Just what type of logs do you expect Hetzner to keep?
Splunk logs of traffic. It’s pretty common at the corporate level.
Readit Newsmatrix2003 commented on How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends delroth.net/posts/spoofed... · Posted by u/scd31
Not in the UK; my iPad was unreliable from the off, eventually it was crashing 4 minutes after starting it. Trying to trade it in just got a message along the lines of "It can still have a good second life, go find a responsible recycler and give it to them. Have a Nice Day!".
Unlikely to ever buy an Apple product again.
Are other companies much better in this regard?
He's literally just talking about Apple's trade-in program.
Yep! This is exactly it.
matrix2003 commented on Standardizing Automotive Connectivity tesla.com/en_CA/blog/stan... · Posted by u/hardikgupta
Telephony has been using -48V as a line voltage for a very long time, probably > 100 years.
Is that for power deliver, or signaling?
matrix2003 commented on Standardizing Automotive Connectivity tesla.com/en_CA/blog/stan... · Posted by u/hardikgupta
48v is probably more common than 96v in general, so more components available already.
As mentioned in another comment, it’s also close to the safety limit for low voltage systems.
IMO solar pioneered (in recent history) 48V DC systems, which is an easy multiple of 12V to stay below the 50V “high voltage” safety threshold.
It allowed people to use smaller gauge wire and chain together multiple 12V batteries that are readily available.
> Apple is only "green" in their presentations - in reality they care more about inifite sales only.
needs citation. I say this as someone who worked several years in engineering at Apple, and they were extremely environmentally conscientious years before it was a thing.
I send all my old stuff for recycling now and get a gift card in return. They just did this for my ancient iPad that won’t even run the latest iPadOS.
I go on a site, pop in the serial number, and they ship me a box for free with a return label.
I basically got $45 for an incredibly slow brick, so I’d say that’s pretty good incentive for their recycling program.
Sure, you could install Linux and upcycle it, but how many people are actually going to do that? I think the recycling program is actually great for the 95%+ of people and how they use their devices.
matrix2003 commented on Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing "lifetime" price lock arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/rntn
It's using less material and less landfill, but I wonder if it really is more sustainable in the grand scheme of things, at the scale of clothing and similarly sized items. The additional round trip shipping and workshop operations (HVAC, lighting, commuting, etc.) could potentially exceed the footprint of just sending you a replacement right off the production line. Obviously there's a crossover point above which this couldn't possibly be (cars, etc.) but it's probably a very blurry line, and I wouldn't be surprised if some companies knowingly take the worse but ostensibly sustainable option, i.e. greenwashing, for the resulting brand loyalty and word of mouth advertising.
Prefacing saying this is just my experience.
I sent back a down jacket which weighed practically nothing and packed down extremely small. However, harvesting the down is somewhat controversial and only recently has there been a movement to use ethically-sourced down feathers (I haven’t looked into the RDS standard. I’m sure it has problems, but hey, it’s a step in the right direction).
For normal fabric clothing, I think you are probably right. I do feel like the roundtrip in this case was worth it to get the most usage out of the feathers as possible (not to mention the 1000+ fill jackets like this are expensive).
No, it was a separate payment method called “Apple Card Monthly Installments.” If you just charged a purchase to your Apple Card, it was not an installment payment. That’s probably the confusion the regulators were complaining about.
I think this is it as well. I have a card, and do 0% payments. It’s not that bad, but I see how it could be confusing.
matrix2003 commented on Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing "lifetime" price lock arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/rntn
This reminds me of when I went in to a Patagonia store to repair a jacket with a “lifetime” warranty. Turns out they define lifetime as the “useful” lifetime of the product, which is a couple years. They refused to help and instead tried to sell me a new jacket.
I forget who owns Black Diamond, but they're kind of similar.
They haven't fully replaced the product, but what is cool is that they have a repair shop that has been doing free repairs for me. I've sent a very lightweight, very heavily used puffy jacket in twice for repairs at no charge.
Realistically I know that jacket isn't going to last forever, but I respect they are at least trying to help me extract as much life out of it as I can from a sustainability perspective.
matrix2003 commented on Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024 macrumors.com/2024/10/23/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I wonder why Apple didn't go for glasses instead like the ones Meta is doing recently; a less bulky and cheaper product would have probably sold more.
I would assume they said their market research said otherwise.
Personally, I have 0 interest in glasses, but a lot in quality, privacy respecting VR. Just not $3500 of it.
I would have been interested in a $3500 headset if that M1 chip had run macOS, so I could ditch my laptop on trips and take my office with me.