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If your old relatives "cannot even handle passwords", I doubt they will install alternative App Stores or sideload some apps straight from the internet.

On Android, there is usually a setting to allow apps from different sources and additional permissions, you can enable per app (e.g. a permission for Apps to install other apps, which is for example needed by F-Droid).

Also this is not about preferences, but about anti competitive behaviour. Nothing will be taken from you. If you prefer the Apple ecosystem as is, you can keep using it as before, but Apple's competitors should get a fair chance to provide an alternative experience on iOS.
There are possible solutions.

There was an early Israeli car company where, rather than charging, they'd swap the battery. Faster than filling a tank of gas.

I don't think cars are worth owning unless you drive nearly every day. A car costs a couple of grand a year to own. That makes for a fair number of Uber / taxi trips and car rentals, with much less hassle. You can also get the right car for what you're doing; a 400km family trip usually wants more trunk and interior space than a trip to the Kwik-E-Mart.

If I lived in a city like you described, I wouldn't even consider owning a car. For those trips, I'd use the local car rental.

Coincidentally, my experience in the EU is the opposite: Long-distance rail is awesome, and a lot better than a 300km drive. The time I've seen people do that drive is waaay off the beaten path, where rail doesn't run anywhere close. So I guess it depends on what country you're in.
Your parents and other people who cannot learn the basics of new technology need to use devices in parental mod. It is as simple as that. They should not force everyone else to be on their level of needs.

Apple is anti-competitive and practically hostile towards developers so this is not a IPhone vs Android issue. So the "Go back to where you came from" rhetoric does not work.
> Red Spotted Scuttlers are spotted in the local area.

Has nothing to do with cookie cutter designs.

> Or the local laws require different pollution controls.

Has very little to do with cookie cutter designs.

> I don't think your plan can be executed in a reliable sense while being legally on the straight and narrow path.

Strange how literally everyone in the world can figure this out, but not the US.
I think the US (and perhaps all other countries) have plenty of experience running roughshod over local interests. In the US case big infrastructure programs of the 50s were typically built on black communities; in the mid 1850s Hausmann built the central Paris of today by demolishing whatever he wanted.

It’s a positive thing that people’s interests are heard as infrastructure is for everyone. If there’s going to be a road, water treatment plant, or courthouse it has to be built somewhere, so some sacrifice has to be made, but better that there is some discussion, no?

There has been a destructive and cynical view of the commonweal for the last 40-50 years which has made these discussion completely oppositional but that doesn’t have to be the case. The article touches on this.
Wouldn't dare do that in China funny enough.
And yet I have parents that semi tech illiterate and had grandparents that were tech illiterate that managed to not install shit on their devices.

At the same time, malware still manages to sneak into the Apple app store.

The walled garden gives a false feeling of security while at the same time placing in bondage all those even vaguely connected to the platform.
It’s not about forcing, but more about tricking. A classic example is like that: your elder parents got an fishing email with attachment, they tried to open it then it said they need that app to view with a convenient link. Unsuspecting, they clicked on the link then their phone is doomed. Just like a Windows PC.

With santioned App Store, such fishing attempts will fail. And 18 years of continued history proved that the Apple approach works. The iPhone IS the most secure device for the mass consumers.

Yes, I probably will miss my choices. But if that’s a problem, I’ll probably just buy an Android. Or better a fairphone.

But I want a locked digital forest to safeguard my privacy and digital assets. I can experiment with my PCs and other devices. That’s also my choice.
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Newspapers may have said that, scientists did not, and would not have done. I mean the maximum is about 70m rise if everything melted, and while that would mess all the coastal cities, the adjective "costal" is important. Also the worst case heating isn't expected for a while yet, and the "ice age" discussion that sometimes gets mentioned was on the scale of millennia, not decades.
How about questioning politicians? Is it an electric chair verdict?
Not the only weak spot, but a great idea, yes. Certain apps have become like infrastructure, practically impossible to avoid and very valuable to citizens. So it makes sense to regulate it like this to bring into the control of those citizens.
How quickly everyone forgets...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
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I bought my first Windows pc recently (a gaming rig).
I was shocked to find that even Minesweeper had ads! “Microsoft has no taste” seems to still hold.
This is from a long time ago, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Amazon app isn't on the Android store? I can see how having a single store improves user experience.

However, Apple playing both sides by saying the App Store is beneficial for users and also requiring a large % from developers doesn't sit right with me.
It's a SAAS product why not take both customers. Don't leave breadcrumbs to feed your competitors.

