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No button necessary for voice: “Hey Google, set my seat heater to medium.” I would still like to have a button-only option, of course.

Mileage varies a lot on this one. I have an Android Automotive car (not to be confused with Android Auto) and “Hey Google” is basically flawless for changing car settings while dri…

Docker Engine uses a feature of the Linux kernel called namespaces. Alternate OSes require a Linux VM. As another commenter mentioned, apps like Orbstack, Podman Desktop, and Docke…

Mobile data sucks even in the densely populated northeast parts of the Amtrak system. Cell network congestion and dead spots where the railroad takes a path away from population ce…

Same. It is annoying to dodge the prompts that guide me to save in Chrome or iCloud instead of 1Password, but with patience I have always succeeded. Of course, I know what I want a…

Google has acquired a lot of ad competitors, but I can't remember any general-purpose search engines. It seemed more like they died out naturally over a long period. I welcome new …

The DOJ is concerned with moving the needle on one specific issue (search monopoly a.k.a. seatbelts) and is not concerned about the side effects on related entities (Firefox a.k.a.…

Amtrak reaches 110 mph in a few places in diesel territory (outside of the NEC). The Empire Service and Lincoln Service, for example.

My passkeys are in 1Password and work on every new device I set up.

CTF is waived for nonprofits, which is how a lot of FOSS projects are structured.

Having them as low as possible improves latency, which is a big selling point of Starlink over incumbent geostationary services like Hughesnet.

I hope the UX changes are limited to that extent, yes. I’m concerned about another cookie banner unintended consequences situation.

I’m sure RCS messages would stay green though, so it’s less than clear that your proposal addresses the alleged social lock-in.

It seems like DOJ might force Apple to make separate "SMS" and "iMessage" apps, and perhaps forbid preinstalling iMessage so users have to download it from the App Store when they …

Are you sure the password manager is using all the APIs available to it? I use 1Password and it feels extremely well integrated.

Yep. In other words, things that almost every website in the past 10 years does, making consent banners ubiquitous.

I am amused that your official EU link, which contains only static documentation, asks me to choose between “all cookies” and “essential cookies”.

A family member got tricked by a similar scam. They asked for a refund and ultimately got one after lightly threatening a credit card chargeback. High chargebacks cause card issuer…

Excuse my ignorance, but at that point what does the ISP actually do other than send bills to customers and pay invoices for fiber plant and upstream bandwidth?

Check out immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue & Kinoite.

NAT is pretty computationally intensive, this is why e.g. ISPs & mobile carriers are pushing IPv6 over CGNAT.

8.8.8.8 has documented rate limiting [0], but it may be higher than you're hitting. [0] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/isp

Commoditize your complement. Users need working DNS to use Cloudflare’s paid services. That used to be a business in and of itself, where OpenDNS made money showing people ads. But…

OpenDNS used to hijack DNS to show ads, which is one of the reasons Google launched the non-hijacking 8.8.8.8 in 2009. OpenDNS quickly followed suit. No one would attempt it today,…

iPads transitioned to USB C in 2018 so I think this has been in the cards for a while. We'll have to see about the cables, I don't hate the idea of of an "actually works right" cer…