rainynight65

It doesn't make financial sense to build new nuclear power plants. They're hugely expensive and such projects routinely run well over time as well as budget. If it did make sense, Microsoft would be building them, instead of reviving the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in the US. Thing is, they want lots of power, and they want it yesterday. By the time you can build a new nuclear plant to satisfy these needs, AI will have run its course and big tech will be on to the next scam.

But hey, why pay attention to such nuances?

Da sind dem Praktikanten kurz vor Drucklegung keine besseren Stichpunkte eingefallen, und der Redakteur hat dann schulterzuckend 'passt schon...' gemurmelt.

No fictional dystopia needed. China already performs mass surveillance and has systems in place to enforce desirable behaviours in citizens. This is just another evolutionary phase.

I suspect a set of motorcycle tyres is also a smidgen cheaper than a set of car tyres.

I'm sorry, what? The tyres last a mere 6000 miles, or less than 10000km?

The first set of tyres on my regular SUV got me to 80000km (almost 50000 miles). If I get less than 60000km out of the second set I'll be somewhat irritated.

The service interval on my car is 15000km. At the mileage I'm doing that's twice a year. There's no way I'd be buying three sets of tyres each year. Fuck that car.

I had lots of time to play games, but not a lot of money to buy games.

Now it's the other way round.

If I could bring back anything from back then, it's boxed PC games that can be resold and traded. Covered a lot of my gaming needs from second hand shops.

Ideology over identity, every single time, without fail.

I stand corrected.

The USB transfer speed claim is misleading to say the least. The iPhone 15 was already capable of up to 10Gbps transfer speed (USB 3.0 support). You could quibble over the fact that the included cable didn't support that (if only the USB-IF could get its shit together), but to claim the hardware doesn't support it is a lie.

Also, non-US iPhones support both physical SIM and eSIM.

Over two hundred phones have been ported to postmarketOS and every person giving it a shot will improve it.

It's not that cut and dried.

A look at the postmarketOS devices page reveals:

• "the most supported devices, maintained by at least 2 people and have the functions you expect from the device running its normal OS, such as calling on a phone, working audio, and a functional UI" (aka what you need a phone to be); Device count: 5, not a single one of them the kind I can go into a regular phone shop and buy

• "Devices that have had a lot of work put into them, where regressions are actively fixed, and the port is overall in a pretty good shape (read: your experience will likely be bumpy and not overly smooth); Device count: 28, largely older devices (pre-2018, so again not something I can just go and buy, and exotics like above; There is a lot of orange in the features table)

The rest is under "Testing", and the best summary of that status I can find is "All the devices in this table can at least boot postmarketOS. To monitor boot progress, you must be able to receive output from the screen, a network adapter, or a serial port". So there is a total of 33 devices right now, largely exotics and older devices, that you could reasonably use with postmarketOS for any purpose other than testing and tinkering.

I am what you'd call 'tech interested'. I tinker with Arduinos and solder electronics as part of my hobby. I do a smidgen of self-hosting and similar, though I am not nearly as far into the weeds as many people, and it's not my key interest or activity. The thing about a phone is, I need it to work, because I need it for work. I don't have time or compunction to go through the process of installing an OS the manufacturer doesn't want me to install. I don't have time to deal with a non-polished UX or capricious apps that need workarounds to install on a 'non-standard' OS (for lack of a better term). I know that's not the fault of the OS, but a choice made by phone manufacturers and app developers, but that doesn't make it any less real or an issue for me.

I can get the battery replaced on my phone for a fraction of the money it would cost me to buy a new phone. So I have to take it in to the shop for an hour. Big deal. I can do that once every few years. And I can still use wired headphones with my phone even though it doesn't have a headphone jack. Sheesh, I wonder how that works.

The biggest anti-consumer practice to make your device lifespan as short as possible is whatever software update practices the manufacturer has. Annual major versions increase hardware requirements - I can tell every day how my 5 year old phone is getting long in the tooth. Lack of long-term software support is another way to make sure the average user buys a new device well before the old device has reached end of life.

And yet every time Apple announce a new product or feature, Android fans are here with their 'welcome to the past' memes.