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You guys surely all know that emulators have been allowed on iOS and tvOS for a while now.

There is essentially zero piracy from these digital cinema releases. The pirate copies are generally from once it starts digitally streaming on one of the services including PPV, a…

The number is, I believe, simply peak voltage. And personally I find the measure grossly misleading: an iPhone with an 80% battery has an almost useless runtime. It definitely isn’…

Lots of anecdotes on cures so here is mine: had loads of warts through childhood. Received cryotherapy but they returned. In my teens got a summer job priming tobacco and within da…

Or a particle accelerator, some bismuth, and low expectations of quantities.

As expected, the preponderance of comments claim US exceptionalism: why somehow it’s a unique snowflake and it just wouldn’t work there. Another comment with the classic “we pay fo…

I run Edge across macOS, iOS and Windows. Edge has some great native UI affordances (vertical tabs, collections, etc) and is a bit removed from Google.

It might have been common practice, but everyone denied it, including Arnold repeatedly. It was and is considered “cheating”, so the claim that it was normal should be asterisked. …

The tone and attitude of this post is basically the epitome of Jr/beginner dev. If your audience is non-programmers and one wants to be the “big shot”, ply this tact, but tech read…

My assumption is that it is engagement juicing. These seem to go out to seldom/casual users a lot of the time, and people respond by logging in and checking things out. Easy way to…

Just got a transaction alert for the service billing this morning and it did make me realize I haven't watched anything of consequence on Netflix for so, so long. My house has four…

This post would have zero traction on here if they did otherwise. The tubes are full of excellent resources that die on new. They decided to market with the age bit and clearly it …

* a several GB model to which a small amount of subject specific training can be performed on archetype, augmenting that large model Doesn’t seem to be any code or runtime examples…

Sure, but previously this printer explicitly supported black only modes with no regard for the other inks. Brother decided it was easy money acting like the other makers, and this …

After a recent firmware update my Brother inkjet refuses to print b&w (yes it has a full black cartridge and this was never a problem previously) because one of the color inks is e…

People use Siri for basic interactions with their device. Get directions. Set an alarm, reminder, or timer. Send a message. It is extremely competent for those. Why would they shut…

Literally specifically said that. Yet Edge and Chrome on iOS actively suppressed JXL in prior builds (yes they can do that — actually calling it a skin is technically wrong as whil…

See also- https://dennisforbes.ca/articles/jpegxl_just_won_the_image_w... It loads JXL if your client supports it. Recent builds of Chrome and Edge now support and display JXL on i…

Apple Maps is fantastic in Canada, or at least the Toronto area. Even in cottage country hours from urbanity has excellent directions and 3d buildings and structures.