Yes I know that. But you were saying track record. That's a 3 year old device. Let's not say they have a track record until they take a device cradle to grave in 8 years. A lot can happen in the next 4-5 years. Then you claimed Apple doesn't have a track record and they have taken a device, claimed 7 years and actually done 7 years cradle to grave.
Thats your experience. I've had the complete opposite. A 4 year old iPhone that still felt as snappy as it did the day I broke it out of the box. Never had an android that felt like that after 6 months.
And Apple have generations of devices that have gotten a full 7 years of support. We still havn't seen a generation of Android do that since Google changed their policy. I sincerely hope it does happen. Competition is better.
But here is a site with some EOL info on Pixel. Pixel 6 support looks like it ends in 3 weeks with a grand total of about 5 years of support.
Compare this with the iPhone 11 that came out in 2019 that will be able to run iOS27 (comes out next week) and the Pixel 6 that came out in 2021.
And the original point was, "why iPhone over cheap android $200." Pixel 6 was a flagship phone with a launch price of $599. You could have gotten an iPhone 13 mini (release in 2021) and for an extra hundred bucks, been supported until at least 2028.
Telerik has been around awhile and makes $60 million a year and their business model is selling essentially UI components at the heart of it for Microsoft UI frameworks. There is also SyncFusion and DevExpress.
Its crazy, but there is clearly money to be had in this.
Because 7 years from now, my iPhone will still have the latest OS and security updates. I also have the budget iPhone 16e. I also haven't broken a phone since I was 16. Not like cheap androids that are often abandonware by the device maker before they even hit the shelves.
It sucks. I wish that would change, but that is what made me switch from Android to iPhone after 12 years on Android. At the time, even flagship androids were lucky to get 2 years of OS updates and security fixes. Apparently Google and Samsung are going to support their devices longer, but I'll wait till they have a track record. But ultimately, an iPhone for me does come out cheaper over the lifetime of a device than cycling through cheap androids every 2 years.
I'd also add that the mobile gaming market on iPhone is the largest individual gaming competitor, at least by the dollars, and bigger screen probably enhances play experiences that can be had on mobile.
But its also hard not to be. I'm not a fan of Musk and it doesn't even have to do with Musk himself as its a common theme I see among a lot of the big tech companies or really any company doing a big project in my neck of the woods. An hour north east of me, there has been big on going data center projects for 10+ years. Sounds good right? I got a lot of family and friends in the trades. But I can almost set my watch to it. When work ramps up, its always good pay and 15 years of guaranteed work until suddenly its not. 8 months go by, suddenly everything is paused and all those contractors are out of work for a year and a half until things start up again. Then its rinse and repeat.
Never had a zune, but I did have an iPod. I am willing to accept Zune was superior. But its just an example that, yea, often times the superior solution doesn't actually win. There is a huge list of better technology that lost out to worst technology. Which is why I find it funny the claim that the market is optimal in choosing winners and loosers.
My guess is, user list would be the least. Microsoft has this thing about getting you all warm and snug because they have a solution for everything. Need an IDE? VS Code and VS proper. Got your hosting needs (azure). Literally everything. You wanna build applications around AI. We got you too, along with the VCS to keep your app in and pipelines. Hey, go ahead and send us your data so your AI application is better because you're really just calling our models. Right, and this goes even further. Data is incredibly valuable. And here we are, now paying companies to vacuum up all our data. Every last bit. And I am just seeing GitHub as another way to get people in the door to do just that.
Probably the biggest thing that has me dumbfounded about everything in the AI space and the tooling in GitHub and stuff with co-pilot. They've figured out a way to make us pay them to steal all our valuable data. And to package it up all nice for them with a bow on it and not question it.
My only push back would be on the FREE part. I coulda bought that 5 years ago. Now I look at GitHub and go, "if the product is free, it's because Im the product" with all their co-pilot stuff.
I may have come out with a different interpretation than you did of GP's comment. I see how you got to yours. But the way I read them saying they should slow down was, maybe slow down on new features. Which would mean they could shift resources from new features to infra.
I think that is one thing about trying to study Shakespeare in class that can be improved. The class shouldn't just be taking turns saying the lines out loud. But you don't need a full theatrical production either or memorize lines. Read the lines with some light acting out of scenes with just the tables, chairs, and a small bit of imagination could be the class room study impactful.
Yea, its not one I exactly agree with. But it is what the team collectively as a whole said is something is important. So to the other comments acting like I am just being ridiculous. Everything I deny PRs on is something time and time again the team collectively agrees on when asked how code should look and the process and all of that. The team can choose at any time to change that and for some reason, enough people on the team when asked in a meeting if branch names matter a lot and if they should follow a certain format, its a yes.
Why can't people just follow the guidelines. You really want to get into a fight over not following established and agreed upon guidelines and code quality standards?
