narc0tic_bird

Hahaha good one!

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I'm on Slowroll though.

Other manufacturers did/do parts pairing as well.

Apple also removed a couple of roadblocks for third party parts and you can pair replacement parts on device now.

Is it perfect? No. My point is simply that most other major smartphone manufacturers are no better (remember Google's Pixel 4a battery performance program?). But around these parts people seem to be prejudiced and maybe have outdated information. I just feel like it's more of a "pick your poison" instead of a "grass is greener on the other side".

Jup, I just never buy games with Denuvo these days.

Under Windows, the 5 machine activations per 24 hours limit they impose wasn't something I ever hit, but under Linux it's kind of easy because, as the article states, switching Proton versions counts as a machine activation to Denuvo.

Ah, Microsoft. Just when I thought you understood how to properly release a game with South of Midnight and TES: Oblivion Remastered: Steam Deck verified, no Denuvo or other intrusive DRM (doesn't mean the games are DRM free), available on multiple storefronts. Along comes Doom and they just couldn't resist Denuvo. Idiots.

I think iPhones have one of the best iFixit repairability scores among popular smartphones. The current iPhone 16 Pro scores 7/10, while the Pixel 9 Pro and S25 Ultra only achieve 5/10. Parts - first or third party - are broadly available.

Neither are "normies" "ready" for degoogled Android.

99 % of smartphone users don't care about USB-C transfer speeds because they only use the port for charging. Maybe a fraction of these users uses wired CarPlay, which works the same with USB 2.0 speeds. Maybe some users use a USB-C to headphone jack adapter which works the same as well.

There's a tiny fraction of users that'll ever notice the speed difference (because they use the port for actual data transfer) but they won't find reading a spec sheet confusing.

A Way Out is marked as "Playable" by Valve, mainly because of Origin (or EA App nowadays?) and some quirks with the controls. Should play just fine though and once in-game controllers should be well supported.

Same. It's pretty cheap, comes with unlimited free traffic and is just simple to use. Supports many ways to access it, including BorgBackup.

So...

• You can just add a member to your "family" of your Apple ID
• Child accounts created this way can make purchases using the payment method of your Apple ID, but every single transaction requires confirmation by you, so you can deny anything you don't want your child to purchase
• Non-child accounts added to your family can make purchases with your shared payment method without your confirmation. I assume Apple does this so you only add people you trust instead of random people you just want to share purchases and subscriptions with
• No matter who initiated a purchase in an Apple family (you, a child or your partner for example), you get an invoice to your email stating exactly what was purchased, by whom it was purchased, when and how much it cost

But no, you apparently created a "regular" Apple ID for your child, added your payment method to it and after THREE MONTHS you noticed that 8k are gone. Then you run to the press and complain that this was even possible and wonder why neither Apple nor your bank marked any transactions as a fraud.

YOU authorized your child to use your payment method freely. There is no fraud (except for you). There were multiple ways to notice what's going on (bank account, invoices from Apple) before your child spent 8k. You should show more interest in what your child is doing, especially on the internet. That's bad patenting.

I hope you don't get any more money back, you deserve every bit of it.

They run their own registry at lscr.io. You can essentially prefix all your existing linuxserver image names with lscr.io/ to pull them from there instead.

Speculative execution seems to be the source of a lot of security flaws in many different CPUs. CPU manufacturers seem to be so focused on winning the performance race that security aware architecture design takes the backseat.

Also, it's more and more clear that it's a bad idea that websites can just execute arbitrary code. The JS APIs are way too powerful and complex nowadays. Maybe websites and apps should've stayed separate concepts instead of merging into "web apps".

I also wonder if it'd be possible to design a CPU so vulnerabilities like these are fixable instead of just "mitigable". Similar to how you can reprogram an FPGA. I have no clue how chip design works though, but please feel free to reply if you know more about this.