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Comment Just look at Apple's track record. (Score 1) 79

Surely all the people who buy Apple laptops because of the great screens want to have a glossy screen with fingerprints all over it. I know that when I am tweaking an image in Photoshop on a small display what I really want to see is my own little fingerprints on top of all the details. And what makes it even better is that I will get to have one UI for my touchscreen laptop and a different UI for my non-touchscreen laptop. Just like those touch bar laptops that everybody loved so much. And Force Touch, that worked out great, right?

Comment Does this really affect anyone? (Score 1) 21

If this is only going to affect devices that have Secure Core and Secure Boot enabled how many devices like that exist in the wild? Who would disable both of those other than a handful of developers trying to make Linux work on Surface computers and security researchers who want to break their stuff?

Comment Cut the CEO first. (Score 1) 36

If OpenAI really wants to attract users they should get rid of the Silicon Valley groupthink vomiting CEO who regularly says things that horrify many people. Dario Amodei may be an even bigger dork than Bill Gates but he tries to not sound like a mad villain from a science fiction movie much of the time. OpenAI is going to end up like Tesla if Altman is allowed to keep speaking in front of cameras.

Comment Re: An unfortunate name, perhaps? (Score 1) 122

In a few years EVs won't come with lithium batteries. They'll all be using Huawei and CATL's sodium batteries that are not prone to explosions. Huawei will be launching cars with sodium batteries this year or next and the other EV companies will have to license the technology to stay competitive.

Comment Good. (Score 1) 480

The big tech CEOs lined up to kiss Donald Trumpâ(TM)s ass and donate to his various grifts. Now heâ(TM)s started an unwinnable war and itâ(TM)s biting them on the ass. I hope Iran starts extracting millions of dollars a day from American tech companies and using the money to pay bad actors to hack other American companies. It will teach American business leaders a good lesson.

Comment Why aren't lots of A grades expected? (Score 1) 177

To get accepted into Harvard (as an undergrad) a person usually needs a cumulative GPA above 4.0, a very high SAT school, participation in multiple extracurricular activities, fluency in multiple languages, excellent writing skills, and it helps to excel at playing an instrument. Shouldn't it be expected that all of these people are capable of getting high grades? It seems like the problem here is Harvard's faculty forgetting that the school only accepts the best of the best. I would think that something is terribly wrong if most Harvard students were not earning A grades in all of their classes.

Comment Re: Better idea. (Score 2) 192

Extracurricular activities would not be a problem if kids were not also wasting time on video games and the internet. Kids that are not addicted to gaming, short videos, and social media do just fine with extracurriculars. The extracurriculars keep them from getting bored. I took my son's devices away and now he is happy with three music lessons a week, music practice, math tutoring, and rocketry.

Comment Homework is an advanced learning skill. (Score 1) 192

Kids might be able to get through K-12 curriculum without homework. But if they have not learned to work at home they will not succeed in advanced education. College and many trade schools will continue to require work outside of class. Kids who do not know how to manage the workload, how to do their own research, and how to write without a teacher on hand will fail in adult education. So they need some homework to prepare them for life beyond high school.

Comment I hope the new guy actually uses an iPhone. (Score 3, Interesting) 68

In January of 2025 I switched from iOS to Android. After using iOS for over a year I am convinced that Tim Cook has never actually used an iPhone. Siri, Maps, and autocorrect are all train wrecks and always have been. The system settings app seems to have been organized by rolling d20s. If Cook had actually used iPhones the people responsible for some very important parts of iOS would have been sacked in the 2010s. Hopefully Ternus actually realizes how terrible some parts of iOS are and will actually get them fixed.

Who am I kidding? This is Apple, they'll just add another lens to the back of the next iPhone and offer a blue model.

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