lockhouse

> It's much easier to become a UK citizen than an American.

Honest question, what makes you say that?

There is plenty of hyper partisan vitriol and culture war that comes from the extremist left as well. You just might not see it because you agree with their positions on the issues.

For example, there are some on the left that very seriously want to label all Republican voters as far-right extremists, which is itself a very extreme position to take.

The biggest things I notice are less ground clearance, which becomes a problem in heavy snow and the less powerful engine which makes it harder to get traction in snow and ice, particularly when trying to get up an incline, such as a hill or ramp.

Would your country allow an American to become a full citizen as easily as America does? Could their children (so long as they were born there) become whatever is your country’s equivalent to President is?

Our immigrants have no legal and very few practical limitations once they become legal citizens. The only exception I can think of is that you can only be President if you were born on US soil.

Our immigrants can, have, and continue to become highly successful. The cultural difference is that we acknowledge that nearly all of us are descended from immigrants.

We have seen the enemy and it is us.

Hyper partisanship and the culture war are tearing the very fabric of America apart.

It’s no more absurd than the suggestions in this thread that people only need small vehicles while ignoring the realities of why many people actually do need large vehicles.

Some people also actually need a large car. If you have a 6 person household, the only thing everyone will fit in is an SUV, a minivan, or a full size van.

Yes, but not using native controls, while still trying to look and feel just like them creates an uncanny valley where things are just inexplicably off.

iOS in particular uses a lot of animations for context clues, and it is very hard to get right when you try to copy it.

There’s also a lot of functionality that is baked into native controls, such as accessibility and localization that are often missing from canvas drawn controls.

Sadly, the federal government doesn’t have a great track record here either…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Manageme...

Rampant inflation, mass layoffs, record homelessness, ever increasing credit card debt among the middle class. Most Americans are unprepared for a $400 emergency expense. This is fine, the economy is doing great. Ignore what you’re seeing and believe what the party tells you.

Yes, but every consumer that switches from Android to iPhone is a lost sale for Qualcomm.

Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard (the desktop version, not the one for iPads) are Lightning as well.

I’m curious how long it will take Apple to switch from Lightning to USB-C across the rest of their product lines now that the iPhone has switched.

I never said it did.

I just wanted to point out that the popular belief that white Europeans created African slavery out of thin air and hunted them down like animals to sell is false.

> Indigenous Africans were dispossessed, murdered, and enslaved

Yes, mostly by fellow Africans...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa

That is a legitimate criticism. There are adapters that enable this, but they're a bit more expensive.

I guess Apple's official answer to that is either bluetooth earbuds like AirPods or using MagSafe to charge.

I wouldn't say mediocre, it's...

-Relatively secure

-Game changing integration with my other Apple products (NOBODY else does this)

-Stays out of my way for the most part

-Runs important commercial software like Office365 natively

-UNIX shell right out of the box

-Homebrew is a decent package manager and easy to install

-Emacs key binds for text entry fields across the entire OS

-It's a little thing, but the animations and sounds make it kind of fun to use

It's a bit inflexible, and the UNIX layer could use some love and modernization, I'll give you that, but once you learn to work within the paradigm, I think it's actually a really good OS.

Oh, and you definitely need to install something like Rectangle to get window snapping, I can't go without that after using it on Windows and Linux, but that's easy enough to fix.

How much longer are these LG phones supported by security updates? They left the Android market years ago.

Headphone jacks are no longer common on Android phones either so this is a very strange dig at Apple. Samsung, Google, and most other mainstream companies haven’t included them in years.

The official adapter from Apple costs $9 and works flawlessly.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35...

> iPhones don't support memory cards or wired headphones

You’re right about memory cards, but wrong about wired headphones. They work just fine, I just either need headphones with a Lightning plug or a Lightning to 3.5mm adapter, similar to all the Android phones that don’t have a 3.5mm headphone jack, but replace Lightning with USB-C.

IBM made very few products for the masses. Their platform took off because of clones like Compaq, HP, and Dell.

Unless things have improved recently, Intel‘s graphics drivers are not that great on Windows.

I really wish someone would give Nvidia some effective competition, but I just don’t see that being Intel.

Don't be disingenuous here. Other cloud providers do not shut services down with the frequency that Google does. Building things on top of Google services looks more and more like building a sandcastle on the beach at low tide.

> Because google lets you sideload. Even though almost no one actually does this

Maybe its because 30% is a relatively small price to pay for the benefits of app stores versus trying to get users to manually install your app via side loading.

Asking Apple to allow side loading and alternative app stores is like forcing Tesla to make a gasoline powered car.

Not when Microsoft makes their own App Store and moves their apps to it, then Meta, Epic, TikTok, X (Twitter), Netflix, Amazon, and you get the idea. It's going to be just like the streaming video mess that we have now.

That sounds great in theory, but what we're more likely to get with multiple app stores is going to be like video streaming. We have Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Max, etc.

Instead of the official walled garden App Store that we have now we'll end up with the Apple, Microsoft, Epic, Amazon, TikTok, Meta, X (formerly known as Twitter), Steam, etc.

Game consoles are even worse because you usually have to buy special developer kit hardware. As far as I’m aware only Xbox lets you switch to developer mode on standard hardware.

Also Google takes the exact same cut on the Play Store and yet Apple is still the one that usually gets singled out.

Unpopular opinion, but it’s not like these developers are getting nothing from Apple out of this.

Apple runs the modern digital mall. They provide the space, the signage, the discovery, they even handle payment for you.

Also, small indie developers are only being charged 15% until they exceed $1 million. So the 30% you always hear about are the big fish that can afford it anyway.

I’ll admit I’m speaking from personal experience.

At work it all feels so abstract and pointless, the only thing I’m achieving that matters to me is that my employer moves some of their money into my bank account.

Then I go home and grill some burgers after work and build a bookshelf out of wood over the weekend and feel so much more self worth.

Is this game stand alone or should I play the other 2 first?