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Comment Re:NTP (i.e. Dr Mills) foresaw this (Score 1) 118

Even if there were good reasons to use DST, it should be smeared similarly over let's say a month or so. However, there are no good reasons and although the majority of EU decided to abandon it, there was a couple of South-European countries not supporting it, so we couldn't get rid of it. It was also drowned out in the Wuhan flu epidemic, later known as Covid-19 due to the extreme lobbying by the CPP to shift the blame away from China even though the truth eventually surfaced, and things they campaigned on our media as disinformation turned out to be the actual truth.

Comment Timekeeping politics (Score 1) 118

I wish we'd finally end the dependency on legacy time keeping and just standardize on seconds for everything. We can use standard SI scale multipliers and if we want some fixed reference, we could use what our computers use, the Unix Epoch signifying the dawn of a new era counting from 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000 UTC onwards. In terms of formatting it compactly, I'd recommend base36 as the biggest standard base using just case-insensitive standard characters of 0-9a-z. My demo of it is here: https://sorsacode.com/base36cl...

Comment Re:USB-C (Apple's Version) (Score 1) 191

As someone who owns a car without wireless CarPlay, I was dreading it, not exactly practical to replace your car due to a change with your phone and third party adapters/solutions are ugly.

Just get a wireless adapter, they're cheap and just plug one end to the USB end and it'll present as a wireless Carplay unit simply proxying the connection.

Comment Re:USB-C is great, but (Score 1) 191

The last iPhone design that had a fingerprint reader was the iPhone 7, if 8 and the SE models don't count. iPhone X that was released alongside the legacy form iPhone 8 replaced the fingerprint reader with a face scanner called FaceID. The only models you could get TouchID (fingerprint readers) on were iPads and iPhone SE models that still use the iPhone 7/8 design.

Comment Re:USB-C is great, but (Score 1) 191

Mind to explain why recent OS updates are available on iPhone 8 but no the 1st gen iPhone SE?

Because the 1st gen iPhone SE is externally like the iPhone 5 and internally like the 6s. It's two generations older hardware than the iPhone 8.

I have to use a freaking OCLP hacks to run up to date OS on my old MacBooks.

So do I, and an old Mini too, but those are over 10 years old machines that aren't supported by even Windows anymore.

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