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Cue back in ten years and we all talk like that.

Whatever I used Sonnet 4.6 for, including Claude Code and Claude Chat, it made so many mistakes and totally awkward assumptions that I can’t fathom what it’s supposed to be good at…

Great point. What I’m recognizing in that PR thread is that the bot is trying to mimic something that’s become quite widespread just recently - ostensibly humans leveraging LLMs to…

I’ve got the feeling that it’s spreading and is soon to become the default. Another banking app has failed to identify me a couple of times (I attribute it to iPhone 17’s front cam…

Many consumer banking apps have begun integrating similar identity verification third-party providers. They are very inaccurate. Sometimes it works with the front camera on one sma…

Aren’t they part of iCloud+ only? Ask no-track can arguably compromise your privacy by fingerprinting. I agree that the privacy controls on Apple systems are well-organized. Still,…

Is it different with Google Play?

Apple too collects unencrypted metadata but now promises to reduce its scope.

And that’s a significant PR and marketing posture for Apple.

I think there’s also a topology chasm at play. Apple controls most of its hardware stack, with Qualcomm modems and Samsung displays, but the SoC is now Apple’s own. Google relies o…

I think AdSense is still an Alphabet subsidiary?

That’s true, though I wish Apple gave me the freedom to define a new search engine, beyond the small provided selection.

I wonder how exactly Apple Intelligence works with ChatGPT and soon with Gemini. If I remember correctly, there’s no privacy there? If so, where’s the privacy boundary in Apple Int…

> - They put all the privacy controls in one place in Settings so you can audit That’s true. On Pixel Android, there’s several unrelated places in the various settings for the devi…

Can someone explain what the real difference is to a consumer user between an iPhone and a Pixel or a Samsung device? Across all services, push notifications, and device backups. B…

That is terrible. I’ve been out of the loop with consumer Windows for like 20 years and enterprise Windows for a decade, last time was at a .NET shop. Two years ago or so, after wa…

Depends on your Linux distribution. Hibernation had also been a long standing issue last I checked, especially on laptops.

Same here with a Pixel 10 Pro. Having seen issues that others have been struggling with, I’m shocked at the poor quality controls. It’s not only hardware, the software breaks every…

What kind of apps do you get from F-Droid that are useful to you that aren’t available on Play? I mean, to me most of the F-Droid apps are WIP with legacy UI and I need to trust th…

Thanks, you’re likely right, but significance is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t attribute much value to the marketing fluff and on-paper changes. It’s great the battery improv…

I’ve been down that road, was fun, but growingly felt to me like too much maintenance that wasn’t worth the effort, distracting from more important things. Like desktop Linux. Now …

Why not just get an iPhone then?

Text section is also extremely annoying when marking up PDF files in the Preview app (select -> highlight). Anything you select (whole words), deselects some trailing portion and y…

Piercing the corporate veil is a very common practice across countries, both in civil and statutory cases as well as administrative cases. It’s a very fragile shell.

There’s little hardware improvement in iPhone 17 over iPhone 16. Arguably only the move from titanium to aluminum in the casing is a tangible performance enhancement (better coolin…