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sumuyudaon List of APIs that require declared reasons

I think this behavior hasn’t changed: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/36442

sumuyudaon Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

You can actually switch to desktop mode, which is a full KDE environment, so it is a Linux desktop PC.

sumuyudaon Apple Shuts Down “My Photo Stream”

I don’t think it’s fair to count security updates as continued support, as soon as the software/applications you are using drops support for your old version, you can’t use it anymore, forcing you to buy new hardware. It doesn’t matter that you have security updates when you can’t run the software you need.

Windows is much better in that there aren’t yearly releases obsoleting machines every year. You can run the latest version of Windows 10 on hardware older than 10 years.

sumuyudaon Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data

This is because each app has their own private keychain (separate from the saved passwords) which is not cleared when the app is deleted. Apple tried to change the behavior and have it wiped on delete, but many developers complained. This allows apps to track you across installs of the app.

sumuyudaon My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do

https://maruos.com/

sumuyudaon SwiftData

This is a huge annoyance with CoreData, you can’t pass objects between threads.

sumuyudaon Apple is rewriting Foundation in Swift

Lol, Apple is still treating developers like trash, just a new language now.

sumuyudaon The Soul of an Old Machine

Put Linux on it to make it useable again.

I was running Linux on my 2011 MacBook Pro until the GPU finally failed, otherwise the machine was perfectly usable for web browsing.

sumuyudaon A bad acid trip nearly ruined my life

Based on the description it seems like he took some other research chemical and not LSD.

Key things: - 15 minute onset - Massive hallucinations - Only lasted a few hours

LSD takes 45 minutes to start the effects and lasts around 12 hours. As mentioned in the article, you don’t hallucinate big scenes or things that aren’t there.

I once had a similar experience where I took some random tabs from a guy in a bar. I immediately had effects with in 15 minutes, with some big visuals. The trip was pretty intense, but not as bad as the author’s. The trip was over in around 5-6 hours. It was definitely a research chemical and not LSD.