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While we're at it, let's also mandate the destruction of every general-purpose computing device incapable of secure boot or allowing it to be deactivated. And if someone dares to b…

Tell them she doesn't own any devices that could connect to the internet. I'm sure they'll figure something out. They have to have procedures for this sort of thing.

> they told me to go to the website for my issue. And this sort of attitude is exactly what needs to change.

Then maybe everyone needs to be educated to never ever trust incoming calls from unknown numbers? Or maybe these need to be blocked at the carriers? We have all this AI crap now bu…

Then how about her not having online banking?

The society should change such that grandmas could decide for themselves whether they want tech or not, and still have a comfortable life if they choose to not use it. In our curre…

I wish I could specify that I walk faster than most people.

Google Maps has had glitched-out building outlines overlapping rivers in my city for years . I don't trust it at all. Citymapper is nice for public transit directions in cities. Bu…

What do you mean? HN doesn't have a social graph. It's an entirely different beast as far as I'm concerned.

My issue is that you can't exclude yourself from the algorithm. You post something even tangentially political, it immediately pops up in the feeds of people that have no connectio…

You can disable Samsung's system apps using adb as well. The command is `adb uninstall --user 0 com.package.name`

That's a good approach, and I do this too actually, but some people's job or occupation requires them to take calls from unknown numbers. And some people still use landlines withou…

With calls, it's easier: if you get an incoming call with someone is asking you for money, you hang up and call back using the number for that organization that you've found yourse…

And , unlike discs, they play straight off the cartridge, without installation. What a concept!

TIL that there are countries where the building code doesn't enforce the minimum number of elevators. In Russia it's one for buildings taller than 5 floors, two for taller than 9, …

How often do people travel between non-ground floors though? In my own experience, whether it's a residential or an office building, 99% of elevator usage is a) someone going down …

JavaScript still doesn't have proper integers.

So the world is slightly better right now.

The apps that are the reason some people use smartphones at all — bank apps — require Google services and remote attestation that runs in an environment with more privileges than t…

Pixels do have unlockable bootloaders, but they also have a non-unlockable hypervisor that would snitch on you and make some apps refuse to work.

In 2021, I upgraded to the 2021 MBP from the 2012 first-gen retina. So I also skipped the bad models. The difference is night and day. You don't really notice the notch, especially…

I know at least one person who still uses an Intel one and doesn't like it

I half-jokingly thought to myself, "of course it's all software rendering, Haiku doesn't have GPU drivers", so imagine my amazement when I saw that this thread is about porting an …

> OpenGL never was a big thing on game consoles. I've never tried developing anything for a 3D-capable console, but I've always had the feeling that their graphics APIs are bespoke…

OpenGL is the only truly cross-platform graphics API out there. Vulkan isn't on Apple platforms, unless you use MoltenVK which implements it on top of Metal. Also I don't know why,…