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- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
Connecting a classic (non-Google TV) Chromecast to a new WiFi (or heaven forbid a hotel WiFi with a capture portal) was always such a pain. And casting over networks without mDNS is flaky at best and otherwise downright impossible.
By contrast, I’ve loved taking along my Chromecast with Google TV to hotels, along with:
- A VPN client installed it already,
- An Android phone that can create a WiFi AP while connected to the hotel WiFi,
- A Bluetooth speaker and my Bluetooth headphones paired to it so I get great audio as well.
This has been a complete gamechanger and a genuine upgrade over yesteryear’s Chromecasts.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
What do you do with CDs? Genuinely curious about how they can be used in 2024 and surprised artists still have any printed.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I absolutely love Windows with the Linux subsystem. Coming from Mac it’s genuinely terrific to not have to mess around with homebrew. Incredible to see how Windows came from being comically inferior to surpassing Apple as there has been absolutely no progression there in the last decade.
- Comment on Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV 7 months ago:
Whoa, the owner acknowledged that the weather was to blame, not Tesla?!
- Comment on Google’s expanded Find My Device network might arrive in a few days 7 months ago:
Allow me to clarify:
- Limited support for AirTags has been added to Android, that is the context of the posted article and the experience you are describing.
- Apple neither supports account access on Android devices or provisions access to their tag network on behalf of linked accounts, so unless you have an Apple device, you cannot stipulate that a tag that belongs to you.
Consequently, the solution offered by Google appears to have been effectively built without Apple’s support. Goggle’s added support for AirTags despite Apple’s cooperation—and support for other tracking devices—is a net positive for privacy.
- Comment on Google’s expanded Find My Device network might arrive in a few days 7 months ago:
Yes, users have begun to be alerted of trackers—this is the recent change by Google as it relates to this post. An ongoing issue is, to my knowledge, that there’s no way to identify what kind of device it is. Goggle’s instructions literally suggest taking a screenshot of the serial number for later reference.
- Comment on Google’s expanded Find My Device network might arrive in a few days 7 months ago:
Android has no way of knowing if a tag is “unauthorized” because Apple does not provision access to their tag network. You could, in principle, ignore tags that you know about, but you’d have to do it by identifying it by some arbitrary GATT ID.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
We’re up in arms about the discontinuation of a 12-year-old security camera? I think 12 years of support is more than reasonable.
- Comment on Google’s expanded Find My Device network might arrive in a few days 7 months ago:
There is a much more sinister issue that Google is trying to resolve with this: it’s currently possible to stalk somebody by placing a tracker fob in their bag or on their car, so long as you know the victim’s device doesn’t support it.
Suppose some creeper with an iPhone is stalking a victim with an Android phone. So long as they use an Apple AirTag, the victim will never know they have a tracker trailing them wherever they go. And in reverse, the issue is the same.
Apple isn’t concerned about this, because they hold a monopoly in the market they care most about and can leverage this as an iPhone-only feature. After all, so long as you have an iPhone, you’ll be warned about an AirTag you don’t own following you. Apple wants to leverage this as an exclusive safety feature and have no intention of allowing other devices to do the same.
Apologies for providing this background as I know that this goes against the circle jerk of accusing Google of infringing our privacy. Feel free to disregard this context of it being beneficial to our collective privacy.
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 8 months ago:
3,000 people clicked a button out of curiosity or by mistake. If this is statistically relevant for their install base, there really is nobody using Brave. I have as many users randomly come and go into my game on a daily basis.
- Comment on Boeing: Last Week Tonight 8 months ago:
Was that the “if it’s not Boeing, I’m not going” shirt? I think it can be fairly easily fixed with a sharpie. If you’re feeling creative, you could also draw the wreck on the runway.
- Comment on Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000 8 months ago:
In the same boat. I’m contemplating just cutting my losses at this point.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 9 months ago:
There was quite a different reaction to the iPhone when it launched, so I’m pretty confident it’s not the latter.
- Comment on Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police 9 months ago:
Precisely. I abhor the phrase, but it’s demonstrably a case of herd mentality.
- Comment on Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police 9 months ago:
Wait, do I downvote myself now?
- Comment on Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police 9 months ago:
/s, in case that wasn’t abundantly clear
- Comment on Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police 9 months ago:
You replied to me, so you’re disagreeing with me, right? Downvoted.
- Comment on Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police 9 months ago:
Ironically, I’ve been downvoted for saying this in response to somebody sympathizing with my previous downvoted comment that was expanding in support of somebody’s highly upvoted comment with some background.
I think the general sentiment on Lemmy is that any comment reply must surely be in disagreement and receives an automatic downvote. Mostly I visit the comments for discourse and upvote interesting threads of conversation.
In my opinion, really there should be no downvote button.
- Comment on The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case 9 months ago:
I’ve learned from this community that piracy isn’t theft, yet Nintendo’s attorney said to the court, “It’s for that reason that we do all we can to prevent games on Nintendo systems from being stolen.”
Why is the attorney allowed to lie to the court? Shouldn’t he be disbarred and prosecuted himself?
- Comment on A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI 9 months ago:
Right: public works are content in the public domain where the copyright has expired and Creative Commons licenced content is, well, licenced.
- Comment on A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI 9 months ago:
What is unlicensed work? Copyrighted content will not have a licence agreement but this doesn’t mean you can freely infringe on copyright law.
- Comment on YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix 9 months ago:
Canva, too.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro launch pre-view testers complain about weight, comfort, even headaches 10 months ago:
The photo of the woman wearing VR goggles with a shit-eating grin on her face while supposedly having a conversation with somebody really speaks volumes about how Apple envisions us to interact with one another in 2024. Good grief, I abhor absolutely everything about this.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Google supports right to repair? Think again. 10 months ago:
Ah, so this is effectively identical to Apple’s approach to repairability.
- Comment on EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores 10 months ago:
This community encourages such incredible depth and discourse. Keep it up, folks!
- Comment on Alaska flight incident reveals another feature Boeing didn’t inform pilots about - Federal investigators said that Boeing didn’t make pilots aware that when a plane rapidly depressurizes, the cockp... 10 months ago:
Seems somebody watched Hijack on Apple TV+ and decided to draft a directive.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 10 months ago:
With dwindling iPhone sales (it’s not for a lack of market share, but smartphone purchases are down as people aren’t refreshing their phones every year anymore), Apple needs to find the next accessory akin to Apple Watch that will further line their pockets. I mean, the stock price can’t just remain stagnant, right?
- Comment on Alaska Air Grounds Boeing 737 Max-9 Fleet After Fuselage Blowout 10 months ago:
Before we leap to conclusions about this, let’s not forget that this very nearly happened to a A321neo back in October.
- Comment on Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight 10 months ago:
It was reported earlier today that 18 were already back in service after completing inspections, and the remaining inspections would be completed in the coming days.
- Comment on Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight 10 months ago:
I find it difficult to know if my flight will avoid 737 Max, so I’ve been avoiding airlines that have them in their fleet. Unfortunately, British Airways recently rebooked me onto an Alaska Airlines, and sure enough, it was a Max 8. Sometimes you just can’t win.