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Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough ( www.xda-developers.com )

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that...

akilou ,

But do those benefits outweigh doubling or tripling the amount of RAM by simply inserting another stick that you can buy for dozens of dollars?

akilou OP ,

That said I believe it will improve over time. It has to, in order to be useful.

That doesn't mean it has to. Let me introduce you to dozens of other Google projects.

akilou ,

anyone who’s sent/received a garbage and cares enough knows to send via third party messaging apps anyway

Tell that to my in-laws

akilou ,

They just don't understand technology enough to appreciate the difference. You should see them drive with a navigation app

akilou OP ,

Welcome to Wrexham.

Not the kind of guy who'd watch something from a USB. Technically not a co-worker but a former co-worker, because he retired a couple of years ago.

akilou OP ,

My employer is the government

akilou ,

Just use something like Jellyfin or Plex. Install the server side software on your laptop and the client side on your Android TV

akilou ,

I use Musicbrainz-picard to organize music and clean up metadata. For Shows and movies, it's pretty easy. I use Plex and it's pretty flexible with naming conventions

akilou ,

90%?

[Citation needed]

akilou ,

Those are not features, those are whole ass inventions

akilou ,

Aren't the Apple and Android networks supposed to be working together? I thought that's why Google delayed this, because anyone could be tracked without knowing by a tracker on the other network.

akilou ,

Duuuuude.... They couldn't just take that extra step and broadcast the location? It would make both types of trackers far more useful

akilou , (edited )

Well, at least they aren't outright throwing the functionality in the trash.

Yet

akilou ,

Proton. Bitwarden

akilou ,

The difference is their business model is privacy. Google's business model is advertising. I'm Proton's customer, but advertisers are Google's customers.

akilou ,

We need more public transportation, not privatized bus routes

akilou ,

Yes. Allowing Uber to do this justifies a disinvestment in public services. "why should we spend more on bus service when no one rides it anyway? They're all taking Uber bus"

1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog ( blog.mozilla.org )

The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...

akilou ,

I use sponsorblock and just use YouTube through the browser instead of the app

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

akilou ,

This is why I don't feel bad about pirating

akilou ,

You could have before. I moved from Authy to Aegis a few months ago

akilou ,

Then how do you secure the backup without 2FA?

Or is it 2FA all the way down?

akilou ,

Aegis doesn't run on your desktop using the same key, it's just a key stored there, right?

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

akilou ,

I disagree. I've been using SwiftKey for years and it's decent. It's by no means mind blowing, especially given the current state of affairs with LLMs, but it's not crap.

akilou ,

I'm a Proton die hard but I hear their Linux VPN client is lacking. I use all of their products but not on Linux.

Is there a sponsor block situation for Podcasts?

I'm happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there's some other way to make it work. I don't see why it wouldn't work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.

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