TwoNineA

I was under the impression that planets to be life-friendly have to be close to their red dwarf star to a point they'll be tidally locked (one side always light other night), meaning their atmosphere would freeze on the dark side and planet would end up without an atmostphere.

TwoNineA··on Apple’s all-new iCloud for Windows app, now available in the Microsoft Store

As an iPhone user who has a Windows laptop at work, I would be more than happy to be able to use iMessage through the web.

TwoNineA··on Apple’s all-new iCloud for Windows app, now available in the Microsoft Store

I did a ghetto solution that syncs my iCloud Drive to my linux box:

1- Install SyncThing on both your Mac and Linux box.

2- Point Mac client to ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs

3- Optional, for extra privacy run your own discovery/relay server.

4- Enjoy iCloud Drive on Linux.

You could push it much further by running the native app in a Windows VM and sync more than just your files.

TwoNineA··on Apple dismisses Google’s criticism over turning privacy into a ‘luxury good’

> How? Google respects privacy more than Apple does.

[citation needed]

TwoNineA··on Pixel 3a

> Motorola continues to carry this torch with it's G-series, near-stock, sub-$300 phones.

They also come with almost non existent Android upgrades.

TwoNineA··on How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year

Reason they made so much money, in app purchases. The game is addictive, like myriad of other games, and coupled with IAPs, it's a goldmine.

TwoNineA··on The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web

Can't wait until someone automates it.

TwoNineA··on Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris

> immense societal consensus

They had a referendum asking the population to approve or not the construction? Or was it an autocratic entity (king and/or church) who decided?

TwoNineA··on Nokia firmware blunder sent some user data to China

"Blunder"? Sure.

TwoNineA··on Ask HN: What do you think of the Google Stadia?

I tried Steam inhouse game streaming a few times and the result was decent. I have gigabit ethernet in my house, so latency was superb but video quality was noticeably different than the the actual game running on the host. My host is a beast so I got no idea why this discrepancy.

If Google can keep latency low and graphics as close as possible to original, then it has the possibility of being a Netflix for gaming. IMHO, Google need to focus on 3 things: latency, price and game library. Without those, it will fail or be a niche product considering that for 600ish$ you can build a pretty decent gaming PC.

TwoNineA··on Chromium: Improve support for Nintendo Switch gamepads

Maybe to add controller support for the upcoming Google game streaming console?

TwoNineA··on The Mate X is Huawei’s 5G foldable

Good luck getting more than two major Android updates on this.

TwoNineA··on Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image

>> We encourage all users to update to the latest version of Android where possible.

Good luck with that.

TwoNineA··on What every physicist should know about string theory

Should be called string hypothesis.

TwoNineA··on The Apple iPhone XR Review

Adjusted to inflation, the iPhone 4S was 722$. XR is 749$(not 800 by the way). 27$ difference, not too bad considering the technology is superior in every way to the 4S.

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