And that is a bad thing?

My Xbox and PlayStation and Switch are also “closed ecosystems” and I like them too.

You can take background permissions from system apps on iOS

mAh is a stupid way to measure batteries. Wh is more relevant.

It also tells nothing about the efficiency of the device. You can add a 50kWh battery to a device but it doesn’t matter if it uses 2kWh at idle

A basic DOS system has zero networking or open ports

You post to a location you control, then post the link to that to other sites.

That way you own and control the content.

There’s a reason why Meta and Twitter hate external links, it takes people out of their feed

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/386/ 😀

But more seriously: I do frequent shitty FB forums where newbies ask the same question over and over again. I can just quickly copy-paste my longish and sourced response every time. I’m pretty close to just setting up an Alfred/TextExpand macro for the most common ones 😀

(On a proper forum we could just point them to a FAQ thread, but Meta makes is intentionally hard because ✨engagement✨)

20 years of Microsoft stock options is a good pile of money

Sadly Facebook groups superseded many hobby forums.

Some have moved to discord which is only marginally better.

If someone would make a platform that made it easy to move FB groups to a more open platform they’d be a billionaire

T-Pain?

Michael Bolton?

Yea, I had a friend who spent his free time coding how different tarmac temperatures affect the wheels of a fighter plane in a flight sim. (DCS I think)

Wish was horseshit though. Completely forgettable, even the kids don’t want to watch it again.

Helldivers 2 is the first time in over a decade I’ve had actual fun in a multiplayer game

Same happens with Safari. The page loads in a weird funky way, video sorta first and then comments and suggestions many seconds later.

On Chrome on the exact same computer it’s instant.

They’re doing it on purpose.

The “servers” are actually called “guilds” in the API.

Servers are just a marketing term

Inb4 someone rewrites it in Rust 😀

There are the “Worst driver” TV shows. There are some real head cases in there.

It’s surprising how few people know that you can run a fully uncensored LLM locally with any M-series Mac with decent performance

You can rent the land too. It’s cheaper in the short term, more expensive in the long term.