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by Zak 1y ago
Phone makers keep touting AI features in their phones, but I haven't seen anyone applying it to notifications. Here's my holy grail: the phone should, using on-device processing determine whether I want to be disturbed with a give
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by Zak 1y ago
> you could have a hardware problem (such as with the OS drive interface) that doesn’t show up with that sort of test If the hardware is faulty, that sort of thing should show up on an automated test of the drive. In a professional set
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by Zak 1y ago
If I want to see if a PC's unusual behavior is caused by hardware or software, I boot it from a USB stick with a known-good OS and some diagnostic tools on it. Phones could be designed so that such a thing is possible, though current p
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by Zak 1y ago
I was surprised by how wrong Jobs got that. Native PC (including Mac) apps had significant usage at the time despite the surge in web apps and were particularly advantageous on a memory and network constrained device. I wouldn't claim
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by Zak 1y ago
The short version is that they were given a lot of flexibility in how they complied with the previous ruling and a lot of time in which to do it. The judge found their implementation did not comply, so she decided how they were to comply wi
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by Zak 1y ago
I seem to recall having to accept that loss of all data is a possibility when getting warranty service on laptops. That seems fair for phones too. Of course they shouldn't wipe/reflash devices needlessly if a hardware problem is o
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by Zak 1y ago
It seems to me that tax incentives favoring dividends over share price growth might make for a healthier economy. Am I way off base with this?
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by Zak 1y ago
I could have phrased that better; Southwest was the airline that didn't during a period where all the others did. Prior to 2008 or so none of the major airlines in the USA did.
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by Zak 1y ago
I don't quite follow what would motivate activist investors to pressure a company to stop doing the things that made it profitable.
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by Zak 1y ago
Southwest just started charging for checked bags after over a decade of being the airline that doesn't do that.
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by Zak 1y ago
There are artificial limitations to that. For example, stable versions of Firefox for Android won't install extensions from anywhere but Mozilla's infrastructure. I find that limitation bizarre from an open source browser; it&#x27
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by Zak 1y ago
I think one could design a procedure involving a mobile phone and Signal that would be reasonably secure for that kind of use case. The number one point on that procedure would be that the phone in question isn't used for anything othe
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by Zak 1y ago
A friend who has a security clearance initially didn't want to read The Atlantic's first report about Signalgate for this reason. Of course it makes sense to prohibit making any statement that serves to confirm or deny whether any
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by Zak 1y ago
I suspect the banks want to do checkbox-based compliance with regulators and insurers without any deep understanding of the underlying issues.
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by Zak 1y ago
Used premium phones often cost as little as new entry-level phones. There may be some markets where things get weird because of carrier subsidies though.
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by Zak 1y ago
Yes, by incorporating end-to-end encryption in their services.
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by Zak 1y ago
Yes. I have never been asked "do you have any weapons, explosives or [phone model]?" before boarding an airplane about any other phone, ever. There have been other phones that had very occasional battery fires, but nothing on remo
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by Zak 1y ago
The article claims the app can only be removed with root access, which requires more difficult and technical steps to attain than running an adb command. If uninstalling the app with adb works and doesn't result in the app being prompt
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by Zak 1y ago
I agree. I would love to have an "advanced permissions manager" that lets me specify that AccA can write to the /sys devices for the charge controller and AdAway can write to /etc/hosts, but not the reverse. That do
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by Zak 1y ago
I'm pretty sure I'm against this. I could be convinced otherwise by documentation of significant fraud involving compromised devices (especially Android phones) that would have been stopped by a device attestation scheme. I should
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by Zak 1y ago
One that was annoying me for a while is Turo (like AirBnB for rental cars), which had only one notification category. When I have a rental upcoming or active, I need to be notified about messages from the host, but it would also send market
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by Zak 1y ago
> everyone requires you to install a separate app Most of these news outlet can be accessed from a single app: a web browser of your choice. I find that's a better experience anyway; it's easier to block ads and annoyances.
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by Zak 1y ago
I only want immediate notifications for messages from people I know, or dangerous situations in proximity to my location. I have never once wanted my phone to buzz to tell me about general breaking news. What would be useful is to be able t
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by Zak 1y ago
Looking closely at the measurements, when the B35A has an advantage on individual CRI samples, it's usually a larger gap than when the 519A has an advantage. They're both in the 90s for R1-14, and it takes a keen eye to tell the d
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by Zak 1y ago
CRI is absolutely real. It's an old and relatively simplistic metric with several potential successors. The chart you linked uses one: TM30, which is based on the average of 99 different colors instead of CRI's 8. There are seven
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by Zak 1y ago
"Vibes" are fair. I just put flashlights with two incandescent-like LEDs (Nichia 519A and Nichia B35A in 2700K) and I can see a slight difference in how they render colors even though the spectrophotometer says all the major metri
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by Zak 1y ago
A linear regulator might also reasonably be described as "DC dimming" or "constant current". The article is only concerned with flicker so it doesn't discuss efficiency.
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by Zak 1y ago
> I totally can tell the reds are off. How do the reds look to you? I looked at the photometric reports from a couple Waveform models on their website and the R9 (saturated red rendering) was in the 90s for both with tint almost exactl
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by Zak 1y ago
> even the simplest ones strobe The simplest LED sources running from AC mains power strobe at mains frequency, which is very visible and very annoying. Fancy LED sources don't strobe at all. I'm using an LED panel intended f
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by Zak 1y ago
Hi there, flashlight nerd here. There's a third way: a switched-mode power supply with regulated output current. This is used in most better-designed flashlights (which doesn't always correlate to price) and can be used by anythin

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