InvaderDJ @ InvaderDJ @lemmy.world

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Perhaps I am cringe, but that makes me free!

...Except for when I wake up at ngiht in a cold sweat remembering cringe from years ago.

I am glad I stocked up on chicken thighs from my local butcher shop a few weeks ago. Was something like 99 cents/pound. Now I'm seeing them sitting at $1.70/pound.

But chicken quarters are 89 cents a pound. It's weird how the pricing works.

False positives happen and it seems like they already resolved it.

It's unfortunate that MS makes it so hard to take them at their word when they're so aggressive with forcing Edge down everyone's throat. That makes even obvious bugs seem nefarious.

Good to see. I was thinking we wouldn't get a fix until 17.1.

Thankfully I haven't had any overheating issues after setting up the phone. But it did get too hot to touch on the left hand side during data transfer when first setting up the phone.

Android users spending less money doesn't mean no money. There is money to be had, it is just less than iPhone users. And devs did try their own App Store and continue to. Epic for example has their own for Fortnite.

But what happened is that no one wanted to jump through the hoops of enabling third party app installs so most had to bend the knee and come back to the Play Store. If Apple is required to allow the same, I see the exact same thing happening. The majority of users won't want to jump through hoops and won't do it. Some devs will try to force it, but the loss of income will make them come back.

I’m in my late 30’s, I definitely remember those toolbars and other crapware that was common back then.

But now is not then. And smartphones aren’t the old Windows 2000 and XP machines of back then. I keep repeating it, but we already have a modern example of how this will go. It’s modern Android. And for the vast majority of people (in the West at least) they don’t install apps that are outside of the default apps or the built in Play Store. And I think the same will be true if iOS allows third party App Stores.

Sure, app developers will try. Apple devices are a huge honey pot that scammers and crappy devs would love to exploit. But after that initial gold rush, users that don’t have the knowledge to discern what is safe and what isn’t will be deterred by the difficulty of installing third party stores and inputting their payment methods. Scams will get press and Apple will warn against using them. And then the vast majority will just use their iPhones as is, with some users going third party for piracy and porn and then savvy users going to them for utilities and functions that Apple just doesn’t allow in the App Store.

I think it will be fine and the history of modern smartphones seems to support that theory.

That's the risk of freedom.

But even still, I again point to Android. You know how you avoid any security or convenience issues? You just don't use the third party app store. And I think the same will play out if iOS does start allowing third party app stores.

I agree with an asterisk that it would be a worse experience for most users.

But my contention is that the benefit is greater even if it is less convenient, and that alternate app stores on Android have shown that the majority of people don't use them or know they even exist. So for most people, there won't be too much change. I'm sure some larger apps will try to force their own app stores and payment methods, but I don't see that succeeding because again, it hasn't on mobile. So I think there will be churn in the first few weeks or months, but then it would settle down.

At the end of the day, this is a computer owned by a user. They should be able to install what they want without having it approved by Apple and sold only through their store.

There are so many wild things about that story. Assuming it is all true, he strangled his girlfriend, dismembered her, ran her through a meat grinder and disposed of the bones in three different bags. He got only 11 years. He was pardoned for being part of the Russian Army invading Ukraine. He only served in Ukraine for six months before retiring.

All that is insane. A murder with an already hilariously light sentence is pardoned by being on the front lines for six months?

I honestly don't know a lot about her so I don't know what you're referring to. I assume gun rights?

Considering she was 90 and didn't retire before she literally died that does seem to be the case. She even had a health scare and leave from the Senate earlier in the year but she was still there.

Have you ever self hosted a website? Was that a modern website, or just a bunch of text? Are you experienced with uptime SLAs on multiple services? Have you ever had to deal with a DDOS attack?

There are lots of things that Cloudflare does that requires experience and knowledge to notice or understand. And it isn't even the biggest single point of failure when it comes to the Internet. When AWS has an outage for instance there is a huge chunk of the Internet that goes down.

There are problems with the centralization of the Internet. But this happened for a reason, and it has been so long and these services have been so reliable that people don't even realize what it was like before.

Honestly, I don't know how any end user who doesn't understand IT and wasn't around before services like Cloudflare were available can say this. They objectively don't have the information or experience to make the claim.

She was a public servant that worked for a long time on your behalf.

She worked a long time and was obviously better than the GOP, but staying on for so long was at best a lack of vision and at worse an egotistical decision that will bite us in the ass. All these geriatric ass politicians who don't mentor, grow the bench with the next generation, and retire when it is time to are leading us to the situation. This is going to end up being RBG all over again.

Imagine if she had mentored and sponsored a younger replacement in 2000 and then retired in 2010. Where would we be?

Now that Skeletor has died with no one obvious to replace her, the Judiciary Committee will probably grind to a halt when it comes to confirming judges.

Unfortunately, there are still functions that Twitter serves that nothing else does. For breaking news, it's still unmatched. For celebrities, influencers, politicians, journalists, etc there's no other platform that has the same microblogging function with the user numbers and clout that Twitter does.

Until that changes, its still useful. It gets less and less useful, but as long as the site is up, allows users to post up to the minute updates and allows users to follow posters, there's only so far it can fall without real competition.

I posted this comment on reddit, but this whole situation is fascinating. Not necessarily that Finewoven is garbage. Apple's leather cases have been bad since at least the iPhone 11 and their silicone cases have sucked for a while as well. As soon as Apple announced FineWoven I knew it wasn't going to be good as their leather cases.

What is fascinating are the issues with fit and finish. Cutouts not matching up is very weird for Apple. It makes me feel like some senior official at Apple left years ago and when Apple decided to switch away from leather they didn't have that senior person there to oversee the effort and make sure that it works and is high quality.

I tried this just for the lulz, and it worked with no issue. Was able to get close to my rated gigabit speeds. Not of much use for normal people, but it's just a freebie from having a USB-C port.

I don't think it's an intentional feature they added, it's just an included bonus of USB-C.

That’s basically where I’m at. I want some tingling, burning and flavor, but I don’t want to feel like I’m dying either during the meal or after.