hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: COVIDSafe: Australia’s digital contact tracing failure
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hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever
From what I have seen of American cars, this one is completely compliant. The horrible part about this car is that the signals are red and that they are the same light as the rear/brake lights. Which is apparently extremely common in the US.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
I have never had a phone charger fail on me so if we assume that it lasts 3 phones and I buy them every 3 years, that comes out to about $1.66 per year for phone chargers.
It’s not a surprise no consumer cares. The average consumer would pay an extra $100 for their phone to get it in their favourite colour. The cost of chargers doesn’t even register.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers starting 2023
My state of South Australia banned a lot of plastic last year. I don’t think even “ecoplastics” like PLA are allowed. It’s all cardboard, paper, bamboo, light wood or other odd things like sugar cane pulp.
The vast majority of the containers work just as well as the plastic ones did.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
The charger probably costs about $1 to the BoM. I wouldn’t expect to see any change.
But this is not the biggest thing which is that the parts of the iPhone do not determine the price. The price is already set and determines what parts go in. If something somewhere else becomes cheaper, that’s more room in the budget to spend elsewhere whether that be better hardware, hiring more software developers, higher skilled retail workers, etc.
In the end it’s up to the user to decide if what’s in the box provides enough value to justify the price. And from the sales data of the last year, that’s an astounding yes.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
I have never seen a lightning dock ever. Docks seemed to die after the 30 pin was discontinued. Every car I have seen now uses Bluetooth and has a usb A port for cables.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
The lightning connector only supports usb 2.0 so even apple binned it on the iPads now.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites
This is likely more accurate than the OP link. My experience is that Ruby jobs are less common but that they seem to pay far more.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites
How much of this is just the millions of Wordpress or Nextcloud installations? I’d be more interested in knowing how many unique apps or developers work on each language because in my experience I haven’t actually seen a single php developer other than Wordpress tweakers.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
People complain 50x more when there is no mac or Linux version. There is no realistic solution that suits everyone.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Apple iMessage Zero-Click Hacks
And you still need them because some services only provide sms verification.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years
The iPhones are currently at 6 years and the iPads at 7 (and counting)
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years
Given that 2012-2013 was the year of 4G. I doubt that law would relate much to 3G phones.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years
It’s so reasonable that Apple has already reached that level. My iPad Air 2 from 2014 is on iPadOS 15 right now and it works well.
This will hit android OEMs hard if it is implemented.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Windows 11: a survey of text boxes
Tbh some of these even look better in context. I’m not sure why it even matters that every text box is pixel perfect identical rather than suitable for the environment.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Please don’t theme our apps
Especially when you have a wave of users complaining to you about it being broken or saying your app is bad but the broke part was a downstream patch.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Apple Watch production delayed as engineers wrestle with quality issues
It’s not a second source, it becomes the only source as it turns off your phone notifications. It also leads in shorter distractions as you can quickly check if a message is important without pulling out and unlocking your phone.
It also does a billion “nice to have” things like card payments which work with your mask on, walking directions with convenient and easy to read arrows, and so much more.
It’s certainly not essential but I have worn mine every single day as it certainly provides value.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Music streaming payouts comparison
It doesn’t matter because it would average out because you will have queen fans who listen at a high amount as well. Unless for some reason an artist has a fan base which majority listen to less music than the average person for some reason.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: Google’s new ad goes full Jony Ive on the Pixel 5A headphone jack
Why not just leave the adapter on the end of your headphones? That way the convenience is about the same but you don’t massively limit your choice.
hexa22 | 4 years ago | on: My Tungsten Cube (2019)
You wouldn’t want to be handling it like a desk toy..
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Shortly after, Android and iOS released a proper API for doing this which worked in the background but the government did not use it.