I think the equivalent is actually Amazon’s main website sharing to friends your Audible purchases in the hopes it can get you to join Audible

True, but w/ a caveat at the bottom:

At the end of the day, you have to remember that Apple devices are essentially a sealed unit. Any claims they make about privacy cannot be proven - they could slip tracking and keyloggers into every device, and unless you build a device from scratch and program it yourself, there’s nothing you can do about it. You have to trust that they won’t do that, and Apple is in a relatively unique position (particularly compared to google and facebook) in that the business isn’t designed to profit from this, so they have no real reason to do so.

This was actually the least-biased coverage of the day:
https://www.techmeme.com/231023/p18#a231023p18

This post seemed to put things in context a bit better as it sounds like Google’s two-proxy hopping is what Apple does as well:
https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/xo8ha0/_/iq5e40h/?context=1

The difference (AFAIK) is that Apple’s business is less-centered around profiting off users’ data, so they’re less liable to use the data, while Google will almost certainly use the data.

Curious to hear more opinions. I think there are technical nuances that I don’t quite understand based on reading this comment (& subsequent replies)
https://mastodon.social/@ocdtrekkie/111281971968074869

My limited understanding is that ARM usually is a lower priority for devs and so software is often harder to come by?

My personal hope is that people start to turn used desktops/laptops into servers.

Gotcha. Thanks for sharing. I ended up install forgejo yesterday but Gitea will be my next option if I encounter any issues

Fan of firefish but I will say the main, most popular instance (firefish.social) has been buggy for me for months. Often my feed/notifications won’t load, or I have trouble replying to comments. Or I can’t react to posts or open up fediverse posts. Real dealbreakers.

I’m going to try a different instance but otherwise I will likely move my acct to Mastodon.

Convenience is the main issue. AFAIK, as long as you secure your device, it’ll do the job

Good to know. I will say as a colorblind person, it’s always a tad ironic because as a colorblind person, the filters don’t make things definitive. It’s still a bunch of random colors that I can’t identify lol

The scratches during the review period makes me nervous. I walk into walls all the time with my watch so that’s a no go.

I’ll wait and see if it’s more widespread and if there’s any xmas discounts before I potentially pull the trigger

I agree with you and was also thinking that maybe waiting X days/weeks before publishing would be the solution.

What I don’t like about the article is that the phrasing ‘paying off’ can apply to making investors money OR having worthwhile use cases. AI has created plenty of use cases from language learning to code correction to companionship to brainstorming, etc.

It seems ironic that a consumer-facing website is framing things from a skeptical “But is it making rich people richer?” perspective

At my old job, we had a VBA script that would:

1. Pull client data from SQL
2. Load data into an Excel file
3. Update charts and KPIs
4. Copy/Paste chart and KPIs into PowerPoint
5. Switch to the next client
6. Repeat steps 1-5 for +100 clients

Thirty page custom reports per client within 2 minutes (when nothing broke). It allows you to interact and automate across the Microsoft Suite. That is one of the reasons why it is indispensable to many companies

To me, it feels like the final frontier for phones before a pivot to virtual/augmented reality becomes more tangible.

Got rid of my GV # after ~10 years w/ it so that I could use RCS. Not a vast difference tbh but feels a lot more modern

Not sure if joke or serious

Not a huge deal, but if the SSD goes on to last for X more years, buying an SSD today to save a bit of time will seem pretty poorly thought-out in retrospect

Proprietary so it’s a long shot but maybe start a convo w/ the creator of Boring Report as a last ditch effort perhaps.

Didn’t expect a lot out of A14 tbh. I think that Operating Systems have matured to become mostly an intermediary between the user and apps as opposed to the conductor. As long as they stay out of the way, most users will be content.

Personally tho, I wouldn’t be surprised if 15 is a huge release. Right now, the next frontier seems to obviously be transitioning phones towards AI personal assistants and w/ full integration. Microsoft is already leading the charge from the desktop OS front, but phones imo will be the most familiar integration opportunity.