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I've always wondered why someone doesn't come out with a disruptive lighting company that doesn't do planned obsolescence, build a reputation for your bulbs lasting 10-20 years, charge the same price as your competitors, and get all the free PR from being the most eco-friendly company out there so you dominate the market while actually providing some real value.

Theres literally a million sketchy ad companies out there that would be happy to buy that traffic

Or how about a functioning government with minimal corruption for starters? clean water? a functional banking system? access to education? UBI is putting the cart before the horse

You can wrap it in plastic and this is a non issue

I have an 11 pro without a case on it and just tried replicating what you're describing and I can't do it.

It pivots at most 1-2mm laterally to the left when i'm tapping hard on the left side of the screen which is barely noticeable. When I tap normally (a bit softer) or swipe it doesn't even move.

I'm no fanboy but i'm amazed that out of all the things you could critique about Apple it would be this one.

I can think of numerous websites i'd like notifications on. HN comment replies, for example. But let's keep limiting peoples choices

So what about when its a charity or government funded anti smoking program thats trying to target them? I guess now with the bad PR from this they won't be able to. Great work guys

When the average subscription to just about any online service is 3.3 months, the 15% after 12 months is simply PR. Nothing more. Apple crunched their numbers and knows exactly what they are doing. What's more amazing is that everyone, including you, has fallen for it.

What you just described only happens for me with Chrome on my M1 MBA. Try loading Safari, its instant.

This reminds me a bit of "The game of life" back in the 90s

Optimizing life for filling the savings account as fast as possible at the expense of everything else has consequences and your game should reflect this.

You should have stats including your characters age, health, happiness and social skills and have some kind of social media app with your friends constantly trying to invite you out for concerts, nights out, dating? and so on so that you have constant distractions to spend your money on to make it more challenging. Not building up the happiness and social skills stats should have consequences. You should be able to buy a gym membership to keep your health stat from deteriorating.

The consequences of not building up those stats early in your life is poor health, shit social skills and no friends except for the people you work with. But yay, you're a millionaire I guess?

The real game of life is that it's all a balancing act between having your financial house in order while also having a fulfilling social life, health, and happiness

This is one of those very rare events where the 1st generation product was actually a huge leap forward and the hype was totally justified. It's actually made a mockery of the ancient wisdom of "Always avoid 1st generation Apple products" rule. You are wrong.

Especially considering the value of the userbase and the fact theres millions of PC's propping up 'marketshare' that aren't even being used as personal computing devices (retail displays/signage, corporate/government pc's)

Just because you're happy to pay it doesn't mean 500 million people are all happy to pay it

In another lifetime ago, back when I was much younger, had a lot more hair, and phones weren't very smart; the cell phone store I was working at had a customer come in with his LG flip phone. The users primary complaint was that it was shocking him on his face while using it plugged into the charger and on a call.

After plugging the phone in we called it from the store phone and sure enough not long after answering the thing gave me a nice big zap on my hand.

Never recommended LG phones after that.

+1 for Peplink, Surprised more people haven't mentioned them

Unfortunately, the only remedy to this i've found is to travel like james bond with two cell phones. I keep a second android phone with my 'back home' sim on the cheapest monthly plan possible and only turn it on to read sms codes. It really comes in handy when needing to sign up to a new service in your home country while abroad. Just don't forget to keep data roaming turned off

Heh, most shophouses and plenty of standalone structures in SE Asia are 3 or 4 level structures built like this. Of course most are bigger, though I'm positive you'd find something thats smaller than this even just in Bangkok

This is the only thing I still use Dropbox for after moving my files away a long time ago. Set up a password protected folder, send the link over email and SMS them the password or tell them over the phone. Easy peasy.

Figma? Sketch?

Would love to see this come to Apple Notes, it'd be great to be able to export just for backup purposes

Consider that many travelers are using global roaming data rates on their sim card when arriving at their destination. They should be able to just open the app and it 'just works'. Your proposal isn't something a good product manager would even consider as an option for more than a few seconds

Makes you wonder if it's possible, and theres demand for it, why some Silicon Valley entrepreneur hasn't tried building a business for it? Especially with capital for EV being so hot right now

How about don't tell me what device I can or can't use? I want to sideload on my iPhone.

Yes, because there's no precedent of China blocking services for reasons of censorship and top down control whatsoever.

70,000 people banned today

Thanks for the clarification

So what's stopping an abuser from generating tons of accounts and spamming their network with junk causing everyone to have to host lots of junk data?

Have you actually watched Fox News lately? Right wingers are leaving it in droves because except for a few pundits (Tucker Carlson etc) They are too moderate. Most of the craziness is on social media these days and right wing news sites on the web

And you can bet by the time that day comes we'll have a new USB-D / USB 6 connector to get new adapters for and Apple will bravely drop USB-C from their laptops in favor of this new standard.

You mean, like the iMac?