I have to say, while not a huge fan of apple…

Most of these hacks I’ve seen seem to have long been patched out.

I still feel iPhones are largely more secure overall even if simply because on average I’m pretty confident the fleet of iPhones in use are using much more up to date software than android devices.

I wouldn’t block them, but I’d be leaving the group chat.

As if i want my default sms texting app to be getting spammed by a big group chat.

Also the default at least here in Australia is pretty much Facebook messenger or maybe WhatsApp not because anyone likes it, but because everyone already has a Facebook account even if they don’t use it much.

Also it means you can easily have group chats with people who you need to communicate with but you don’t really want to have your number.

What a ridiculous notion to be using a platform specific service for a group chat, unless you are deciding your friends group or work colleagues based on the phone they use which again seems unfathomable.

I am an iPhone user, in Australia and i have seen precisely zero iMessage chat groups even attempt to be created. Because everyone knows it’s a shitty pain in the ass service if someone doesn’t have an iPhone.

We all blame apple for that as we should not the android user. How it ended up inverted in the US is beyond me but it’s backwards af.

This whole thing is a non issue being caused by lack of thought and logic of the users apparently almost exclusively in the USA

Personally i wish the default here was discord or signal but messenger is still far better than iMessage at least from a cross platform usability standpoint.

The fact that people are using iMessage for group chats is which a weird concept to me.

That’s what discord, WhatsApp and Facebook messenger are for.

If anyone adds my primary text message service number to a group chat they are being blocked. Gross.

It’s more stuff like, does ray tracing and stuff like nvidia broadcast work?

Like I use that to filter all my incoming sound from discord and all the audio coming into my microphone.

It’s the oddball features like that example above where Linux always falls over for me.

Don’t get me wrong I HATE windows.

I really really hope that steam os on the steam deck is going to maybe push devs to make more native Linux releases.

The problem comes when you talk about gaming.

You can talk about proton and such all you want.

At the end of the day can I come home from work install some new game I want to play and probably have it just work, without feature compromises…

One day maybe, but not yet.

I am now using Firefox…

I mean I was using Firefox before this, but I also am now as well you know.

A lot of the major anger is coming from businesses and government and to be completely honest…

If the system your business or government agency has implemented requires 100% up time and relies on a cellular network or any network or power grid for that matter, guess who’s responsible for ensuring that there is adequate redundancy to insure a outage does not occur or is very unlikely to occur…?

Ding ding ding that’s you, you are the one responsible, or the person who you had design it and set the standard and enforce it…

Business and government agencies/services implemented systems with a single point a failure to cut costs, when I absofuckinglutly guarantee that a network engineer brought up that maybe they should add redundancy and was shot down by bean counters.

And now that it’s blown up in their fucking face they have turned around and are trying to redirect attention from shareholders and the public back on to Optus.

Optus fucked up, but no more than if a power line came down when the power company had one of their trucks back into it and the power went out.

If people are going to die if the shit you are designing doesn’t work, or you business is going to loose tons of money, that’s your responsibility to design and implement something that does not have a single point of failure.

Ah well.

At least task manager still puts a bullet to its head if I want it to 🔫

I just want windows to go away.

I hope steam OS can somehow take Linux gaming mainstream to the point that we get proper native game releases.

I just want my operating system:

1. To have a logical settings layout, perform well, be stable

2. Be fully and easily compatible with most mainstream programs and games without having to screw around too much.

Give me back windows 7, add dx12 support, update the back end with any kernel and scheduler updates, call it windows gamer edition. Then fuck off out of my life Microsoft.

Nobody wants to “use an operating system” we want to run programs and do it efficiently, i feel the vast majority of changes Microsoft has made since windows 7 ended has been to the detriment of that.

I can only hope that now with Vulcan becoming more popular and the rise of steam os on the steam deck that we will start to see native Linux aaa games being a thing.

Wait… a pixel with screen issues

Where have I seen this before.

Remember when CPU’s / GPU’s had clockspeeds that didn’t include “up to”

I understand why it’s better net performance doing it this way and better uses the whole potential performance of the chip.

That still doesn’t make me like it, not because of the technical reasons, but because of the way they twist the marketing, it could hit 6ghz for 1 microsecond and they could still claim #nowupto6ghz!

I am much, much more likely to be willing to pay for Ublock than I am YouTube.

After several hours of unventilated and insulated continuous unmoving and firm contact… definitely at risk of first degree burns here.

This is just to get clicks.

It’s not “overheating” either though is it?

46c is not that hot at all, that’s like half as hot as a cup of coffee.

It’s probably not ideal… but also not at all new and about the same as my S22 ultra hits under load or when charging which runs far cooler than my previous pixel 7 which would actively overheat if you tried to run maps while charging it on a warm day, to the point it would force the screen to min brightness after about 30min.

46c… lmfao what a stupid headline.

That is absolutely NOT “hot”or “overheating” for a piece of tech under stress.

The phone housing is the heat sync, and the phone is more powerful than many people’s few year old laptops.

Not to defend apple but this is just trying to sensationalise and farm clicks, my pixel 7 used to get way hotter doing just normal tasks to the point I was getting overheat warnings and the screen would shut off.

Now if it was more like 55c I could see that being an issue at least from a comfort standpoint.

On top of this, pointing a thermal camera as an emissive surface like glass… not the most accurate way to actually get a temperature reading, they should have used a thermal couple… but I’m guessing that would have showed an even less exciting click bait number.

Honestly not to defend apple here… but does the timing of this announcement seem a bit too convenient.