Readit NewsThe number of times I clicked “show less” and it has zero effect on the number of shorts.
I complain about it to Google. They ignore it. They couldn't possibly give a shit.
I should probably complain to my congressman. Who also won't do shit even if they actually give a shit.
Could you elaborate? What specifically would you do? Because I'm finding it hard to imagine what I'd do with an "open" iPhone that I can't do now, but it's extremely easy to imagine all the horrific security risks that would emerge in what today is most people's primary computing device, storing data about literally their entire lives.
All kinds of shit.
I'd make locking the phone while the flashlight is operating require pressing the lock button again to wake the screen with no exceptions, so the screen no longer shines in my eyes reducing the effectiveness of the flashlight, and stay palm input stops opening the camera.
I'd hook screen time management of my children's devices—which I perform on my own device—into FaceID instead of requiring a stupid passcode.
You don't have to go far to find areas where iOS could use some customization. But if it's Apple's code, the most useful adjustments are off limits.
Jailbroken iOS was a fantastic platform for the first 9 major releases or so because it had that kind of stuff in it. Now it's "throw a suggestion in the box on our website and we'll ignore it in the order it was received."
TBF it's "only" sites with a meta pixel, and on Android. But in my book this does not matter, it shows their intentions
I'm sure there's also no user-controlled firewall to stop it on Android either.
And if they didn't, it was not for lack of trying... What does it take for people to delete this shit?
I remember that this "became news" some time ago, but it's always pretty obvious the moment it loads.
App presenting an SFSafariViewController? "Convenience" that's intended to keep users in the app.
App presenting a WKWebView? Assume it's loaded with spyware scripts.
I think you may have mixed up mini-LED backlighting with OLED and microLED displays. mini-LED backlights merely allow for better local dimming of the backlight behind an LCD, but the number of independently variable backlight zones is still orders of magnitude smaller than the number of pixels. Over short distances, an LCD with local dimming is still susceptible to all of the contrast-limiting downsides of an LCD with a uniform static backlight (and local dimming brings new challenges of its own).
OLED is the mainstream display technology where individual pixels directly emit their own light, so you can truly have a completely black pixel next to a lit pixel. But there are still layers and coatings between the OLED and the user, so infinite contrast isn't actually achievable.
microLED is an unsuccessful technology to provide the benefits of OLED without as many of the downsides (primarily, the uneven aging). But nobody has managed to make large microLED displays economically yet, and it doesn't look like the tech will be going mainstream anytime soon.
The appearance of a lone mouse cursor on a black screen in the dark is mildly amusing for exactly this reason. You can watch as the ghostly halo of light follows it around the screen as you move the cursor.
I'll upgrade my machine when they put an OLED display in it.
Turns out you can't just dd a windows iso onto a usb drive.
You have to format it to fat32, then manually copy all the files. However there is one big installer file which is above 4gb, so you have to get some tool (also provided by Microsoft) to split the file into multiple files less than 4gb. The windows installer will recognize the split files and use those instead.
It's beyond me why the official windows iso just doesn't have this by default...
Rufus puts such a driver in its FAT32 boot partition and loads it before starting the winpe.
It drives me nuts that the UEFI sites never included ExFAT.
Whenever possible, I opt for PoE. It’s a damn shame it’s limited to a niche userbase given its myriad advantages.
I ended up buying a PoE extractor and barrel plug adapter for my Roku, and another extractor for my HDHomeRun.
It annoyed the heck out of me that they had PoE running to them and still had to be plugged into a separate transformer.
No, Flash was terrible and killing it was good.
I remember my teenage friends creating things with flash in a way that doesn't happen on the modern web.