It made republicans even more averse to facts.

MrSpArkle ,

Unfortunately that company is the best hope we have to stay ahead. With their low cost they can monopolize the worldwide launch market(except Russia and China). So that funding, strategically, must continue.

What should also happen is funding spacex competitors, so we stay on the bleeding edge.

MrSpArkle ,

If you look at the Artemis mission and think starship is the weakest part of the plan, you are simply not being objective.

MrSpArkle ,

China has privately held space companies, yes. They are funding them, yes.

MrSpArkle ,

It is, they have an official app store app as well though. However I find mlem to be a smoother experience, particularly scrolling, and it tends to keep its position when being backgrounded better than memmy and voyager.

MrSpArkle ,

They existed before iPod, they just didnt get the marketing blitz Apple did. Cowon comes to mind, and had much better quality audio.

I did some research on this, because I was a big fan of MP3 players in the late 90s early 2000s and never heard of them. Turns out that the only Cowon Mp3 player I could find from around the iPod launch was the iAudio CW200, which had a capacity of 256MB.

This explains why I had never heard of it, as I was shopping for HDD-based players that could hold my entire library(I was looking at PJB, Nomad, Archos, etc).

Sorry but this illustrates OP's point. The iPod was the smallest HDD-based player on the market for years, all the other HDD players were chunky and could barely fit in a pocket. All the flash-based players had pitiful capacity. It wasn't that there were no MP3 players, it was that all the products had compromises that made them not ready for mass adoption.

While OP is overstating some things, your counter examples are rife with oversights like this.

As an example you are badmouthing Apple's "low resolution displays", while missing the fact that the MacBook Pro was the first ever mass market high dpi laptop. Ironically Samsung had produced a limited production laptop with a similar screen, but because Samsung lacks focus and had 1000 different laptop SKUs, they didn't make it a premiere feature of their brand, instead Apple simply bought out Samsung's entire manufacturing capacity for years and put them in their laptops.

This is the pattern. There are interesting technologies, but they are in products with mediocre design or appeal, and are not mass produced. Apple identifies these technologies, optimizes them, integrates them, ensures that there is a good user experience, makes a million of them, makes a billion on that, then changes the entire landscape of the market they entered by virtue of their success.

MrSpArkle ,

Microsoft barely made a PC interface, they’re the last ones i would expect make a proper AR interface.

MrSpArkle ,

Quest is better in every way

Zuckerberg can’t even buy an SOC to put in the quest to compete with Apple. Qualcomm doesn’t make one. So it can’t be better in every way.

It can be better subjectively to some people. But objectively the Vision Pro has specs other manufacturers literally won’t be able to do for at least 2-3 years, and not for 500 bucks.

MrSpArkle ,

They only recently announced a laptop chip that beats the m2 in SOME benchmarks, but at a higher power draw, but it is not shipping in any product. Mind you Apple is on M3.

MrSpArkle ,

Microsoft puts ads in the start menu. I could go into a deeper critique, but ultimately that is the canary in the coal mine. Any company with a structure capable of shipping that feature is fucking busted in terms
of user experience and ui design.

Apple's next generation CarPlay allows auto manufacturers to license the OS | Don't look now but Apple is back to licensing an operating system after decades (www.techspot.com)

Apple's next generation CarPlay allows auto manufacturers to license the OS | Don't look now but Apple is back to licensing an operating system after decades::undefined

MrSpArkle ,

I don’t see an actual source for this claim. There’s no leak or press release or documentation or extracted resources from an IOS build.

The “source” article is just making unsubstantiated claims.

MrSpArkle ,

How do you recycle the exhaust fumes and and oil leak run-off from ICE cars?

MrSpArkle ,

It's hard to answer your question entirely right now, but many batteries end up in non-car applications for a few years before they run out of useful life. A car battery with 50% of its original 80kwh is still a LOT of juice.

https://www.greentecauto.com/product-category/repurposed-batteries
https://www.secondlife-evbatteries.com/collections/ev-battery/Module
https://evolveelectrics.com/products/tesla-model-s-lithium-ion-battery

So even before recycling there is a LOT of reuse possible.

But ultimately when it comes to the recycling process, as grids continue to go carbon-free, the amount of energy used to recycle batteries becomes irrelevant as long as there is an ecological upside.

MrSpArkle ,

If they did that the headline may not contain Apple in it, instead they would list the actual perpetrators, and that would mean less ad revenue.

Biden Expected to Announce Billions in Chip Subsidies, WSJ Says (www.bloomberg.com)

Biden Expected to Announce Billions in Chip Subsidies, WSJ Says::The Biden administration is expected to soon announce billions of dollars in new subsidies to chipmakers including Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing as part efforts to reshore production, the Wall Street Journal reported.

MrSpArkle , (edited )

China invading Taiwan is a fantasy for the foreseeable future.

We have seen what hastily deployed US weapons can do against Russian hardware in the Ukrainian invasion.

Taiwan has been stockpiling US weapons(missiles, jets, tanks) for decades, and Chinese hardware and doctrine is not as proven as the Russians. China will see immense losses for their prize, and that’s if nobody intervenes.

MrSpArkle ,

Take a look at Taiwan's inventory of anti-ship missiles and coastal defenses and get back to me. Last I checked Taiwan has roughly 1 harpoon for every Chinese combat ship, assuming China wants to commit their entire navy to the invasion.

If China doesn't commit every ship to the invasion, now you have more than 1 harpoon per Chinese ship.

Nevermind other types of anti-ship defenses and domestically produced missiles.

And again, Taiwan has had these weapons for DECADES. They train on them, then know how to deploy them. It will not take days to respond, because they are ready. They will simply launch and the missiles will sink some ships.

If China decides to invade it will be at the cost of a significant portion of their navy and army before they even reach land. Then China has to face significant risk of retaliation from Taiwan's cruise missile fleet, some of which can hit as far as Beijing.

Then at this point China will risk their various border disputes being contested.

And all this for what? Some destroyed chip factories and the CCP flag over Taipei?

China can certainly invade Taiwan, but my point is the cost is too high for it to be a logical move.

MrSpArkle ,

The NACS pivot is going to keep them relevant longer than I’d like. The gap between the supercharger network and everyone else is astounding and nobody is going to close that gap any time soon.

MrSpArkle ,

Lol

MrSpArkle ,

Making comments like this is a huge self-own. There are MacBook users whose software powers a good portion of your daily life.

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