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@Mason_Wheeler I didn't have “cocaine hippos” on either last year's or this year's bingo card.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Yeah, this was in the Windows 10 thread a few days ago. Crazy shit.
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How the mighty have fallen.
Or maybe that’s just their way of making AMD’s and nVidia’s production shortage even worse?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Or maybe that’s just their way of making AMD’s and nVidia’s production shortage even worse?
Don't Nvidia use Samsung for the chips for the 30 series cards?
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@TimeBandit Geo-blocking is evil. But at the same time regional pricing should go with it. There is a good argument why
countries should have lower prices, but they have to take it up with exploiters ready to make quick buck, because transport costs of digital goods are comparatively negligible and digital goods are almost impossible to apply import tax to.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Geo-blocking is evil. But at the same time regional pricing should go with it. There is a good argument why
countries should have lower prices, but they have to take it up with exploiters ready to make quick buck, because transport costs of digital goods are comparatively negligible and digital goods are almost impossible to apply import tax to.
Back in 2013 the Supreme Court came to the same conclusion for the US: publishers have no inherent right to geographically differential pricing, and if they don't like arbitrage, tough.
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Google is becoming more Microsoft all the time....
Also, WTF is Google Messages?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Or maybe that’s just their way of making AMD’s and nVidia’s production shortage even worse?
Don't Nvidia use Samsung for the chips for the 30 series cards?
They do now but they already signed a deal with TSMC for 2021. Mostly because TSMC has superior technology.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
SMS handling app.
Without the Play Store verifications, Google can’t ensure the app’s end-to-end encryption is properly configured, which could leave your messages and personal data compromised.
SMS and end-to-end encryption? What is this? The future?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
SMS handling app.
Without the Play Store verifications, Google can’t ensure the app’s end-to-end encryption is properly configured, which could leave your messages and personal data compromised.
SMS and end-to-end encryption? What is this? The future?
The app has capability to send all texts to Google, for no nefarious spying at all honest. But instead for reading and writing SMS using their web client on computers.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler I didn't have “cocaine hippos” on either last year's or this year's bingo card.
I guess this year's pretty blank on all of our cards. The election was so close.
The only thing I got on mine is "Japan attacks Pearl Harbor".
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Also, WTF is Google Messages?
The piece of shit that tries to replace SMS with some broken internet-based “chat features”. I've complained about it a couple of days ago.
So to me it begs the a different question: how can I uncertify my device?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I guess this year's pretty blank on all of our cards. The election was so close.
The only thing I got on mine is "Japan attacks Pearl Harbor".
I've got "singularity is achieved; it immediately nopes out of the planet".
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler I didn't have “cocaine hippos” on either last year's or this year's bingo card.
I guess this year's pretty blank on all of our cards. The election was so close.
The only thing I got on mine is "Japan attacks Pearl Harbor".
"My gardener is half black and half Japanese. Every December 7th he attacks Pearl Bailey."
-- Milton Berle
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
So to me it begs the a different question: how can I uncertify my device?
Easiest method: root it.
More detailed: make it not pass the Safety Net check thing.
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Because Bloomberg: Samsung is said to consider $10 billion Texas chipmaking plant
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@Dragoon Is that going to be anything like Foxconn's
big-screen TV factoryAI 8K+5G ecosystem innovation centertaxpayer-funded boondoggle that amounted to nothing in Wisconsin?
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Because Bloomberg: Samsung is said to consider $10 billion Texas chipmaking plant
Samsung considers it.... What? Beautiful? Sexy? Small?
Sometimes I miss Blakeyrat. I should visit Discord...
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Telesforo Aviles, 35, pleaded guilty to a count of computer fraud in federal court this week, confessing that he inappropriately accessed the accounts of customers some 9,600 times over the course of several years. He is alleged to have done this to over 200 customers.
Yeesh, whichever prosecutor agreed to that plea deal needs to be fired. Out of a cannon into the sun.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Samsung considers it.... What? Beautiful? Sexy? Small?
Sometimes I miss Blakeyrat. I should visit Discord...
FTHFY
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Samsung is said to consider building a $10 billion Texas chipmaking plant
Filed under: INB4 'I didn't ask help' Blakeyrant
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Microsoft can't realise how dumb an idea is until they implement it, then thay backpedal
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@TimeBandit If I'm reading it correctly, the only change was a price increase. Instead, after people complained, they're not going to do the price increase, and instead are going to open f2p games to non-Gold members. Do other companies just have more backbone or what?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit If I'm reading it correctly, the only change was a price increase. Instead, after people complained, they're not going to do the price increase, and instead are going to open f2p games to non-Gold members. Do other companies just have more backbone or what?
