TheRealKuni

I had forgotten the name of his Vision Pro app, so I was very confused. Is it 1998 and they’re banning my dial-up internet/email service?

Juno: Because email was meant to be free!

“You are now dead. Thank you for using Stop’n’Drop: America’s favorite suicide booth since 2008!”

If you have an iPhone, holding down either volume button and the side button will bring out the Medical ID, slide to power off, Emergency SOS screen. This will also disable FaceID. Password will be required to access the phone now.

What is the actual benefit of 5g besides draining phone battery faster than LTE?

Midband 5G seriously outperforms LTE in my experience. And as radios have matured battery drain has gotten significantly better (which is exactly what happened with LTE radios when we all left HSPA+ behind).

When I had an older 5G phone without midband signal and an early radio, I just left the 5G off. But now I get annoyed if I only have LTE.

I do love the tandem OLED screen on the M4 iPads. It’s gorgeous and absurdly thin.

Yeah me too. Each time they gave me the price for a repair I was very impressed. It was always more than I expected. :D

Bahahaha

I’ve had the opposite experience, but I have AppleCare. I’ve seen the prices without it and you’re not wrong! I had cracked the back glass on my phone a year or so ago and it cost me like, $30 to fix. Without AppleCare it would’ve been almost $700. And that’s because—due to the ridiculous design—replacing the back glass involves replacing the entire phone other than the screen and camera module. New battery, new SoC, new storage, new everything.

I later confirmed with an acquaintance who works at the Apple Store that, as long as your battery is still in decent-ish shape, this is a cheaper way to replace the battery. Break the back glass and get that replaced with AppleCare, and you get a new battery. But if you wait for the battery to drop below whatever threshold it is for them to replace the battery (I believe 80% life), it’s more expensive. This acquaintance told me this kind of thing is why he genuinely thinks AppleCare is the best deal they offer. It’s basically a way to inexpensively swap your phone with an identical replacement under certain circumstances.

I’ve…never had a bad experience at the Apple Store, personally. I have a lot of complaints with the company, but I’ve always been impressed with the technicians at the store.

Ah, gotcha. Well I guess I’ll just settle for 128GB then.

I wanted to hit the amount from Weird Al’s “it’s all about the Pentiums”

I don’t remember anything about 156GB RAM in that song…

That’s a patent, not a copywrite.

Software patents are also terrible, though.

Or a PS5. The comparisons between PS5 and PS5 Pro are nearly impossible to notice.

Nebula is awesome.

IT WAS RIGHT THERE ALL ALONG.

Double-press the lock button and the camera opens on android phones (or at least you can configure it that way). Been that way for years.

Yep! That’s why I said, “something I desperately miss from my Android phones.” :)

I’m kinda confused on why this button is helpful. If you open the camera app on iOS, hitting either volume button will take a picture.

Opens the camera faster than going through the lock screen (something I desperately miss from my Android phones), and it’s multifunctional. You can press it with different intensity levels to get different functionality, and it’s touch sensitive so you can use it to make adjustments.

It’s not like, revolutionary. But it looks pretty cool and I’m looking forward to trying it out.

backlit Kindles

As I understand it, Kindles aren’t backlit but rather frontlit (or sidelit) with a layer designed to diffuse the light across the page evenly. The claim is that the lack of direct lighting helps in the fight against eye strain as well.

Safari offers ad blocking on iOS. You just have to get your extensions through the App Store. But other browsers don’t (yet).

Essentially, yes. Ebonics isn’t inherently offensive or inappropriate, as far as I can tell, but it has connotations that are not attached to AAE. Linguists avoid the term today, and modern uses of it tend to be derogatory.

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Dude I’d totally ride a C5 in 2024

Just get a recumbent e-bike and slap some paneling around it.

I never got on the Xperia train cause my buddy had a rough experience with one (long before I went to the dark side and bought an iPhone).

But I did think the camera stuff seemed cool.

One of the few things I truly miss going from my OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren Edition (greatest phone I ever owned, may it rest bricked in peace) to the iPhone is being able to open the camera without waking the phone first. Double tapping the power button to open the camera was great. On iPhone I have to wake the screen and then get to the camera, which is fast but not NEARLY as fast, so I sometimes miss shots I would’ve gotten with an Android phone. This should also fix that (as did the Action button in the iPhone 15, I think, but I don’t have that).