Wispy2891

For me the unthinkable is giving my hard earned money to a multi billion dollar corporation

Proprietary hardware and nobody reverse engineered the drivers for graphics and all the proprietary shit.

They didn't technically locked it down but they making sure that using an alternative operating system it's a miserable experience

Not on M3 and newer. That means everything released in the last 2-3 years

It's the same stuff if you ask it to help you master a foreign language in dialogue mode

• Help me practicing English pronunciation"

• Sure thing! Now say "travel"

• *user just belches in the mic*

• great job! You really aced the accent!

The company’s decision to train the closed-source model on third-party open-source models, including a Chinese one developed by Alibaba, will also likely raise eyebrow

Lol wait, what's this, some kind of centipede, they trained on the outputs of another model that was previously trained on the outputs of another model

Garbage in garbage out

Yes, in the car. But I immediately change frequency when it comes to ads or start to talk too much about useless stuff (for example for some reason at 9am most channels need to waste 15 minutes of people's lives by reading gpt-generated horoscopes)

It's a way to listen to something different all the time, otherwise if I choose Spotify it always the same stuff

Although some radios are like 50 tracks on loop with pre-recorded talk segments pretending to be live.

To any staffer doing illegal stuff on this empty promise: he didn't say he'll do it for free, remember to put away some cash to purchase one when needed

For someone with a low IQ like him, that usually writes with ALL CAPS, there's a suspiciously high amount of em-dashes in that post

Yes and no, because no other manufacturer in the world ever charged for firmware updates.

Example Sony and the psp. They added new features but didn't charge a cent (users were even forced to update to run new games)

Or Microsoft and the Xbox.

Or when Apple itself sent a free update to the previous iPod to add games support. New feature not present at purchase time, but free update.

It's simply that the apple legal team intentionally chose to use creative accounting in a way that then they could say "oh no, the revenue recognition law of the united states' is forcing us to ask money for updates, we're so sowwy, please insert your credit card number".

The law didn't impose them to charge that much money (18 euro for an email client on a 300 euro device is a lot, IMHO)

And that excuse they used "the iPhone is a carrier subscription device so it can get free updates according to us law" is shaky as it was sold standalone in most European countries at the same time or the iPod touch.

Btw I didn't give them any additional money, jailbroke my device and added the feature that I was promised for free. And paying for iOS 3 losing the jailbreak? LOL

and then when they realized that they couldn't block jailbreak users, they put iOS 4 for free. Suddenly that American law vanished in thin air

I don't speak french or Spanish, but in Italian "windows ti ha piantato" it has the same three nuances that op wrote. When a computer is "piantato" it means it's frozen/crashed. Like it's stuck, planted in the ground.

For example someone can shout "Cazzo!!! Questo cazzo di computer si è piantato e ho perso il salvataggio del cazzo! Cazzo!"

Also a girlfriend can "piantato" = break up or do no show on appointment. And also "piantato" main meaning is to plant something in the spil

My conspiracy theory: those signing keys are very "tasty" maybe Microsoft was aware that some state-sponsored attacker got hold on them and blacklisted for everyone's safety.

Imagine what would happen if NSA or that other Israeli spy company could sign fake veracrypt or Wireshark binaries

The Windows mobile phones were completely unusable without a stylus. HTC made a third party launcher to alleviate it (maybe only after the launch of the iPhone? I don't remember), but everything was clearly designed for mouse input

Some touch only dumb phones like the LG Cookie were much better because they put some thought in the UI instead of just putting some lipstick on windows ce