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GM says Apple and Android have access to a ton of data on consumer habits in their vehicles that those systems don't share with the auto manufacturer, so they're ditching those systems in favour of their own that gives them direct access to all that user data under the guise of a safety change.

(I'll attempt this based on my understanding of both)

Pouring a cup of juice is something an adult needs to be involved with.

sudo is when you ask for permission to pour your own cup of juice. You ask an adult, they give you the cup and the juice, and then you're responsible for pouring it. If the adult isn't paying attention they may leave the fridge open for you to go back for more juice or another beverage, but otherwise you're limited to the amount of juice the adult has given you.

run0 is when the adult just gets you a cup of juice. You tell them what you want, they go and pour the juice, and just give you the cup with the juice in it. You never enter the kitchen, so you don't have access to the fridge, just your cup of juice.

Here's a response I've seen about this around the net for a while now that feels right.

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"Actually, the “you’re welcome/no problem” issue is simply a linguistics misunderstanding. Older ppl tend to say “you’re welcome,” younger ppl tend to say “no problem.” This is because for older people the act of helping or assisting someone is seen as a task that is not expected of them, but is them doing extra, so it’s them saying, ‘I accept your thanks because I know I deserve it.”

“No problem, however, is used because younger people feel not only that helping or assisting someone is a given and expected but also that it should be stressed that your need for help was no burden to them (even if it was).”

“Basically, older people think help is a gift you give, younger people think help is a requirement.”

https://didyouknowfacts.com/why-young-people-say-no-problem-instead-of-youre-welcome-and-why-older-people-hate-it/

Oh crap. I shouldn't have said there was a meeting. Oh crap. I definitely shouldn't have said it was a secret. Oh crap. I absolutely should not have said it was to reserve all our 2nm chip capacity.

Oh, it's too hot today.

I've been seeing clips from Ready Player One recently and this reminded me of the main bad guy's philosophy on advertising in the OASIS.

we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures

Can't help but feeling there's some parallels there.

They do, they're probably just hoping the advertisers don't and keep paying for more ad space.

And even if they do they have dedicated offices with doors.

In case you're like me and read the summary but didn't click the article cause I had no idea what KYC was, it means "know your customer". Used by banks and such for verification purposes.

Article text if you can't be bothered getting around the subscription popup.

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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’s not a fan of “green texts on iPhones” and that it’s “time to break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly,” but statistics show the tech giant doesn’t have exclusive control over the market.

The Department of Justice announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple in March, accusing the California-based company of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors, stifles innovation and keeps prices artificially high.

Warren took to social media this week, displaying her support for the suit that takes aim at how Apple allegedly molds its technology and business relationships to “extract more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and merchants, among others.”

Warren specifically called out how people who don’t have iPhones are blocked from sending blue iMessages as messages from Androids and other devices are green. Those without iPhones also face other restrictions, the Massachusetts senator added.

“Green texts on iPhones, they’re ruining relationships. That’s right,” Warren said in a video posted on X Thursday. “Non-iPhone users everywhere are being excluded from group texts. From sports teams chats to birthday chats to vacation plan chats, they’re getting cut out.”

“And who’s to blame here? Apple,” she continued . “That’s just one of the dirty tactics that Apple uses to keep a stranglehold on the smartphone market. …  It’s time to break up Apple’s monopoly now.”

Critics quickly called Warren out for spreading misinformation and for focusing on what they believe is a non-issue.

“It would be nice if Android users could use iMessage features,” an X user responded, “but why would anyone think this sort of micromanaging of businesses is the legitimate role of the government?”

An alert attached to Warren’s post shows context that readers added and “thought people might want to know.” It includes data from Statista highlighting how the iPhone had a 57% market share compared to Android’s 42% in North America, as of January.

The alert, which was removed as of Friday evening, also contained information from Investopedia around how a “monopoly is exclusive control, or no close substitutes.  The current market share of iPhone v Android does not meet that definition.”

Attorneys general from 16 states filed the lawsuit with the Department of Justice in federal court in New Jersey. Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell did not sign onto the suit which seeks to stop Apple from undermining technologies that compete with its own apps — in areas including streaming, messaging and digital payments.

The suit is the latest example of aggressive antitrust enforcement by an administration that has also taken on Google, Amazon and other tech giants with the stated aim of making the digital universe more fair, innovative and competitive.

“If left unchallenged, Apple will only continue to strengthen its smartphone monopoly,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement last month. “The Justice Department will vigorously enforce antitrust laws that protect consumers from higher prices and fewer choices.”

