I'm all for a ban which is simply, "any parent who allows their child to access social media will be sent to the gulag".

Problem solved, and with minimal government meddling.

Wow, that's so amazingly terrible that I'm sure my Australian government is planning it right now.

Can you not see why they might be incentivized to make it unrepairable?

Oh definitely, I'm no stranger to Apple's antics... but usually they're pretty particular about hardware decisions serving a functional purpose, and not just a way to protect their bottom line. They aren't exactly struggling to sell their stuff.

Their marketing is pretty particular, when it suits them.

Their actions show something completely different. Everything is about protecting their jailed garden.

It took the EU to force them to grudgingly use USB-C.

On Discord, I got the captcha, but then after it redirected, I got a page saying:

    {"error":"failed to execute k-id privately action (status=404)"}

I'm very much an adult, this whole thing is ridiculous. Ban me, I don't care.

I got this, but then refreshing that page made it work for me

The text with the code shows another step.

I tried it a couple more times, and it worked on the third try and showed me the green successfully verified message.

Why bother? Just get NTP time when the power comes back. It's syncing every 15 minutes anyway.

Because you want to know what time it is when the power is out?

Agreed. What phone would you recommend?

I want a flagship phone with a headphone jack.

Looks like the only option nowadays is the Asus Rog Phones or Asus Zenfone Ultra.

Sony still uses them. Their security updates were sub par the last time I checked.

Surely if Copilot was so useful and great, it wouldn't be free and they wouldn't be trying to force it down unwilling people's throats at every opportunity.

I'm beginning to think this AI stuff isn't all it's cracked up to be...

> useful

That's not even the endgoal they are aiming at. Suppose you have a data churning loop you want to run forever. First step is to send a copy everywhere (anywhere) and in whatever shape and form to feast. Otherwise it just sits there looking at the nuclear plant next door.

I've been a heavy user of the MS Copilot chat app on my Android phone, which I've been pretty happy with as a free basic AI chat option except for some annoying GUI bugs that they will apparently never get around to fixing. But I've yet to see a good use outside of the chat interface.

Reminds me of Amazon discovering most people don't use Alexa for much beyond setting cooking timers.

And how much of your cold hard cash would you be willing to lay down for the free basic AI chat, when they decide they actually want a return from their trillion dollar data center investments?

I'm not confident they have any sensible vision beyond "meet the KPI for Copilot usage".

its so that they can tell the investors that "100 million" people use their bs

I've done that with both LG OLEDs that I've had.

I have a projector that I never use because I don't like the fan noise.

They're great for sports though. Hard to beat an entire wall of screen.

I prefer OLED for TV and movies though.