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Ignoring low hanging fruit answers like “iOS can use Apple apps” or “iOS gets more than 4 years of updates”; These are hardware specific but they work out of the box:

• I don’t know if this is still true and even if it is, it’s not true for much longer; satellite SOS
• LiDAR on the pro phones and faceID. Both can be used for 3D scanning
• this also may not be true anymore but I had a bitch of a time getting my WireGuard VPN to automatically turn on when I left the house on android. I remember a pixel OS upgrade breaking my tasker script. Works fine on iOS.

Edit: I know android can unlock with your face. That’s not what I’m talking about. The 3D scanning aspect is what’s cool

Google has a Google problem. Seemingly no one is steering the ship. They have a bunch of internal teams doing their own thing. How many messaging apps have they killed now, 3, 4? Allo was great. It worked on Android and iOS. I had all my friends on it and then Google canceled it. All they had to do was add sms fallback for android users, spent some money on marketing, and it could have rivaled iMessage by now. Before that, it was hangouts and regular people didn’t know about it. How many times do they think they can burn customers before people catch on?

Their pixel phones still don’t get the same amount of updates that iPhones do and iPhones retain their value for a lot longer than Android phones. Financially, it makes more sense for a parent to buy an iPhone. They can pass it down to their kid when they upgrade and know it’ll still get updates for a long time. Yes, Google can patch and update parts of the phone from the play store but good luck explaining that to regular people.

I have a lamp with two smart bulbs in it and I can’t combine them into 1 light in the google home app. The light bulbs are controlled independently. It’s infuriating.

I could rant for a long time but I’ll end with this; I don’t enjoy using iOS but my only other option is death by a thousand papercuts.

I wonder how it works considering Apple confirmed there wasn’t a U1 chip in the remote. Bluetooth alone? High frequency sound from the phone and/or TV maybe? Regardless, this missing feature cost me ~$40 for an AirTag and case to hold the airtag -____-

You can already collapse comments

In spirit, I agree with you but it would really suck for independent devs. All those bug reports for a device you may not own and for a use case you may never have intended to support. All that leads to 1 star reviews from upset users which could potentially kill an app

but it wont ever give you the unbiased best answer on those recommended threads.

I completely agree. Don’t trust everything you see on the internet

It might be useful to make sure you arent buying trash

This was the main goal. Mad people are likely to be vocal people and they are the ones that go to Reddit and complain about how the latch that releases the waste container on a vacuum broke after a few months.

Reddit wasn’t the only place to go for research on infrequent purchases but it was always a good starting point

I work at a small company and one of my many hats is “the only IT guy”. I promise you, you don’t want to self host email. You will always be in spam filter hell and you’ll never really know if the email you sent actually made it to the destination until it’s too late.

Buy a domain, pay for an email provider, and hook them up. If you ever get upset with your email provider, find a new one and switch out the connections. That way, your email address never changes but where it’s stored can be.

If you were using it to get facts to form an opinion, I would say it wasn't the best but then again, that style of research is difficult even without reddit.

Agreed. But if you wanted human opinions on say, a specific brand a vacuum, 👌

The Late Night Linux family of shows are all pretty good

It sounds like you didn’t set up gpu passthrough

I’ve been interested in Nix for a while but haven’t devoted any time to it. What do you like about it? What problems does it solve? Why learn the Nix way of doing things when I could make a container using LXD and just transfer the container around?

Not OP but recently I was in the market for a printer. I was looking at the Bambu P1S and Prusa MK4.

I’m all for open source and really wanted to support Prusa but the MK4 costs an extra $100 (more if you don’t build it yourself), doesn’t have an enclosure, and the MK4 has a 7-8 week lead time while the P1S ships next day

I’m not proud of it but I got the P1S

I’m mostly a hobbiest that does a little bit of professional dev work. For my needs, Macs are great laptops. Great power, battery life, and runs all the apps I would want when not at a desk, integrates with all my Apple devices (Apple TV, HomePod, iPhone, iPad) plus it has a terminal that I can use to SSH into other machines. It’s the best thin client out there.

But for my needs, Macs aren’t good desktops. I can build a more powerful computer/server that has more options for natively run CAD programs, can play all my steam games, and can be upgraded when new GPUs come out.

Frectal Define R7 XL

Their website says a max of 18 HDDs and 5 SSDs in the storage layout. I have the R5 and am pretty happy with it.

Would it be bad practice?

No, it's fine. Especially for people who self host. Use what you have available to you as best you can

Why would it be bad practice?

Depends on your use case. A gigabit connection and hard drives are fine for something like a personal media server or simple file storage but if you wanted to edit video or play games from the NAS, you might look into upgrading to SSDs and getting a faster connection to the PC

I like the way the Apple Watch (non-ultra) looks and functions but the battery life is garbage. It’s almost tolerable brand new but the battery degrades over time and you have to charge more often. No thanks.

I currently use a Garmin forerunner 955. Since I use it for running I charge once a week or so. If you don’t work out and just want metrics, it lasts 2 weeks. I highly recommend Garmin watches

I have ports open for Wireguard and Plex. So far, no issues that I’m aware of. Time will tell

Looks like the last update was in December of last year. I remember seeing rumors that the project was no longer being maintained but never saw anything conclusive from the dev. Based on releases though, it’s not being maintained

Link to releases.

Anecdotally, I used it a few years ago and became frustrated that it didn’t integrate with my password manager. I always had to switch between the apps instead of just clicking the password pop-up like all the other browsers. Not sure if they ever fixed that.

rpilocator

Assuming you are in the US link

Edit: at the time of posting, the above store was in stock. They go fast

Sharing AirTags.

Live dictation of voicemail is a close second