Apple has called the suit “wrong on the facts and the law” and said it “will vigorously defend against it.”

If successful, the lawsuit would  “hinder our ability to create the kind of technology people expect from Apple — where hardware, software, and services intersect” and would “set a dangerous precedent, empowering the government to take a heavy hand in designing people’s technology,” the company said in a statement last month.

Homer designed his own car, ignoring any advice from the designers and engineers who worked at the company, and ends up bankrupting said company cause no one likes the car.

I assume the extra padding was a function of touch screens becoming more prevalent since trying to hit the 2003 style buttons with a finger was not that easy, although I don't remember offhand when touch first started becoming a thing in Windows so it might have happened the other way around. But either way it's likely still a factor in why the ribbon with its extra padding has stuck around.

Games that have already been classified prior to September 22nd aren't affected by this unless they need to go through classification again, however I'm going to laugh if Pokemon Red & Blue are rereleased on the Switch 2 at some point in the future and get slapped with an R18+ rating 😂

Hmm, tough choices. In no particular order.

The Legend of Zelda - A Link To The Past This game was great when it was released and it's great now, and thanks to the randomiser community it's now infinitely replayable as well.

Super Metroid A series that literally helped define a genre, Super Metroid was everything that I suspect they wanted Metroid and Return of Samus to be but the hardware couldn't keep up. The world is built for speed running as well with so many shortcuts that experienced players can utilise, and again, with the randomiser community making it infinitely replayable (not only on its own, but with a crossover with ALTTP!), this game easily makes it onto my list.

Final Fantasy VII My original introduction to JRPGs and a game whose story and mechanics still hold up today even if the graphics don't as much. Obviously a lot of people feel the same way thanks to the Remakes, which while slightly out there have had so much nostalgia to play through them.

Final Fantasy XI The original Final Fantasy MMORPG and my introduction to MMORPGs generally, I put about 10 years into this game and still to this today occasionally reinstall it and see where I was last up to.

Final Fantasy XIV I tried several times to start FFXIV, but never got past the first few dungeons until COVID lockdowns hit, and since then am fully on board. The story, while a slow burn, is so good, and being a live service game means there's always new content coming or changes to learn. But really, the story in FFXIV is easily good enough to qualify as a mainline FF title, and any FF players who haven't tried it yet, should.

Doki Doki Literature Club You have to play this blind. Don't watch a let's play, and avoid any spoilers if you can. It's worth it. But when it's all done, if you're playing on PC, people have written entirely new mods and story for it, and the good ones really know how to make you connect with the characters.

Persona 5 Royal I discovered the Persona series with Golden, and was super excited to play Persona 5 when it released, but Royal is the definitive version that you'll want to play. The story is great, the gameplay is lots of fun, and the combination of JRPG and slice of life makes you feel a lot more connected to the loveable cast.

Factorio Just perfectly tickles that itch for resource management. The factory must grow.

Metal Gear Solid 2 A main memory I have of this game is the first time playing it where I bought out a whole box of those chocolates they sell for fundraising - was supposed to sell them to other people but they were great for late night snacking while I played. The stealth, the tension, the weird everything towards the end, it was a trip from start to finish.

Duke Nukem 3D Duke wasn't my first foray into FPS games (Wolfenstein 3D manages that title). But it holds a special place in my heart as it was the first game I ever played online multiplayer on. But I did it before the internet, so literally had a modem to modem connection running over an IPX network. Realistically, there's been plenty of better FPS games since, both modern and classic, but the irreverent humour, plus the fact I was a teen who probably wasn't supposed to be playing a game with strippers and highly pixilated tits in it, just edges it into my top 10.

It feels like the screenshot is breathing.

We had a system at work that generated 4 character alphanumeric reference numbers. Originally to avoid this they just excluded vowels from the letters but eventually they grew enough they ran out of available reference numbers so they added the vowels back in and I had to built the blacklist to avoid stuff like this happening. I reckon I probably tripped every IT filter known to man in a week long period looking for swear words in a variety of languages 😂

For everyone else, she's MasterCard.

As much as server admins would love that option (and every time Plex roll out a new feature like the TIDAL integration or the free Plex content this question gets asked), it's never going to happen because from Plex's perspective they're not your users, they're Plex's users. Doesn't matter if the only reason they use Plex is to access your server, they're not your users so you have no control over their settings.

We can disagree with them about that fact as much as we like, but that's the reality of it, and I don't see it changing anytime soon.

