Genuinely a great day for linux

A plain advertisement on a user focused tech forum? Is this your first day on the internet?

Two headsets ago I bought a G933 from Logitech, mainly because it had an AUX input on the USB-dongle which I thought was pretty neat, but that one had big unnecessary RBG strips on the sides of the earpiece. The most ridiculous usage of RGB I had seen till date. But I programmed an interface between CSGO and the RGB on the headset to indicate my health so the people watching from behind us at a lan could see it.

Anyway, I’ve always preferred white LED’s and RGB can rarely replicate pure white.

Let’s create a society where people want to live and participate in, not fuck their toaster for the entire day.

Eta when?

“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link” - We are the weakest link in any security chain, and always will be. Social engineering is one hell of a drug.

Adding multiple factors to authentication just adds another step to the scam, it doesn’t make it impossible by any means.

Oh for sure, the UX is horrible, but I find the UI quite pretty. Could definitely use better playlist managegement, this could be the same interface more geared towards music managing.

Those aren’t Spotify screenshots? I am very impressed.

Just… perfect

Holy shit put that on a t-shirt

I was hoping for a new King Of The Road season, guess Thrasher will have to do it themselves

That’s like saying table salt might explode if it touches water lmao

SEO is of course a problem, but it’s been a problem for a long time

This has been denied for the longest time by search engines, them claiming search is always getting better, which is why we’re seeing a lot of articles pointing at the problem.

I think the prime of search engines as we know them has long passed, right before SEO became mainstream. Which is why we need new tools to search the web, which will be powered by AI.

Oh yeah for sure, like actually disabling wifi is a 3 step process, wtf. If you’re a fan of what android can provide, you’ll probably run into many grievances on an iphone. But here are a few examples I can think of what iphones do better or easier than any android:

• iCloud/iTunes phone backups: either automatically through the cloud or manually using a pc, but taking a full backup and restoring them has always been easier. Using iCloud is by far the easiest, for a price ofcourse, a full backup continuously safe from loss or damage. Same with your pictures and personal data. Google and samsung now provide similar services, but apples’ is more complete and hassle free. They also provide a fully free temporary backup for 30 days so you can sell your current device with no data loss at all.

• Transfering to a new iphone: kind of the same as backups but the transfer process is at least half the amount of steps and is so much more beginner friendly than android, samsung takes a strong second place with smart switch and oppo a third with clone phone. But apples is without fail the most complete.

• Interdevice connectivity: also mostly an icloud advantage but if you have more than one apple device or trying to send data to another iphone, airdrop and icloud have always been the most seamless. Other android services are coming close, but nothing can beat the apple ecosystem, at least not yet.

• Basic stability: the optimization of memory and cpu usage has greatly improved the stability and longevity of iphones, by having very strict rules on what 3rd party apps can do on the device. Also increases the amount of performance they get out of the phone as a whole.

• App store: has always been much less garbage and malware. By having a strict review process I’ve never seen an application doing to a persons phone what some android apps are still doing to this day. Tricking the user into allowing full device control some apps litter phones with ads, spam and malware, bad form Google.

For the record, I hate apple as much as the next lemming, but I acknowledge what they to well. And what they do, goddamnit they do it well. People will always be confused by technology, but apple does such a good job making very complex functionality accessible to the masses. Functionality on literally any other platform would require extra software, extra configuration, extra effort.

Perfect description, they made very complex functionality accessible by the general public.

And we’re using it to look at memes of beans

What are you talking about ofcourse they can, it’s an activation which is stored on their servers, edit the FMI database and your phone is activated. They chose not to provide that service because they can’t know if your device is stolen and it’s way to much of a hassle to confirm you actually bought it. iCloud unlocking is a widespread phenomenon.

There was a blog post here recently where a repair technician with his own shop was trying to contact Apple about reportedly stolen iphones being reactivated and resold and it undermining his business. They then found more and in one case it was a rogue Apple employee doing the activations, and in another it was software tools they found and send to Apple, which got ignored for more than half a year.

I can’t seem to find the original article but here’s Louis Rossman explaining the same thing. The argument boils down to the fact that Apple doesn’t care, more iphones means more people with wallets attached to them.

Also, it wouldn’t necessarily be public knowledge on exactly how it’s done, otherwise 1 Apple would try to fix the issue or 2 there’s money to be made in selling the service.

Edit: typo