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laurelraven , (edited )

Ah hah! But is it more important than X?!

Yes. Nobody gives a shit about X.

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices (www.theverge.com)

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

laurelraven ,

Doubt they would advertise a specific feature only to make it worse.

Not like companies have never done that...

laurelraven ,

No, they'll aim for minimum interoperability that the EU will let them get away with, and they'll push that line every chance they get

laurelraven ,

The exact quote was

how about no hardware vendor is allowed to produce software that only runs on their hardware

Why would this theoretical microwave vendor be making software for it in the first place to need to make it interoperate with other microwaves that inexplicably have software of their own?

laurelraven ,

I'm curious, was it beeping because of somewhat harder breaking?

laurelraven ,

I don't know about you but I will not be taking after hours calls for work without being compensated for being available

laurelraven ,

Yep.

At best, you're paying extra for RGB lighting.

laurelraven ,

Do you have any recommendations for someone looking to do this? Guides you found useful, videos or YouTube channels, software packages, pitfalls to avoid? I've been thinking of doing something like this for years and lately feel like I need to to get a handle on what's really going on in my network

laurelraven ,

Its physics all the way down

laurelraven ,

The stockholders don't live in reality either

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

laurelraven ,

Microsoft and Apple are not the only choices

laurelraven ,

I did the same a couple months ago, though when I built that system I put in two drives for the dual boot... And never got around to installing Windows. I think I'll use the second drive for something else, don't know what yet.

Have had almost no issues with gaming

laurelraven ,

I've been fortunate enough that the games I want to play so far pretty much Just Work

laurelraven ,

This just confirms my decision to never fly United again

laurelraven ,

Here's the thing: companies have learned they can add ads to make additional money without passing any of that on to their customers.

If you think you're going to get a better rate for having ads, you're fooling yourself. They'll always charge as much as they can get people to pay and that amount isn't affected by ads most of the time.

laurelraven , (edited )

What did it for me was a long delay that got me landed at my destination after car rental was closed

Not so much the delay itself; that upset me, but I get that things happen

It was the reason for the delay: a simple maintenance thing with the plane had them taking the engine further and further apart while we watched from the terminal, ultimately deciding they weren't getting this thing back up and running again anytime soon and having to get us another plane (which we had to wait for to fly to us)

Why couldn't they figure it out? Because they didn't have anyone who knew how to work on that plane model available

There are so many ways that pisses me off and makes me never want to trust them again

Also, every flight I had with them, including the return trip that I'd already booked from that trip, was miserable

Say what you will about Southwest but they know their damned planes inside and out and overall run their fleet efficiently and consistently. It's like riding a bus that flies

laurelraven ,

I have no idea what it is you're trying to say here or how it relates to an airline running planes without having maintenance crews that can actually do the work on them... And that they worked on it anyway without apparently having the required training for it...

laurelraven ,

Who's blaming the maintenance personnel? I'm expecting the airlines to actually have their maintenance crews trained for the planes they fly.

I don't think this is a particularly unrealistic expectation.

Nor do I think the expectation that crews without enough training on a plane to tear its engine apart and put it back together not be tasked with something that will have them tearing the engine apart.

I don't need to understand how the maintenance works to expect it be done correctly for something that's going to be moving my ass at hundreds of miles per hour, thousands of feet in the air.

I don't blame the maintenance personnel for not giving themselves adequate training on the machines they'll be servicing; that's on the airlines to ensure they get that before telling them to work on those planes. I don't blame the maintenance personnel for being ordered to then work on planes they don't have training on.

And if "that's just how the industry is", that doesn't make it any better.

Either way, flying with an airline that runs basically one model and can ensure every maintenance person knows that plane and every pilot knows that plane seems a good way to avoid the issue, so I'll stick with what I've got for now, thanks.

laurelraven ,

Cool story.

I still fail to see how this makes it okay for techs to be told to tear apart an engine they weren't experienced with.

