Patius

@Patius@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on how you’re holding it and how spread that heat is. 46° isn’t something great to be grasping for extended periods of time, but if you’re physically touching 30°C parts of the phone and a part with no physical contact with your skin is 46°C, it’s probably not that bad.

  My s7 edge used to hit these temps. The annoying part was the throttling and shutdowns. I never really felt like I was burning my hands using the thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar power and storage prices have dropped almost 90%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a man in the clouds who blows really hard.

  But the plants he eats grow in sunlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar power and storage prices have dropped almost 90%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What if the turbines are hooked up to an electric milling machine ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder Launches $499 USD-Per-Month "Tinder Select" Membership⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s as good of a reason as any to delete the app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The ADA issues at play in the lawsuit largely stem from ADA claims against websites.

  It’s a real issue where some small business makes a non-ADA compliant website and gets shaken down by sketchy law firms that hire disabled people to be straw plaintiffs (AKA “testers”) to find websites that are in violation.

  From the article:

  The ADA permits a plaintiff challenging a violation of this rule to obtain an injunction requiring a non-compliant hotel to fix its website, and it allows that plaintiff to have their attorney’s fees paid by the defendant if the plaintiff prevails in court. But the plaintiff may not obtain money damages if they prevail.

  So some small business has to fix their website that the “tester” never would have used on their own, and they have to pay the law firm that hired the tester’s legal fees too. And then the law firm pays the tester.

  The ADA is a pre-internet rule, and its enforcement mechanism and regulations around have never been updated for the digital age, so scummy lawyers are making a killing off it.

  For the record, the solution is easy: update the ADA like disability advocates have been calling for ages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When did people read the article on old reddit?

  2004?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, he’ll upset Putin soon enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel announces Thunderbolt 5 with double the bandwidth (40 Gbps to 80 Gbps)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wifi under the old standard?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even a ponzi scheme, it’s just a good old fashioned bubble.

  It’s digital tulips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today 10 years ago I got a Firefox OS phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re coming back. The Galaxy S 23/22 Ultra both are squared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and it’s all because the US regs only allow for high and low beams that can’t redirect and rely on clunky sensors, if they’re automatic at all.

  Meanwhile, in Europe and Asia, cars have adaptive, beam forming headlights that successfully solved this problem in the early aughts. Even American autos have them - Ford’s are so precise they can even create images like the Ford Logo with their lights.

  Still illegal to sell in the US because the NHTSA is refusing to allow them, even though Congress straight up told them to allow them a few years ago as a rider on the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Insurance would have to prove the modification caused the accident by disabiling some safety mechanism.

  Legally, software mods and hardware mods are no different, and people have been modifying their cars well before you could hack a seat heater on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  BMWs have had this, to some extent, for a while. Bimmercode can do things like change sounds and enable software disabled features, like anti dazzle lights. (This is disabled because the NHTSA refuses to adopt ways for them to be easily tested in the US, despite their being approved for decades in Europe and a congressional mandate telling them to allow them on the roads, so every automaker has to disable them.)

  No exploits needed.