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If you’re trying to quantify fun, you’ve already well and truly missed the point.

Doesn’t it? I do trust the manufacturer of the thing that I keep within arms reach from the moment I get it, and which knows more about me than I do, to have better security than w…

My experience with phones like that are that they tend to fall apart when subjected to impact, which is pretty counterproductive to features like, I don’t know, being able to use t…

> google's ai says Copy-pasting AI output is uninteresting and rude.

'Solved' by having measurably worse ingress protection than leading smartphones?

How do you think that this wouldn't "work in the current timeline"? This sounds like a deep misunderstanding of media.

How is the title misleading?

Everything involving geography is a regional feature because it takes time to create things for physical stuff across the physical world; its not just some arbitrary limitation lik…

> no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch I regularly use hiking and topography maps on my Apple Watch with the first party maps app, so it sure what y…

Some of these are questionable, but 3 and 5 stick out. Being included makes it sound like whoever wrote this list doesn’t really know what Zed is? It’s a local text editor. The onl…

> Your statement uses the presence of bugs to indicate a product is worth using. This is not correct; "If a product is worth using, then it has bugs." (P→Q) does not imply its conv…

The thing they “didn’t want to [do]” was infringe on the Linux trademark.

> including a new option coming this summer that will enable businesses in the U.S. and Canada to place local ads in Maps during key search and discovery moments. The enshittificat…

What else is a shame is claiming that some single language feature supports a foregone conclusion that the writing's been 'molested'. It's hard to imagine what a constructive comme…

I think this’d be a good comment if it weren’t for the superiority complex :/

I’m fairly confident that the Venn diagram of (a) nine-year-olds that are playing with a computer and (b) people who claim that access to kernel source code is a prerequisite to “l…

> about money in the bank? Yes, generally. That's the entire idea behind the stock market.

as an end user it is my problem when trying to complain in the right place

Not what iBeacon does but an entertainingly dramatic description nonetheless.

It is trivially easy to know that this isn’t true.

The API surface becomes the lowest common denominator of all the platforms it supports, possibly with a path to support platform-native features, but probably in a way that’s neces…

> locally-installed software you own is usually a better choice. It’s a good thing that’s exactly what this is, then.

Up Bank provides an API that enables these use cases: https://developer.up.com.au/

Making privacy some end-goal that PMs cut to meet targets is how you end up with Google redefining privacy to mean "only we have access to every aspect of your life, now and in the…

> nominally "selling" plots to people but with terms of service attached that restrict what you can do with the land you bought and that allow the company to change the terms at an…