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> I swear people will pick an appliance with an app simply so they don’t have to press the preheat button on their oven.

Absolutely. The other day a colleague described the fact that her washing mashine's app tells her when the program is finished as an essential, must-have feature. I understand that it's useful and nice to have but if you're wearing an Apple Watch anyway, as she does, just set a timer. It's what I do.

Are you sure? I can hold stop to stop the current program on my Miele washing machine. The key is to hold, not merely tap stop.

> There is no need to ask for consent for every Stylesheet you load from a CDN. You’re allowed to use cloudflare, cloudfront, fastly,… - they’ll all provide the required DPA that allows you to use them without consent.

And Google doesn't? (Honest questions)

On first look serving a font from Google and a stylesheet from Cloudflare seem very, very similar things.

Yeah, seems insane to me. When I find a piece I like I often buy it in multiple colors. Best of both worlds: Same great clothing and still some variation.

> I do remember buying a car years ago and my wife commenting, “At home [europe] they wouldn’t even let you in the door”. In the Vally they just want to do business.

Doesn't match my experience. I assure you they'll happily sell you a car regardless of your attire over here.

As a former smoker: It's not just the nicotine, it's also about the ritual, the habit and the social component. Although the latter might have changed these days as smoking has become a lot less popular since then.

I'm sorry but that comment is very out of touch with how normal, non-tech people use computers. A terminal is a major obstacle for them.

I think that's pretty much a given.

Take Two. And Microsoft just bought King via Activision.

I think it is great. You can buy DRM-free lossless music from countless sources like Bandcamp or Qobuz. And if you don't want to bother with that there's always Spotify & Co., which gives you access to a pretty large catalogue of music for a very reasonable price.

I'm pretty sure that the number of users actually wanting to send an SMS rather than an iMessage to their fellow iOS-equipped friends is very, very small. I can't even think of a fitting use case.

It surely doesn't warrant a per-message-toggle and a global setting seems reasonable in my opinion.

Is that really true? I can't believe an employer could forbid discussing salary. That seem's completely illegal to me.

> Both answers put the onus on the employer

One might also be a lie, which I think is problematic. If, however, your second reply *isn't* a lie you might as well tell them to signal your worth. However that's a privilege few emploees enjoy.

Your first reply is a good option for msot of us.

This seems to be a tool aimed at employers, enabling them to compare and verify salary data of potential candidates. It adds to the information imbalance already present and doesn't seem to be empowering or helping employees unless they actively share their numbers - an option they always had.

I don't think she cares about the messages being green or any status implications that are attached to this color. However from what I understand iMessage groups basically break when there's a non-iOS device involved and suddenly everything reverts back to SMS/MMS, which sounds awful.

In other countries we use cross platform messengers like Whatsapp to avoid that. Of course that brings a whole other problem set with it but that's a different discussion.

> I have plenty of money, could buy anything I want brand new within reason.

Most people can't and that's exactly why they buy second hand. Turning this into a decision driven by concerns about sustainability seems very optimistic to me. Your concerns are admirable but I wager most people have more immediate aspects to consider - like being able to afford these things at all.

While that would improve things I still think it's rather unlikely that a bike shop would be willing to give anything but a great rating for the bikes the are selling. And if they are their suppliers might not like it. There's still a dependency.

Comfort is a pretty subjective thing. Your experience, while valid, is merely a single data point and it would be quite premature to disregard the review or even the whole outlet based on it.

Finding review of tech gadgets and hardware is quite easy. Even niche products usually have dedicated communities and sites with in-depth knowledge. It's the boring everyday products and large appliances like washing machines that are really hard to evaluate sicne their reviews basically amount to affiliate spam.

And yet everyone knows that those views are absolutely worthless. Who is paying for that? Who thinks this is a good use of their ad budget?

To each their own I guess, but to me you just described a terrible reading experience. Filling all available space with content may sound like a good idea on paper but columns of text should really limited in their width - that's just very basic and commonly agreed upon typography best practice.

> I have a proper home theater setup and it seems worse.

> With subs the walls shake. Try watching a movie at night with someone asleep in the next room.

I mean that's the point of a subwoofer. If you want to have actual low frequency response you will feel it. Obviously this setup is not compatible wiht someone trying to sleep in the next room.

Most AV receivers feature an option to reduce dynamic range. It may be labelled as nighttime mode, as in trying not to distrub others.

If that means you're reading your chats later it sounds as if you're also working outside working hours.

You are correct. It's strange to criticize Netflix for owners pulling their content.

Also: It's apparently not just an overpriced accessory, but a necessary cleaning tool for the Pro XDR display with nano surface: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-pro/clean-pro-display-xd...

Honestly, I clean my iPad Pro so often with lackluster results I might just buy Apple's cleaning cloth if it's actually better than other microfiber cloths.

> The vast majority of people are not comfortable opening their computer and mucking around the guts.

That's why Apple offers to do it for them.

Sure, completely user-replacable would be ideal but such a battery design surely comes with other trade-offs and compromises.

Reading the comment I was confused as well - it sounds as if the user provides his banking login to the merchant as part of the checkout process. However they mean that the transaction has to be approved via banking app, not unlike a 2FA authenticator app.

I doubt that's the issue. I mean, the concept is easy to grasp and explained in half a minute or less even if you never heard of Find My iPhone.

> This has been tried many times, you are ignoring the reasons it did not work. The employees hate it because they make less money, forcing the restaurant to go back to tipping.

Isn't the solution obvious? Adjust wages/prices to such a degree that it does fully compensate for the missing tips.