I created an SMS to Email gateway back in 2011 when data was still expensive on phones and I was trying to see if I could turn an iPod Touch into an iPhone. (I was a poor student at the time, was trying to find ways to save money 😅)

Basically I had a 3G modem plugged into a Linux server that could receive the messages, a prepaid SIM card with a long life credit expiry, a domain name set up with unknown email address capturing, and some tools to handle the actual SMS part.

At the time I published the scripts I used online and apparently they're still online 😅 This is on Whirlpool which is an Australian telecommunications forum.

https://whrl.pl/RcXD5e

O doggo under the sofa, what is your wisdom?

I know it wasn't likely the cause, but the "Pokemon go to the polls" quote still lives rent free in my head over how cringy it was 😅

Someone crunched the numbers and worked out this was cheaper than dealing with people wanting refunds of their DLC content when the main game was delisted.

To be fair, with no data to back it up, this is just an anecdote. So saying it's stereotyping ageist bullshit is a perfectly valid response to it. I just felt it fit the question quite well so I went and dug it up and shared it. If you feel differently, no stress!

The reality is going to be different to everyone, and it's as much a learned behaviour as anything else. It's not like collectively an entire generation got together and decided "it's 'no problem' now instead of 'you're welcome', okay?" Language evolves over time after all, and knowing why that happens and the actual causes for it are something that will require a lot more analysis than a couple of anecdotes from the internet.

They actually just expanded it to the second expansion, so you now get the base game of A Realm Reborn, as well as Heavensward and Stormblood included in the free trial.

It's also releasing for beta on Xbox later this year (currently it's PC and PS4/5) so there's due to be a new influx of players as well, so it's a good time to start playing. That and the new expansion is due out in the new year too.

Well we keep trying to tell them that if you give money to people who aren't as well as off as the 1% they actually spend that money in the economy and keep businesses running. Maybe this is just their way of testing the theory out? (But, you know, in a way that doesn't actually benefit the rest of us).

Gotta be careful with that approach though, cause they'd still be allowed just one Trump.

Out of curiosity, what would you consider "real" premium YouTube to be? Are you thinking something where the creators get a higher share of the revenue in return for better production values?

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Joke's on you though, I'm in Australia, it looked like that already!

So does this count as another "Simpsons predicted this" moment after Homer basically does the same thing?

This trips you up so many times if you visit the US from somewhere else. The number of times I'd see a snack listed for 99c, have a dollar bill on me and then they ask for like $1.12 is higher than I'd like to admit.

Be the change you want to see in the world! Spank, and be spanked in return.

With the spike in popularity that D&D has seen lately is that not the natural evolution of old school muds? Even if you can't be together in person, video streaming over the internet has made it so the old text interface isn't needed anymore, you can just interact in real time without being in the same place.

MMORPGs aren't really the same. You don't have infinite capability to do whatever you want, you're typically playing an RPG with friends, and most of the endgame is structured around keeping people engaged through progressively difficult content.

As AI get better and is capable of actually writing some more engaging stories in real time I think you'll see some convergence here. Like for example, a game where two kingdoms are at war (a common enough trope in RPGs), but you go full stealth, work your way into the enemy castle and kill their king. What happens after that? Have they got a contingency for that? Will they double their efforts against you? Does their army fall apart? Do they surrender?

You couldn't pull that scenario off in an RPG these days without it being scripted, but in the future as the tech gets better you've got the possibility of building living breathing worlds that can react to the actions of the player (or players).

See the problem here is the price. At $30/yr that's worth considering. The problem is they'd charge $30/mth.

We've had a McDonalds getting dragged over the coals this week for using the chip warmers to dry a dirty mop head. The McMop has been doing the meme rounds as a result.

The article says a free version isn't available, that isn't accurate:

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/yaba-snashiro-2-lite/id6630365688

You're limited to 3 games and it has ads, but it does exist. Probably good enough to test if it works for your favourite games.

I could have sworn rule 34 was something else.

With the number of people renting on the rise due to house prices in many countries around the world, running cables isn't an option for everyone (and even when it is, not everyone wants to actually do it).

Having more options available for people to move large amounts of data around their home is never a bad thing.

https://lemmy.world/c/nottheonion

Only if it also comes with a picture of Zoidberg.

Wouldn't it just mean the cheat tools also move into the kernel space and keep doing what they're already doing? Whether people will trust that or not I have no idea but I'll wager people willing to use cheats in an online PVP game probably won't care that much.

They did pull that bullshit here though. Personal Hotspot on iOS was a paid extra feature in most cases when it first launched back in iOS 7 (can't speak to the Android side of things personally), assuming you could get it at all. It didn't become standard until later. It's generally standard these days thankfully but it wasn't always.