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by musictubes 4y ago
Carriers have been fighting sims for years because it makes it too easy to switch carriers. I think TMobile is the first one out of the gate to do this. You can download their app, try the service for a month or two by activating the esaim.
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Unusable? A bit hyperbolic no? Ad Guard worked fine for me. I've moved to 1Blocker for cross app tracking protection.
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Huh, I wonder what the effect would be if integrating search into the browser was outlawed. Short term I don't think much would change but long term? Dunno...
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I had always heard that the regular Apple Watch was one of the smaller (smallest?) smart watches out there. Is that not the case?
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They also mentioned being able to use it with gloves on. You'll need bigger controls for that. Plus reading and interacting with it underwater probably is better with a bigger screen as well.
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The K1000 and the Canon AE-1 are some of the only model names that people still recognize. They were both basic cameras when new. Ironically, they are now frequently more expensive than better cameras from the same makers. The name recognit
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by musictubes 4y ago
Google Play music had that feature. I really miss it.
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You can't have a good development machine that is locked down. As long as Apple wants people to write software they will have to have at least one open platform.
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All the best games for the 2600 were by third parties. There were very few good Atari games and none of them came close to the quality of the best third party games. Pretty sure it was Atari's own horrible ET game that sank them, not o
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by musictubes 4y ago
FaceID has been a revelation for me. TouchID was rather touchy... If my finger was a bit damp it didn't read. If my skin was too dry, it wouldn't read. FaceID hasn't failed me yet.
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by musictubes 4y ago
In the mid 90s I bought some VHS tapes from Playboy. They put me on a subscription to the magazine. Never subscribed, was never charged for it. I had just gotten out of college and so was still living at my mother’s place. That was a little
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by musictubes 4y ago
Sounds like a thunderbolt cable. USB C is the connector but it can support a slew of different protocols. It's one of the reasons USB C is a mess.
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Hardware innovation relies on competition. Interoperability can be useful for iteration but true hardware innovation would seem to require being different from the status quo, no?
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The new MagSafe doesn't have a captive cable on the charger. It is a MagSafe cable plugged into a USB C charger. You can charge via a USB C cable but you give up a port and you can't get quick charging.
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Apple originally went to Intel because IBM was unable to deliver a Power chip with any semblance of power efficiency. IIRC Windows compatibility took some time before it was available. Apple has said that Windows availability on the M serie
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In system preferences there are videos demonstrating all trackpad gestures in the trackpad settings. I think most issues people have with using the trackpad are due to the fact that the default is that you have to click the trackpad like a