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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...

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I don't consider that an "admission" at all...

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They don't "struggle". They are intentional and malicious decisions meant to drive revenue, as they have been since the beginning.

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EVs are much heavier due to battery weight

That's not inherently true. It's most true for grossly oversized and inefficient EVs. Which is unfortunately most of what they build today.

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I mean I dunno about you but where I live it gets really fucking hot. And sometimes it rains. So something with a cabin and air conditioning is mandatory. I'm a big fan of electric micro-cars.

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How about fuck you?

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Cool?

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Honestly it's pretty smart. There's nothing you can say in the modern age that won't be intentionally misrepresented, misquoted, or otherwise twisted. Plus there's really no defending stupid decisions like this. Same reason Apple almost never comments on anything that isn't marketing. They know they can't justify their bullshit.

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Lead acid batteries are notoriously hard to predict when they will fail. Other OEMs also fail at this often.

Tesla upgraded to lithium 12V batts some time ago, which are much more predictable and last 2-3x longer.

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What makes you think I was referring to the latch?

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I was referring specifically to the failure to detect a dying 12V battery.

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Ok fine, what other manufacturer traps someone inside when the battery fails?

I don't know. I don't understand why you're asking me this.

you're up and down this post defending Tesla's boneheaded decisions.

I have been both both critical and supportive of Tesla, depending on the topic of discussion. It's called being objective.

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It's not "skipping over" anything. I was not commenting on the door latches. I was commenting on a specific failure to do with the battery exclusively. I commented elsewhere that the latches a terrible and stupid design. Every car should have mechanical door latches, inside and out. If for no other reason than simplicity and reliability.

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Yes they are. I used to test them for a living. It's just a best guess.

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No they aren't.

Yes. They are. If they weren't, no one would have these problems. But they all do. I know everyone likes to pour over them with a microscope and drool over their flaws because they're Tesla, but many of the issues commonly attributed to them are common with all other OEMs, you just have a bunch of armchair engineers who don't know WTF they're talking about.

They degrade before they fail.

No shit

If tesla wanted to provide a warning of a failing battery that pretty much always worked it could have wired in a load test and went off voltage drop under a heavier load.

Once again, I did this for a living, for a decade. We would constantly have cars with failed batteries, we would bring them in, charge them up, test them, they would pass, we'd send them on their way, and they would fail again, and come back for replacement. Our load tests also tested the alternator.

I worked on BMWs for years and they would regularly come in with the same problem, with no warning, even though they had a similar detection algorithm that mostly worked.

Apple’s App Store breaches EU’s Digital Markets Act ( techcrunch.com )

A few months after opening a non-compliance case on Apple and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has shared its preliminary findings with Apple. And the bottom line is that the current App Store rules are in breach of the DMA. Confirmed violations of the DMA can lead to fines of up to 10% of global annual...

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Confirmed violations of the DMA can lead to fines of up to 10% of global annual turnover.

"Can"? So...is this confirmation? They're being fined, right?

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I think for this to work and be respected, they need to give companies this period

I would say the opposite is true. Apple knows exactly what the EU wants and is doing everything within their power to maliciously comply. Giving them 12 months is nothing but a free pass to exploit consumers for another year. Then they'll continue doing it because the EU has proven that they won't actually do anything about it.

Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative

I first joined Lemmy back during the big Reddit exodus of last year. I like many others wanted an alternative to Reddit, and I thought that this might've been the one. I made two accounts, one on lemmy.world and another on sh.itjust.works, in the June of last year that I used on and off for about 4 months....

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Reddit didn't get to 73 million overnight. It took them decades. Lemmy only gets 1 year?

How do I get phone notifications from my server while I'm not connected to my home network?

Hey guys. Im running Home Assistant in docker container for few years and I'm super happy with it. The only way I access my server when not home is wireguard VPN. I noticed that I'm still receiving notifications even when not connected to VPN. I wonder how is that possible?...

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They don't store the notification they just relay it.

