kalleboo @ kalleboo @lemmy.world

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The US also has very much of a "cowboy" self image

How does this work with the way these delivery apps work?

Correct me if I'm wrong since I've never worked for one of these outfits, but the way I understood it was anytime you want to work you just log into the app and make yourself available, and you randomly get assigned nearby jobs. If there are no jobs to do (middle of the night or w/e), then you get no pay. With this change, when are you eligible for the minimum wage? If everyone in NYC logs into the app at once, will everyone get minimum wage?

Yeah but then Apple dropped their longstanding practice of naming MacOS releases 10.x and went to MacOS 11 and if there's one thing that Microsoft can never resist it's copying Apple.

Except whenever a manufacturer, including Apple, tries to market a phone that's smaller than the average size, nobody buys them.

The only people who actually want smaller phones are some very loud people on the internet.

No this will likely limit the max antenna range and give you worse radio reception, but will make no difference to the CPU that runs the UI and apps

For example, my conservative neighbor the other day was complaining about the weight of EVs compared to ICE cars

If they're so concerned about vehicle weight, I'm sure they're driving a compact car instead of a truck or SUV, right?

Well to begin with, it only has one control panel instead of like 3

This one is using their new braided cable instead of the old plastic one

I don't have the article itself but they used https://subredditstats.com as a source, if you check some of the biggest subs on there you can see clearly in the charts the drop in posts and comments

Even the USB 2.0 phones support DisplayPort 4K 60Hz/HDR https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/13/all-iphone-15-models-support-displayport/

Yes? Most use cases for Thunderbolt are external NVMe drives or laptop docks, those are fine with short cables.

The alternative of getting rid of USB-C plug compatibility and requiring an expensive optical assembly and fragile optical connectors would kill Thunderbolt. It means it's gone from laptops where the space and cost is too high, it means it's gone from iPads where it won't even fit, external NVMe drives will settle for USB due to cost .

Active optical cables ARE part of the standard for those who need it.

Good point!

Thunderbolt optical cables exist if you need them, and for anyone who doesn't the extra cost of the optical interface is a waste.

Milennial. Got started with computers when my dad brought home a Mac Classic for Christmas 1990. Our elementary school still used Apple II machines for a while (number munchers, ad libs and so on) before switching to Macs. Didn't even see a PC until years and years later.

Yeah my kids get to play 90's CD-ROM infotainment games. World of Richard Scarry and such. Basic math, phonics and spelling haven't changed since then and these games are guaranteed to not have any in-app purchases or ads! First it was on a PowerBook G3 that is going bad so it's been swapped out for an iMac G4.

Power plants use lake water directly for cooling - they use a heat exchanger

such as the ability to quickly switch between different sets of Wi-Fi, Ethernet and other network settings depending on the location

They added that back in the x.1 update BTW

MySpace actually let you put in custom CSS and it was a huge free-for-all, everyone's page looked completely different, and usually it was a tacky unreadable mess of hot pink comic sans text over a bright purple texture background, absolutely horrible but very charming. Facebook very explicitly in contrast allowed no customization at all as a reaction to how bad users could make their pages look.

I always assumed they just called every single number randomly. Since you don't pay for failed calls, the cost is zero.

Is number spoofing really a problem outside of North America (+1 country code)? Over the past decade or so I've had phone numbers in 5 different countries across several continents and never had any issues with number spoofing or really any spam from phone numbers at all (since a year ago, I get at most 1 spam SMS a month here in Japan, not one call ever), but I keep hearing only Americans talking about it as a problem.