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by jmb99 2y ago
Ignoring the sarcasm... What evidence is there/can you present that Apple is making use of this information in a negative way? How can Apple not have a list of installed apps on your phone while maintaining basic functionality (autom
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by jmb99 2y ago
I mean... isn’t that expected of an MDM? I have always assumed that any company device (i.e. any device enrolled in an MDM) is under 100% control and surveillance of that company. Being able to see my installed apps is the least of my worri
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by jmb99 2y ago
A buddy of mine has two on his property, one within a stones’ throw of his house and barns. Not only does the sound not drive him insane, I couldn’t hear it (at all ), nor any of the other ~600 in the area.
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by jmb99 2y ago
If that is all the evidence presented, then under the wild new concept of “innocent until proven guilty,” yes it is.
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by jmb99 2y ago
Some anecdata. I get a few dozen spam SMSs in any given month, as well as some spam phone calls (varies a lot by month - sometimes only 1-2, sometimes 20+). I have received a total of 2 spam iMessages (I remember them because they’re notabl
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by jmb99 2y ago
> As a customer I would like to be able to make that decision. You can. There are dozens (hundreds?) of phones you can buy that aren’t an iPhone. It’s been well known for nearly 20 years at this point that iPhones are more closed than th
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by jmb99 2y ago
I disagree. ZFS + backup autorecovery solves 99.9%+ of bitrot cases. Time Machine already is the easiest to use fully automatic backup software, ZFS already notices bitrot (and corrects for it in mirror/raidz configurations, but that’s
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by jmb99 2y ago
It works completely fine with a single drive - just as well as any other filesystem, if not better. As a single root/boot drive’s fs, it’s far batter than any of the “standard” alternatives (HFS+, NTFS, EXT#, APFS). No you can’t pool a
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by jmb99 2y ago
> What you're asking for is basically a bug-free btrfs plus a bit of automation on top Apple was this close around Mac OS X 10.5. Time Machine is more-or-less a perfect backup solution for most people, and if they had ended up usi
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by jmb99 2y ago
While Safari is not open source, WebKit is[0]. [0] https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit
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by jmb99 2y ago
> You're comparing ancient obsolete technology to a streamlined instant messaging client. Just because something is old, doesn’t mean it is bad.
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by jmb99 2y ago
Add forum or “forum” to your search term and you’ll get results from tons of forums. Yes, you have to know to do that, but once you do, your results will actually be good.
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by jmb99 2y ago
> Many forums are notorious for having awful search But google/bing/etc index (basically) all of them. Forum search is great for finding exact title matches, and sometimes useful for exact content matches. Google with site: is
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by jmb99 2y ago
Umm, there are quite a few performance production cars? Mustang (ecoboost or gt), corvette, ct4/5-v blackwing, Nissan’s own Z, golf gti/r, to name a few. Does Mazda even make a “performance” car? The mx-5 is an enthusiast car, def
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by jmb99 2y ago
GM also claimed that with the (I think) C7 corvette. “Encrypted” PCM programming meant it wasn’t possible to reflash, you could only go piggyback, or full standalone (or engine swap obviously) but you’d lose connectivity with a bunch of oth
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by jmb99 2y ago
Yeah, 512GB was a game changer for servers... with DDR3... And that wasn’t even where it topped out, there were servers supporting 6TB of DDR3 in a single machine. DDR4 had at least 12TB in a single (quad-CPU) machine that I know of (not su
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by jmb99 2y ago
For your first point, the key is an IP range that isn’t on a blocklist. Pick a very reputable hosting provider (not AWS/GCP/Azure), who has strict no-spam rules, and check out some spam reports from their ranges. Hetzner I’ve he
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by jmb99 2y ago
I’ve been using it for a decade without issue. Only problems I’ve ever had self-hosting were related to being randomly junk-black-holed by the big three independently of each other for 1~30 days for seemingly no reason, but no software is g
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by jmb99 2y ago
If you’re not being facetious, a unit of currency, minted out of metals of varying preciousness throughout the ages in the shape of a circle, usually imprinted with the monarch or head of state on one side and a symbol on the other. If you’
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by jmb99 2y ago
Arc-fault protections are required primarily due to lobbying by receptacle and panel manufactures, not because they provide a real benefit. The number of people injured due to arc faults is vanishingly low, and a better solution to the majo
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by jmb99 2y ago
> Lightning strikes...how do EVs currently guard against it? I mentioned further down-thread, but pretty much the same way everyone else does: don’t get hit by lightning, or have a lightning rod. A tiny transformer isn’t going to stop li
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by jmb99 2y ago
Lightning can strike cars directly, and when it does, the couple inches of air and rubber between the car and the ground mean nothing (the tires sometimes explode, which looks neat when caught on video, if nothing else). Remember, the light
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by jmb99 2y ago
Perhaps I was just lucky, but 10.6.0 was equally stable as 10.5.8 for me. It did improve with time, and there’s little opposition to 10.6.8 being the best OS X release there was (except maybe 10.9.5), but for me at least it was a great OS e
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by jmb99 2y ago
> reasoning through someone else's code requires an extra step to latch on to the author's line of reasoning. And, in my experience, it’s a lot easier to latch on to a real person’s real line of reasoning rather than a chatbot’
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by jmb99 2y ago
If you’ve already purchased licenses, have you considered using more “illicit” means keep the machines activated?
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by jmb99 2y ago
You can always buy old cars. Can’t use old browsers unless you really like getting pwned.
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by jmb99 2y ago
At least in the US, slavery is alive and well. 13th amendment abolishes slavery except as punishment for a crime, and prisoners all over the country perform forced labour for a small fraction of federal minimum wage.
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by jmb99 2y ago
With the absolutely massive investment in (and push for) AI, I assume the belief is that the the reduction of workforce will have less of an impact.
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by jmb99 2y ago
This seems to be the biggest (gameplay) complaint across the web, so I would be shocked if it’s not addressed in an update fairly soon.
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by jmb99 2y ago
Exactly. If energy flowed around the wires and resistance was “the portion of the energy that accidentally entered the wire” then larger wires would have larger resistance (due to a higher chance of “stray energy entering the wire”) than sm

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