Its not petty is, Im not changing our standards because people got hot new toys. These are code policies we've had. If your AI usage can not conform to them, that's on you, not me.
Just hit "deny." I've been training my co-workers that the AI-isms their "AI Assisted coding" do that some shit just isn't acceptable. I leave a comment and hit deny. It also helps that I control the policies on the repo and they can't merge in with a denial from anyone. So it's either a fix it, or explain why your work isn't getting done. My manager is also 100% with this.
I've denied for poor branch names and commits from AI. I've denied for too verbose of comments from AI. I've denied for parts of the code base being touched that are not relevant to the case they are working on (login isn't broken, your case is to add a check box in the settings pane, remove the changes made to login).
Pre-AI I wasn't fine with PRs with multiple features and touching irrelevant areas of the code base. Why would I be fine with it because my co-workers got new toys? You want AI to refactor a part of the codebase? Fine. Separate branch, new PR, and in the description, present an argument for it. Don't shoe horn it into something else. Also, I'm not obligated to hit approved on shit.
I may also be a bit privileged because I can be a pain in the ass to whole team. I may be slower, but I've got the numbers, my code is creating way less bugs then my "fast more efficient" co-workers.
Yea that's another good point. Luckily my kids haven't had troubles with ear infections, but my sister did growing up. It like 3 or 4 times a year almost every year in elementary school and halfway through middle school that she had multiple that she needed to go antibiotics.
My wife isn't with me to answer directly, so I am going off memory. She is a nurse. But I am pretty she when telling me about her day at the hospital she also mentions needing to change antibiotic for patients for various reasons. I am guessing that also counts as 1 person, multiple antibiotics. Probably considered "separate" prescriptions.
Looked this up. Happy to learn something. They have confrontations that mostly result in harassing each other with water cannons and dangerous water moves. Massively different than military actions like land invasions, bombings, etc. I'd put it in the bucket as border disputes with India. They are isolated incidences but they are not larger aggressive military actions.
My only complaint about their site is that it mentions a generous free tier, but I have no way to seeing what exactly that free tier is.
Edit: Found it, but it wasn't obvious the navigation path to it. Would be nice if "free tier" on their home page was a link where it was there and clear.
From my understanding, yea they still stand up coal fire plants because world demand for Chinese manufacturing and the energy demand it creates exceeds how fast they can build reactors. So they build coal fire with the intention to replace that capacity with renewables later. Been awhile since I looked, but China has like 30-some odd plans for nuclear reactor construction with quiet a few of them having already broken ground, but that was about 5 years ago.
Outside of a few boarder disputes with India, I don't China has militarily attacked anyone since they got their ass handed to them by Vietnam (Sino-Vietnamese War 1979). So I think that rules out China.
Doing a quick look over the article and your comment, I gotta agree. If you want stupid simple and content first, why wouldn't you use the gemini protocol? Pages are in mark down, no way to embed gotchas in it.
Its not one click, but is massively simple and building up tooling around it to make it easier would also be super simple.
Just to throw my two cents in. We could look at Singapore which does have harsher sentencing and low crime rates. However, there is a bit of caveat. Singapore has its red light districts where law enforcement sorta turns a blind eye. Its more of a, "so long as you keep your bullshit there, be classy about it and don't let it spill out, we will just conveniently ignore it."
This is where looking at the gaming centric distros and doing what they do makes sense. I haven't seen all kernel settings for all distros, but my understanding is many choose the defaults and most of the defaults are more optimized for server usage. Which makes sense. Debian's biggest deployment environment is a fleet of servers. For the standard Debian Install, of course. However, my laptop is not a server, so the defaults don't make sense. This is where we maybe need distros that their whole niche is to be laptop friendly. Or, get the bigger distros, to offer a flavor with a different set of defaults for laptop environments.
I think it depends. This will probably be true if PS6 is an outlier in price in its generation. But from the way it looking, PC gaming is also just going up in price and a xbox will probably be somewhere in the ballpark, almost all due to hardware prices. Ive read rumors the next gen xbox is speculated to also be in the $1,000 range and its pretty much known that valve wanted to do around $800 for the steam machine, but hardware prices made that non-viable for their scale.
I think it'd b more accurate to predict that people won't just give up on the ecosystem, but gaming in general. Or more people will just move to gotcha phone games.
FOSS enjoyer here. I actually prefer native apps. I already got too many tabs and windows opened with my browser(s) and also, I really hate when a web app decided to rearrange the UI and I have no clue until I am in it. With native apps, its seems like people are not as eager to change the UI and I also know the possibility is there when I see the update happen. I can also generally look at the version number and see its a patch release, so generally, my UI should not have changed.
Its been this way for a long time, but macOS apps through the app store essentially ship in a sandbox with the ability to configure permissions.
And there are now solutions that are very similar or the same on Linux (flatpak, appimage, snap with their very degrees of isolation). Windows, I will admit, I don't know much about it, but it may be the odd one out on this.