Yes they do

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The data these two companies receive includes metadata, detailing which app received a notification and when, as well as the phone and associated Apple or Google account to which that notification was intended to be delivered. In certain instances, they also might also receive unencrypted content, which could range from backend directives for the app to the actual text displayed to a user in an app notification.

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I don't see anything in that article that says that Google store the contents of the notification

Not sure how you think they hand over information they don't have?

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My guy, how is it you think they are capturing and relaying data that they haven't stored?

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I don't understand. How do you provide someone else with information you don't have?

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I just got a mini PC and put 5 disks in it and struggling with the same...

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I think "hard" is the wrong word. After all, it's just a matter of mashing the right combination of buttons on your keyboard. It's complicated...

Is Conduit (Matrix server) sustainable, do some of you host it?

I plan to host Conduit for my friends and family. Even if I invite absolutely everyone there would be no more than 50 users, max. But would it actually sustain and work, as it is not yet on 1.0 is a question. I do not want to host Synapse as I had bad time with it's (lack of) garbage collecting. We do not plan to join very big...

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I use it and it works, that's all I can say.

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I would share it but I don't know anyone else who even knows what it is, much less would want to use it. Sorry.

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That's every country at this point.

But only 1 of them is exploiting slave labor to achieve this.

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Do you not know what "slave labor" means?

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And what brand of vehicle are these prisoners building?

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Hard to say for certain

Okay so you intentionally derailed the conversation in an attempt to prove you were right about a subject no one was discussing?

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They changed the source term from "open source" to "source first".

Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser ( www.windowslatest.com )

Would you use Edge as your default browser on Windows 11 if Microsoft nags you with a 3D banner? Microsoft thinks you would. In a new experiment, which appears to be rolling out to Edge stable on Windows 11, Microsoft has turned on a banner that uses 3D graphics to promote the browser....

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And MS wonders why more users are moving to W10...

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I appreciate the thought but it seems unlikely that your company will be interested in such things. They don't want you to have control over the products.

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except they don't actually have it, they are just indoctrinated to think so.

What are we not allowed to say, exactly?

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I prefer Mastodon, myself, but I get why major brands would prefer a centralized network.

I mean I can see why ANY brand would prefer a centralized network. There's no way to force their ads on Mastodon users.

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I didn't ask about any indices, I asked what you think we're not allowed to say.

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Unsafe bath toys? That sounds bad. Your reason? Rubber bands and small parts? Okay well I don’t think that’s a problem if your kid is over the age of 3 or so. If less than 3, no reasonable parent would be leaving them unsupervised in the bath anyway.

If we could trust parents to supervise their children we wouldn't need any of these regulations. Reality is we can't. And even if you're a parent who is responsible with their children, many others are not.

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I used to think it was great that I could find forums for so many different things in one place. Now I regret it.

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It's quite predictable. This is the same story that's been told over and over: "it's really cool but not really practical". Pick it up and play with it for a few weeks, then get bored and never touch it again. iVR certainly moved VR forward but it didn't solve any of the fundamental problems that VR has had since its inception.

VR has 1 practical application, and that is gaming, and Apple has very little in the world of gaming outside of super basic 2D games.

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I’ll say this again: RCS does not support E2EE.

You didn't even need to say it once because I said it in the parent comment...

A lot of other people were under the impression that it was. I am not one of them. Please read better.

Neither Apple nor Google have any reason to implement those protocols, as, again, they already exist on platform.

Yes they do. The reason is the same one that forced Apple to implement RCS and forced WhatsApp to interoperate as well.

How is Apple not implementing Google’s proprietary extension malicious compliance as you called it?

I already answered this. Please read better.

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The community response does not determine whether or not I have provided an answer. The fact that I already answered it proves that I did. Literally just scroll up. It's not that hard.

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They did it a long time ago. The funny part? Switch games run better when emulated on Linux than they do natively.

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I dunno, there was a Taki Udom video a while back where he loaded Linux on it with emulators and it had dramatically improved performance in Minecraft.

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I just ordered a couple nodes a few days ago

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Because there's no other way to affect climate change than to exploit Chinese slave labor?

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