The most common pricing doubled from $59.99/year to $59.99/6 months.
That is crazy. I'd cancel my subscription over that.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
... CEO Bernard Looney
The winds have turned very chilly in the exploration team since Looney's arrival.
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"Tesla is an automaker that is developing a really good
driver assistancesystem."
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Welcome to our soon to be new overlords
Crap. Hopefully we won't be dealing with Roko's basilisk.
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Welcome to our soon to be new overlords
Crap. Hopefully we won't be dealing with Roko's basilisk.
It honestly sounds like scientists grinding out another paper. The conclusion is somewhere between
and "In a frictionless vacuum, smart things are smarter than not-smart things."
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
@abarker said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Welcome to our soon to be new overlords
Crap. Hopefully we won't be dealing with Roko's basilisk.
It honestly sounds like scientists grinding out another paper. The conclusion is somewhere between
and "In a frictionless vacuum, smart things are smarter than not-smart things."
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
It honestly sounds like scientists grinding out another paper. The conclusion is somewhere between
and "In a frictionless vacuum, smart things are smarter than not-smart things."
Or as the scientists would say: requiring new
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@TimeBandit is that again the thing about throttling power draw to prevent reboots on low battery? I don't understand who would prefer the alternative.
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@topspin Also, whatever else their faults are, they are the producers of mobiles with the longest period of software updates. By quite a margin, to boot. (And I think that even some older iOS versions get important security updates).
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit is that again the thing about throttling power draw to prevent reboots on low battery? I don't understand who would prefer the alternative.
People whose phones throttled at 70% charge, on a freshly swapped battery?
I think my wife's last phone went through 3 batteries before she changed to the next model.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit is that again the thing about throttling power draw to prevent reboots on low battery? I don't understand who would prefer the alternative.
People whose phones throttled at 70% charge, on a freshly swapped battery?
Is that actually the case?
I think my wife's last phone went through 3 batteries before she changed to the next model.
Yeah, those iPhones last ridiculously long. I mean, not really, but compared to the competition they do.
My 6S is over 5 years old now and on its second battery, which is well shot. Maybe some day it’s time to get a new one.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit is that again the thing about throttling power draw to prevent reboots on low battery? I don't understand who would prefer the alternative.
People whose phones throttled at 70% charge, on a freshly swapped battery?
Is that actually the case?
As far as I remember, yes.
Let's see if I can find it... Here it is:
Seems like the phones were throttled regardless of battery status. Specifically, maximum CPU speed was limited on all "old" models. Which would be well and fine if it were a feature that could be turned on by the user when or if they see the need. Instead, it crippled phones that had a recently swapped battery too. Until after all the complaints Apple finally put in a setting somewhere to turn the feature off, IIRC.
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@acrow That article just phrases it badly.
Here's a video comparing the same iPhone 6S before and after a battery replacement.
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@loopback0 The video's from March 2018. The article is from December 2017. Apple had plenty of time to fix the issue in between.
If we ignore the allegations of planned obsolesence for the moment, it stands to reason that Apple could react to random shutdowns in the wild, caused by old batteries, with a quick fix that simply throttles the phones' CPU. And after hearing that people do, in fact, change the battery in their phones, they amended the fix to estimate the battery's health from charge/discharge metrics and throttle based on that instead of just throttling all phones.
The allegations of planned obsolesence would have to be based on Apple's intent, back when the first throttling patch was released. If it was indeed an emergency fix, meant to be properly fixed as soon as possible (we know proper work takes time - a change to the CPU governor on a Unix-alike is an easy band-aid), then all's well and good. Whereas if it was meant to be a permanent change to older phones, and was not reflected in advertising, then goods had been changed after sales. Which is unlawful.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
it stands to reason that Apple could react to random shutdowns in the wild, caused by old batteries, with a quick fix that simply throttles the phones' CPU. And after hearing that people do, in fact, change the battery in their phones, they amended the fix to estimate the battery's health from charge/discharge metrics and throttle based on that instead of just throttling all phones.
They could have done, but they didn't.
This is a week later, where they're offering replacement batteries at a discount to fix the throttling. No iOS updates between the two to change the behaviour.
@acrow said in In other news today...:
The allegations of planned obsolesence would have to be based on Apple's intent, back when the first throttling patch was released. If it was indeed an emergency fix, meant to be properly fixed as soon as possible (we know proper work takes time - a change to the CPU governor on a Unix-alike is an easy band-aid), then all's well and good.
The main change was adding the ability to turn it off. Which did, as expected, cause phones with degraded batteries to crash under heavy load.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
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I don't want to find out about youtube problems by watching a 20 minute youtube video…