If the company just come out and say âoewe are buying a lot of baking soda, and throwing it awayâ, it would save time.

Fantastic i can repair them, but if they sound like shit they won't live long enough to be repaired. Maybe i can give them a test run but their return policy says 14 days for phones but no mention of headphones for now.

The term âoedoxxingâ originated from TFA, and the reporter gets the term as directly quoted from multiple people who came forward to tell their stories about being âoedoxxedâ by the Parker brain trust.

a few years ago, Facebook was considering putting ads into WhatsApp. Based on that fuckery alone, there are worlds of differences in how Facebook looks at WhatsApp.app, and how Apple approaches Messages.app.

However, Zuckerberg does have a point about cross platform compatibility. And that's why I use Signal. There's no fucking reason for me to go near Meta products, but then again I've never been their target audience.

crap I meant to say 1.8 trillion USD. oh well I'll go back to yelling at cloud

the global market cap for cryptocurrency is estimated at $1.8 billion USD. by comparison, US bailed out banks in 2008 for $700 billion, and Trump's Covid-19 bailout package was over $2 trillion. Crypto isn't even in the same ballpark, yet we can see the scapegoat narrative unfold. the next hyperinflation/housing crisis/bank failure/stock market crash will be blamed on cryptocurrrency most certainly.

Putin got his: 14 new pentest and/or balcony integrity testers

You must have missed out on the Portrait mode with depth of field and lighting effects, a mode supported by almost every iPhone in the past 5 years.

I took the car-net/telematics black box out of my vw. The SOS button is green but doesnt do anything, and i was able to get everything working with one jumper and clearing codes with VCDS.

i have no idea how long before the black box is mandatory and permanently attached to the car, but the MK7 golf can be hacked relatively easily for privacy.

The problem with Scotland is that it's full of Scots

Sweden has also figured out universal, government funded healthcare with successive governments making efforts to limit private for-profit firms in healthcare, welfare, and public health sectors.

If you're suggesting the Swedish model should be applied to places like Texas, NYC, and Florida, start with providing universal access to healthcare.

When the 2009 unibody aluminum macbooks came out, the SSD and the swappable battery were accessible from behind an aluminum plate which was secured by a finger lever which laid flush to the bottom of the case.

"sometimes they do listen!" lmao

Did they listen to people asking for user-replaceable SSD, RAM, and a battery under a removable plate for easy swapping? Or was this move to avoid returns and recalls over a defective-by-design keyboard, rather than actually listening to their customers? i guess a broken clock is "sometimes" correct as well.

From TFA the researches quantified alcohol impairment at 12%. Android users at "30% impairment using voice control, and 53% when using touch controls" would be more impaired than someone under the influence of alcohol in this study.

iCloud storage

No mention of this in the article but this is the only nagware i see regularly (sometimes multiple times a day). i've disabled apple music+, the music store, avoid their News app, and don't use their TV partially because of the persistence of those nags.

I've found good alternatives for things like third party cloud file storage (e.g. Owncloud), and Overcast has been a great replacement for whatever apple is doing for podcasts these days, but i have to use icloud storage for apple's messages and notes, and that means i can't get away from that persistent icloud storage nag.