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One thing most have done is incorporate more air, as part of shrinkflation. That makes it more soft because it’s less actual product.

The US is the primary military force protecting Taiwan, by treaty. That’s likely why.

Apple One+

Music, TV, Games, and 50GB storage for $10/month via Verizon.

Investing billions

Weren’t the headlines a week or two ago about Microsoft trying to get taxpayer funded aid for reopening 3-mile Island? Companies shouldn’t be asking for taxpayer funded handouts when they are basically printing money at this point.

Isn’t Microsoft Copilot just ChatGPT?

People on the opposite side of that tolerance spectrum look at us avid ad avoiders like we put in too much effort to do that, so I see it as two sides of the same coin. I started blocking/avoiding ads due to the nuisance, long before privacy and security became even more prevalent attack vectors through advertising. That was just a benefit to the time saved by blocking ads, but not it’s a primary use case.

Unlikely all 4 though. Give people 1-2 they can map services two, instead of multiple wasted (branded) buttons.

I’m like 80% sure they were being sarcastic in that comment. I hope so anyways.

I guess that means the US will send another $10B “self defense” aid package, again. Sigh.

I wish they’d propose a mandate on having the option for disconnected vehicles sold in the US, instead. Privacy-conscious people should not have to resort to finding and disconnecting antennas to reclaim privacy from sketchy data collection. I get that China is the big bad wolf in this discussion, but American companies are just as bad with the data hoarding and erosion of privacy.

At some point they are going to have ad channels with content breaks.

Gardener here, I think it’s too late.

It’s actually fake, though. IP phones “play” that. Also, when on a call, they insert "comfort noise, that very low hiss you may hear, to augment the odd feeling most get with crystal clear VOIP audio.

Cries in USA, paying $230/mWh. At least solar effectively zeroes out my usage via net metering, in the warmer months.

It’s funny. Security folks say how insecure Windows XP is, and how it becomes compromised within seconds/minutes of having an internet connection. It’s like Microsoft took that as a playbook challenge to repeat as an OOTB feature, instead of waiting for malware to do it.

Teams is doing the same thing. I can’t go anywhere close to anything Microsoft without some Copilot I didn’t ask for getting jammed in.

I was referring to services like Apple Pay

“AI” is the new “cloud”

Until you get hit by a card skimmer. Encrypted NFC is safer than a physical card.

Or when playing a station, ans saying “Siri, I dislike this song”. Instead of disliking the song, it just restarts the station, and some times, it’ll even play the dame damned song again.