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Beskamir

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    Beskamir reacted to TetraSky in Apple’s new “Why Upgrade - See What You’re Missing” page   
    Is this apple admitting the glass back on their phones was a bad idea?
     
    In any case.... I'm looking at that page and only someone completely in the cult of apple would think these talking points are any good arguments in favor of an upgrade.
     
    "You get free, temporary iCloud storage to transfer your data to your new iPhone. "
    Oh boy, how generous to let people temporarily  have higher storage capacity for free when they need to transfer data on their new phone.
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    Beskamir reacted to creat0r in Apple’s new “Why Upgrade - See What You’re Missing” page   
    Summary
    Apple has created a page on their websites where the user enters their current iPhone model and gets a list of reasons to upgrade to the 15-series. Interestingly, currently only the 11- or 12-series are selectable. The user then picks one of four iPhone 15-series models, and the list is generated with reasons to upgrade. It’s similar to the older “Compare” feature, but this new page only shows the differences.
     
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    My thoughts
    Honestly I feel like Apple is getting a bit desperate to get users to buy new products, the title screams of desperation of wanting to give users FOMO. I’m a big tech nerd who usually wants the best, but my iPhone 12 Pro Max from 2020 is still serving me great. I know a lot of users are feeling the same way (maybe not on this forum though): that their smartphone is good enough - so why upgrade? If Apple made product that was innovative and revolutionary for real, then they wouldn’t need a list with all the subtle differences for the average user. My conspiracy theory is that the old “Compare” tool showed how much each “new” generation had in common with the previous generations, and that’s why they want to hide it and only display the differences. Also, wanting to give users FOMO by using their devices that are just a few years old is VERY hypocritical considering all their environmental focus.
     
    Sources
     https://www.cultofmac.com/851469/apple-highlights-reasons-to-upgrade-latest-iphone-2/ 
  3. Agree
    Beskamir reacted to FlyingPotato_is_taken in Under 14? No social media for you!   
    @jagdtigger I suggest shutting down the internet for 2 weeks and nuking social media from orbit.
     
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    Beskamir reacted to jagdtigger in Under 14? No social media for you!   
    Good move. 👍 Now we only have to figure out how to cure the already existing smombies.........
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    Beskamir reacted to TetraSky in GTA 6 production falling behind, possibility of delay   
    Good. Delay it.
    Unrealistic time frames set by pencil pushers higher ups who then force devs to do crunchtime should disappear. It will be ready when it's ready to be released.
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    Beskamir reacted to podkall in Nvidia now offering day passes for $4 and $8. But at least we got G-Sync and Reflex right? Right?   
    What better way to experience GeForce NOW, than toDAY?
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    Beskamir reacted to TetraSky in Yuzu to pay $2.4 Million Dollars in Damage to Nintendo. Citra also affected. Asks Judge to set Legal Precedent against other Emulators.   
    They just gave up without a fight...
    Because Nintendo 100% would've dragged this on, costing them way too much in legal fees.
     
    I went ahead and saved the latest version of Yuzu when this whole thing started. Considering it's open source, though.... Cut one head and 10 more will spawn from it. They will just be more careful about it.
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    Beskamir reacted to jaslion in Yuzu to pay $2.4 Million Dollars in Damage to Nintendo. Citra also affected. Asks Judge to set Legal Precedent against other Emulators.   
    Well this sucks. This is going to severely hamper emulator development.
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    Beskamir reacted to OhYou_ in White House urges developers to avoid C and C++, use 'memory-safe' programming languages   
    heh thats gonna get replaced with low standard LLMs
  12. Funny
    Beskamir reacted to StDragon in OpenAI unveils "Sora." A prompt-based short video generator with amazing results   
    Can't wait to animate this. All this AI technology just for the lulz.


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    Beskamir got a reaction from LAwLz in Disney Invests 1.5 Billion in Epic Games to create Disney branded titles   
    My concern with this is what the shareholder percentages are now. Tencent's got like 40% last I checked, Tim has 51%, and the rest is divided up among a bunch of other investors. 1.5 billion is a sizable percent of the 22 billion so I'm most curious who gave up their shares or if new ones were created or if investors in Epic Games have no influence over the company's direction.
     
    Basically as long as Tim has more than 50% ownership I'm not too concerned about Epic Games becoming terribly awful. He seems like a fairly sensible person with reasonable and not overly exploitive business practices. Obviously it's difficult thriving in business without being sociopath so I wouldn't argue he's completely perfect, but it is rather nice that he's using his fortune to buy up forests in order to preserve them.
     
