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by fckgw 2mo ago
They have the ability to tear the whole thing down to guts and screws. They absolutely do replace the case, glass and battery and sell as refurbished. They already do complete case swaps on their Macs.
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by fckgw 2mo ago
It's not common (I think average upgrade cycle on iPhone is a little more than 3 1/2 years now, and getting longer every cycle) but it's not unheard of. The iPhone hold value well enough that you can often trade it in at some
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by fckgw 2mo ago
They still have a 12mo lease term if you want to upgrade yearly.
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by fckgw 2mo ago
You can still just buy it. This is another payment option.
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by fckgw 2mo ago
The new Apple Upgrade is also 0%, but has lower monthly payments and a balloon payment at the end, like a typical lease. It's not just cost / 24mo.
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by fckgw 2mo ago
> You can still wash the panels but I suspect it won't be necessary if there isn't too much dust accumulation? Isn't rain supposed to wash away the dust? What am I missing here? In places where solar panels are used the mo
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by fckgw 3mo ago
> There are probably a few ways to improve things. Cross-platform search should be standard by now. A shared watchlist across services would help. Apple tried this with the TV app on their AppleTVs. It was supposed to pull all your subsc
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by fckgw 3mo ago
The space required to install enough solar panels, especially in the places these things are going (like Ohio, where it's NOT ideal for solar generation), would far, far outsize the data center itself by a significant magnitude.
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by fckgw 3mo ago
Have you no whimsy?
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by fckgw 3mo ago
Motorcyclists don't usually kill an entire generation of people when they T-bone a mid-sized sedan in an intersection. That's the problem.
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by fckgw 3mo ago
It's not a "policy" it's a constitutional right.
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by fckgw 3mo ago
I don't think it's a "problem" that justifies taking the rights away from millions of Americans, no.
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by fckgw 3mo ago
A right enshrined in the Constitution is not a "loophole".
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by fckgw 3mo ago
> artist behind AI is making money. Real work, real people are happy. I would not call someone typing words into a prompt an "artist" doing "real work", and they definitely should not be monetizing it.
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by fckgw 4mo ago
Flash storage prices have also risen substantially, just not as exponentially as RAM
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by fckgw 4mo ago
If you were planning on buying a Mac, do it right now through a third party vendor like Best Buy or Costco. They have not yet adjusted their pricing and in fact, have sales currently running. Both have the Macbook Air on sale for $949, for
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by fckgw 4mo ago
The majority of the component cost in the AppleTV is likely the storage so that's a big hit.
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by fckgw 4mo ago
The biggest one that jumps out at me is Amazon replacing their review search box with "Rufus", which searching the entire context of an item on Amazon, including descriptions, reviews, everything. It then wants me to ask it a ques
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by fckgw 4mo ago
Consumers are tired of going through a popup slideshow of "Try our new AI features!" they won't use every time their apps update.
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Allbirds rebrands as Smartbird in AI pivot, hires former AWS executive as CEO(reuters.com)
4 points by fckgw 4mo ago|2 comments
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by fckgw 4mo ago
What is is about management where they can't see how bad and half-baked these customer service agents are, but the customer can tell INSTANTLY they're AI and just not helpful in the slightest
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by fckgw 4mo ago
The malicious wallpapers, which use "Wallpaper Engine" are also published through Steam Workshop. It's still a Steam problem.
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by fckgw 4mo ago
You are not in any way the average person. Food is the 3rd largest expenditure in most households, after housing and transportation.
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by fckgw 4mo ago
They target people looking at crypto startups because they're after wallets and seed phrases
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by fckgw 4mo ago
Buy an AppleTV box and don't connect the TV to WiFi.
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by fckgw 4mo ago
Roku's hardware business is only 10% of their revenue now. The vast majority of their income comes from their FAST streaming service, which they promote heavily on their devices. They haven't been platform agnostic for a while now
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by fckgw 4mo ago
You could just not use it.
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by fckgw 4mo ago
This is a software keynote, they very rarely talk hardware at WWDC
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by fckgw 4mo ago
They're basically the retirement home for once-good apps and services who still serve a dwindling core audience but are not longer growing or even a real contender in their field.
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by fckgw 4mo ago
Apple has historically always been about pushing devs forwards and dropping support for legacy systems. Their attitude has been "we built new hardware, we built new software, we have the tools to develop for these new systems, adapt or

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