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What its marketed as is bullshit. 5G seems essential to fit more devices in packed spaces like sports stadiums. Marketers are trying to convince users that 5g is absolutely essential even if you aren't quite sure what for yet. The news post I read today listed 4g as enabling video streaming and 5g as enabling "Hyperfast gaming and augmented reality". What a load of meaningless bullshit.

I'm not going to be one of those "the eye can't even see 60fps" people but lets not pretend that 5g is going to be anything but an incremental infrastructure upgrade that won't affect people in a non congested area.

I find the feature to be entirely useless. In my usual hand position I can't trigger the mode and I can't reach the back button which ios places in the top left corner for some reason.

Iphones always had screens that were close to the sides which is what really matters. The chin and forehead don't matter for reachability because you never had to reach them.

Unrecoverable is relative. If I wipe out the bootloader on a phone its unrecoverable because I don't know how to flash it directly to the chip and I don't have a copy of the bootloader to even flash. Its a brick because I will never be able to use the device again. If I send it off to the factory in china they could certainly restore the device to working condition again but it would cost more than a new device if they even accept my one off job.

If a DRM system triggers on a car and I can't disable it its now bricked if the dealer won't come and fix it.

I think convenience is the hidden cost here. No one is going to bother renting a car to move some dirt. They would pay for it to be delivered however because thats even easier than picking it up yourself and the savings from having a smaller car make it cheaper too.

That misses the biggest cost, parking. If you work in the city like most people thats easily $15 down the drain.

I think the point is more that renting is a pain in the ass and you simply wouldn't bother. You either buy the blender or you don't use a blender. No one would go through the effort of renting one when they don't need it.

Not even close on my profile. Did this work for anyone?

Almost all usage for bricked from before it become a mainstream word was meaning that the bootloader on a device had become overwritten or corrupt meaning it is no longer possible to fix using the usual firmware flash method.

This is still fixable if you knew how to access the flash chip directly and had a backup of its content.

Never have I seen bricked strictly mean that hardware has blown up.

Is there a user control on the device to restore it? If not then it is bricked to that user. Bricked is relative to the users ability to fix it. At some level of skill and money nothing is "bricked" since you could replace or reflash anything.

Luxury car brands are Apple like. Reputation is everything. They don't want someone modifying the car causing it to fail and becoming a big news event. So many stories about explosive batteries and chargers on phones are the result of some dirt cheap china part being used but the news just reports "Product from corporation bursts in to flames"

Bricking has never had a solid definition. The most useful definition is a product is bricked when the owner does not have the skills/time/money required to get the product in a working state. The product is a brick to them.

If you flash bad firmware on a device and overwrite the bootloader used for flashing, many would consider this a bricked device since they don't know how to use an SPI flasher to restore a working firmware. For others simply having a device that isnt fixable via a factory reset is bricked because they don't know how to flash via usb.

A car that has become software locked without a way to restore it is bricked imo.

Not to mention their recommendations which I find to be quite decent.

The twitter blue checkmark is the modern day version.

One interesting idea I have seen is getting a smartwatch with 4g and then leaving the phone at home. The watch is good enough to send an important text or take a phone call but its not good enough to scroll social media.

Wikipedia says v4 came out in 2000 and a search for encryption on the page shows no results.

sftp gives you really good key based authentication and encryption over the network. I wouldn't trust NFS for anything other than a highly secure internal network.

A Google dev once told me that every day they write as much code as the whole kernel contains.

No because they want students to have cuda to learn with and home devs to have so they develop tools for it. Then when the enterprises use it for profit they have to pay for the development of the platform.

Most companies would rather just buy the enterprise card than go through all of this hassle. Its not even a rip off when you consider that the enterprise cards pay for the research and development on cuda which puts enterprise grade tools in the hands of students and hobbiests.

AMDs version is simply not supporting their version of cuda (rocm) on consumer cards (the navi ones anyway)

GTX/RTX cards are sold as gaming cards so its not misrepresentation. If it was then every bit of hardware with locked down software would be fraud.

I think your idea is agreeable but if we did treat hardware this way it changes almost everything. Apple/Nintendo/Sony/etc would all be required to give users root access to the software and remove their ToS.

And then it get even more complex when you get in to online services. Game consoles are going online only next gen. If you buy the ps5 digital edition and you mod your OS and sony bans you from their servers, your console is now a brick. But in many cases its fair to be banned such as banning cheaters.

Suffering is on a scale. Its better that a few innocent people sit around for a few days than one guilty person getting out and killing someone.

The risks should be evaluated and the result being keeping innocent people waiting for as little as possible while also preventing criminals from getting away.

Remote file systems are the worlds biggest pain in the ass. NFS seems like the easiest option but its ancient and insecure over the network. SFTP can be mounted and is also easy while being secure but is super CPU heavy on a single thread.

All of the options I looked in to would fail when a program expects to be able to set permissions on things in the remote directory.

It would be sufficient to just put a red triangle on the tab pointing out this one tab is using high cpu.

As soon as you add something to JS you have to support it forever. Its better to let sites pick what they need and scrap what they no longer need. JS has already added most of the useful stuff from jQuery. If browsers included a built in version of React it would pretty much lock in the design as it is now without room to remove and replace bad ideas.

Are there actually any benefits though? I saw an article a few years back about how when loading jquery from Google's cdn there was about a 1% chance the user had it cached already. Since you have to have, the same library, the same cdn source and the same version of the library, it almost never is the case that the user has already grabbed this recently enough that it hasn't been kicked out.

Plus the trend now is to use webpack and have all of your deps bundled in and served from the same server.

Last time I used apple music I did not see any options for exporting playlists.

I quit the trial because the web app was totally broken. Not only was it super slow, it was buggy. Clicking a song would often play a different one in the list and it would regularly get stuck trying to play a song.

How would OSs manage this security and process wise? I imagine its impossible to program an fpga fast enough to have it switch config for each process that wants it.

I have had mine locked in the past. Obviously facebook has some system that is locking accounts because so many people have faced this issue