jen20

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by jen20 6d ago
> From a design and manufacturing point of view you want everything to be identical. OK, so why not ship a SIM card slot in the US? eSIMs work perfectly well in Europe, the US and most of the rest of the world, "region locking"
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by jen20 7d ago
OK so why ship it in the US? The phones sold in the EU vs US already differ with respect to SIM card slots.
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by jen20 7d ago
[Citation needed]
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by jen20 8d ago
In the Apple ecosystem this is trivial - you select to sign in using a QR code which you scan with a device you do own. It works perfectly in my experience (of using them wherever possible for several years)
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by jen20 9d ago
I understand why you’d like to believe that, but it’s simply not true.
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by jen20 10d ago
There were a few categories of reasons. The ones that are persistent are "I'm going to vote for anarchy because politics does no good for me", "I'm racist and don't understand that this doesn't get rid of
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by jen20 10d ago
> but there were at least 17 million crazies at the time Yes. Just the demographics has substantially thinned their numbers by now though. > would likely be a different 17 million crazies voting No again. Highly unlikely - and turnout
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by jen20 10d ago
That is a rather fantastical and revisionist version of why the Brexit referendum was called - which had more to do with a misguided attempt to put the crazy wing of the Conservative Party to bed rather than anything to do with the EU, wher
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by jen20 10d ago
Sarbanes-Oxley in the US holds top management personally responsible too, and compliance is taken far more seriously than with other regulations as a result.
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by jen20 10d ago
No, but it changes the cost-benefit analysis for managers deciding to cut corners in future.
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by jen20 11d ago
I concur with gekoxyz - I've been using the iOS and macOS 27 developer betas since about beta 3 on my personal devices, and had actually forgotten to a large extent that I was running beta software. It's been excellent - a marked
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by jen20 12d ago
This seems to be somewhat useful (similar to Balsamiq Mockups back in the day) for communicating "this is a work in progress, and not the final thing" to people (usually the non-technical) who see a polished UI as indicative that
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by jen20 13d ago
> We're going to have to get saavy in pulling apart the distinction between We probably shouldn't: doing any of this horseshit is a good reason to return a product. We should start doing that en mass until they get the idea.
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by jen20 16d ago
I just tried it. It works fine.
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by jen20 16d ago
If you really want to see what is doing what, you should install Little Snitch and Little Flocker. Many apps (from exactly the people you'd expect) are doing absolutely unhinged nonsense that no-one should put up with.
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by jen20 22d ago
Indeed, it would be a good idea for iOS to have a mode for the elderly that is almost exactly like that (similar to child mode, and for similar reasons).
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by jen20 23d ago
Good for her - MANY people fall for these scams, however.
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by jen20 23d ago
> is competent enough to go through several warning screens What about "is incompetent enough to press the buttons when the nice man from Microsoft calls about the viruses on her USB"?
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by jen20 25d ago
Personal data going to companies in the country one resides in is also not a good thing.
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by jen20 26d ago
Why does it matter that it’s a Korean company?
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by jen20 27d ago
It’s not supposed to. There is no light that can present anybody who voted for Brexit as anything other than a fuckwit.
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by jen20 27d ago
Absurd to suggest that anyone voting for Brexit knew what they were voting for - by design of the pro-Brexit shysters.
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by jen20 27d ago
Quite a stretch to call the browser and email client that ships with the OS “specialized”.
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by jen20 27d ago
Indeed so: the term “Brexit” was a comical extension of the original “Grexit” at that time.
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by jen20 29d ago
Games are the usual reason in an app. Being able to do it as a “drive by” on a website though: absolutely hell no.
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by jen20 29d ago
As an iPhone user: good. There is no good that can come from some dipshit website product manager being able to make my phone vibrate on a website. None at all.
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by jen20 29d ago
They would be in PST then, no?
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by jen20 29d ago
> Compare the US, where merchants can be surly about card payments. I rarely encounter this - I find it far more common to see places that won’t accept cash at all (even small businesses like food trucks).
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by jen20 29d ago
Is this different to Express Mode, which has been a thing for years for all kinds of cards (including car keys)?
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by jen20 1mo ago
You can only do this if you own the copyright for all contributions.

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