It seems nobody can believe your assertion that a company would deliberately fire a profitable customer by quoting an x12 contract increase. There's no point asking me to talk to people in my business. You're going to have to point to publicly accessible resources.
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xkcd for the xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1393/
The latest incarnation of Fourier series is in AI, in the so called RoPe technique.
> To be clear, I don't mean that the premium is warranted, but just that it may not be much of a privilege for many tourists.

Then we agree on that :)

For sure, it's not a big dent in ones budget for most travelers coming from other continents. The eSIM rates are indeed not that different from local rates. Looking at it transactionally, the premium is easily worth the convenience it yields.

Most of what I dislike about it is that being nearly forced to take the eSIM makes me feel more like an outsider.

Previous time I visited I did manage to get my local SIM, even though it took a couple of hours to find a store which was capable - and willingness - to issue one. This time, the regulation change caused my SIM card to get stuck in bureaucratic limbo because of new and poorly implemented additional KYC checks.

I appreciated the chore of getting a local SIM card, because it exposes you to integrate somewhat. It leads to interesting encounters outside of the normal tourist bubble, not just the people but also a bit in how their day-to-day business works. As such, I would like to be able to recommend others to try to get the SIM for themselves too.

Besides this 'stay in your privileged tourist bubble'-feeling, it also feels wrong that the premium between local data rates and the eSIM rates are that high. Even though the value-add seems minimal for anything other than skipping KYC completely and being able to pay with international credit card.

That difference goes somewhere and - I worry - that by fuelling that niche it only incentivizes the eSIM providers to lobby for borderline impossible KYC checks on local SIMs, which they can bypass for anyone able to afford that premium.
I'm guessing that one reason why Apple is so reluctant to allow sideloading of apps is that iOS has some fundamental security deficits: It was probably built around the assumption that Apple can always fully scrutinize the binary of each application that makes it onto the device and remotely delete any apps that misbehave.
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>illegal is for countries

You can be the first to go fight those wars. There's no 'illegal for countries'.
When you wrote "you can" which implies that everyone can, but not everyone will. I'm saying that not everyone is able to do that step.
Ah,that makes sense. I forgot about Tor. I used to run a node years ago. I don't remember how much traffic it would get. Probably not as much as the NSA/CIA nodes did lol.
Absolutely! All I really want is a warm, insulated home where my kids can run and bike around with other kids, and decent access to education and health care. A 70sqm flat in a car-free city would do the trick. We definitely need less crap in our lives, and more time with the people we love.
The entire article is riddled with citations. It literally quotes Apple's official documentation and compares it to quotations from the DMA.

Here is just one example that I saw within 10 seconds:

> Curiously, Apple claims that “sideloading is one of many reasons why in the EU, the DMA’s changes will result in a system that’s less secure than the model we have in place in the rest of the world,” and uses this as an excuse to introduce a host of controls that will obfuscate its obligations under Article 6(4) the DMA.
I work for a government institution and this is simply not true. We're required to get the option that best meets our requirements, and we define the requirements. Cost is one of the metrics we're required to use, but it's not the only metric.

For example, we typically want SSO and the ability to send a data file of users automatically. Those are both typically enterprise features.

Furthermore, I've yet to see a free tier product that doesn't explicitly or implicitly exclude business and government institutions from using the services.
That is at some level a distinction without a difference (and I have implemented PWAs, and tried to get them to work on mobile, including offline for significant periods of time). I've found (as a user) that most webview based apps (including those in the mobile stores) that I've used as a user tend to be held together with bits of string, and that running them in an actual browser tends to work better except in the case where there's literally no internet (i.e. for flaky internet browser beats wrapped pwa).
Unless this company is targeting the "homeless people who are denied entry at public spaces" market, how hard is it to get access to a free wifi hotspot?

Also, if you are such a bad situation that you can not afford to pay for phone service, what is the point of having this offered as a global solution?

Seriously, what is the audience here?
Around 2000 there was a dial-up service called Juno. It took about 15% of your screen to show a rotating banner ad and had some time limit for use. As far as I recall every restriction was implemented in the client.

As such there was a really easy workaround to connect directly without using their software and bypass every restriction.

A guy I know used that workaround and at some point got a letter in the mail from them because he was in the top 1% of users of the service which was very costly to them so they terminated the account.

