abhibeckert @ abhibeckert @lemmy.world

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Maybe dont break the fucking law over and over again.

Watch houses are only really considered acceptable for adults and a maximum of 24 hours.

A night in a cell can help an adult - it's a real wakeup call and a forced opportunity to sit and think about what you just did.

Kids often haven't learned how to do that yet (especially if they haven't had a good upbringing) and by adding one more traumatic experience to an already long list in their short life is just making things worse for everyone, including the victims of the crime. Compounding that - being kids they need supervision and there's often nowhere else available - you can release an adult and let them go out in the world on their own with a bit of basic help (this is where you can find food, shelter, work, etc). But a child can't be released, they have to do a hand off to a trusted adult. And when one can't be found the cops have no choice but to keep them in locked up - sometimes for over a month. Even for an adult a month in a watch house would be extremely damaging, let alone a child (especially one who has other mental health issues which is very often the case with anyone who behaves badly in society).

Keep in mind every single one of these kids is legally innocent (since they haven't been to court yet). The kids need adults to show and teach them how to live a successful and happy life and our society is failing to provide that. The kids aren't the ones to blame for that.

No trees have a far bigger impact than reducing pollution. They draw moisture out of deep under ground and react with sunlight, evaporating the water which significantly cools the air down. On top of that it also creates shade. Both, combined, have a massive local impact on the climate - it's orders of magnitude more powerful than all the world's carbon emissions (if you are near the tree, anyway).

If you compare the air temperature in a city to surrounding countryside full of trees it is always significantly hotter and drier in the city. That's not pollution, it's a lack of trees.

Trees also directly release trace amounts of "sesquiterpenes" into the air which causes water to condense... in other words trees directly increase the number of clouds and directly increase rainfall. So even though they're pulling water out of the ground they also increase the amount of water in the ground.

It won’t work with modern apps in about 3 or 4 years, or even if it does, it’ll be so slow, it would practically be unusable.

Maybe on Android... my iPhone is 5 years old and works better now (faster, more features, more apps) than it did when it was brand new. It has a 6 core CPU with two of the cores running at 2.65Ghz (the other four cores are 1.8Ghz) - plenty fast enough and fully supported by all the latest software. Really the only thing I'm missing out on is 5G. And wireless charging doesn't have fancy magnets to hold it in place - oh well.

Upgrading to the latest model would give me the same number of CPU cores and about 20% higher clock speed and slightly more RAM - both barely noticeable. I would get a better camera - but I'm OK with this one for a bit longer.

I replaced the battery a few months ago, which was free - under warranty even after five years because Apple's extended warranty can be paid monthly and lasts until you stop paying (and gets cheaper, as your phone ages). The warranty even covers accidental damage (screen repairs, etc).

1W is enough for a cell phone, if you combined it with a capacitor for brief bursts at higher watts.

Tesla has a market cap of $800 billion.

To put it in perspective… GM is on track to earn that much money over the next one hundred years - they made $9b last year and $6b the year before (that was a low year, supply chain issues).

And even if they somehow found the money, regulators would likely block it.

Tesla, on the other hand, could buy GM if they wanted to. Not sure why they would though, since Tesla is successfully selling EVs (the future) and GM can’t figure out how to repeat that. GM’s EV cars are not profitable yet and they just discontinued their best model (the Bolt).

Those 90 stories you’ve seen generally did all ship. Just three decades ago lithium batteries stored about 80Wh per kg. These days it’s around 600Wh per kg and our progress has been particularly rapid lately.

Durability, safety and charge speeds have also all been improving. Oh and costs are coming down dramatically as well.

Ignore the “present” line on this chart as it’s an old one:

Capacitors don’t store enough power. They work well in trains where they can be charged continuously with overhead power lines/etc, and a lot of battery EVs have a small capacitor as part of their regen braking system… but if you want to actually store a large amount of power capacitors can’t do it (yet?).

Have a read of this: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/all-the-changes-coming-to-google-play-and-sideloading-following-700m-settlement/

Sideloading is a lot harder on Android than it should be.

Actually a bunch of other countries are considering the same thing. Including the USA.

These goggles are not replacing or upgrading anything.

Um. Yes they are. Meta Quest, Microsoft HoloLens, etc.

Sure - those might be products you don't currently use... but I'd argue that's likely because they're not very good. A lot of people didn't use smartphones either before the modern smartphones became a thing.

An eSIM still requires an account with a carrier, which is optional when you setup a new phone.

Yeah I'm curious too. There doesn't seem like there is a good way.

Serious answer... the GPS (and location tracking in general) on an iPhone is disabled by default and you're asked to opt-in when you set up a new device. You don't have to enable location features and you can change your mind later — on a case by case basis as well. So you an have GPS in maps and weather reports, but not allow the general system services to access your location.

Just like they do on android?

No. The EU has published a detailed list of soft barriers to side loading that Google must remove.

It's going to get a lot easier to side load apps on Android soon. And there will probably be a bunch of third party stores (I'd expect Steam to be available on Android this year for example - and probably also pre-installed on some phones).

It’s a ton of work to distribute apps on your own

Sure. But developers don't need to do it on their own. They will be able to outsource the work to someone like Steam who is very very good at running an app store (I'd argue they're better at it than Google or Apple).

Apple doesn't sign them. A free developer account allows you to sign your own apps with a 100 device limit (per employee, if you work at a small company, or unlimited if you pay extra as an "enterprise" developer - which doesn't actually require being a large enterprise. It basically just costs extra).

They only need to sign the app if you want a large team of external beta testers - then you have to send the binary to Apple to be scanned for malware and signed by them.

Depends on the reason they chose to have selective enforcement.

A good analogy is kicking someone out of a bar. If you do it because they're a dickhead... perfectly fine. But if it's because they're black... not OK.

They didn't mess up. The government interest rates were 0% when they borrowed money to grow their workforce by about 800 people. The interest rate has risen to 5.5% - an interest rate hike that hasn't been seen since the "stagflation" crisis fifty years ago and one that couldn't really be forseen unless you could have predicted the wars in Russia and Israel.

It's unfortunate for the 170 people being fired, but what's the alternative? Keep going until they're bankrupt and then all 1000 people are out of a job?

The government absolutely knew this would happen when they decided to raise interest rates. They are acting on advice that things would be even worse if they didn't rise interest rates. Other countries around the world are doing the same thing, with the same unfortunate results.

Except for the part where they need to be encapsulated in a fully air tight glass container, since they degrade relatively quickly when exposed to regular air.

federation for Threads obviously isn’t ready

Um. Sure - isn't that what they're saying?

Threads has clearly been launched to capitalise on Elon Musk's crazy behaviour - they would have waited normally but there's a big opportunity to grow right now.

Perhaps more useful - you can open webpages people send in a text.

It's pretty much a full web browser - just without any toolbar and text is very small.