Even more aggregious is the EU’s audacity to declare that tech companies must be horizontally integrated. What’s next, are they going to go after Nintendo?

Yeah, nothing insecure about that!

As an Apple fan, I do not want what these governments are pushing. Apple is vertically integrated. As a consumer, I like that. So is Nintendo, and your favorite car company, etc.

We don’t need to use the law to force Apple to horizontally integrate. If Apple’s charging too much, just say so and force them to lower it.

how does bg3 play on a non-pro/max machine? Is it doable?

Modern Chrome and Safari used to share the same open source engine until it was forked. They’re not that different from each other

Tell me about it! My old series 6 was getting really rough battery life (hence my big post about it). Series 9 feels really good. These batteries don’t do too well after three years…

Series 9 is a new chip

I think when Apple announces battery life for watches, the measurement is for the current watch on the current software. Over time, yes your battery holds less charge, but also, the software gets new features that the newer hardware handles just fine, but the older hardware starts to struggle with. Apple doesn’t provide data for newer software on older devices. There’s no spec sheet from Apple saying, “if you upgrade your series 5/6 to WatchOS 9, you should expect this new, lower battery life.”

But we all know newer, better features are going to use more compute - that’s just how technology works. So you either 1) cut off older devices from the newer features, which users get grumpy about, 2) provide the new features but don’t say anything about the impact or 3) provide new features but say how it impacts older devices and maybe provide toggles and system controls to enable/disable. I don’t think #3 is really in Apple’s DNA - that’s more of a Microsoft approach.

Mine is cooler than the iPhone 13 mini that it replaced, if my one data point makes any difference.

The implication that having a cycle count on your phone is going to drive upgrades is bizarre.

“Hey, what made you decide to get the new iPhone?”

“It has battery cycle counts!”

I can see it already.

I don’t think we’ll see it for a few years, but I feel like Apple has laid out their plans for this when they announced the VisionPro. It runs iPhone and iPad apps in Stage Manager. So does the iPad Pro. And I can definitely see that it’s a possibility for the phones in the future.

Now the chips in the phones aren’t M-series, so it might be a while until we’ve got the horsepower, and I’m sure there’s some developer-changes necessary as well, but it doesn’t seem out of the question.

So just get a terminal app lol. Try blink.

If you use an iPad Pro, the overcast layout is just stilly looking. I switched back to the Podcasts app. I heard he’s working on updating the UI, and I’ll try it again when it’s redone.

No true Scotsman, as they say

As a hard core liberal, I promptly uninstalled that shit as soon as I saw my first Chinese military propaganda.

No, they want to train AI models. They don’t give a shit about taking over ActivityPub.