Every time I see my mother in law, she's a list of " I don't know what fo do" problems with her phone. The solution is always the same: I read out loud what is written on the screen, then I ask her if she want it or not, and I click yes or no accordingly.

The OS has your birthday, but it only reports minor/major when a web services asks. This is better, because when a minor becomes a major, he can keep his device without having to ask parents to unlock it .

It works like this in Android Family Link.

As a parent and a system administrator myself, I think it is brilliant actually. You need age verification somewhere. Having it in the website is bad, because you force people to send their id around. At the DNS level is verg unreliable. Being able to simply set a flag for non-admin accounts and expect legit websites to respect it, makes the DNS solution much more reliable, and removes the need to send your ID and picture around. If it is a tool for parents, it is good.

It becomes bad if the OS is required to DO the age verification, via some DRM-like service that handles your ID and personal data.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

You can be totally scammed with apps downloaded from Google Play store.

There definitely is solvent involved in the ifixed.it instructions for a MacBook pro. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/M...

Easier than other MacBooks does not mean easy in general. Removing the battery of a MacBook Pro is a 72 steps operation on fixed.it, including the application of solvent that can damage the screen. For a typical Dell laptop it is: remove the panel, unplug the old battery, plug the new battery, reattach the panel.

There was a massive change in internal policy between communist Russia and fascist Russia with a wave of privatization between 1992 and 1995 and the creation of 12'000 enterprises. A large fraction of the privatized wealth was captured by corrupted politicians and organized crime leading to oligarchy.

It means that Google services have to ask permission to access files, location and everything else. On standard Android, Google gets access to everything by default.

Maybe they won't be sold in high street shops, but definitely, if this gets through, they will be offered to enterprise customers which are concerned about the security of their data

If the fraction of a laptop price devoted to ram increased from 18% to 35% it did in fact MORE than double, because the hike is reflected in the final price RAM is now a higher percentage of a higher amount.

i.e. Yesterday the laptop was priced at 1000$, of which the 18%=180$ was for the RAM. Today the price is 1261$ of which 35%=441$ is for the RAM. The laptop without RAM is 820$ before and after.

What this guy thinks, is telling more about the quality of his job than the capabilities of AI in general. But I'm not holding high opens, there is always an endless supply of bullshit jobs to do in such a large organisation.

I have a cronjob that kills Vim every 15 minutes, just in case this happens. I get a coffee break, and when I'm back the problem is solved and I can get back to work.

It allows to recover you account, but not your past messages, unless you have used their functionality to backup them unencrypted on the cloud (either Google or Apple cloud, depending on you overlord)

I have a few of them, since you could buy them for 20 euros after Google flooded the market with them, now they are becoming a rarity and expensive again for some reason. I think they are good quality, but the gum on the sticks shreds a bit, leaving an annoying black residue on my thumbs!

In fact, I have just read the original articles in Italian, and he's only accused of (quite egregious) embezzlement: spending a few thousand of public money on luxury hotels and shopping, overspending on plane tickets, overusing the agency chauffeur service, paying for an "official residence" flat that was actually rented on AirB&B by his daughters. In the order of a few 100k€. It is a lot of money, but nothing w.r.t. what he could have done "consulting" for a tech firm after ruling in their favor a few times.