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Nothing wrong with your answer itself, but having to be Apple or Google is a PITA. These account are ultra critical already and you will want maximum security to access them.

This means if you go on a trip somewhere you absolutely need two devices. If you kill your phone and want to buy another one ASAP, you wont be able to do anything with the new device until you can convince the platform it's you. With passkeys you're just SOL. Imagining if you needed a phone to get back from your trip - e.g. etickets, auth needed etc. - it becomes a nightmare scenario.

A third party manager makes it easier, but it's a lot less usable that the first party ones.

Reasonable people make different life choice, having to constantly think about backup strategies whenever I'm away from home would be so stress inducing to me.

A variant of that is alternative accounts that properly live on a different device/context.

For instance YouTubers usually have a different account for their channel than the one they use privately, and don't want their channel account logged in everywhere.

That means having to log in as a guest when push comes to shove. And similar setups are common for most self-employed keeping a "work" account IMHO.

XReal is only replacing the screen part and needs another device as a core, this headset works standalone.

As the form factor is already pretty bulky, keeping it as a single device helps a lot IMHO.

> because they're big companies serving a lot of customers over the internet, that any sort of fraud or product liability laws are irrelevant to them.

Is it false ?

As much as we can lament the current state of affair, we must acknowledge everything that has been thrown at any of the bigger companies has resulted in slap on the wrists at most.

At this exact moment in the US money is straight power, in it's rawest form.

You're describing a bank, any bank.

Without specific arguments on what Revolut consistently does that no other bank (e.g. HSBC, wells-fargo etc.) do, you're just yelling at money shaped clouds.

> You're paying with your data.

Parent was pointing at the value exchange, and I argued that users' privacy is not the currency Google deals with.

Your privacy can be valuable to you, it just has no weight on the exchange.

People have this fixation on privacy, when there's so much more going on, potentially way mor important.

Google's strong position in AI gives them bragging right to attract more companies and get them to actually pay, subsidizing your use. It also lowers competitors position as you're not touching them while we're on Gemini. It also fortifies their position in the future ad market.

Being second or third in AI usage is worth a lot, one's private data matters very little in comparison.

You're looking at it from iOS side only, and for a US company that would be the last platform they'd ever drop.

It was a different picture out of the Apple garden, when a company only brings their next major feature to iOS because they couldn't be bothered to hire the same headcount on two development teams and their CEO uses an iPhone anyway.

We had that discussion about a decade ago with a company rep that didn't realize 70% of their EU users were on Android yet their play store app didn't have the feature they were planning to promote.

Basically, better was the enemy of good for most companies.

It's a claim in a marketing presentation though.

Apple also touts ultra durable screens in their presentation and people still shatter them regularly.

Are the on screen controls fixed to the right ?

The curved right side makes me think so, but it sound like a pain for people using their phone left hand dominantly.

> laptop

His current setup doesn't look bad to me from an ergonomic standpoint. Displays are fully articulated in all directions and probably at eye level, and keyboard and mouse will be in a comfortable position, with th trackball helping it all.

I'd hate such small screens but to each their own, and the MacBook wouldn't help.

On the decapitation, he's mentioning buying a cheaper device with a damaged screen (I'd assume those are near junk price) and I guess he used it the same way he uses his other computer.

It all seem to make sense to me ?

I'd look at it from the lens of the situation near the door changing in unexpected ways.

Like turning the thumblock, moving the bench, shoving other people's shoes in the way etc. There is a myriad of things the patient's family can do that result in 30s delays. Sure removing one specific potential cause could have value, but it might not be worth it considering the downsides (someone will have to deal with the mess, sometimes the lone elderly who's already in pain but not 30s from death either)

I think too many people are focusing on the "emergency" part, when most of the interventions aren't about shoving off every second. Other commentators picked up on the ambulances rolling into intersections at a snail's pace while blasting their sirens full volume, because they care a lot more about secundary harm than reaching the hospital 10s earlier.

TBF getting shoes on and off is literally 2s.

There's photos in the article, those aren't dress shoes with laces to be done and undone, they're fit for the purpose.

Also in cases where it's really dire they'll just step in with shoes on, it's just extremely rare and it might actually be another team altogether, operating under a different protocol.

These people will handle emergencies, but at a notch or two below fully equiped firefighters breaking the door and ready to deal with everything falling apart.

For instance for an elderly couple living together but both being pretty weak, if one's oxygen level was falling they probably couldn't get to the hospital for a full checkup by themselves. They'll call for help, these people will come, fit the patient with anything needed to safely make the trip, and move them out of the appartment to the nearest hospital.

