JWBananas @ JWBananas @startrek.website

aka @JWBananas@lemmy.world

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No, but I do pay for convenience and for an ad-free listening experience.

Isn't that one of the main justifications people give for piracy? That if it were affordable and convenient, people would just pay?

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it...

That isn't the purpose of the new API. Apps can already prevent screenshots by using FLAG_SECURE.

The purpose is to move away from the resource- and privacy-invasive ways that apps implement screenshot detection today, such as through monitoring the directory in which screenshots are saved. The new functionality will require a permission and will no longer require the apps to have access to the screenshots themselves.

If nuclear weapons are considered at most a nuisance, what good would rail guns do?

I, for one, look forward to seeing more asteroids flung at jackasses with tractor beams in the future.

Riker and the tractor beam at the nebula. Riker, his aim true.

Unless they're Vulcan. Then they put the grappler to shame.

Starfleet certainly isn't, as evidenced in Twovix.

Betazed intelligence? That makes sense. There has surely been a thread or two asking why that wasn't a thing.

Laughed out loud at the disappointed Romulans. It was cheap, but I still adored it.

No more than 215

That could have easily been the line on the last panel

The alliance with the Romulans during the war was tenuous at best. They never could have swung that. At minimum they would have needed to share the tech.

Welcome back

Net neutrality would not control that

I want to preface this by saying I am genuinely asking. I did a bunch of searching and only found articles about what may or what could...

But can anyone name concrete examples of what actually did change for them after the end of net neutrality?

Again, I am genuinely asking. I support net neutrality. But I cannot recall any way that the repeal actually affected me personally.

Please share your stories.

Apple had planned to have its modem chip ready to use in the new iPhone models. But tests late last year found the chip was too slow and prone to overheating. Its circuit board was so big it would take up half an iPhone, making it unusable.

Considering how bad some generations of Qualcomm chips have been about this, the Apple chip must have been seriously bad.

“Just because Apple builds the best silicon on the planet, it’s ridiculous to think that they could also build a modem,” said former Apple wireless director Jaydeep Ranade, who left the company in 2018, the year the project began.

Well yeah. It's certainly much easier when you start with ARM reference designs. Apple has what, the modem IP they bought from Intel? A company that, for all its prowess, decided to give up the modem market after only a few years rather than continue to refine the modem that they already brought to market?

Even Samsung gives in and uses Qualcomm modems in the US. And they're a major provider of the baseband hardware on the other end of the connection!

Apple will get there. But there is no way that their aggressive timeline was ever reasonable. Gotta make big promises to the shareholders, I guess.

You can also swipe along the volume bar

What a terrible day to be literate

How do you define major success?

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