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The battery was the main reason I moved from my 12 mini to a 15 (save for USB-C) — just wasn’t holding up, even after a replacement. I still hold out for a 17 mini, though.

It’s the same bits, just with feature flags for things like eligibility to install third party stores.

In case it’s helpful- apparently you can just use a secondary Apple ID (even one made just for this use) with AltStore and it works just as well without risking one’s main ID. (Tho…

Telemetry on the 3DS is minimal compared to what Nintendo put in place on the Switch — you’ll be alright, especially if you use the Pretendo online servers.

We [0] did for a while - discovered by the same dev as found SSSL — and sat on it for a long time at Kaeru, but it was independently discovered [1] and reported to Nintendo by some…

Apple have at least added a way for developers to set the per-app default in the latest releases - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release... - which Chrome ap…

The article covers this: > So how does a prison laptop end up on eBay? > The laptop that Zhang bought came from a state whose corrections department contracts with a Milwaukee-base…

The main obstacle I see is the €1mm letter of credit, to be honest.

I don’t remember where I read it, admittedly, but apparently the iPad didn’t cross the market share thresholds or something like that; would be happy to be wrong. Suppose we’ll see…

Unfortunately, from what I can tell, Apple is only being forced to open up iOS (iPhone), not any other platforms like iPadOS, and they’re not doing a jot more than they have to her…

> You can already do that today Not if you want to use a JIT compiler or multiprocess support

> the infamous “We Need More Deplatforming (2021)”[1] article That seems a misquote; the title of the article you link is "We need more than deplatforming", and it isn't apparent t…

Not without a Nintendo SDK license agreement and signing their NDA. On the other hand, there’s a nice homebrew port you could certainly use that’s been around for years: https://gi…

> The regulation doesn’t allow you to mmap w^x willy-nilly Yesn’t; I don’t think the regulators would look kindly upon Apple restricting third-party JITs, since it’d give Safari/We…

Yes, given the size constraints of the deep-level Tube tunnels, which are much smaller than those for mainline trains; apparently developments in small air con systems have helped …

On my iPhone, selecting this option brings the ads straight back, unfortunately.

Even listening is in a grey area in the UK; it’s a separate offence to “use wireless telegraphy apparatus with intent to obtain information as to the contents, sender or addressee …

Unfortunately, the App Store (and Play Store) rules ban this sort of thing — any access to third party web services needs to be in line with their terms of service.

Mostly relevant to Steam Deck users; a proper Steam release would offer better system integration, Steam Cloud, Steam Input, etc. as I understand it.

Out of interest, which Three plan (& APN) are you on? I’m working on using a Smarty (Three UK-owned budget label MVNO, for those unaware) SIM card in a 5G modem as a backup line, a…

Re: the gifted trojan device scenario, I think the primary line of defense would be to display a prominent boot time warning in the bootloader where a non-Apple root of trust has b…

> Why would android even allow such restrictions to be enabled in the first place? To enforce DRM in streaming apps, mostly; though other apps have ended up bodging that for their …

My understanding is that the permissions popup is used for the registration flow (generating & enrolling a key into the Secure Enclave), and after that if there are existing creden…

Not so much with WSL 2, which Microsoft are focusing on at the moment; WSL 2 runs a real Linux kernel in a lightweight Hyper-V VM with lots of jazzy integration services.

Have you tried clicking the ‘End Task’ button twice? It’s arguably rather unintuitive, but in my experience the first click seems to send a ‘politely quit’ signal and the second re…