You can try to keep talking around how that's actually no big deal and I just don't get it. Totally your right. Just be aware that from my perspective you're trying to argue that it's acceptable to work on components without training that could cause a plane crash with people on board if it fails, and I just don't see how you can make that scenario okay, like, at all.

laurelraven ,

Yeah, no. I was very clear that I was not blaming the techs, but you go ahead, keep insisting on that.

I do not blame line workers for failings of management, which is exactly what I said I thought this was.

Maybe I am wrong here, wouldn't be the first time. If so, sorry for busting your chops like that. I've just seen too many businesses cutting corners and compromising safety to save a couple bucks, so maybe I'm overly jaded for this one. But the ire was NEVER directed at the techs.

United is still garbage and was miserable every time I flew with them, so regardless of the truth behind that incident I still stand by my decision to never fly with them again, and if that hadn't happened on that trip, the rest of the trip was enough to make me want nothing to do with them again.

laurelraven ,

I expected them to have mechanics working on the planes that had proper training for them. This is based on what I was told by the gate attendants, which I'll admit may not have been accurate.

That expectation is not levied at anyone in the local chain of command; it's directed at the decision making at he executive level that would lead to maintenance crews working on engines they weren't certified/trained on.

Part of it I will admit comes down to my frustration with watching the engine become progressively dissembled while waiting for hours and watching the clock run out on my rental, but I never blamed the people there. I've worked IT for a long time and know first hand that the people talking to you are usually just doing the best they can and often following policy that they have no flexibility in. Even local management often has their hands tied.

If I came across blaming the techs or the crew or management at the airport, which it sounds like I did at least to you, I'm sorry for that, it really wasn't ever my intention. At the point the plane needed something fixed, the situation was already way too far gone to salvage, and whether it was because it was more serious than it first appeared or there simply wasn't the right experience available, the damage was already done and nothing anyone there at that time would have salvaged it.

Waiting on the replacement plane was frustrating, but logistics are logistics and you can't summon a plane or crew from thin air, crews can only fly so long without a break safely, and keeping additional extremely expensive planes sitting around gathering dust waiting to be needed at every airport just doesn't make sense.

My expectation (which it sounds increasingly like to me was down to misunderstanding of what's involved, which you've been trying to tell me) was that airlines will have maintenance crews that know the planes they're working on. You're saying this was probably outside the scope of what's a typical maintenance crew is able to tackle in a short time, like a car mechanic checking a seemingly minor leak and ultimately finding out the engine needs to be rebuilt.

But again, never did blame anyone but upper management, who were nowhere near anyone at that airport during that, and I hope that's now clear

laurelraven ,

That looks like a conference room PC, I would doubt OP even has any control over that and possibly didn't even have access to the room until right before

It isn't their computer.

It's likely on a campus domain managed by campus IT and should be configured with a sane update policy that automatically does this overnight when the systems aren't being used.

laurelraven ,

No, they're terrible. Windows can and does know when a system is least in use and is supposed to handle this during those periods. Updates are important but this is an excessive and unnecessary way to fix the issue of people not performing their own updates.

laurelraven ,

I've frequently seen Windows ignore that setting and force the restart while the system is actively being used

The mega corp neither needs or deserves your defense. They've fucked up the update system with Windows 10 and it's not gotten any better since then.

Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)

Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...

laurelraven ,

If I had a nickel for every time a company kept that promise, I'd owe money

laurelraven ,

If the alternative is "likely go out of business", then yeah...

They already made it profitable for the hackers by not backing their data up properly, this is just that bill coming due.

laurelraven ,

Where's .7z people?

Google Pay is officially dead in the US. Just got the email.

We are writing to inform you about changes to your Google Pay experience. As we continue to provide safe and seamless payments to users around the world, we are also simplifying the app experience in the U.S. For years, Google Wallet has been the primary place to securely store payment cards used for tap and pay in stores,...

laurelraven ,

But they'll totally bring the best features from the old one into the new one!

