They just revised the policy to address the criticism.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/google-changes-repair-policy-after-criticism-of-third-party-parts-ban/

If we’re doing Lego stuff, I want the old gum drop iMac

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/de0eda3f-84aa-4cfa-9fab-c9eb155ada80

If hoards of a people can change from IE to Phoenix / Firefox, and from Firefox to Chrome, I have faith that is possible to get people to abandon Google search.

Big assholes?

Assholes

Does steamworks not have a notion of a parent organization or enterprise? That’s what most other design and development tools do.

If someone leaves, the parent enterprise remains, and new people can be added to the enterprise and can be granted rights over the content.

Ass

https://www.lycos.com/

Musk probably can’t get the good Kosher pickles anymore because he’s been promoting Nazis on Twitter.

I’m coming to the defense of fact-based conversions.

Apple has more than enough real things to shit on. We don’t need to dumb down the community by promoting misinformation and conspiracies.

Lemmy: Apple doesn’t care about your privacy and is secretly keeping your deleted photos because they want your data.

Reality: 1) iCloud photos are E2EE 2) Apple doesn’t have an encryption backdoor, which is why the feds keep pushing for one 3) violating deletion requests is illegal in their core markets

Aaaand… 4) your ass probably already has thousands of photos that you didn’t delete. They don’t need your deleted photos if they want to train models. They have more than enough stuff that you didn’t delete.

Scrutinizing the big tech giants is valid, but the confirmation bias and tin foils hattery around this topic has been a little silly. In a technology community, it sure would be nice to have conversations about how the technology actually works.

To be fair, next to no one bought this. And the people that payed $90 for this are probably not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

This is basically a dumb android device with one app - an auto friendly version of Spotify. To use it, you need to pair it to your phone via Bluetooth. So, yeah, it assumes you have a phone in your car with Spotify on it.

Also it costs about as much as a cheap externally mounted CarPlay or Android auto screen. So, yeah. Not great.

If you want to put auto friendly app UIs in an older car, go get a cheap CarPlay or AA display. Those are platforms that have been around for a decade, and Apple & Google have long partnership agreements with automakers that are likely to ensure those platforms will be supported for years to come. Hell, Apple is still supporting ancient iPod connection protocols 20+ years later.

This thing was the Rabbit R1, but for a music streaming app.

Car Thing is basically the Rabbit R1, but for music. In other words, a cheap Android device, with one app (a car dashboard variation of Spotify), a scroll wheel, and a some shortcut buttons.

It works by connecting to your phone via Bluetooth. So, yeah, instead of using the phone for the auto friendly UI, it pipes that UI to a second cheaper mobile device.

It’s truly stupid, and it cost about the same as an external CarPlay / Android Auto screen… which could display an auto friendly Spotify UI, and much much more.

This was designed for electric leaf blowers, not gas leaf blowers.

Electric leaf blowers are much much better, but they’re still loud, and that’s what these students were attempting to address.

It does. And it’s horny.

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You can have an iPhone automatically backup to a computer. It can either do it automatically when it’s plugged in to the computer, or you can turn WiFi backups on, and it will automatically back up when it’s connected to a charger.

The backup experience isn’t too different than what has been happening with iPods for over two decades.

IMHO, a more practical piece of advice would be “wait a week or two before installing point larger point releases.”

People are going to use cloud backups. They like the convenience too much.

Looks like someone gets to work on the weekend.

This is easy. Google “miralax colonoscopy prep solution”

Enjoy!