My hunch is even small scale abuse of a system can have a big effect. Even if it seems small it still might be impactful.
If all you took away from GDPR is cookie consent pop-ups, than, well maybe not the EU are the fools...
Krita's "Assistant Tool" somewhat does this. You can define (infinite or finite) rulers, and circles (as a special case of ellipses, press Ctrl when choosing the third control point to get a circle). When drawing with the "Freehand Brush Tool", choose "Snap to Assistants" to draw along the defined assistants.
I have no theory at all and am increasingly puzzled by what is happening.
A small EV, even capped at 25MPH to reach regulatory threshold of not being a car, with a range of <100km, with four seats (and optionally, no trunk, or a front trunk so you don't need all the mechanicals) would sell like hotcakes in some cities. Requirements:

- Easy to park

- Goes far enough to get kids to school and back

- Adequate for occasional trip for groceries
I don't think that no approvals, no CI, webpage text box to fleet-wide root is a core tenet. Maybe a commonality though.
I use seaborn to plot directly with pandas, does Altair have any extra advantages? Or is it a similar style?
A corollary is where a large bulk of ads are for products that are completely economically inadvisable for consumption on average citizens' incomes.

So much is geared toward uber-consumers who have way more funds that can be considered disposable.
You can tap the text: https://i.ibb.co/2SpWSTF/Screenshot-20240226-131157-Chrome-D...
And usb-c on an iphone. Alas, despite consent windows on web, GDPR has been overall good.
Half the time on iOS, that now selects text within the image, which is cool, but not so helpful for the alt text.
I’ve been dealing with a seemingly impossible condition for the better part of a decade now seemingly related to allergies and aberrant immune function.

The problem is extremely consistent and simple to describe. Every food I eat for more than a few days trends toward causing an anaphylactic reaction. I’ve heard every response imaginable from doctors, especially all the unhelpful and harmful gas-lighting type responses. “You can’t be allergic to everything!” I’ve changed hospital centers multiple times until now I see basically some of the absolutely most credentialed providers in the world. Their best guess is a condition called MCAS. This is a poorly described syndrome basically summarized as aberrant allergic type responses without a known cause. It is a diagnosis of exclusion. What’s absolutely insane about it is that it is “not criteria for disability” according to United States current standards. It has got to be the most insane thing that someone with a rare, life-threatening condition is struggling to stay alive and at the same time struggling to survive financially.

My primary care provider didn’t believe me for over a year until I brought beans to his appointment, a food I definitely do not have IgE allergy to (but have been eating for a week prior to that appointment), ate one bite, then he just watched me turn pale, have my HR go from 75 to 125, and have immense discomfort that lasted for a few hours. My stomach also ballooned out like I was pregnant. Even after that, he is like “I think you have something like splenic sequestration.” Yeah, I've never had changes in hemoglobin levels on labs at the emergency room. It really is like dystopian. It took 6 years before providers checked things like tryptase and PGD2, known immune mediators, to notice they are variable and for some sometimes out of the normal range.

I guess I bring this up because I really am at a loss for how to deal with this condition. I take all of the standard MCAS medications, which seem to reduce the severity of my reactions, however they do not prevent me from having to constantly switch what I eat or drink. I constantly struggle with malnutrition and disordered eating because I cannot eat anything regularly and stably.

Many patients with MCAS take Xolair after they try other medications that do not work well enough to see if it will help. We really need more efforts to deal with these types of problems and more medication research. More biological research as well because clearly immune knowledge is severely lacking. Supposedly many patients that develop Long Covid also develop problems with their mast cells too, so problems like this have to be increasing in incidence. Asthma, an immune system problem that used to be rare, has an almost 10% incidence now in the United States.
mhm, at least for older phones there is stuff like: https://esim.me/

no clue if it works to set the card up in a phone and then use it in a board?!
>... Are you somehow under the impression that means companies won't go back to how it was before and simply package their website as an electron app for iOS?

I'm not sure there that many doing "add to home screen PWAs" in the first place, for them to be "going back".

"Add to home screen PWAs" were used by users (not many either) for convenient access to this or that website they've used, but weren't ever a major app delivery use case in iOS. So, I see the whole post more like much ado about nothing.

And while companies do just package webkit (or use system webkit) + some web app framework as iOS native apps, iOS still encourages developing proper native apps.

Which I'm all for. If Slack, VS Code and co could be forced to create fully native apps on the desktop too, I'd jump at the chance of replacing their Electron stuff with those.
Title says "in *a* web browser". Chrome is a web browser.
Also 30% was pretty common in game consoles and has been for longer than the Apple App Store has existed.

Tim Sweeney’s complaint about Apple isn’t that the fee is too high but that he wants to charge that fee rather than Apple.
It's pretty hard to come up with examples of how something does not exist. I don't know if the article has been revised since it was posted, but now it uses proper nouns instead of pronouns.

