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Reverse engineering for the sake of ensuring compatibility. It’s not limited to communication.

Bluetooth is not really made for transferring large amounts of data. While the current WiFi standard, WiFi 6e, supports theoretical data rates of up to 9.6Gbps, the current Bluetooth standard, 5.1, only supports up to 50mbps.

This is because Bluetooth is focussing on low energy data transmission and in fact, the LE profile of Bluetooth 5 only supports up to 2mbps. For the kinds of devices it is made for (headphones, smartwatches, etc) that is plenty and the advantage to battery life has priority.

WiFi on the other hand is purpose built for a higher data throughput. Bluetooth was never really meant for transferring large files, it just happens to be capable of doing so. There’s a reason Apple for example implemented their AirDrop feature years ago because making the handshake via Bluetooth yet sending the actual data via WiFi is a much better solution.

The distance to the other device doesn’t matter so much for speed as long as it’s not too far away and not blocked. You can imagine it like that: if you take a 10km hike from place A to B, that is the shorter distance. But if you get into your car and drive to town C that’s 30km away from either A and B and then on town B, all on a highway, you’ll be in town B 4x as fast as on foot but you‘ll have burnt 5 litres of gasoline.

In general, you just tell them to use your new address, change your online accounts, etc. and for the transition phase, you either forward or, like I did, just have both accounts in your mail app until you’ve reached everyone who needs the new address

While macOS did indeed primarily switch to KiB, MiB and Gib, it does at times still report storage as KB, MB, GB, etc., however it uses the (correct) 1000B = 1KB

And afaik, Linux also uses the same (correct) system, at least most of the time.

The only real outlier is Windows, which still uses the old system with KB = 1024B, some of the time. In certain menus, they do correctly use KiB

Before mibi-, gibi-, tibibytes, etc. were a thing, it was the harddrive manufacturers who were creating a little. Everyone saw a kilobyte as 1024 bytes but the storage manufacturers used the SI definition of kilo=1000 to their advantage.

By now, however, kibibytes being 1024 bytes and kilobytes being 1000 bytes is pretty much standard, that most agree on. One notable exception is of course Windows…

Android at the very least still uses the same Linux kernel, albeit modified. Apple‘s XNU kernel is an entirely different thing, being originally based on a modified BSD kernel, unlike Linux, which was written from scratch.

Voyager definitely has. I don’t remember it being mentioned in TNG or TOS though and Voyager is a newer ship than the Defiant…

I suppose, the meme incorrectly regards iOS and iPadOS as Linux due to their unix descent and thus close relation to Linux. (Or simply because they do not know that difference)

Universities usually have contracts with many journals to provide access for their students/employees. The paywall to access research does not necessarily get paid by the individual.

In my old Uni, as long as you were connected to the internet from inside the Uni or via proxy from outside, it would automatically give free access to the web versions of lots of (although far from all) journals.

I can very much live with that. Love me some suse

What distro would a moka pot be?

Sadly. Although, admittedly, feature selection does rank higher than that for me, so most services are already out of the question for me, based on that, even if they‘d pay the artists better

The extra money is probably going into server upkeep, software development, etc., not to artists.

If you want to support artists, Spotify definitely is among the worst choices, while Deezer isn’t great but not horrible either. A little while ago I compiled the most official numbers I could find for any service that I could find. Now mind you, they are a little older (2-ish years) and I cannot remember the source, so take those numbers with a grain of salt but here they go:

Per 1000 streams an Artist gets on average:

• $4.02 on Amazon Music

• $4.37 on Spotify

• $6.76 on both Deezer and YouTube Music

• $7.35 on Apple Music

• $12.50 on Tidal

• $19.00 on Napster

• $38.16 on Quobuz

As I said, the numbers are most likely not the most accurate anymore, the process for these services have changed a little since. However, they might still be interesting enough to know. Maybe someone is bored enough to search the web for more up to date data.

For consumers it might also be interesting to add, that Spotify and YouTube Music, while costing the same as most of the other services (excluding Tidal HiFi Plus and Quobuz), offer a significantly worse audio quality than any other service (aka no lossless audio) and that Tidal‘s expensive HiRes audio tier uses a codec (MQA), that is proven to be terrible and mostly snake oil.

In short: If you want to support artists, stay away from Spotify or amazon. If you want the best audio quality, stay away from Spotify, YouTube Music or Tidal and maybe Deezer (no support for HiRes lossless. Although to be fair, CD-Quality is enough for almost anyone). If you want both and don’t mind paying a little more: use Quobuz

People are used to google as a search engine and depending on their search habits, it can still produce the best results. And for a while, Chrome was the best mainstream browser. People are used to that, too.

And, most importantly, most people don’t really care. They use what they have. That’s the only reason bing is still a thing. And also the reason Google pays billions to Apple just so they’re the standard search engine. For a little while, Siri‘s standard search was bing. But now, Google just pays better, I guess.

I personally use Safari on Apple devices and Firefox on everything else and DuckDuckGo on all of them but that’s not the best solution for everyone and be it only because it takes some amount of effort.

Noted. Does it also start programs?

I guess it depends on individual preferences and experiences

That I‘d love to replace my Windows with Linux but QEMU is not a solution for my problems.

Doesn’t solve the negative scanner and HDR issues though… The scanner has a solution, in theory, however I’m not ready to spend 100€ on scanner software for Linux, when the 20 y/o free software works just fine…

I mean, some of those are preference things. I like the menu bar on top because it’s easy to home in on it. It’s always up there. For every program. No searching.

I cannot complain about stability, either. I had a hackintosh running macOS on PC hardware, that was more stable than Windows on the same machine…

And I also rarely do things in the terminal besides ssh-ing into my Linux server…

I’d agree though, that Windows is easier to maintain. It’s just a pain in the ass to daily drive, because, at least in my experience, something will always refuse to work for no apparent reason, even though it’s supposed to.

Problem: the software I primarily use under Windows are

• Photoshop • A 20 year old negative scanner software • Games

The latter is less of a problem nowadays, however, I‘d like to use HDR in supported titles and Linux HDR support wasn’t really a thing yet, last time I checked…

Same with macOS, I primarily use proprietary software that doesn’t have a Linux version, nor decent Linux alternatives