but being able to decide after the fact that you want a heated steering wheel isn’t one of them.

No one is bitching about being able to decide that you want a heated steering wheel. You can decide to install it on literally any car brand or model.

People are bitching about the hardware that they have paid for and they own being locked behind by a software paywall. This would cause a riot with practically any other consumer electronics. Imagine if the fingerprint scanner on your smartphone was an extra $50 to unlock? Or quick charge being an extra $75?

That would be the most anti-consumer horseshit we’ve seen, and that’s exactly what Tesla is doing.

Maybe he prefers to hand over his data to Google rather than Microsoft.

A burst of traffic doesn’t mean much if it doesn’t stay. It’s a safe assumption that most people participating in “fuck spez” already had an account, so they aren’t getting many new users from this.

Ah yes, poor people and people living on minimum wage don’t need music. And if they really needed it, they would just skip a meal.

Indexing and data hosting is worth $11 per month? Music uses very little space and bandwidth. Listening to 3 hours every day for a month ends up being around 10gb of bandwidth. If they were using expensive on-demand AWS bandwidth, that would cost them 50 cents. They aren’t, they have edge caches all over and almost certainly pay less than 10 cents.

There is this misconception of “using a lot of ram = bad”, but memory is not like cpu or gpu cycles.

Unused memory is wasted memory. Chrome will use available memory to improve responsiveness. Primarily the memory use comes from keeping all open tabs in memory, so they are in the same state as you left them.

When the system runs low on ram, chrome will start discarding old tabs and giving back memory to other processes. Firefox does the same thing.

Also windows task manager is very inconsistent when it comes to memory usage. Right now it’s telling me chromium is using 1.4gb for 47 tabs. And memory usage is a lot more complicated anyway.

Vivaldi is chromium based, so it’s pretty much chrome with a different UI.

What?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Under Standard Data Protection photos, general drive storage and device back up are not end-to-end encrypted. Meaning that Apple has full access to reading and analyzing them.

Under Advanced Data Protection which is an opt-in feature available since iOS 16.2, you can have those files end-to-end encrypted.

End-to-end encryption makes the user responsible for keeping an encryption key safe, irreversibly losing their data if they lose the key. It’s not practical for the general population. I would guess its use is in low single digit percent of apple customers.

And this feature came out in December 2022. A bit over half a year ago. Unless your friend’s NDA was super short, I presume the conversation took place before it was released. Either your friend was bullshitting you under an NDA or he’s an idiot.

You can bet your ass it will be heavily moderated.

It’s their “use in case of emergency” tool.

It was popular so they are bringing it out as a distraction.

The author of this article is a grade A dumbass, or it’s a paid smear piece. Honestly I can’t tell.

If he’s comparing theoreticals, why not include the theoretical 44000Gbps of a fiber optic connection? If the author is somehow reading this: 44000 is more than 20!

How is it intentionally confusing?

Providers have been using G for speeds for a long time. Just because the media became obsessed with 5G for some reason, which uses G for Gen, doesn’t mean the other use of G became intentionally confusing.

They can just call it DOCSIS 4.0

And nobody, including myself will know what it means without searching. The actual speed is 10G. As in 10gbps.

As someone who would never pay for reddit coins or premium, it’s still pretty easy to identify with them.

They paid for a product and now it’s being removed with no compensation or refund. That’s total bullshit regardless of what the product was.

He’s a selfish prick who will talk over you about whatever dumb shit comes to mind because he only cares about himself. He will also guilt you into feeling bad shit like not saying happy birthday to him

My bud

???

I am all for “gig apps” being required to pay minimum wage.

But the minimum wage in New York is $15 as far as I can tell. Why are delivery apps seemingly being required to pay a different minimum wage? I am not aware of any other case where the minimum wage depends on the profession.

I find this kind of policy very troubling. Would anyone be ok with accountants having a $25 minimum wage and teachers having $17 minimum wage?

When it’s tech execs, they are “stressed out”. If this about regular people the title would say they are alcoholics and drug addicts.

And that wouldn’t even be inaccurate. You don’t take pain killers for stress. If they wanted to manage stress, they would be taking benzos. They are just drug addicts.

Using twitter for any kind of emergency communication is a very bad idea in the first place.

Twitter is doing everyone a favor by demonstrating exactly why that is.

Musk is a manchild who can’t handle being told “no”, so that’s a given.

But it’s smart of her to put that out in advance. It informs Musk that she will stay out of his way, and she doesn’t have to take the blame for idiotic decisions made by him.

Too big to fail doesn’t mean it’s too big to decline.

I don’t think reddit is going anywhere as a company and a platform, for a while at least. But that doesn’t mean it can’t lose a good share of it’s users to competitors.

I don’t think the comparison with Facebook is a valid one though. Primarily because Facebook is a “true” social media platform. You have your friends and family on it which creates a very strong network effect.

Reddit on the other hand is primarily a content aggregation platform. I don’t need to convince my friends and family to switch from it.

Additionally, Facebook is a lot more successful than Reddit financially. They make disproportionately more money per user due to having very targeted advertising. They own other platforms like Instagram and whatsapp. Unlike reddit, Facebook doesn’t need to concern itself with having financial troubles.

A better comparison would be tumbler, which was quite big and while it still exists, it’s a shell of its former self.