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cale250 | 2 years ago | on: Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages

SMS and iMessage are exposed via Bluetooth’s Message Access Profile. Facetime would use the Hands Free Profile. Access to both of those would be requested during pairing of the phone.

At least on iOS, the other apps would need permission to integrate with the necessary API to integrate with MAP. I’m not sure if this is even available with the public APIs.

cale250 | 8 years ago | on: Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project

There's also ManicTime, which has a Windows-based server component (optional) and tracking clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.

cale250 | 8 years ago | on: Arq 5.8.5 for Mac Fixes a Bad Bug

If you happen to have critical virtual machines or disk images, make sure you back them up elsewhere, since Backblaze doesn't back them up. Made it an annoyance for me personally, but it otherwise works rather well for the typical user.

cale250 | 9 years ago | on: Android O Beta Program

Qualcomm CPUs. Modems are different and probably a lot less complex driver-wise, and thus easier and cheaper to support for Qualcomm.

cale250 | 9 years ago | on: Android O Beta Program

I've had a good experience only once with Apple once out of three times I've taken items in, when they replaced the logic board on my MBP a week after the program to replace for that model ended. They still refuse to honor well known fraying problems with their MagSafe adapters. The other time involved a 2010 MBP battery replacement that should have taken 15 minutes to half an hour, maybe an hour (I was told as much). It ended up taking four hours and they never contacted me when it was ready. If Apple was willing to sell parts to their customers, I would have had it done in 10 minutes.

Honestly, I've had about the same experience with Google (specifically Project Fi) with a different set of issues. I can't really say that one company is better than the other, and I doubt it would be easy to find reliable data to make a case for one or the other.

cale250 | 9 years ago | on: Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

They are more painless if you happen to have a Pixel. It downloads and installs the update on another partition, prompts for a reboot and comes up a minute later. The trade-off, of course, is space.

cale250 | 9 years ago | on: My Pixel has a manufacturing defect

Des Moines, Iowa, at the Jordan Creek mall. The MagSafe could have been temporarily out of stock on the shelf for all I knew, though. They've shuffled things around a few times and I don't visit often - around once a year to replace a frayed power cable.

cale250 | 9 years ago | on: My Pixel has a manufacturing defect

Not all stores have anything but the most recent inventory on the shelves. My local one has the old style MagSafe 1 power adapter and iPad Air 2 leather cases, but they are in the back. Worse yet, when I asked about these things recently, an employee said "sorry, we don't have those anymore." I didn't believe him, so at that point I had to wait another 15 minutes for a manager to become available who knew where these things were.

cale250 | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Download organizer for Mac

This is a nit-pick really, but I'd like to see it organize on first run rather than on first download. Unfortunately for me disk I/O can be a bottleneck on this old machine. It slowed down a rather large download while it shuffled things around and unpacked them.