[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 months ago

The Meta-owned messaging app is extremely popular in Europe owing to its cross-platform compatibility.

There you have it. If iMessages was cross platform, people would use it, but it doesn't, so people will pivot for the second best thing.

Also, Northamerica SMS roots are deep, deeper than Europe, Asia and Latinamerica. Disgusting or not, the people already made its choice: $1 a year was too much.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 months ago

Gonna say what everyone haven’t: the display is great to read but that’s it. The hardware is mediocre at best, and SolOS is unimpressive. At $730 it’s DOA since the iPad Air M2 exists and you can watch streaming on that.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 36 points 4 months ago

And where is the evidence? Asking for a friend.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 34 points 9 months ago

What's dissapointing about Dev Home is that it offers nothing of value to the average developer, let alone somebody start it.

Given the power of containerization and WSL2, you would expect it could create development environments for a given app, like creating a firmware for a microcontroller using Rust, or a backend using Typescript, and even bring common tools or toolchains. Instead, we get some widgets and that's it.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago

To slam its puss-ahem I mean, to thoroughly test their release.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 31 points 10 months ago

Of course, otherwise would mean investing in huge data centers for running LLM models, or worse, buying hardware from NVIDIA.

Optimization is the key. Privacy is just an added bonus.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 65 points 1 year ago

This could backfire into something Google don’t want: everyone using adblockers.

Imagine everyone installing adblockers just to skip YouTube’s obnoxious ad rolls, just to also block most Internet ads.

Suddenly, having an adblocker becomes mainstream like wearing socks.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Certainly the price increase involves losing a very small but vocal percent of users, that is covered by the rest of users who swallow the new price.

To me, their pricing wasn’t competitive. The only good plan is Apple Music plus TV+ if you’re st udent.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

Well, that’s a bummer, but it will be interesting to see how it stacks up on day-to-day usage.

It’s not that the folks on the base M3 are going to stress out the machine with high computation tasks, but the Pro and Max surely will have enough people talking about synthetic benchmarks vs real benchmarks to see what optimizations Apple made that and are not paying off.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

Of course it was. They didn’t have any competitive storefront to actually move the user base to another platform. I think it just shrunk it. Not even a migration path for all friends you had.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is half-confirmation for what Android Authority discovered in the app as the incoming “Reddit pays you for your content”.

For that to work, they have to remove coins and awards.

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I'm hitting a roadblock here.

I've tried to install MacOS Ventura 13.4.1 (currently latest) into a Kaby Lake laptop, but not into the hard disk but rather the same USB drive (not an SSD, just your average USB 3.0 stick).

The installer runs fine, and I can even use Disk Utility to re-partition the drive into a GUID and create an APFS volume to install Ventura. The installer does the install, it takes a while given the USB speeds, and the system restarts a couple of times - OpenCore runs fine and shows the volume so it can continue the installation - but after the third restart, just before showing the first stup screen, the system throws a kernel panic.

The watchdog states that opendirectoryd didn't respond after a few seconds.

Some users also report the same problem when trying to run Ventura from an USB stick, which is resolved by just installing it to the internal SSD or using an SSD/NVMe enclosure connected to USB.

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