Oh god. Sentinel one is horrible. If they’re taking issue with your testing, you’ve really screwed the pooch

Somewhere around 0,0 or 1,1

There are amazing possibilities in the theoretical space, but there hasn’t been enough of a breakthrough on how to practically make stable qubits on a scale to create widespread hype

pack our plans with value and build out the industry’s best 5G network

I’ve generally needed to disable 5G on their network because it was slower than LTE. 5G has only been useful in places they didn’t have coverage before in my experience

If it increases in pressure every time, I’m now curious how many times you need to close the trunk to cut a finger off

It’s been known for a long time that they cheat on benchmarks

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks

They specifically detect benchmarking tools and run at a frequency they can’t maintain for the length of the benchmark

I must have had an extension at the time, but it sounds like F-Droid does automatic updates for anything Android 12+ now?

https://f-droid.org/de/2024/02/01/twif.html

I guess the nag screen can be scary, though. Good point

Any idea how this demand is different from the current state of Android?

Under Epic’s terms, any app downloaded from anywhere would operate identically to apps downloaded from Google Play, without Google imposing any unnecessary distribution fees.

Last time I used it, I downloaded all my apps through F-Droid, and I didn’t think they were paying Google anything?

And they’re allowed to start doing it again in 5 years

block third-party cookies within Incognito mode for five years

Chromium has worked on ARM since at least 2014

It’s just that they’re releasing a Windows compiled binary

The other side is Facebook Messenger started out as federated XMPP until it got big enough, then it changed the backend it’s using to a proprietary one

Maybe, but Android keeps rewriting its Bluetooth stack from scratch

Android’s current Bluetooth stack has only been around for like 2.5 years

So it’s also less battle tested, probably, although less likely to have memory corruption bugs

One of the articles yesterday stated he wasn’t at Microsoft yet. The MS CEO said he could either be reinstated or start an AI initiative at MS

Apparently he’s a big part of why MS bought 49% of OpenAI

The downside is that Google won’t let you keep them active without jumping through hoops

If you come up with a good enough meme about him leading the way, he’ll be the first on the rocket

The apps getting removed weren’t popular apps there in the first place

The most popular apps here have never been the most popular apps there

Yes, the CCP is trying to cut them off before they become popular, but it’s better for Apple to get money from the currently popular apps there

It’s pretty simple… removing apps a country doesn’t want people to have access to doesn’t meaningfully affect Apple’s revenue

Allowing you to install things outside of their control does affect their revenue

Of course the first is less difficult for them

It’s what proprietary software tends to target, so for someone just coming from Windows, it’s a decent first choice.

OpenSUSE/Fedora don’t support media codecs without knowing you need to add Packman/RPMFusion

Debian just released Bookworm, so it might be an okay recommendation for now, but as a general rule it’s probably not the best first distro

For someone used to Windows staying the same for years, jumping straight to a rolling release like Arch or its derivatives is a massive change

NixOS is too much configuration for a first time user

Linux Mint is maybe a better first recommendation, but it’s still downstream of Ubuntu (I wouldn’t recommend LMDE for a first time Linux user)

Your response is exactly why people find it so difficult to pick a distro to start. Ubuntu may not be the perfect distro for you or I, but there’s a decent reason it’s one of the biggest, and it has conservative defaults

Until that user knows what things bother them about it or what more they need, we’d just go back and forth all day about upsides and downsides of each distro

Ignore all the “this distro is the best”

Just use Ubuntu to start until you know what you wish was different

It’s difficult to trust them when they’re also the largest adtech business

No third party cookies is a good thing. It’s very unclear whether this new tracking technology should exist at all

HRBlock is the same.

I refused to use them ever again after they tried to charge me $300 when it was listed as “free”

What are the compelling features compared to e.g. newsboat?

Knowing an exec who has a nanny, they’re paying them around $7,000 a year and trying to make them feel like they never do enough

Their nanny works around 75 hours a week

It’s businessinsider. The answer is always “no”

They found a post on an anonymous forum complaining and made an article about it because it fits their narrative that workers are being paid too much

They even misspelled “job” in the middle of the article they spent so little time proofreading or fact checking

Edit: The only interesting lines in the article

could get $170,000 in pay and benefits in five years’ time

The agreement has yet to be officially approved

I mean, it’s still a somewhat useful headline, though.

It tells us “a person who isn’t good with technology can’t use this feature”

So, we need to make the feature simpler, or not bother with it

Those databases are highly regulated, as they are, themselves CSAM

Apple tried to do fuzzy hashes to download them to devices, and it wasn’t able to reliably identify things at all

Every dragnet is a flat out abuse of power, but you’re right the SSN went farther

It was collected as part of a dragnet - they weren’t surveilling them specifically. The FBI just attempts to illegally surveil US citizens, breaking the Fourth Amendment.

This time, it just happened to hit a senator

Any hints as to where I should look?

The only thing I was really watching on Netflix was Korean dramas anyway

As far as I can tell, it’s another centralized platform as well? I’m hoping we learn from the mistakes of reddit and move back to a less centralized forum