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  • Agreed. If it's a big patent troll against a startup, I get the criticism. Apple's a big corporation with a lot of clout that can easily be abused. I think it's best that the courts are handling this.

  • Times where I've found myself pleased with my smart watch:

    • Keeping discreet timers.
    • Discreet taps on the wrist when a delivery is arriving or someone important is trying to call me.
    • Quick replying to texts from my SO.
    • Pinging my misplaced phone.
    • Directions to places via cryptic taps on my wrist (and having a little map if I want to check).
    • Remote camera view-finder and shutter button for group photos where everyone can be in them.
    • Having a money conversion calculator on my wrist when traveling.
    • Audio controls from my wrist. (Really nice if you like walking around without a phone in front of you.)
    • Paying through a subway turn-style with a tap from my wrist instead of needing to dig something out of my pockets.
    • Keeping track of my health, which I wouldn't have otherwise.
    • Less general dependency on my phone itself, resulting in better battery life.

    Not saying you should or shouldn't get one. These are just reasons I've found myself happy with mine.

  • I don’t need trollish, outlandish, inflammatory language to make a point, nor will it gain any favorability to any argument I hear. I get that it upsets you, but it also doesn’t affect you in any way. Literally the only people who encounter any side of this issue are Apple users, and anyone can just use a secondary chat app to avoid it. I literally have 6 chat apps installed on my phone, and I only use iMessage for less than ten people. Does that annoy me? Not really. I just keep all chat apps in a folder called “social” and treat that folder as if it’s its own cross-platform message app.

    Nobody is being “forced” to do anything. People have options.
    Who did what first doesn’t even matter. It’s merely interesting at best, but is beside the point and doesn’t lend any precedence to anything being discussed here.

    Here’s the thing, if I had “friends” forcing me out of conversations just because I couldn’t so much as use iMessage with them, I’d question my own standing in that friendship and its actual value to me.

    1. Ask if there’s an app they preferred to use for non-Apple users, and see if you’re willing to join them there.
    2. Just tell them which app you use and how to reach you there. If they really need to reach you, they can just contact you that way.
    3. Let them keep using iMessage. Poor resolution images and green bubbles will be their problem to deal with, not yours.
  • I’d love to watch it, but my 12 mini’s battery probably won’t last long enough…

  • And coins, but they’re just fun to get I suppose. Lives are important if you suck like I do.

  • I’d be more inclined to believe you if you weren’t throwing ad hominems around in what seems to be an amateurish effort to save face for some reason…

  • Like someone’s private property that they can kind of do what they want with? Makes sense.

  • I think this is the way to go. Rather than paying every random app a subscription to jerry-rig AI into their programming somehow, I’d like to have my own personal, and private, AI that plugs into a framework that each app offers. I’d also like to be able to purchase curated extensions to privately enhance my own AI.

  • I know absolutely jack about Linux, but as someone with a steam deck, eGPU support would be pretty spiffy. Not sure how possible that actually is though.

  • Rise isn’t nearly as bad as world was. I hope the trend continues in that direction.

  • Monster Hunter Rise runs wonderfully. I don’t know about world.

  • Some of the graphical details in the trailer make me wonder if this game is getting dumbed down for a switch release, in which case I’ll opt for a steam version over PS5 since it’ll play nicely on Deck.

  • I actually have a backbone gathering dust. I think it might have seen more use if I wasn’t using an iPhone mini with a tiny screen and bad battery.

  • I think the point is to secure your identity within the phone, not just brick the phone. (Unless a 5 dollar rom disables passcode locking or something.)

  • How can I go about learning what any of this means and how to look for it?

  • Remote play in the house is excellent with Chiaki. I know it works across the web as well, but I can’t figure it out. It just doesn’t work and I have no idea if it’s the way I set up chiaki, the way I set up port forwarding, the way my router handles port forwarding, or simply the internet connection from which I’m attempting to connect. I wonder if the Portal has these issues, because not having to deal with any of that is actually a pretty solid selling point.

  • Just go with the sixty and be all cute about it: “You’re 70??? No way, you can’t be a day over 60!”

    Or turn the 6 into a 9 and come back in 20 years.

  • I think he had a fundamental awareness of how regular people needed to interact with the world around them, and he kind of kept upending tables at Apple until their tech fit right in somewhere. I think he had such a stage presence not only from talent, but because he seemed to genuinely see something in the product he believed in, and had all the reasons why.