(They do not consider that feature that you care about to be one of the "best features")

laurelraven ,

Add into that, I'm betting googie will actively try to make downstream forks difficult to maintain without accepting the components they want to force on everyone like manifest v3

laurelraven ,

I have no interest in giving them the benefit of any doubt, they not only haven't earned it but actively squandered and destroyed the trust they had earned in the past.

They'll actually have to do something to make themselves trustworthy again, and even if they do, there will always be the threat of them reverting to what they are now or worse looming over every good thing they do.

They not only became what they set out to oppose, they've become so much worse.

laurelraven ,

Sounded more like enforcing the regulations without destroying the company or product to me, which I would have assumed was the preferred avenue with most regulations

laurelraven ,

I mean, sure, if that's what someone is saying, but I didn't see anyone suggest that here.

Companies violating regulations can be made to follow them without tearing down the company or product, and I'm absolutely not convinced LLMs have to violate the GDPR to exist.

laurelraven ,

I mean, can't it be both?

laurelraven ,

So, this meme is a sith?

laurelraven ,

Whoever they are, they'll either be crap or out of business in five to ten years

laurelraven ,

Supposed to, no. They just did so, and a lot of them did, felt like at least a quarter or more of them to saw at least one never popped up

laurelraven ,

Honestly?

By looking up the command. It took like two seconds and that was nearly twenty years ago. And I've been using it off and on since then (only off because I've not been consistently using Linux, not because I'm using a different terminal text editor; when on *NIX, vim/vi is pretty much all I've used on the terminal)

laurelraven ,

Same, every new system that defaults to nano and throws me in here when I'm expecting vim I have to stop and remember what the characters mean right before changing it to use vim (like, seriously, I typed "visudo", not "nanosudo", why the hell would I expect it to open in anything other than vi or vim?)

laurelraven ,

I get tired of it sometimes but every once in a while I'll come across a clever twist on it that makes me laugh

laurelraven ,

Literally facerolled vim, nice

laurelraven ,

I hate to suggest it but I wonder if a blockchain would work here

laurelraven ,

Yeah, I'd imagine not, though I'm fairly confident any solution to this would be nontrivial

laurelraven ,

Openly distributed while being private(-ish; I know blockchains aren't truly private but it could at least obfuscate it adequately against casual or semi serious attempts to identify someone)

I'll admit I'm no expert or even particularly well versed in blockchain technologies, but my (limited) understanding of them suggests this might actually be the kind of thing it's good at (as opposed to how it could seemingly do anything a few years ago and everyone was trying to shoehorn a blockchain into their products)

And to underline part of my comment, I did say "I wonder if..." rather than asserting that it would work or even that I bet it would work

laurelraven ,

This is the first time I've ever even heard of these kinds of abbreviations, what the hell even are they?

laurelraven ,

I didn't think I could hate a name shortening system this much but here we are

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Tack "&udm=14" on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

laurelraven ,

Yeah, my problem though is that I think about actual profitability when I try that while they're playing a game of shells moving and manipulating quarterly profits to make a company look profitable so they can cut and run while the the company burns behind them

Then there's whatever the fuck companies like Microsoft and Apple and googie are doing that seem like horrible ideas to me that nobody seems to like and yet it never seems to hurt their bottom line enough to stop.

At this point I honestly think the only reason those three are still profitable is they've cornered their area of the market and there's just nobody for their customers to move to in adequate numbers to make a difference

But, I'm pretty jaded at this point... Maybe you're right and the googe will leave that workaround. At this point it won't matter to me because I don't use their search anymore and don't think I ever will again, and I certainly don't trust any new tech coming from them to not be dragged out back and shot the second I start to rely on it, so I just don't bother anymore

laurelraven ,

That actually explains the sensation I have with headphones provided by my work, I want to like them but the sensation is kind of unpleasant

laurelraven ,

Not so much "optimistic" as "the way it used to be"

I've got a fridge that's nearly 30 years old that we've never had to fix anything on (other than the ice maker). I thought it died about a week ago, turns out I just accidentally turned it off (issue with the coldness dial) and it's colder than ever right now.

I've also got a 6 or 8 year old fridge that I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it needs replacing before the old one.

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