Another minor nit, verbs conjugate, nouns decline. Otherwise I quite enjoyed the article, although the idea that a 50 character or so regex will cover all your edge cases seems to be optimistic (never studied Latvian, but have some experience in learning various languages with case systems with varying degrees of success).
China won't care - they have competing products, they have Apple by the balls manufacturing-wise, they don't have free speech or democracy and don't fear any fallout from their people - they can do whatever they want.

Europe doesn't have any of that.
Hopefully many use it and start wondering why their banking/news/etc site doesn't work at that speed, as all it does is display some text and forms.
Is this actually a definition though? ADHD seems to be more a list of symptoms and then if you have enough of them yup you've got the ADHD, here's some treatments that might work or not.

I don't mean the current definition or diagnosis, if diagnoses were locked in forever we'd still be on the first DSM, I mean an actual explanation for the disorder.

Currently it feels like the equivalent of diagnosing diabetes by making a list of symptoms like "dies when eats too much sugar", "went a bit blind with no other explanation", "is super thirsty all the time" and if you tick enough of the boxes they'll try injecting you with insulin and that may or may not treat the symptoms.

Is there an actual diagnosis or agreed upon description that is the equivalent to diabetes' "either the pancreas not producing enough insulin, or the cells of the body becoming unresponsive to the hormone's effects"?

That's what I mean when I say there's no agreed upon diagnosis - yes technically a doctor will say you've got it and yes technically that's a diagnosis but it's still a little archaic in that the diagnosis comes from checking enough boxes from a list of symptoms rather than telling you the actual root cause of the disorder
Not the answer you want but all of these are nicely achievable in Rhino3D with aliasing for a couple of your dot points

Added benefit is it’s integrated with Grasshopper so you could extend any of these to your liking in Python or C#
This is a debate, not a mathematical proof.
This is simply wrong on the account that Android exists and plenty of tech-illeterate people use it with very little issues. Most of my extended family uses Android and they don't even know what an apk is.
You can't use visual key-points to navigate over open water.

You can use other things like Visual Odometer, but there are better sensors/techniques for that.

What it can do, if you have a big enough database onboard, and descriptors that are trained on the right thing, is give you a location when you hit land.
> Cant wait to watch VMware die a slow death

Their strategy is to go after a few of the biggest organizations, and not a bunch of small mom-and-pop shops. Just like IBM with mainframes, which still seems to be profitable for them.
> Has nothing to do with cookie cutter designs.

If you can't build the design, then someone will have to design something else that can be built. If people aren't already using cookie cutter designs, there is a reason for that. The reason may be one that most people don't like, but it is still going to be there.

And I am putting that the reason is probably going to be that the law probably does require consideration of site-specific factors.

> Strange how literally everyone in the world can figure this out, but not the US.

As mentioned, most of the world doesn't apply US standards and laws.

And you're speaking a bit strongly. Most of the world doesn't figure infrastructure out. The median for project management and country-wide governance is dysfunctional failure across most of the globe. You can tell because most people are impoverished despite us having all the tools to sort that out for something like a century.
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It can be argued that it is not monopolistic, because it dies not have 50% of market share.

At the same time, it is a clever technique. Create a walled garden, and subvert free market (act anticompetitively) only there.
As long as your garden does not exeed 50% of the land, your golden.
Reminds me of free dotcoms back in the late 1990s just up until the dotcom bubble burst: free but with a frame with a banner. 14 year old me enjoyed learning how to load (and then design around) my own page in that frame.
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GP just sees the world with what comes up in front of them. They see popups and they think that's what GDPR is.
Alternatively - Apple, don't like the law - don't sell in the EU - simple as that.

Surely your shareholders can do without the third largest market.
Yes, but during the last ice age we were under a kilometer of ice: https://xkcd.com/1225/

On the other hand, we've been "staving off the next ice age" too zealously: https://xkcd.com/1732/
having this as a backup sounds nice to be honest. getting a sim card in the traveled to country was sometimes a bit of a hassle in the past... nowadays probably not so much. anyways, this might provide the time to get a sim card locally, as those often times used to be a lot cheaper, than some travel sim... and also might provide different coverage provider / network wise, depending which network they roam on...
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There's a 60% likelihood of tripling your investment and a 40% likelihood of earning nothing.
I think it’s very telling that people have not substantiated their claims.

Perhaps there are people/bots who are paid to assassinate his character because of his right to repair work?
Incompetent CTO can promote incompetent developers to be leads, so now all of the projects from that team will be done terribly. But the CTO can't go back on his decision because he'd rather waste years before getting a result that works acceptably rather than show that he made a mistake.