"How to fix things"? Are we sure we're talking about the same Apple? Those forums were just full of people responding that they encountered the same problem and there's no fix because Apple didn't take bug reports from their forums.

There'd be the occasional "You can change that behavior by toggling an option buried in the accessibility settings" response, but for the most part Apple locks end users out of fixing any real problems when their stuff doesn't "just work".

Yes. Take off from your real-world grinding to play a video game that's mostly based around a mechanic of acquiring in-game wealth.

GTA is going to be a console exclusive for about a year or so. If you don't already have the requisite PlayStation or Xbox, your cost of entry is $599.99/$499.99, respectively. It's also worth mentioning that GTA VI will take up a little over half the available free space on the base model (512GB) Xbox series S.

The current gen game consoles are also a bit long in the tooth, so that's the real kicker here.

In case you don't want to read TFA where they didn't even bother to do the minimal amount of research required to determine if it's AT&T or Verizon, according to Reddit, the new partner network is Verizon.

Refrigeration equipment should not be connected to the internet in any way beyond read-only monitoring of the system's operating state/temperature/error status/etc. Ideally, the monitoring hardware should be air gapped from the circuitry that actually controls the refrigeration system.

Yes, that means a human will have to physically go mess with the equipment when it isn't working properly, but speaking as someone in the trade - it usually is the case that a malfunction requires human intervention to replace a failed part, unclog a drain, or locate a refrigerant leak, in order to get things running properly again.

If you can't freely access something, is it really in public domain?

After the Van Buren v. United States SCOTUS verdict, it'd have just been an issue of copyright law and not hacking. Still illegal, but violating copyright law is much lower on the totem pole as far as computer crimes are concerned.

Either way though, definitely not something he should've killed himself over.

Maybe it's just me, but I've personally experienced the opposite of the so-called "rabbit hole effect" from algorithmic feeds. The first few videos might be decent, but the more I doomscroll, the more it seems like it scrapes the bottom of the content barrel. Before long, I'm just done with it and close the app because it's just serving up stuff that's no longer entertaining. Of course, my generation grew up with 57 Channels (And Nothin' On), so we turned our entertainment off when it ceased to be worth watching. Also, the TV stayed at home, so that was a bit of a limiting factor, too.

What I don't get about this is that the summary already mentions that the content is making some people depressed. How exactly do they think those people are going to feel when the algorithm is tweaked to serve up even worse content, ostensibly to break their addiction? I'm getting the feeling this was the only solution they could come up with, because imposing actual screen time limits upon adults is still just a little too authoritarian (but you know they'd do it if they could).

That kind of someone on duty ? :)

Well, not necessarily. There's a difference between a CEO vibe coding and a developer vibe coding. Anyone can write shitty code, AI included. It takes a dev to properly keep the AI in check.

As someone with two EVs in our household, I think I might be qualified to answer this.

1. As the other poster already said, the cars need to be usable as cars. Having one tethered to the house means still letting the food in the fridge spoil while one of us is at work. That's no bueno.

2. It's not expensive to have a portable generator. Yeah, the big monsters that the richer folks have on the side of their houses can run you a pretty penny, but something you keep in your shed for an emergency isn't going to break the bank to buy and maintain. As for the gas, presumably you've been saving a bunch of money not buying gas because you drive an EV, so having to buy some gas once in a blue moon to run a generator is no big deal.

3. You stock up on fuel before a storm. Yes, it feels very silly to take an EV to a gas pump.

4. The generator gives you another option for "fueling" your EV. We haven't needed to do it, but in a pinch the cars can be L1 charged from the generator. This essentially turns the EVs into extremely inefficient gas cars (somebody on YouTube did the math on MPG charging EVs from a typical portable generator and it's pretty bad), but it means not having to wait in some long ass queue at the nearest DCFC station that has power restored.

Maybe if it's a secondary car. Can't very well power your house if your car is parked at work.

I've got a Bolt and saw on the Bolt subreddit that some crazy people have rigged up 12V inverters to theirs, which provides roughly 1kW for powering some essentials during an outage. I didn't see the point. I've got a 5.5kW portable generator in my shed, and if there is an outage I'm going to need what juice remains in my car for using it as a car (and to go to gas stations to get fuel for the generator, which always feels a bit silly in an EV).

I suppose it makes sense to have an EV that can provide backup power if you live somewhere with a particularly flakey electrical grid. Where I live, it only really goes out after a major hurricane and then it'll be out for several days. That's a use case more suited to a backup generator rather than tethering your car to your house for up to a week.

The problem is that the typical type of old guys you're referring to also tend to want the old school pricing, and those days ain't coming back. I know someone like this - they'd love a basic body-on-frame pickup truck from back in the day, but they're not paying $30k+ for it.

Yeah, we had it pretty good when you could get a base model Tacoma with a standard tranny and a four banger that couldn't get out of its own way, but damn if it wasn't cheap.

Believe it or not, I am not new here. But contrary to your belief, not everyone is an asshole of your magnitude, even on Slashdot.

Nitpicking all the way down to the last response on your comment, are you not ?