PurpleFoxy

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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
Why didn’t they release their version of airdrop for almost a decade after iPhones had it? Google just doesn’t seem to care about these conveniences.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
It would be better if iPhones embedded the airtag tech so on a flat battery, you would still have about a year of tracking time via airtags. Also the power button hold overrides the OS so you can shut down a frozen OS
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
You can queue and hold the data until your phone was already going to wake up to transfer something which reduces the wake ups. And it’s such a tiny amount of data being sent it probably wouldn’t total 1mb used in a year.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
From the business perspective, Apple probably doesn’t care about selling the tags, the real value is in making the iPhone experience better. So if a user buys a tile tracker and it works better on iOS because of the iPhone network, that’s a
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
It provides value to Apple by providing value to users. As a user I want to find my lost stuff, Apple now lets me find my stuff without any real cost to me to do some passive scanning.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
Another way is to comment and show support in a way that is not linked to your real identity. If people try to claim these are fake accounts, point out how people fear to show support publicly.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
Following on from that, what does the FSF even do now other than making cringe infographics and some weird animated series about proprietary software being supervillains?
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
Aprox 10 minutes before dang sees this and deletes it
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
This is why I view HN via a telegram bot that posts the top links. Let’s me see what was flagged.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
My favourite is how he says what the Apple store said the problem vs what is actually the problem is. One laptop “had water damage” but when Louis opened it he noticed the battery connector wasn’t properly inserted in to the socket. Plugged
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
Too many stories of people being deprived of bare essentials in US prisons like water and access to a toilet. It’s absolutely horrific.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
How is it not reasonable to give up some things for the environment? Your health isn’t going to be doing so well if you don’t have a livable environment
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
It hasn’t been updated since about 2004. No idea how much has changed since then but the authors have stated they don’t update it not because it’s still accurate but because they don’t need new kernel devs and it’s a lot of work.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
It’s too late to save the reefs. It isn’t too late the rest of the environment. Maybe the reef dying will be a wake up call for the world. But probably not.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
It does and it mostly works but it doesn’t seem to be as fast as on macOS.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
The main argument I have heard is it’s less finding exploits and doing real security and more mind numbing auditing and checking boxes not to prevent attacks but to cover your ass when they happen.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
The main problem with systemd IMO is that it’s written in a critically insecure language. If they could rewrite it in something safe but keep the same design, that would be ideal.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
Or it was all a marketing stunt.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
I didn’t think iOS even lets you past the welcome screen without signing in.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
The wifi thing is fine/good IMO. It allows everyone to get their location without gps. It’s what let’s devices with no gps like the MacBook and ipad to get their current location. Google does the exact same thing although they used str
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
I don’t think NFTs come with any legal or copyright rights. And even if the nft did give you some rights, legally they probably wouldn’t transfer to the next person.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
This is an emperor has no clothes situation. No one wants to point out the whole thing is stupid and a borderline scam because they fear or believe that they might be seen a stupid or are stupid for not understanding something everyone else
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
I imagine it’s convenient to them but being difficult for everyone else is a feature. They don’t want people sending in random garbage code so the barrier to entry is kept high.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
It’s not so bad if you can get enough customers and it’s all the same laptop. Lewis Rossman has a very good knowledge of the MacBook internals and he can very quickly identify which chip is dead because it’s often the same chips that fail a
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
It’s an improvement but it’s not quite good enough IMO. Apple has a few weird and insane requirements that extend to independent repair stores. If you want to get your battery replaced. The settings app must show that the battery health is
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
And nothing will happen. The government won’t take action and people won’t stop buying things from Amazon.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
Aren’t greeters mostly to provide some level of theft prevention?
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
The thing is, if you leave it up to the companies to look after these people, it’s going to turn ugly every time. It should be the governments job to make sure everyone has a baseline level of life quality.
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
Android hardware ages really poorly. I have an iPad and a few android tablets from around 2014 and the iPad is on the latest version of iOS 14 and feels almost new while the android tablets are basically unusable and on 2015 versions of and
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by PurpleFoxy 6y ago
Isn’t gles replaced by vulkan since about 5 years ago? Google wouldn’t want so much fragmentation for app developers to deal with.

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