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  1. I mean iMessage partially works on Windows 11's Phone Link app and it's greenlit by Apple but I doubt they'll keep this any longer. At work most of us use iPhones but we use Teams and Signal, at home we mostly use Whatsapp and both my parents use Samsung phones so the issue of green bubbles being second class citizens is a pathetic US-only issue.
  2. Does Microsoft have a similar remote locate and wipe feature just like on Macs with Find My? Asking for a friend.

    1. da na

      da na

      They sort of do but it works quite poorly. Good ol' Intel Anti-Theft or Computrace are your best friends (if those even exist anymore on new BIOSes).

  3. I think that would be much harder to do since web standards are meant to be "open". The only reason I can think of is due to web browsers with their own rendering engines differing which HTML standards they support. This is why I can use Google services on any browser despite Google's warnings that Gmail works better in Chrome, or as to why LTT won't load properly on internet explorer since it's an outdated browser with lackluster HTML standard support even back when it's still supported. Not to mention the fact that Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla are members of W3C and WHATWG.
  4. They can easily remove iMessage and FaceTime in EU iPhones and iPads. I mean that's Apple's response when British legislators demanded encryption backdoors. Knowing the strong cult following of Apple, people will simply buy from the US and have it shipped to their EU address. I mean that's what happened with the first iPhone and with the iPhone 3G.
  5. If you have Windows 10/11 Pro, you can temporarily increase the detection sensitivity using GPO but at the expense of potential false positives. [configure block at first sight] [attack surface reduction]
  6. Next thing you know communist EU demands mandatory encryption backdoors and browsers without sandbox protection

     

     

    1. OhioYJ

      OhioYJ

      Then anyone could have whatever colored bubble iPhones have? Then what are people paying for.... 

       

      Honestly from what I've seen from my wife's experiences, people are much better off turning off iMessage from the get-go and never getting into that disaster. 

  7. The only reason I think off as to why the base 14" Pro has a paltry 8GB of memory is to push people to buy the 18GB version. But I disagree with Techcrunch's review. The 14" Pro with M3 is a better buy compared to a specced out M2 Air 15" More I/O (HDMI and SD card slot) Better sustained performance thanks to active cooling of the M3 Pro 14" Has Pro Motion display Better speakers But I agree with the RAM criticism. Since Apple made up a weird configuration anyway they might as well shipped the base models with 12GB RAM. Not sure if there are companies that makes 6GB LPDDR5 modules.
  8. Looks like the embargo has been lifted. My YT recommendations are being saturated by M3 Mac reviews.
  9. If I have the infinity gauntlet the first thing I'd snap out of existence would be Pinterest. It fucking ruins every Google image search

    1. Dillpickle23422
    2. Poinkachu

      Poinkachu

      3 hours ago, captain_to_fire said:

      If I have the infinity gauntlet the first thing I'd snap out of existence would be Pinterest. It fucking ruins every Google image search

      Me, I'm more to snapping the new google image away.

  10. Unpopular Opinion: I'm fine with Google blocking ad-blockers on YouTube. Why you might ask?

     

    It's because maintenance of YouTube is expensive, plus they have to pay royalties to content creators via Ad Sense. You run a business for profit, not for charity.

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    2. Biohazard777

      Biohazard777

      1 minute ago, dizmo said:

      If you use adblock they're not derogatory, they're accurate.

      Based on what?
      Interesting.

    3. dizmo

      dizmo

      5 minutes ago, Biohazard777 said:

      Based on what?
      Interesting.

      If you use adblock, you're not paying for the content you're consuming. Thus, freeloader.

      If you think it's fine you do this, you feel you are entitled to content you're actually not entitled to.

    4. Biohazard777

      Biohazard777

      Just now, dizmo said:

      If you use adblock, you're not paying for the content you're consuming. Thus, freeloader.

      Is watching ads the only way Google profits from me watching YT?
      Even if it is, I still see plenty of Google Ads... just not on YT.
      Those ads are often very much related to my watch history.

       

      3 minutes ago, dizmo said:

      If you think it's fine you do this, you feel you are entitled to content you're actually not entitled to.

      Google decides to truly block me tomorrow (they aren't even trying now).
      They have every right to do so, no questions about it... And I honestly don't care, I just move on.
      Wouldn't that be kinda opposite of thinking I'm entitled to using it?

  11. iOS sucks in detecting spam SMS because it has no filter for it unlike Messages on Android.

  12. The ultra line remains as two max chips linked together with a 2.5TB/s low latency interposer (or as Intel calls it their version an embedded multi-die interconnect bridge/EMIB). The rumors of a quad chip started way back since the M1 ultra. But some leakers say that the reason Apple didn't do a quad chip for the Mac Pro is apparently that simply adding more chips didn't scale the performance and power consumption to what Apple wants, maybe they're trying to achieve a similar performance as a 4th gen EPYC but at 1/2 of the power but Apple can't deliver so they probably said "fuck it" and put an M2 Ultra on a Mac Pro. So yeah the Mac Studio basically killed the Mac Pro. In essence, the Mac Studio is what the the 2013 trash can should've been.
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