Besides Liquid Glass (which is not only non-compliant with basic Accessibility requirements, but is also hideous), a lot of apps (like Photos) have had perfectly functional features hidden or completely removed in lieu of dysfunctional (and in most cases non-functional) Apple “Intelligence”.
I may be wrong; if I am, please tell me how to access Geotagged photos using a Map.
Hopefully it is delayed because they are extracting every terrible UI change they introduced in iOS 26.0
It appears that since Win10 is no longer being supported my Microsoft, it is now more secure than Win11.
(yes I know that there will be huge security holes in Win10 that will never be patched, but right now!? It appears to be the better option)
I may have to give up on Debian with Linux-Surface on my old Pro4 and revert back to Win10.
I will keep Debian+Steam on my gaming machine though…
Is that a strategically placed shadow or is the minifig wearing underwear in the bathtub?
We used to wear helmets whenever we rode after witnessing a fatality on the Great Victorian Bike Ride when we were teenagers.
Dude had his helmet hanging on his handlebars, came off at speed and skidded on his head. When the Ambos came (they weren’t called Paramedics back then), he was still alive, but his brain was exposed.
We never wore our high-vis vests though, they were loose and would droop off our shoulders and we would get tangled.
There was also the story about the dad so was fooling around with his kids bike without a helmet in the back yard; fell over, cracked his head and died instantly; (plausible, but unproven).
I reckon that is one of the reasons. Lemmy’s (and the entire ActivityPub/Fediverse ecosystem/graph) attracts people with a positive, progressive attitude.
Advertising is based on passive attitude and thrives on negative attitudes.
There was a lot of negative being accepted (and sometimes actively pushed) on some instances, but most other instances defederated from them.
Not the only case of this happening; Corporate Social Media providers do not want the Fediverse to succeed at all.
Instagram (and Fascbook, and WhatsApp, and Threads) all censor references to PixelFed.
If you cross post, it is best to watermark your photos with your PixelFed address.
I suppose “mature” would be a different word, but still not 100% accurate.
I meant Stable and Secure as in “consistent over time”.
The fact that it is also Stable as an operating system and Secure as in production workflow.
They are Conservative without being regressive.
Debian is a great foundation for any distribution.
That said, Debian is perfectly fine to use as a daily driver. Besides RedHat, it has had the most stable longevity of any distribution.
I work in automotive.
My livelihood depends on people crashing their cars because they are idiots.
People not servicing their cars is also a great money spinner because parts sales lost to missed services are made up by parts sales from breakdowns due to lack or servicing.
I wish people would service their cars regularly, drive safely and not be idiots.
ADAS is also zero-sum because drivers with ADAS are more complainant and just as likely to crash. ADAS just creates more idiotic idiots. (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems).
I work in Automotive because I didn’t want to work in Tech anymore.
I do agree that they are very close; maybe I’m an Apple apologist, but I put ICEBlocker in the same class as Tea. They both claimed to be to protect their target audience; Tea was exposed as having been Vibe Coded by someone who knew SFA about user data security and ICEBlocker had a huge honeypot of user data that the government would love to subpoena.
That is exactly right. But the demographic of Pixel owners likely to install GrapheneOS (or Sailfish or Ubuntu Touch or whatever) and the demographic of GrapheneOS users likely to buy a Pixel probably has a fair overlap.
Long-term support is never something that Normies (that don’t want iPhones) contemplate. They would rather buy the cheapest phone; they don’t see the value in a software vendor supported phone. That is why Samsung is more of a household name than Pixel.
Google have also shown that their long-term support is pointless when they pivot and implement their own version of Apples “walled garden” on the Play Store and the Android ecosystem.
Their implied guarantee of openness is just as facetious as Apples implied guarantee of privacy.
A gold or yellow wash should salvage them.
A mottled tan “filter” at the other end will also make them more cigarette-like.
I’m surprised it isn’t more.
Pixels are the reference platform for a lot of open-source phone operating systems. A disproportionate number of people who purchased Pixels are the type of person who did believe Googles motto of “Don’t be Evil”, even after Google abandoned the motto.
Now that Google is inarguably Evil (not Musk Evil, but definitely more Evil than Apple), these people are searching for solutions. They are gun-shy and are not likely to get an Evil iPhone, have a large investment in the Android ecosystem so are unlikely to pivot to Linux Phone, and the niche Android variants are more likely to be assassinated by Google.
GrapheneOS is the obvious choice. I’m surprised it isn’t a higher percentage.
One thing (only good thing) about Vista was that it rationalised Printer (and Scanner) Drivers.
The UI was consistent between printer manufacturers and everything could be accessed through one interface.
Then the Printer manufacturers complained to MS because they couldn’t have infinite branding all over the interface and the feature was dumbed down in 7.
Meanwhile Apple used the same UI for all Printers (based on CUPS) and didn’t even let a company logo appear in the interface.
Not all the Apple CUPS drivers were available for Linux CUPS so unfortunately Linux (at the time) still had their device compatibility issues.
In some fields, General Purpose LLMs are useful;
That is why they are being adopted wholesale by certain companies; marketeers and analysts for lobbying groups and political movements.
So yes, they are useless for any legitimate case, but are useful for justification of lies to certain gullible individuals (consumers and politicians).
That said, the fact that Deloitte was forced to (partially) pay the Australian Government back for a report that was all AI Dross is enheartening. The fact that it was only a partial refund and the company is not being prosecuted for Fraud is disenheartening.
That is the thing about general purpose LLMs. They really are impressive to people with below average experience and knowledge in a specific field.
People who actually do know something; academics, professionals and hobbyists realise that they are completely useless for their specific use case.
Unfortunately then they use it for something they are ignorant about and then they forget how useless they are.
How could anyone be lonely with such a magnificent moustache?