Modern mainstream computing, surely! I moved my household to Linux years ago so I may be a bit out-of-the-loop. Everybody can still do what they are trying to do, and more. It's brought back some of the feelings of wonder and fun about computers that I missed from the 80s.
I only buy cheap Androids with Snapdragon and degoogle. Yeah, Android is also starting to suck but at least you are currently allowed to take out the trash.
I learned today that connecting a child's Google account to a device completely neuters the ability to install or manage apps from anywhere other than Google Play. As in: I, the parent, can't even temporarily allow F-Droid to be able to install an app. Fuck Google, too.
Note to self: Lemmy/Voyager ate this comment; I can't see it outside of my comment history but someone else saw it...
I had to use an iPhone for work the other day. The up arrow to send a text message was present but not responding.
Oh, the autocorrect has highlighted a word it thinks I misspelled, and I'm guessing we can't send because a word is highlighted?! OK, tap elsewhere on the message to cancel highlight; it still won't send, WTF? Tap AGAIN elsewhere on the message, and now it can send.
Lots of reaching up to the top of the screen for no reason, too. Why are there controls up there when my thumbs are already at the bottom for the keyboard? I have to reconfigure my grip on the expensive device I don't want to drop, just for basic user interactions.
iPhone always leaves me wondering who approved the software working like this, have they ever used a computer before; and how is Android going to degrade in an attempt to copy this behavior?
All the magic of Airtags is in iOS automatically scanning for them and reporting the phone location when an Airtag is detected.
Anyone can move an Airtag undetected, as long as it is shielded from being pinged by Apple devices. Apple will continue to report its last detected location.
I'll have to find the source but I read that Trump has pardoned a number of fraud convicts whose criminal incomes, stolen from the American public, collectively total over one billion dollars... so only 50 times what this bitch did, already pardoned.
Where I am in the US, women don't go through it in silence now. If you need medical attention for it, there's an investigation to make sure you didn't miscarry on purpose and the hospital demands burial of the remains.
I had a deer trot out of the woods and up close to the shoulder of the road. As I'm pumping the brakes, she's waiting for me to pass while craning her neck to look down the highway, both ways. It was a bit surreal.
Nowadays, all you have to do to get your antitrust lawsuits conveniently forgotten is agree to lock down your company's OS and share your data with the US government, like Google.
1: to succeed in doing or achieving (something) : to cause or bring about (something) : accomplish
effect a transformation in company culture
effected a settlement of the dispute
… a powerful reminder of the potential of technology to effect change.—Chris Gallagher
2: to put into operation
the duty of the legislature to effect the will of the citizens
… an executive grant of clemency … to effect the prisoner swap.—Eric Tucker et al.<
English! 😆
Your point should be that usually "affect" is the verb and "effect" is the noun. I'm having trouble coming up with a mnemonic device, but at least these can be pronounced slightly differently.
Knowing Texas, the settlement of the suit will net nothing for end-users. LG will just have to give Texas surveillance gear for their concentration camps.
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