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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Apple users really just didn't notice the limitations. Whether you consider that "working" is up to you.

Apple users are used to their phones taking ninety minutes to charge and not lasting the whole day. They consider that "normal" and are unlikely to consider that for Android devices, even cheap ones, sub-1 hour fast charging and all-day battery life are standard, not exceptions.

Apple's (previously) bundled charger is a measly 5 W whereas my cheap $150 OnePlus comes with a 33 W charger, delivering over six times as much power. Granted, Apple devices tend to be more power-efficient than others, but not six times less.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The base model of the iPhone still doesn't have USB 3 and won't have the latest USB-PD. The USB 2 standard was released over 20 years ago. The Lightning plug was released over 10 years ago. The plug technology on iPhones is seemingly being kept out of date on purpose. At least that is what people are complaining about.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is a classic repost.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

If you think studying literature is to teach you literature, you're sorely mistaken. Similar to if you think you study mathematics to learn mathematics.

You are taught literature so you can better communicate with other people. What is the author's intention with this passage? What are they trying to say? What might their motivations be? Now apply this to a letter from a potential business partner or a politician's tweet and you might begin to see how what you were taught becomes relevant.

Why are you taught grammar? Who cares whether you use the Oxford comma or not? Who has the need to know what mood, theme, and figurative language are? Apply this in the context of trying to write a professional email to your boss or trying to tell a story to engage other people, and maybe you'll start to see that it wasn't worthless.

Why do we need to know the way to prove that the angles of a triangle add up to 180? Who needs to know the Quadratic formula and how to apply it? It's so you know how to think rationally and apply logic rigourously, so you don't fall into familiar logical traps that we see on the evening news and the Internet every day.

Why do you need to know how cells reproduce? Why do we need to know how the pH scale works? It's so when people on Facebook claim that vaccines erase your DNA or that alkaline water prevents cancer, you'll know better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They are not. I do not refer to the package called "LibreOffice". If you search for "office" on the Windows Store, you'll see a bunch of LibreOffice clones that are not branded as such and are not free of charge or contain advertisements.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

During "peak hours" certain unlimited plans are throttled to 480p. It doesn't always happen.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

T-Mobile, a US mobile carrier, currently throttles video streams to 480p. It's a pretty bad experience and I look forward to seeing it end.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

I agree completely. I think this is the best solution to the AI replacing human artists problem. Big companies can't use AI to replace humans because if they do, whatever they make will be ineligible for copyright and everyone will be free to rip them off.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Real answer: Religion in the United States is protected by Amendment I of their constitution. There isn't much the Government can do without infringing on or appearing to infringe on this protection.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The Windows Store limits the number of machines that you can install paid software on to 10. If you are managing a lot of computers you'd be better off with some actual management software or at least a package manager like Chocolatey. Then you can push software to your machines, run updates, or uninstall stuff whenever you like.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This is like the people who repackage and rebrand LibreOffice and then resell it for $10 on the Windows Store to gullible users.

And the worst part about that is that it doesn't even break the law.

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