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ulkesh commented on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/mikece

sharkjacobs · 2 years ago

> So the only compelling reason to upgrade from the 14 is...

Your brain has been rotted by product marketing and tech consumer hype fanaticism.

If your phone is a year old then the only reasons to buy a new one are

  - you make a living developing software for that phone
  - you make a living writing about that phone
  - you are a hobbyist or enthusiast who loves phones and wants to spend disposable income on them

ulkesh · 2 years ago

Yeah, far be it for me to expect a 2.76 TRILLION dollar company to actually innovate within a single year. My apologies for having such expectations. And my brain is the one rotted. Okay.

I love how downvotes are used here to punish those you disagree with. Such fun. I guess this is now Reddit.

ulkesh commented on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/mikece

rahkiin · 2 years ago

What do you even use usb data transfer for? I have only ever used it for development which was quick enough with Lightning (also usb 2.0)

ulkesh · 2 years ago

Whatever I please. It's irrelevant what I may use it or not use it for.

The point is that the technology now is far past USB 2 (and has been for some time despite Apple's persistence on using Lightning with such slower speeds) and the only reason they have for not putting USB 3 in the 15s (non-Pro) is greed. They were forced by the EU to convert to USB-C, so it looks to me as if they did the absolute minimal amount of work and effort to be any more consumer-friendly than they have to be.

ulkesh commented on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/mikece

ulkesh · 2 years ago

So the only compelling reason to upgrade from the 14 is...USB-C, where people are saying the 15 (non-Pro) runs at USB2 speeds?

This was one of the most lackluster Apple launches in recent memory. I long for the day when Apple actually innovated on this product line. Now they're simply treading water and only making good changes when forced to (EU requiring USB-C).

I will give credit where it is due for Apple -- the M2 MacBook Air is phenomenal, even as a software engineering platform. The form factor is fantastic, the weight is awesomely light, and it's a true joy to use. Sadly, innovation on macOS is about as bad as the iPhone, but I suppose I'm more okay with that because being my workhorse machine, I want predictable stability more than I want interesting features.

Edit>> I love how people are asking "what are you doing with data transfer anyway?" Such deflection of the principle of the issue, but keep on trying as if any answer I'd give would satisfy the question. I adore Apple products, I don't adore a clear stab at yet more greed from the company that has had the top market cap for years now. I'm intelligent enough to see this for what it is, and not simply dismiss corporate greed because some people may not use the device the same way as others. Putting USB3.2 in these phones is possible. Putting Thunderbolt in these phones is possible, though that comes with the Intel complication. The tech exists and has for many years now. They chose not to bother on the lower end phones so they could create yet more divergence between the product lines trying to create FOMO for people so they'll buy the higher end phone.

ulkesh commented on X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training stackdiary.com/x-can-now-... · Posted by u/skilled

jamiequint · 2 years ago

You're free to delete your content and your account if you're unhappy. There's nothing it "should" be, it's not your company.

Also, it's pretty obvious that everyone was training on Twitter data already before they cracked down on scraping. It is, after all, a public forum.

ulkesh · 2 years ago

I did. Right after Musk took over. Doesn’t mean I can’t also have an opinion on the matter.

ulkesh commented on X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training stackdiary.com/x-can-now-... · Posted by u/skilled

ulkesh · 2 years ago

I love how this is justified by "everyone is doing it so it's okay." That's the bandwagon fallacy and I don't buy it.

Twitter (I will not call it X, because that's just stupid), is free to attempt to change their Terms of Service, policies, etc, but we do not have to accept it or agree with it or be resigned to it. Also, it should not be retroactively applied to past content, and it should be an opt-in consent -- but that is pie-in-the-sky wishing at this point given the garbage heap Musk, and others, has made of Twitter.

ulkesh commented on Changing its name tanked X's downloads in App Store and Play Store daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

bashtoni · 2 years ago

You have wonder if the plan was to buy Twitter specifically to kill it.

If that's the case, Musk is doing brilliantly - plenty of scope for plausible deniability while succeeding at his goal.

ulkesh · 2 years ago

Occam’s razor would suggest he’s simply incompetent.

ulkesh commented on Babylon 5 Is a Perfect, Terrible Series tor.com/2023/08/09/babylo... · Posted by u/webmaven

ulkesh · 2 years ago

With some of the best acting in both Andreas Katsulas and Peter Jurasik, the character development, and the various production woes, I’d say it’s a pretty great series, too.

But we can all agree “TKO” was just plain awful. Right?

ulkesh commented on Linux guide for power users (2022) xnacly.me/posts/2022/linu... · Posted by u/yarapavan

ulkesh · 2 years ago

So it's a tutorial where the goal is to be able to take a screenshot, post to Reddit, and feel cool. There are a few pieces of good information, but it's for people learning Linux (how to install, run a package manager, etc), not power users, which I would define as someone who understands a lot of the OS and takes as much advantage of the system at hand.

I feel as if I'd qualify as a power user, who has used Windows since the 3.1 days, who has used MacOS since the Tiger days, and who has been using various Linux distributions since 1999 -- I definitely wasn't the intended target audience of this article.

With a title of "Linux Guide for Power Users," I was hoping for some interesting scripts or relatively unknown applications that might be fun to tinker with. I always love to learn something new that I didn't know before (an example: recently I discovered TimeShift which is really a fancy wrapper around rsync and BTRFS, but it's a pretty nice GUI to help create and restore snapshots that I wasn't aware of before).

ulkesh commented on Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/Sporktacular

hospitalJail · 2 years ago

Due to Microsoft's Forced OneDrive on Windows 11, I installed my first ever Linux OS on my main (high performance) laptop.

It took a few hours of messing around until I finally decided to follow the Asus-Linux tutorial, which worked flawlessly. My suggestion for anyone looking to make the jump, follow a tutorial. (I thought my tech skills would be enough, but there are some gotchas)

Anyway I installed Steam last night! (And ran into an issue playing Dwarf Fortress, classic Linux... but at least I don't have to worry about M$ hijacking my filesystem anymore!)

ulkesh · 2 years ago

You'll find, as I have, that laptops and Linux distributions/DEs don't always play well together (lid closing/reopening, suspend/hibernate, keyboard backlight, function key alternate media controls, trackpad, etc). It's sometimes a shot in the dark if not buying from a company that helps guarantee Linux support/compatibility for all the hardware in the system (Dell XPS 13 plus developer, System 76, etc).

That's great there was a tutorial that got everything working well, especially for your specific setup! I'm also now running Linux as my only operating system on my gaming desktop machine (I run Arch, btw ;D ). Steam/Proton and Lutris make gaming a relative cinch now, and I've been hoping for this since I first started with Linux in 1999.

Edit>> Words are hard.

ulkesh commented on Mac Mouse Fix mousefix.org/... · Posted by u/nateb2022

grishka · 2 years ago

Definitely not. This is intended for those "gaming" PC mice with extra buttons. I tried it with mine (I normally use a magic trackpad but sometimes, rarely, I need a real mouse) and it works really nice. The only thing I'm missing is horizontal scrolling but I have no idea how to fit it in there.

edit: it can scroll horizontally if you hold shift while scrolling

ulkesh · 2 years ago

That is just normally how it works, at least in a browser, has nothing to do with this app.