    Either way, as much as I despise Disney, I prefer them to Tencent so if Tencent's grasp on Epic Games decreases because of this that will only be a positive imo.
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    Beskamir reacted to manikyath in Sam Altman seeking 5-7 TRILLION in backing for Open AI CPU Creation   
    i'd love to have 7 trillion as well.
     
    i think this man has been around big numbers he forgot their meaning..
     
    SpaceX quoted their first generation of falcon 9 rockets to have cost 300 million to develop
    NASA quoted that if they had developed such a platform using their own strategies, it would have been in the 3.6 billion category
    SpaceX estimates that starship will cost between 5-10 billion to develop
    nvidia spends 7.34 billion on R&D each year
     
    so.. what this man is suggesting, is that his endavour will cost the same as:
    - nvidia funding their R&D for the coming 950 years
    - spacex developing starship, estimating they double their original budget at 20billion
    - NASA copying SpaceX's homework and making a falcon bureaucracy edition.
    - still have enough money left over for spaceX to throw away and re-invent falcon 9 not once, not twice, but 11 times.
     
    please.. someone quote me to tell me that the order of magnitude got lost in translation somewhere...
  15. Funny
    Beskamir reacted to filpo in Two thousand year old scroll decoded using machine learning   
    is it just me or does the scroll look a bit like shit? (literally)
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    Beskamir reacted to Fasterthannothing in Google will no longer back up the internet, kills off cached pages   
    Hot take the Internet shouldn't be forever. If someone wants their personal information gone from the web even if it's an important figure they should be allowed a full data purge. 
  17. Informative
    Beskamir got a reaction from Dracarris in Alternative app stores will arive on iOS - but there are substantial caveats   
    It keeps confusing me how they intend to enforce that. VPNs exist. European expats exist. Buying phones from abroad is a thing. And so on. For example, I'm technically an EU citizen that's living in Canada. Would that be enough to qualify me as an European customer if was to buy an iphone in Europe and bring it back with me to Canada? Not that I have any intention of giving such a terrible company any money.
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    Beskamir reacted to duncannah in Student arrested after sending private joke over snapchat before boarding a plane, message was viewed by security as he was connected to public Wi-Fi   
    I still wonder about the technical specifics of this "detection" by the public Wi-Fi. Even though Snapchat is not E2E, it should still be using HTTPS. 
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    Beskamir reacted to Lunar River in Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice [Update, see 2nd page]   
    What is everyone's obsession with buying appliances that connect to the internet...
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    Beskamir reacted to Levent in Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice [Update, see 2nd page]   
    Nice, another Chinese company to my blacklist.
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    Beskamir got a reaction from Avaviel in Norwegian consumer law makes all new electronics sold, required to have 5 years of software and app support   
    This is an anti-competition law pretending to be a pro-consumer one. The effect of this will be that large existing tech companies with the resources to provide 5 years of software support will happily comply and support this law. Meanwhile new or smaller companies that are unable to guarantee software support for that long will no longer be allowed to sell their products in Norway. Starting a hardware company is already difficult enough that very few companies try and this will lower the amount of those companies even further.
     
    Of course, I don't think it's okay to make a hardware product with a major software component with the expectation that it won't be supported after some number of years, but I don't think there should be an expectation that it will be supported either.
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    Beskamir got a reaction from unv in Norwegian consumer law makes all new electronics sold, required to have 5 years of software and app support   
    This is an anti-competition law pretending to be a pro-consumer one. The effect of this will be that large existing tech companies with the resources to provide 5 years of software support will happily comply and support this law. Meanwhile new or smaller companies that are unable to guarantee software support for that long will no longer be allowed to sell their products in Norway. Starting a hardware company is already difficult enough that very few companies try and this will lower the amount of those companies even further.
     
    Of course, I don't think it's okay to make a hardware product with a major software component with the expectation that it won't be supported after some number of years, but I don't think there should be an expectation that it will be supported either.
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    Beskamir reacted to williamcll in Rabbit R1, can it replace the use of smart phone apps in the future?   
    Essentially a phone with just the smart assistant and nothing else. Great for the elderly but useless for everyone else.
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    Beskamir reacted to Blue4130 in Rabbit R1, can it replace the use of smart phone apps in the future?   
    So it's just a smartphone that can't make calls?
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