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by smoldesu 3y ago
There are reasonable levels of supply chain integration, and then there is user-hostility. With Apple we've seen both sides of the coin, so you'll have to excuse the people who accuse them out the gate. It stands to reason that a
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Only if you consider software a commodity. Which... sorry to inject my personal opinion here, but it's not. Software is a finite intellectual product designed by motivated human laborers. The hardware can be a commodity, and the design
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by smoldesu 3y ago
2/40 poached employees stealing data is almost margin-of-error levels. I wouldn't be surprised if Rivos genuinely had no idea they were using Apple IP.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> The consensus viewpoint is not this so you can listen to HN consensus or you can listen to me. Can you corroborate your points? None of it really aligns with my experience. Nvidia hardware seems quite popular and effective for raster s
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Would they not be allowed to use their expertise to develop and like system without violating the existing patent? Maybe, but that's kinda the point of this lawsuit. As Apple implemented it, they did violate portions of the patent
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by smoldesu 3y ago
What's the problem here? Every configuration listed supports 15w of power delivery and at least the same speed as Lightning. On the contrary, it's up to the OEM to decide what feature level to support with USB-C.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Apple was an exception and this feels different to me. They were an exception because they already had the bestselling smartphone at the time they switched away from the 30-pin connector. Apple could have put a DC barrel-jack as the ma
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Lightning just didn't have much to show for being an alternative to USB. It was license-encumbered, DRM-ridden and slow as all hell up until the very end. It was a good connector when it's alternative was Micro USB, but a baffling
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by smoldesu 3y ago
That's not a wrong answer. It's just the same one that we've been asking since like 2014, and answering by saying "well here's a newer Thunderbolt spec..." I'm not really sure if novel connection redesigns
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Legislation mandating USB-C will lead to stagnation there. Really? What more do we need out of current USB-C specifications that isn't covered in the Thunderbolt spec? That's ~240w of power at max (iirc) and more data throu
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Their accessory vendors were just paying Apple for a license to connect to the iPhone. Switching to USB-C probably wouldn't piss them off so much as it would enable them to target a regular serial specification (and wider market).
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I never really understood why the accessories were Lightning in the first place. They're intended to be Mac peripherals; if you can charge your Mac, you should be able to juice up your accessories with the same cable. It feels like U
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by smoldesu 3y ago
puts on my dipshit hat From a software perspective, I want people to normalize open bootloaders again. The iPad is really capable hardware held back by an overly opinionated OS that feels like a toll-booth on a treadmill. I want to love i
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Think of the global man hours wasted achieving basically the same thing slightly different ways Like when Richard Stallman forked e's source code and built the little-known editor emacs. Or when Linus Torvalds rewrote UNIX as a us
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> These small businesses suddenly have a problem... in that these same organized criminal gangs that were previously stealing whole phones, would suddenly have a large incentive to instead break into their repair shops to steal their sto
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> the problem is that these same repairs represent "supply chain leaks." There you go! I'm glad we can mutually acknowledge that this is more of an Apple problem than it is an end-user one. > either it's not decent
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by smoldesu 3y ago
All the Plasma desktop gestures are broken on x11, and if memory serves it's the same situation on GNOME. I spent a long time on x11 trying to get it to work (via Touchegg et. al) but eventually left for Wayland where it worked out-of-
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Proton includes DXVK, and that is a high-level emulator for DirectX by most definitions. Wine isn't an emulator because it doesn't have to be.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Yep! Though to be fair, it's mostly because KDE and GNOME are starting to merge really great Wayland support patches. I'm personally not much of a fan of the way Wayland was rolled out or designed, but I do daily-drive it withou
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Well again, now you're conflating two separate things. As I've demonstrated before, there are legal repairs with non-stolen parts that Apple would prevent today. Apple considers those repairs wrongful, because they do not includ
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Touche. Does this refute my claim that Apple can reconcile their current DRM scheme with users that want to repair their hardware themselves, though?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
A default-allow scenario is dangerous, and won't help you if your thief-in-question chucks your iPhone into a Faraday bag. If you want secure hardware DRM, I'd argue it's all-or-nothing. You can't count on the benevolenc
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Huh? What user? You. You are the user. So, imagine the hardware DRM exactly the way it is now, but with my modifications. The super bad-guys in Shenzhen dismantle my iPhone and try to turn it into a new phone. Oh no! The DRM on the oth
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> If you can come up with a version of Right to Repair that eliminates this practice but which doesn’t give gangs of thieves a 10000% higher interest in stealing my phone at a concert to send it to Shenzhen, I’d be all for it. Uh... you
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> So instead of complaining the world isn't perfect its better to try to make it better. Well, that's part of the problem. Right-to-repair bills that don't address serialized components or hardware DRM won't make it
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Would they use their browser if they could in the youtube app? Most definitely yes. > So no, it is most definitely not in the user’s control. You're comparing impulse control to hard runtime limitations. It doesn't really
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by smoldesu 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes > In early 2014, the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs released a draft report which confirmed that the intelligence agencies o
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Can you quantify its worth? Since you asked, I've been using it recently and it feels like a more responsive version of Neovim/Kakoune. It's a very good editor, I upvoted this article in the hopes that someone else would
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If Europe's governments weren't so reliant on Apple's surveillance, maybe their regulators would demand that.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> What if the discloser doesn't have the funds or the skills to setup a dedicated website? Evidently they just get ignored, if their account of direct disclosure to Apple is anything to go off of.

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