There will be no need to trash the floor in precipitation, and they might spend some time in the appartement to properly access the situation and make it safe. They'll still want to be able to evacuate the person quickly if/when needed, but there will be a lot more to consider as well.

I think it's due to the lack of proper ads at a price point worth it. For instance your local fishing shop won't win the ad auction for your eyeballs against Binance or Tinder, even if you have absolutely no interest in the latter.

Being surprised or not, and being pissed about it or not are orthogonal.

I'm also not surprised and do fault Google for it. We shouldn't give them a pass just because they're regular offenders, it should be the opposite IMHO.

It's about 3~4 years I haven't used Immich so it might have evolved a lot since then, but looking at their current roadmap there is a ton of features I use everyday in Photos that won't be there.

And it's not to fault Immich, on the contrary, Photos is one of the rare Google property where the team is constantly pushing the envelope.

I could combine it with a bunch of external tools to make do, but it would be crazy clunky or would need full sync with Adobe Cloud for instance for the editing part, while doing all the scanning and categorizing locally.

On AI assist...I'm still pausing a lot when t comes to home projects that will be constantly talking to the outside and hold the stuff that is the most private to me and my whole family and friends. It helps me as a research tool, but due to my own restrictions it won't be magic.

At the same time buying compute is more expensive than ever, and the gap between homemade projects and what's available online in term of speed, functionality and LLM capacity is bigger than ever.

Building the equivalent of Google Photos locally wasn't that hard 10 years ago, given enough tolerance for speed and indexing lag issues. Trying to do the same today will cost two arms and leg and require a lot more overall knowledge of what to compose to get the same result.

The dust will settle and we should go back to a nearer gap in I hope a few years, until the. it might be a glacier age for self-hosting.

The two interesting points:

- you're assuming the 3 person you're hiring are women

- the people you hire only work for slices of time in a day

What's gone "wrong" is in the 70s women were still fighting for ERA and were significantly more dependent on their husband. Being in a half-slave status providing for their family 24/7 with nowhere else to go was more of a norm.

> zero-sum

One direction out of it is reducing the social burden on the family in the first place. Perhaps at some point we end at a zero-sum state, but IMHO we're still a long way from there.

I'm thinking about suits and Y-shirts and other garment that require either special care or cost enough to need babying for instance. Many professions still set them as standard job attire, which makes dealing with them either costly or time consuming. Meals are another point where the expectation on the level of meals cooked in a family will directly impact the QOL of the primary care giver. Home design will also bring more or less chores etc.

Looking at countries with high men/women gap, they tend to keep high maintenance traditions alive and social expectations are more punishing towards families that "cut corners".

Hire a three person staff and you're set. On the salary, you might want to raise that a bit.

I imagine it would become a different job altogether, more in the style of buddy cop movies: you'll be spending all your work hours doing every project with your partner, sometimes they code, sometimes you do, but you become a single unit for all intents and purposes.

I'd also hate it with every cell of my body, but for some it's just another way of life.

Or that N could be Nvidia now.

Why skip this part ?

> legislation needs to either make it just as hard to merge two companies as it is to unmerge them

> a browser is a complex program

A browser in the class of Firefox or Chrome is for all intents and purposes a full OS constantly exposed to the world.

I understand open source OS development to be sustainable thanks to the the effort put into the server farms. That doesn't work for client side software, with the additional hurdle of needing to be better than the ad funded browser.

> nobody

You're saying there's 2% of non-Apple laptops with good trackpads. Apple laptops are below 10% share, so by your own account that 2% is nothing to sneeze at.

Yes, there's a pretty decent number of good trackpads out there. If you really care, you'll find them, same way a few decades ago only people who really cared were buying macs.

These problems will surface whenever they get big enough, whatever size the agency is.

As an extreme, if there was one single guy in charge you'd still get recalls every time a problem reaches national levels, and you could get a lot of them.

Increasing inspectors and making the agency do more will help deal with issues before they reach that level (that's also assuming regulations are favorable to their job...), potentially lowering the number of wide range recalls they have to call for.

Could be part of it. Another angle is payment processors longing for stronger KYC.

Felica is bound to a phone with a carrier on a national network, which basically guarantees full traceability of the user. Same for WeChat. PromptPay also binds to a bank account, so again it can be tracked at a gov. level.

> resignation is the proper action

Why not act according to your conscience and get fired if your employer really feels like it ?

Otherwise, in many circumstances a simple "is this legal?" question in a chat or chain of emails that I'll be there in case of discovery will have tremendous effects on whether some dubious thing is done willy nilly.

The chip is not missing, the configuration is.

I assume it's a licensing issue, where Google is too cheap to pay JR for the phones sold outside of Japan, so only setup the JP models and only pay the license for those.